5 hidden treasures at the Field Museum

With more than 23 million specimens in its collection, the Field Museum is the gift that keeps on giving. We hear there's a collection of shrunken heads in the museum's storage collections somewhere, but without scaring the bejeezus out of your kids, here are the five things at Chicago's treasure trove you might miss the first time around but that are definitely worth knowing about.

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Man-eating lions

Perhaps not for the youngest museum-goers, this glass-cased exhibit on the lower level is a surefire "coooooooooooool" from older kids and tweens. In 1898, these two lions reportedly killed and ate 135 railway workers and native Africans working on a bridge over the Tsavo River in east Africa. For a cuddlier version, try a Lions of Tsavo plush from the museum gift shop.