Better late than never! As I promised earlier, here is my other post about James Dean, on the sixtieth anniversary of his death. I’ve told you more than a few times about when I went to his hometown of Fairmount, Indiana. There was a visit to the local museum, where...
It’s become a tradition here on the blog to recognise the week of July 4th, you know, that time of year when Americans celebrate their Americanness with fireworks (invented by the Chinese) and ‘Made in the U.S.A.’ t-shirts (most likely made in China). In past years I’ve you told you...
Who says there is nothing to do when someone dies? That’s not true, especially if you have a wake at the Toland-Herzig Funeral Homes & Crematory in Dover, Ohio. Unlike most funeral homes where visitors are sometimes “bored to death”, there is actually something to do here. “Buried deep” in...
On the 71st anniversary of the Pearl Harbor Attack let me tell you about another war memorial, the former Japanese Navy Underground Headquarters (also known as the Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum) on Okinawa. During World War II an elaborate underground series of hundred-long meter tunnels were built under a...
The House of Terror isn’t the name of the latest Kardashian clothing line at Sears, it’s a museum in Budapest, Hungary. Located in the former headquarters of the Hungarian secret police, the Terror Háza Múzeum contains exhibits related to the fascist and communist regimes in 20th century Hungary. The building’s...
When it comes to random popular musical attractions, we’ve covered everything from the ABBA Museum in Stockholm, the Ramones Museum in Berlin, Oklahoma’s Roger Miller Museum and of course Frank Sinatra’s “last towel” display at Atlantic City’s White House Sub Shop. But what about strange and random music memorials? I...
Fourth of July is one my least favorite holidays, not that I hate America or anything (okay, maybe sometimes). I just hate what the holiday has become…loud, obnoxious people blowing up fireworks and drinking lots of beer. Exactly what the founding fathers had in mind, I’m sure. Anyway, let’s put...
As someone fascinated with people who obsessively collect, the Belhaven Memorial Museum sounds like it’s right up my hoarder alley. Located in a historic town hall, this giant antique store…ahem, I mean museum…displays over 40,000 objects that once belonged to one woman, Miss Eva Blount Way. (what a pleasant-looking lady,...
Forget about San Francisco or Woodstock or wherever it is hippies live nowadays. Arcola is the home of Moomaw America’s One and Only Hippie Memorial. Although I live in the state of Illinois, going south of Chicago is too far south for me so I don’t think I’ll ever get...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELVIS PRESLEY! Although he’s been dead for nearly forty years, Elvis fans celebrate his birthday like he’s still around. (And who knows? Maybe he still is.) Besides the Elvis impersonators, the birthday celebration at Graceland and the endless musical tributes, Elvis is remembered all over the country in...
