Sorry for the limited amount of posts lately. After three years I’m about ready to give up on this tumblog. Just not feeling it lately. But before I take my sabbatical, we have to celebrate the tradition of creepy and weird and scary things as we usually do in the...
I bring you an old post about another medical collection. Yep, right from the horse’s mouth. Now that was a bad joke if I’ve ever seen one. What we have here is 29 horses’ teeth, assembled by Louis Auzoux (1797-1880), a French doctor, who went on to make papier-mâché models...
1 Karosta Prison 2 Witch’s Dungeon Classic Movie Museum 3 Serial Killer Museum 4 Mütter Museum 5 Museum of Vampires and Legendary Creatures (Musée des Vampires) 6 Lithuania’s Devil Museum (Žmuidzinavičius Museum) 7 Beetlejuice Museum 8 Toland-Herzig Funeral Home’s Famous Endings Museum 9 Criminals Hall of Fame Wax Museum 10...
Nearly forgot to post something today! The Kindlifresser, or “Child Eater", has been traumatizing the children of Bern, Switzerland for nearly 500 years. Built in 1546, the city’s oldest fountain depicts a sculpture who has a taste for the babies. One is stuffed in his mouth, while several others await...
In the two and half years of its existence, this blog has never paid a visit to the country of Lebanon. My sincerest apologies to the Lebanese people because it sounds you guys have one of my favourite kind of museums. Yes, I have a love/hate relationship with really bad...
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)...
Distracted drivers going north on I-17 from Phoenix to Flagstaff might notice a large Christmas tree in the middle of the desert…you know, that dry and barren area of land where it’s not cold with freezing rain like most of the United States right now. Located in the middle of...
For whatever reason, between the years of 1964 and 1966, there were two television shows that featured comical Gothic horror-movie-type families living in old scary-looking mansions who were trying to adapt with their mainstream suburban communities: The Munsters and The Addams Family. But the two shows were quite different in...
There’s Groundhog Day, and then there’s Groundfrog Day. Yep, you read that right. Instead of a groundhog telling you whether or not there will be six more weeks of winter, a bullfrog known as the Snohomish Slew croaks his annual weather forecast for the Pacific Northwest in Snohomish, a small...
North of Knoxville in Clinton, Tennessee is the Museum of Appalachia, a living history museum that interprets the pioneer and early 20th-century period of the Southern Appalachian region. There is a collection of more than 30 historic buildings rescued from neglect and decay and gathered together, including cabins owned by...
