It is rare if, in a hot touristy spot that I would pass up the opportunity to visit a wax museum.

Founded in 1835, just months before the fall of the Alamo in Texas, French wax sculptor Marie Tussaud in London spawned similar museums in major cities around the world.

During the French Revolution, she was arrested with Joséphine de Beauharnais, the future wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, and sent to La Force Prison.

According to her own memoir, the fresh chopped-off heads of the French nobility were sent straight to Tussaud and she, along with others, created lifelike waxworks from them.

In fact, she sat at the execution site “with the bloody heads on her knees, taking the impressions of their features.”

Her museum was called Madame Tussaud’s & Sons as she taught her offspring, Joseph and François the art.

Today there are 23 Madame Tussaud’s locations all around the world, from Dubai to Singapore to Las Vegas to Nashville to Hollywood to Sydney. According to the museum, 10 million people visit each year.

Some of the best wax museums in the US, besides Tussaud’s, include Hollywood Wax Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, National Presidential Wax Museum in Keystone, South Dakota, Potter’s Wax Museum in St. Augustine, Florida and Rock Legends Wax Museum in Niagara Falls, New York.

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