Believe it or not: Ripley's is running out of first class oddities to feature in their museums, driving up the value of eccentric artifacts.
Over the past four years Ripley's Believe It or Not! has been on an expansion binge.
As a result, the company says, it is for the first time in its history facing a shortage of A-list oddities on par with the portrait of Barack Obama made of 12,000 gum balls in New York, the three shrunken heads on display in London and the vampire-killing kit from the mid-1800s at the Tennessee museum.
A high-quality shrunken head that used to go for $500-5,000 now costs about $50,000.
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