Once a clothing boutique, now a bank, there’s a building in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood that used to house my family’s sausage store. My grandfather and his brother still made their own sausage long after the place closed. It was open for about 40 or 50 years, now part of...
If you dismiss the thimble as just one of the game tokens in Monopoly, think again. Even though most thimble makers have now gone out of business, this sewing tool is important enough to get its own museum. The Fingerhut Museum in Creglingen, Germany displays thimbles and other sewing tools...
1 Karosta Prison 2 Witch’s Dungeon Classic Movie Museum 3 Serial Killer Museum 4 Mütter Museum 5 Museum of Vampires and Legendary Creatures (Musée des Vampires) 6 Lithuania’s Devil Museum (Žmuidzinavičius Museum) 7 Beetlejuice Museum 8 Toland-Herzig Funeral Home’s Famous Endings Museum 9 Criminals Hall of Fame Wax Museum 10...
My brain is not functioning properly today. I have to preserve my energy for This Belongs in a Museum’s first birthday celebrations tomorrow. It’s going to be craaazy. We (meaning nobody) are going to sneak into a museum and take flash photographs, touch objects with our greasy hands and probably...
My thanks to Alyson Kluskowski for posting some pictures she took at Wall Drug, which just happens to be competing for tourists with the Corn Palace…oh, and that one other famous landmark…maybe you’ve heard of it…Mount Rushmore. Don’t know why this South Dakota tourist attraction is proud to proclaim itself...
I don’t know how many of you people watch (or read) Game of Thrones. Well, some of you should know Daenerys Targaryen (or is it Khalessi…and while you’re at it name the 5,000 other characters for me too) is the Mother of All Dragons or something. If she invades Westeros...
Believe it or not, you are not the center of the world. That title belongs to the the town of Felicity in California. Just west of Yuma in the Sonoran Desert (one of the hottest and driest places in the U.S.), Mayor Jacques-Andre Istel (seen above in the middle photo)...
To the rest of the world, marzipan is that layer on a wedding cake no one really eats, but try telling that to the Hungarians. Believe it or not, there are two museums devoted to marzipan in Hungary, one being Keszthely and the other being Szentendre. Szentendre’s Marzipan Museum is...
There’s Groundhog Day, and then there’s Groundfrog Day. Yep, you read that right. Instead of a groundhog telling you whether or not there will be six more weeks of winter, a bullfrog known as the Snohomish Slew croaks his annual weather forecast for the Pacific Northwest in Snohomish, a small...
The Expression Court has over 50 floating heads designed by artist Sophie Cave. Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland.
