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  • Accidental Nightmare Fuel: It's not hard to be creeped out by The Museum of Anything Goes. Most of the museum is completely silent and empty, and the various videos that play when you go into a room can be anything from silly (a skateboarder or a plane flying by) to disturbing (a clown dancing with weird music, peoples' heads under buckets, weird CGI creatures with deep voices). Not to mention the downright morbid content of some paintings, including a realistic picture of a woman's face morphing with creepy tribal chanting, a Creepy Doll in a child's playroom, or letters written by people who have died.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: The radio exhibit features a comedian listing off joke ideas for CD-ROMs that they decided to pass on. Among them are "Erotica: Two-Dimensional Stimulation for One-Dimensional Minds" and "Spaceship Warjock: The Arnold Schwarzenegger Story", two concepts that would become immensely popular in computer entertainment later on (and in the former's case, already were popular at the time).
  • Nightmare Fuel:
    • The coffin. Clicking on it shows a horrifying clip featuring a person handling a vivisected pig, accompanied by ghastly moaning noises.
    • Some of the songs are surprisingly harrowing for being in a kids game. The surreal way they're sung doesn't help:
      Death is the answer for the questions we have asked
      About the time we will spend in the future that has passed
    And another one
    Many are chained to the pillars of lost civilizations,
    many bow down to phrases as sharp as a guillotine,
    while in the background, the ear-splitting soundtrack of super-natural silence continues!
    • During one of the FMV tours of Chicago on the east hall, going on top of a tall building presents you with a few options. If you click the button on the bottom right, the game Smash Cuts to a black screen with the words "Why Jump?" written in red as a loud, echoing scream plays.
    • It'd be wise to not read "to those of you not yet born, but of the future", especially the one about the "prophets of doom," which is written in red text over a black screen and slightly warped.
      They'll rip out your tongue
      Pluck out your eyes
      Shatter your ears
      To protect their own tears
  • Unintentional Period Piece: The game features photos and footage of real people, cars, and locations with blatant '90s stylings, often accompanied by the kind of MIDI music one would also expect of the era.

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