Known as the “Root Beer Lady” and “Nightingale of the Wilderness”, Dorothy Molter lived alone on the Isle of Pines on Knife Lake in Minnesota for more than 56 years until her death in 1986. With no electricity and other modern conveniences, she sold homemade root beer to the 7,000...
Barack Obama may be a “metrosexual, black Abe Lincoln” but no one beats America’s 21st President Chester Alan Arthur in the metrosexuality department. Known as Elegant Arthur because of his expensive taste in clothing (he owned over eighty pairs of pants), he was the first chief executive to have his...
Bloody diorama at the American Heritage Wax Museum in Scottsdale, Arizona. There’s a fun article on the American roadside wax museum here.
There’s an Easter Egg Museum (Ostereimuseum) near Stuttgart, Germany, specifically in the town of Sonnenbühl. The museum itself was founded in 1993 to offer tourists something to do when not skiing. Luckily, a number of nearby private egg collections were offered to the museum, which now has over 900 eggs....
I know when you think of teeth, you don’t necessarily think of the Brits. But believe it or not, they do indeed have dentists. And they have a museum about dentists too. Stop your chuckling, Americans. The British Dental Association Museum brings you the history of British dentistry with lots...
For historic house museum week, we begin with a memorable one, well, at least for me. Why? Because when you’re a postgrad student, you’ll do just about anything to get that degree. A special exhibit nearing the end of its run happened to be the main topic of my friend’s...
Because I’m a huge dork, I’m currently reading (for fun) King, Kaiser, Tsar so let’s just say I’ve got Russia on my mind. And what a surprise it was for me to learn that a museum dedicated to the religious artworks of the Eastern Orthodox Church exists in the United...
In Enterprise, Alabama one will find a Wal-Mart (of course) and all the things associated with a small southern town. But there’s more than just chain stores and the like, this is also the home of the Boll Weevil Monument as well as the Boll Weevil Inn, a street called...
Believe it or not, we’ve covered a Fan Museum here on the old blog once before, but we forgot the U.S. has one too. Yes, England has some competition in the hand fan department from Healdsburg, California. Located in a small room in the H2 Hotel, America’s Only Hand Fan...
Over the last three years this blog has paid visits to various animal-themed attractions like Amsterdam’s Katten Kabinet, the Bunny Museum in Pasadena, the World’s Largest Pig Museum, and Dog Mountain in Vermont. Well, what’s one more? Located just north of Waco in Texas is Antiquibles, an antique mall that...
