We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming of creepy museums and attractions in the month of October to bring you a museum dedicated to a film star, who was born on this day in 1895: In the small town of Piqua (pronounced Pick-way), Kansas is a small one-room museum dedicated to...
May 15 seventy-nine years ago Richard and Maurice McDonald opened a barbeque restaurant, which would later become known as the fast food chain McDonald’s, forever clogging people’s arteries all over the world. The original San Bernardino restaurant was demolished in 1976 (or 1971, according to some sources) and the site...
Always remember to drink plenty of fluids during the summer. It’s so freakin’ hot and humid here in Chicago that I’ve already consumed six bottles each of Point Root Beer and Strongbow Cider, a pitcher of limeade, several iced coffees, a homemade chocolate milkshake and who knows what else just...
If you’ve been religiously following this blog for the past month (which is probably, like, two of you) then you know how much I love visiting cemeteries. Nothing really creeps me out too much, except when I see those bricked-up mausoleums, which basically means it is filled to capacity or...
Happy Pride! At the Chicago History Museum, a new exhibit “Out in Chicago” explores the stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Chicagoans who shaped the city and various communities over the past 150 years. In 1958, Chuck Renslow and his friends had an affinity for leather that was too...
In recognition of the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death, the Hollywood Museum has a special exhibit on her life. Yep, it’s this weekend, folks. August 5, 1962. First of all, I had no idea Hollywood had a museum. Second, I grew up on the edge of Chicago surrounded by...
My apologies for this tumblr’s absence the last few days. I know you were all waiting to read about an obscure museum to cherish and love. A much needed rest was in order to get my brain cells working again so I could form words to make sentences that will...
It might come as a surprise to many of you that the National Museum of Pasta Foods is found in Rome and not Olive Garden. Located in the Palazzo Skanderbeg, the museum’s eleven rooms cover the history of pasta with exhibits on production, machinery, technologies, nutritional information, ancient and modern...
People may not write things down with pencil and paper anymore. But that shouldn’t stop you from visiting the Pencil Museum in Keswick, UK. It’s actually pretty good.
There’s The Shop Around the Corner, and then there’s the Museum in the ‘Round Corner’ (otherwise known as the Museum in der “Runden Ecke”) in Leipzig, Germany. Its name comes from its location; a curved corner space in a building that once was an office of the sinister East German...
