To anyone living in Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay - Happy Día del Amigo! If I had any friends, I’d be down there celebrating it with you; but I don’t, so that’s why I am writing on the internet instead. The origin of Friend’s Day goes back to an Argentine teacher,...
Happy June! We’ve been to Prague before with the Sex Machines Museum and Prague Castle Toy Collection, but this time we have something teeny-tiny for you. The Museum of Miniatures displays the dedicated (and some would say patient) work of Siberian artist Anatoly Konenko. He has managed to create as...
My least favourite time of year is coming to an end. Yes, I am talking about the holiday season, and by holiday I mean all the American celebrations associated with November and December, like Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Chanukkah, Christmas, New Year’s etc. And I’m not using the word holiday to...
I bet you won’t be able to sleep tonight after seeing this clown automaton from the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix. Yes, it moves…it plays music…it’s a clown!
There’s a Pinball Museum in Las Vegas, where I once wasted lots of quarters playing Guns N’ Roses pinball and Paperboy arcade. But who would have thought there would be another Pinball Museum in the world? And in Germany no less? Actually that’s not much of surprise. So if you...
Back in September I told you about Barney Smith’s Toilet Seat Art Museum in San Antonio. Well, it looks like Barney has some competition. San Francisco’s Isotope Comics has its own version of a toilet seat art museum. Started in 2002, there are now hundreds of cartoon toilet canvases created...
If you ever find yourself traveling around the Nebraska-Kansas border, because so many people do, make sure to stop in the town of Belleville. There you’ll find Paul Boyer’s Museum of Animated Carvings, a collection of 65 imaginative and elaborate hand carved motion displays which are animated through intricate mechanisms...
I bet you didn’t know Muppets creator Jim Henson was originally from Mississippi. I bet you also didn’t know that Jim Henson had a (human) friend named Kermit. They used to play along the banks of Deer Creek in the small town of Leland, which has since been proclaimed as...
Christmas Museum Week continues with a place that I really, really want to go to: The Aluminum Tree and Aesthetically Challenged Seasonal Ornament Museum. The ATOM (as its otherwise known) started in 1997 and is the world’s only museum dedicated to the preservation and public display of vintage aluminum trees....
A city can remember its past in many ways from historic preservation and walking tours to memorial plaques and monuments. But then there’s Portland, Oregon where things are done a bit differently. Back in the day before hipster bicycles, Portlandians used to get around town on horseback. Many of the...
