If you’re in Singapore with either your own or somebody else’s children and looking for something to do, then why not take them to the most disturbing theme park of all time (yes, even scarier than the It’s a Small World ride at Disneyland). I am talking about Tiger Balm...
This house might look innocent enough, but it’s actually one of the most haunted places in Sweden. This humble abode, located in Borgvattnet Jämtland, is actually a vicarage built in 1876. The first report of hauntings began in 1927 when the resident chaplain Nils Hedlund wrote a letter noting the...
Okay, if this next one doesn’t creep you out, then something must clearly be wrong with you. Along Highway 5 outside of Suomussalmi, Finland, thousands of scarecrow-like figures stand quietly in a field. “The Silent People” created by artist Reijo Kela in 1988, are simple wooden bodies made up of...
When I was 9 or 10 years old my mom dressed me up as a hippie for Halloween. Looking back over twenty years later, I can’t think of anything more frightening. And what’s even scarier (well, in my mind anyway) is that a tie-dying museum exists in the world. I...
When you google “weird museum” you usually get the Sulabh International Museum of Toilets as one of the results. But we don’t want to cover popular google searches on this blog. Also, who wants to write about a collection of toilets when there is a toilet-shaped museum in existence? Opened...
As one gets older, only specific memories stick out in the brain. Or maybe it’s more like a conglomeration of random events pieced together to create a distorted reality. I don’t know where I’m going with this, but I’ve blocked most of my time in high school. I mean, come...
The other day’s post on alcohol will now be followed with another vice. That would be smoking of course. In Paris, a haven for smokers even with a bistro ban, you’ll find the world’s only Smoking Museum. I mean, let’s not forget…cigarette is a French word after all. At Le...
There are not enough museums in the world dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases. Luckily, a few such places exist. The Moulagenmuseum in Zurich, Switzerland is the second largest collection of moulages after the famed Le Musée des Moulages in Paris. What’s a moulage you ask? Molds of rubber,...
Years ago when I studied to become a museologist, I learned all about Cabinets of Curiosities or Cabinets of Wonder, precursors to today’s museum. Viktor Wynd, curator and proprietor of The Little Shop of Horrors in London’s East End, was curious “to see how a contemporary wunderkammer might look”. So...
At one time, the men outnumbered the women nearly 200 to 1 in Wallace, Idaho, making huge profits for the five brothels along the town’s main street. But only the Oasis Rooms have been preserved. After catching word that they were on the brink of an FBI invasion, its occupants...
