You might not be impressed, but I am. I just discovered there is a Japanese museum of rocks that look like human faces. I used to own some of these, who knows where they ended up. If only I knew about this place.
The museum is called Chinsekikan, which apparently means ‘hall of curious rocks’. If you visit, you can give one of them a name, because they’re many and many are nameless. You can read more about it here. And hey, they even have a rock that looks like Elvis!
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