jones and lived by the adage that fact was stranger than fiction. >> the odditorium has hundreds of exhibits. from freaks of nature to medieval torture devices to some very strange customs. stephentrom is our guide through this weird and wonderful place. >> there's so much to see, that i asked steven to show me his top five favorite exhibits. so where to do we start. >> this way, follow me. >> we're going to start with my fifth favorite attraction and that is the world's largest display of shrunken human heads. these are all real human heads like this one right here, that were shrunk by the havirov tribe of ecuador and peru. we've got about two dozen on display here and that's more than you'll find at the smithsonian. >> how does a head shrink like that? >> we actually have a ten-step recipe up on the wall, but it starts with beheading your enemies, preferably when they're dead. then you stew it and smoke it, its kinda like leathering and you remove the skull before that and you fill it with hot sand and stone and rocks so that it actually shrinks down to the point where its only about big enough to fit in your hand. >> so that's just the skin? >> that is just the skin. >> no bo