With all the wax museum tourist traps out there, the next one wins the prize for weirdest, especially if mom and dad end up taking the kids here after the “Maid of the Mist” boat ride. I mean, what kind of tourist town would Niagara Falls be if it didn’t have at least one wax museum. Even though the place is located on the Canadian side of things, the Criminals Hall of Fame Wax Museum celebrates many notorious criminals, from the good ol’ U.S.A., like Jesse James, Al Capone, Charles Manson and the Unabomber. Adolf Hitler and Jack the Ripper are thrown in there so Americans don’t come off as completely evil. Down the narrow black corridors, one sees familiar faces behind glass windows, like Jeffrey Dahmer looking through his fridge for a late night snack, Timothy McVeigh in his orange prison jumpsuit, Son of Sam listening to his neighbor’s dog, Bugsy Seigel and Lucky Luciano at the gambling table…
And if that’s not enough tourist shit for one day, the museum shop has a photo-op electric chair that buzzes when you sit on it as well as a lot of crap you don’t need but would love to purchase so you can relive this experience over and over again.
And from this sign, I can see their curator needs to go back to spelling school.
