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Eyeballs, insects and fermented shark on the menu at the Disgusting Food Museum

Tourism is usually about sight-seeing, but the Disgusting Food Museum in Malmo, Sweden, appeals to other senses.

You might think Chinese wine with dead mice, or maggot-addled cheese, might take the prize for most disgusting dish.

But the curator of the exhibit says nothing is more horrible to an unaccustomed palate than the Icelandic fermented shark.

"It tastes like chewing on a urine-infested mattress," said Samuel West.

"It's a fermented sort of rotten Icelandic shark," he says. "Anthony Bourdain, the late TV personality, called it the single most disgusting thing he'd ever eaten, and I totally agree with him."

From spicy rabbit heads to fruit bat soup, the collection aims to challenge perceptions of taste and help visitors contemplate why one culture's abomination is another's delicacy.

If visitors feel queasy there’s no need to run for the bathroom – the entry tickets are printed on vomit bags.

Grasshoppers, cooked animals' skulls and other body parts, including an eyeball, are on display in pots or on boards.

European fare ranges from Iceland's cured shark, Hakarl, to Sardinia's Casu Marzu cheese, which is riddled with insect larvae.

There is Scottish haggis, made from sheep innards, and Sweden's smelly Surstromming fermented herring.

Asian foods include the strong-smelling Durian fruit and stinky tofu.

The fruit bat soup comes from the sparsely populated Pacific Ocean archipelago of Palau.

Latin American dishes include Mexico's Menudo tripe soup as well as Peru's roasted guinea pigs, known as Cuy.

North America is represented by sweet treats: Jell-O salad and root beer.