I bet you didn’t know November is National Model Railroad Month. Well, last month I just happened to visit the Garfield-Clarendon Model Railroad Club in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Chicago is or was the railroad capital of the world so it seems appropriate the city is home to one of the...
Still recovering from drinking too much over the weekend. Yeah, I know it’s WEDNESDAY but how many of you have consumed rum, champagne, whiskey, various beers and wine in less than 24 hours and lived to tell the tale? Okay, maybe a lot of you have done the same but...
Germany’s car museums (and holy shit are there a lot!) usually feature big names like Porsche and Mercedes. But a little museum in St. Ingbert, Saarland takes the word ‘little’ a bit too far by displaying a different kind of automobile. Last year engineer Stefan Voit opened a museum to...
The Banana Museum in Auburn, Washington teaches you about the history behind the banana. People used to eat them whole, as they weren’t aware that they had to be peeled. The average American eats about 26 pounds of bananas every year – that’s about 150 bananas! Also, bananas were introduced...
Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it’s Dean Cain under a Tour Bus Parking Sign between Mountain Dew and Pepsi machines! I can’t go further than the South Side of Chicago without getting a weird feeling that I’ve entered some foreign land. It still frightens me to...
Believe it or not, there’s an Airline History Museum in Kansas City. I’m incredibly sad that I missed this past weekend’s annual AHM Hangar Dance.
Whether you have a thing for bunnies or a possible aversion, like that Killer Rabbit in Monty Python, you still might want to pay a visit to the Bunny Museum, “The Hoppiest Place in the World”. It’s definitely a one-of-a-kind place. Husband-and-wife duo Candace Frazee and Steve Lubanski have spent...
Spent all day cleaning (anyone telling you it’s fun is freakin’ lying), which made me wonder if there were any museums dedicated to this activity. Apparently the state of Idaho is very fastidious as they have Don Aslett’s Museum of Clean. Self-proclaimed as America’s number one cleaning expert, his museum...
Bringing back an old post for the holiday season. Only open once a year, the Aluminum Tree and Aesthetically Challenged Seasonal Ornament Museum (or the ATOM as its otherwise known) in Brevard, North Carolina started in 1997 to display strange Christmas decorations. It is the world’s only museum dedicated to...
So it doesn’t feel left out, let me also mention the Prince Edward Island Potato Museum. Museums about potatoes seem to have this thing for putting huge potato sculptures outside for visitors to pose for crappy iPhone pictures. Yeah, because it’s perfectly normal to sit on a bench with a...
