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...
Believe it or not, you are not the center of the world. That title belongs to the the town of Felicity in California. Just west of Yuma in the Sonoran Desert (one of the hottest and driest places in the U.S.), Mayor Jacques-Andre Istel (seen above in the middle photo)...
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...
At the Louvre the Egyptian Department contains over 50,000 pieces housed in 20 rooms. That’s a collection some museums would die for. The Great Sphinx of Tanis, from 2000 BC, is considered to be one of the largest sphinxes outside of Egypt. Found in 1825 among the ruins of the...
On this date in 1952 VP candidate Richard Nixon made his famous “Checkers speech” (here’s a video if you have a thing for Tricky Dick). It’s like if Sarah Palin stopped hunting wolves and adopted a pet moose, making voters think “Oh, gee…how nice!”, in turn helping McCain win the...
My grandfather had perfect eyesight until the day he died, unfortunately he did not pass that gene to me as I’ve recently had to start wearing glasses. Oh well. It’s not the end of the world. I can still see the Stichting Nationaal Brilmuseum, or the National Museum of Spectacles,...
Every year the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago has a Day of the Dead exhibit. The only Latino museum accredited by the American Association of Museums, it has the country’s largest Mexican art collection. So it’s fitting the museum also has one of the biggest displays of Día...
If you have been following this blog for a long time, then you know how much I love visiting cemeteries. I am lucky that Chicagoland has so many interesting and historic ones, from Bohemian National Cemetery to Graceland Cemetery. A lot of these places have photo ceramics, which are porcelain...
The goal of this blog is to cover every known Miniatures Museum in existence. And there are more than you might think from the Museu De Miniatures in Besalú and the Museum of Miniatures in Prague to Zarifa Salahova’s collection of miniature edition books in Azerbaijan and the Carromato de...
