Griffiths Sea Shell Museum in Lakes Entrance, Australia

Opened in 1962, Griffiths Sea Shell Museum in Gippsland, Victoria features over 90,000 seashells, making it one of the largest private nautical collections in Australia. A colorful assortment of cockles, conchs, sea anemones, and abalones are just a fraction of the many thousands of strange and beautiful shells that fill the wall-to-wall display cases. Also in the collection are specimen jars containing curious creatures dredged from the deep, such as angler fish, goblin sharks, a two-headed baby snapper shark, and a rare frilled shark caught off the coast of Gippsland in…

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