If you’re looking for street art that your grandmother or college professor will love and support, then I suggest you take them to the city of Leiden in the Netherlands. In 1992 the ‘Poems and Walls’ project, an initiative curated by the Tegen-Beeld Foundation, set out to hand-paint over one-hundred...
Let me tell you about the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery & Witchcraft. No, this isn’t the latest episode of Game of Thrones (even though some of the show is filmed there as well as Northern Ireland, Malta, Croatia, Morocco and the freakin’ moon) when the Red Witch Lady gives birth...
Kazan is the capital of Tatarstan, a republic of Russia. Not only is the state a great mixture of Russian and Tatar culture, but it is also where you can find a museum that celebrates the old USSR. For those feeling a bit nostalgic or who just want a peek...
Buchstaben Museum in Berlin is perfect for people, like me, who love typography and old street signs. With globalization and corporate-whoredom ruining everything, many traditional family-run businesses and mom-and-pop stores are disappearing from the landscape, replaced with mediocrity and blandness. Where once a street was covered with eyecatching signs, usually...
Leila Cohoon, founder of Leila’s Hair Museum in Independence, Mo. No, you won’t find curling irons and bump its at Leila’s Hair Salon Museum. Instead visitors marvel at 159 wreaths and 2000 pieces of jewelry made out of human hair. Great way to recycle your hair after you have a...
I don’t know what this is exactly, but it can be found at the Science and Design Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia.
I dedicate this Mini Cake Museum post to my 900th follower mark2wen (or maybe it’s hopeluststeam). It’s such a special occasion, so why not eat some cake? Okay, the cake might be made of Styrofoam, but the icing is real…and it’s the thought that counts. In the 1970s “Cake Lady”...
August’s here, which means it’s time to take a road trip before summer comes to an end and it’s too late. The Enchanted Highway is a 32-mile stretch of paved county highway between Regent and Gladstone in North Dakota. As you roll down this stretch of concrete in the middle...
When it comes to public art, it can either be annoying and pointless (like children falling down while holding hands) or really weird and completely random. We’ve covered some strange statues before, like the “Child Eater” in Switzerland, the Boll Weevil Monument in Alabama, and the Beatles in Kazakhstan. Well,...
