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Japan has a museum of face-shaped rocks

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Leave it to Japan to take pareidolia and turn it into a legitimate tourist trap. The Chinsekikan museum houses over a thousand rocks with natural indentations that look exactly like faces, including one that looks distressingly like Elvis Presley.

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