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Grant Museum of Zoology – Micrarium

Grant Museum of Zoology – Micrarium

About two years ago the Grant Museum of Zoology, the only remaining university zoological museum in London, converted an old office/storeroom into a beautiful back-lit cave displaying 2,323 of the tiniest specimens in its collection. The slides show whole small animals (don’t forget that 95% of known animal species are...

De Lat Crazy House, Vietnam

De Lat Crazy House, Vietnam

It’s time to go to Vietnam and visit the De Lat Crazy House, which can be best summarized as Gaudi meets Alice in Wonderland meets Antarctica. The exterior is full of twisting concrete shapes that look like tree trunks and caves. There are irregular-sized windows and secret staircases. But the...

Taxidermy Museum – Torah Animal World, Brooklyn

Taxidermy Museum – Torah Animal World, Brooklyn

If you’re still crying over the death of Cecil the Lion, well, then this next one might leave you in tears of confusion. Yes, inside a Hasidic Rabbi’s house in Brooklyn’s Borough Park is a taxidermy museum called Torah Animal World. Every animal mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and Talmud...

Gozzi’s Turkey Farm in Guilford, Connecticut

Gozzi’s Turkey Farm in Guilford, Connecticut

Nothing says Thanksgiving quite like a neon turkey. Gozzi’s Turkey Farm in Guilford, Connecticut has been open for over fifty years and at its peak in the 1970s sold more than 150,000 turkeys a year. Although today the farm is very small as it has to compete with the big-name...

World’s Largest Tick Collection, Georgia

World’s Largest Tick Collection, Georgia

I know the middle of December isn’t the best time to share camping stories, but I say why the hell not? A few times a year my friends and I drove up to the Wisconsin Woods, usually in April and October. We liked to do it old school style hanging...

L’anse aux Meadows – World Heritage Site, Canada

L’anse aux Meadows – World Heritage Site, Canada

Today is Columbus Day, but forget that shit and take a minute (or two) to learn about L’anse aux Meadows. Located at the northernmost tip of Newfoundland in Canada, this World Heritage Site is the only known Viking settlement to be found in North America. Estimated to have been established...

Intinan Solar Museum near Quito, Ecuador

Intinan Solar Museum near Quito, Ecuador

Considering it was just last month, I’m sure most of you still remember our guest posts. But everyone seems to have the 3 second attention span of goldfish, so who knows? Well, we have another piece written by Alli Burness, who documents her travels around the world visiting museums at...

Aurora Ice Museum, Alaska

Aurora Ice Museum, Alaska

Spring is a few days away so why not get a bit chilly with the Aurora Ice Museum? Located 60 miles from Fairbanks, Alaska the museum uses a patented absorption chiller to keep the temps an icy 20 degrees Fahrenheit all year. Visitors are allowed to rent overnight stays in...

Park in Arizona dedicated to an Eagles lyric

Park in Arizona dedicated to an Eagles lyric

Maybe some of you were upset to hear yesterday’s news of Glenn Frey’s passing but I’m more like Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski in that “I hate the fucking Eagles!” (come on, it’s funny). But I did find it interesting to learn that there is a park in Arizona dedicated to...

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