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Wisconsin Death Trip Taxidermy

Planning a road trip to Madison, Wisconsin? Extreme Craft has the skinny on Cress Funeral Home and the basement taxidermy heaven of owner Sam Sanfillippo. Beyond the obligatory Dairyland trophy fish and badgers, there's dioramas galore of chipmunks and squirrels, many of which are mechanized and kinetic. Me, I can't wait to see the squirrel on the animated bucking bronco amid plastic dinosaurs. Not to worry, the warm-blooded exhibits are road kill (and golf ball fatalities). Come for the albino squirrels, and stay for the three-legged goose or the barracuda in top hat and cutaway coat. It's free, but by appointment only.

Extreme Craft: Death and Taxidermy