In honour of the late Shirley Temple, not only should you pour yourself a Shirley Temple cocktail but you should also pay a visit to your local doll museum. There are many doll collections around the United States, including the Hobby City Doll Museum, which has a huge Shirley Temple...
I have relatives who live in the St. Francis/Cudahy area of Milwaukee, so on a trip up there this past Saturday I thought I’d find if there is anything weird and/or interesting to check out. And what a surprise…there is. Known as the “Keep Cudahy Fun” House, the home of...
When I visited Berlin, I was shocked to see so much street art. I mean it’s literally everywhere. So I’m sorry to have missed this next museum because not only is it about street art, but it looks like a cool one. If anyone lives in a city, then you’re...
Christmas comes but once a year, except at Ed Clark’s home in San Antonio, Texas. For nearly twenty-five years, Ed Clark’s Year-Round Christmas House has been open to the kind of people who start buying Christmas crap in May and listen to Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is...
Nearly one-hundred years after the United States gained independence from the British, the Constitution Act of 1867 united three colonies into a single country called Canada. We’ve covered quite a few museums and attractions from the northernmost country in North America, so here’s a look back: The Accordion Museum in...
Believe it or not, the heads you see weren’t created for comical reasons, they’re called “gapers”, used in front of apothecaries or chemists shops (aka pharmacies) in parts of Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, northern France and western Germany. Back in the day people needed literal translations to understand what the...
On a lighter note, let’s turn to the Gopher Hole Museum in Alberta, Canada. Yep, a gopher museum. Stuffed gophers dressed up in outfits (hairdresser, RCMP officer and preacher) placed in 47 different scenes. I don’t know if this is educational, but it sure is funny. And it’s world famous...
I see that my queued post has been gobbled up and is now forever missing in the world of the interwebs. Hey, that was the most important post I’ve ever written! (sarcasm) The only thing that could make this day better is a picture of the World’s Largest Snowman. The...
There are art museums and there are car museums. But what about an art car museum? Even though a light rail system opened about a decade ago, Houston has always loved automobiles of all kinds, largely due to the lack of real public transportation and urban sprawl in this Texan...
Happy Festivus! Today’s the holiday, first mentioned in the Seinfeld episode “The Strike”, where bitter people who still want to celebrate the holiday season without participating in its pressures and commercialism will air their grievances, by telling everyone all the ways they have disappointed him or her over the past...
