According to statistics, in 2017 the total number of visits to the Smithsonian museums and institutions amounted to approximately 30 million. The world’s largest museum complex organizes exhibitions and events for any kind of taste and most of its objects are really breathtaking.

Bright Side gathered 27 photos of the most astounding things you can find in the Smithsonian museums.

27. Woman Eating, an ultrarealistic sculpture

26. Expanding and contracting mushrooms that activate when you step on their glowing pad

25. Preamble to the U.S. Constitution on license plates

24. The Unknown Political Prisoner

23. An installation of mirror-like drums and 9 tambourines made in honor of the victims of the Charleston church shooting

22. A pigeon-guided missile system

21. The Remington Self-Check Kit, a home pregnancy test created in the 1970s

20. A 1930s teaching tool that includes 9 varnished wooden apples cut into fragments representing fractions

19. The filing cabinet where comedian Phyllis Diller kept her jokes

18. C-3PO and R2-D2 droid costumes from 1983’s Return of the Jedi

17. A box of pre-World War II glass eyes

16. A scroll that measures 30 feet long and contains 11,000 images in one inch squares depicting artist Loren Madsen’s life

15. The waste collection system used aboard NASA’s space shuttles

14. The Woolworth’s lunch counter where a sit-in protest to challenge racial inequality throughout the South was launched

13. A letter on a coconut sent by a sailor stationed in Hawaii to his wife

12. Bottlecap Figure with Mirror

11. T.V. Clock

10. Smithsonian dead parrot collection

9. Ghost Clock carved from a single piece of wood (yes, that sheet is wooden too)

8. Electronic Superhighway, a 51 channel video installation presenting the continental U.S.

7. The first Macintosh introduced by Apple

6. A menorah made of 9 little Statues of Liberty with important dates from Jewish history written on them

5. The first frozen margarita machine

4. The skeletons of American anthropologist Grover Krantz and his dog Clyde

3. An early microwave oven from 1976

2. Hair from the first 14 U.S. presidents

1. The Ruby Slippers worn by Judy Garland who played Dorothy in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz

Which of the exhibits impressed you the most? Share your opinions in the comments!

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