A look inside the government-owned house of horrors

Taxidermied polar bears, seahorse key chains, and a tiger fetus.

Thus begins the tour of the National Wildlife Property Repository outside of Denver, Colorado. It's an innocuous name for the warehouse with the nation's most grotesque collection of illegally obtained animals and animal objects.

The animals, in whole or in part, have all been confiscated after attempted importation into the United States. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service oversees the 22,000 square foot facility which is located near an abandoned airport.

The items are either stored, destroyed or donated to scientific, educational, and conservation organizations.

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The warehouse contains the remains of over 1.5 million animals and receives new items every day; casualties of the multibillion dollar trade in illegal wildlife -- which has been termed an "international crisis" by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, a large percentage of the trade is initiated by Asian buyers who pay upwards of $30,000 per pound of rhino horn which are used in medicines and to signify newfound wealth and status.

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