Elvis died August 16, 1977 (or did he???). I’ve been wanting to write about this place for, I don’t know, a few years but I’ll let American Guide tell you about it because I am a lazy procrastinator who actually hasn’t even been to the original Graceland (one day I’ll...
The Japanese Rural Toy Museum, founded in 1967, is hidden behind a bunch of old warehouses in the back alleys of Kurashiki. Hundreds of handmade and antique toys from different parts of Japan are displayed in four rooms of a converted rice storehouse, including over 200 kites plus bells and...
Siberia is a lonely place. One woman in the far away remote village of Kamarchaga, located in the Siberian Taiga, has found a very entertaining hobby to help pass the time. Russian pensioner Olga Kostina has decorated her wooden home with over 30,000 plastic bottle caps. Over several years she...
Germany’s car museums (and holy shit are there a lot!) usually feature big names like Porsche and Mercedes. But a little museum in St. Ingbert, Saarland takes the word ‘little’ a bit too far by displaying a different kind of automobile. Last year engineer Stefan Voit opened a museum to...
American Stuffers, a reality show about “pet preservation” set at Xtreme Taxidermy (they put the X in taxidermy) in Arkansas, would have loved Baron George Haas. The guy loved dead animals, specifically the stuffed dog kind. If you ever find yourself in Southern Moravia in the Czech Republic, stop at...
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...
Whether you have a thing for bunnies or a possible aversion, like that Killer Rabbit in Monty Python, you still might want to pay a visit to the Bunny Museum, “The Hoppiest Place in the World”. It’s definitely a one-of-a-kind place. Husband-and-wife duo Candace Frazee and Steve Lubanski have spent...
So it doesn’t feel left out, let me also mention the Prince Edward Island Potato Museum. Museums about potatoes seem to have this thing for putting huge potato sculptures outside for visitors to pose for crappy iPhone pictures. Yeah, because it’s perfectly normal to sit on a bench with a...
You’d think Germany’s most popular snack food (eaten about 800 million times per year) is worthy of its own museum. Don’t worry. It’s got one. In case you haven’t been to Germany, well, currywurst is basically hot pork sausage covered in a spicy curry sauce. At the Currywurst Museum you...
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...
