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...
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...
Shangri-La Stone Village, Prospect Hill, North Carolina. Henry L. Warren was a retired tobacco farmer in 1968 when he began building leprechaun-size buildings in his side yard. He called it Shangri-La, and by the time he died nine years later (at age 84) the miniature town had 27 structures. Henry...
Who wants to look at one of those ‘wax statue making another wax statue’ pictures? This time it’s a famous person (Al Roker) at a famous wax museum (Madam Tussaud’s in NYC). Please look at this while I gather together my museology notes. It might be awhile. Thank you for...
Once lived in an apartment full of cockroaches, which was like that from the moment I moved in, so I have a special place in my heart for exterminators. My mind is still ingrained with the image of a bunch of dead roaches stuck to an adhesive trap being pulled...
In America, today is the deadline for filing your taxes with the IRS. I don’t know if there is a tax museum, but trust me, even an accountant doesn’t want to go to that shit. So the next best thing is a taxidermy museum. We’ve covered it here before many,...
Today is National Hot Dog Day, because clearly Americans do not consume enough hot dogs and need to eat more. Stop it with the salads, people! At O’Betty’s Red Hot! in Athens, Ohio is the Wonderful Wacky Hot Dog Museum. Their slogan is “The Weenie with the Wiggle” and apparently...
No disrespect to anyone out there, but there is nothing I find scarier than organized religion. It’s probably because I went to Catholic School and still have occasional nightmares of endless masses and reenactments of crucifixions and Sister Kay telling my mom I was the devil’s child because I wrote...
There’s nothing I find scarier than a room full of ventriloquist dummies. So of course this means I won’t be visiting the Vent Haven Museum in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky (if it is still open…this is subject to debate). It was founded by an amateur ventriloquist named William Shakespeare Berger and...
Continuing with yesterday’s theme of “What’s With That House?” let me tell you about a place right here in Chicago. Located at Barry & Monticello in the Avondale area, the multi-unit home is an ever-shifting art installation with murals painted in homage to El Salvador, Puerto Rico, and South Africa...
