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Ruby City Museum

Franklin, NC

Hidden inside a long-running gem shop is a free museum packed with minerals, fossils, artifacts, skulls, and unusual specimens. Highlights have included an enormous sapphire, a huge amethyst, fossilized dinosaur coprolite, and a purported shrunken head. Location: https://www.visitsmokies.org/listings/ruby-city-gems-minerals/

Filed under museums: small, specific collections run by people who care far too much.

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