I wouldn’t consider myself an urban explorer, especially compared to some photographers I know, but I’ve been to a few abandoned buildings and sites in my day. It’s really not that big of a deal…so you go through a hole in a fence or whatever? Those “No Trespassing” signs mean...
Even though most of you young'ins live in a paperless world, that shouldn’t stop you from visiting the Degenhart Glass and Paperweight Museum in Columbus, Ohio. The former owner of the Crystal Art Glass Company and proclaimed “First Lady of Glass”, Elizabeth Degenhart, bequeathed over a thousand paperweights, 55 factory...
Once upon a time I told you about Zhang Huan’s Ash Jesus and Ash Buddha statues and the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum, so how about a religious-themed public park in Laos* that contains over 200 Hindu and Buddhist statues? Open since 1958, Buddha Park was created by a...
Apr 14, 2015 was the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, which means you’ve probably been bombarded with endless articles and links about the event. Well, let me add my own two cents. I once told you about how I’ve visited many Lincoln-related sites over the years from the village...
On this date in 1850 American President Zachary Taylor died days after consuming a large amount of iced water, cold milk, green apples and cherries. Was it gastroenteritis? A bad case of diarrhea (I hear laughter over the interwebs)? Was his food poisoned with arsenic? Did the Mexicans finally get...
For whatever reason, between the years of 1964 and 1966, there were two television shows that featured comical Gothic horror-movie-type families living in old scary-looking mansions who were trying to adapt with their mainstream suburban communities: The Munsters and The Addams Family. But the two shows were quite different in...
In Montgomery, Alabama, a beautiful house that F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald lived in for just six months between 1931-32 is now a museum. The house was saved from demolition in 1986. In 1999 it became the Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald Museum, which is divided into four main areas covering...
It’s not a songbird, it’s not Led Zeppelin’s airplane, it’s not a even a Musical Instrument Museum…it’s the Museum of Making Music. Get it right, man. Part of the National Association of Music Merchants, the mission of the eleven year old museum in California is to “celebrate the rich history...
March 17th is Picture a Museum day. Why didn’t someone tell me? I hope I’m not too late. Can it be a picture of a picture of a closed exhibit of pictures? Sidewalks: Portraits of Chicago was a 2010 exhibit at the Chicago Tourist Center. The exhibit’s images and accounts...
Today is Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. Even though he was born in a log cabin in Kentucky, Illinois is known as the “Land of Lincoln” because the President lived in the state for over thirty years. Visiting the Lincoln sites in the capital city of Springfield and nearby village of Salem...
