Sault Ste. Marie The Antlers Filled With Hundreds of Taxidermies

Did you know that there is a restaurant in Michigan where you can literally eat among several hundred dead animals? This is one of the few places where it’s not far-fetched that, while you’re eating your steak, you strangely feel the ghost of that cow peering over your shoulder.

The restaurant is actually located on the upper peninsula in Sault Ste. Marie called The Antlers. It’s a fitting name for a restaurant that has over 200 taxidermies of animals, including what one visitor highlighted were some oddity-type taxidermy animals:

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A Sault Ste Marie landmark for generations. Unusual is the "norm" at The Antlers....From two headed calf to Lions and Tigers and Bears Oh My...Plus delicious dining for the whole family...Come have the Antler experience.

That’s right, while you eat their famous Soo Stew, you can enjoy the company of a two-headed goat judging your soul right behind you. All jokes aside, this place looks really wild and has been a staple of Sault Ste. Marie for many years. There are also some other crazy taxidermies inside...

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Baby Bigfoot

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Fur-Bearing Fish

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Jackalope

The owner at the time, Dan Kinney spoke of their beginnings going back to 1948 when his Uncle Harold and brother Walt Sr. opened it as an ice cream parlor but was shut down after authorities discovered a bootleg bar underneath the building.

It’s not often you come across a restaurant so unique with so much history, so the fact that it is a Michigan says we gotta go inside this place at least once to be a Michigander. I wonder if the two-headed calf will let us take a selfies…

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