There’s nothing I find scarier than a Walmart store. Oh, wait…let me rephrase that…there’s nothing I find scarier than a Walmart shopper. I’m far from perfect as I have shopped at the place a few times in my life and sadly, most of that shopping took place at the Walmart-owned...
Like every 80’s child forced to sit in front of a television with a VHS of some random Disney film while my single parent mom worked three jobs, I remember watching 101 Dalmatians. Even though I didn’t watch that shit as much as The Three Caballeros and Lady and the...
When I first started this blog over two years ago, I mentioned Leila’s Hair Museum in Missouri. Holy shit! Has it been that long? Anyway, Leila's proclaims to be the only hair museum in the world (aka America) but that’s not necessarily true. The Bangsbo Museum in Denmark has Europe’s...
Historic photo of the Art Institute of Chicago.
I know of a few funeral museums but I never thought there would be one dedicated to a topic so specific like funeral carriages. Like life (or death), getting to this museum in Barcelona is a bit of an adventure. First, you have to report to the city’s Municipal Funeral...
If he was still with us, today would have been Johnny Cash’s 82nd birthday. Considering Valentine’s Day was nearly two weeks ago, let’s honour Johnny’s memory (and his wife June’s, who died four months before him) with a Valentine he gave her back in 1998. It’s on display at the...
One wouldn’t expect to visit a 125 year old abbey/monastery and find a museum full of random things. Besides the largest pig hairball and assortment of half deformed cows (including one with 8 legs!) in the taxidermy room, the St. Benedict Abbey Museum in Mount Angel, Oregon also has a...
For seven short years there was a place I could have sent my discarded old, smelly bras (if only I ever found the energy to clean out my dresser). But the world is an awful place. An amazing tourist site is no more and that makes me weep. Let me...
Looking for a good time while on holiday? Like a free shot or two? Stop at the Old Vienna Brandy Schnaps Museum (Alt-Wiener Schnapsmuseum) to get a look behind the scenes at a working distillery that has been producing such tipples as Williams Pear Brandy, Wiener Blut Liquer and Absinthe...
I like to think of myself as a traveler and not a tourist. Three and a half years ago, I wandered the streets of Berlin with no real purpose. Of course I had some ideas of places I wanted to see, but sometimes it’s better to stay away from the...
When you think of card games, computer Solitaire is probably what first pops into your head (or maybe not, I’m just old). The dragging and dropping of digital cards with a click of a mouse, or now with a tap of a finger on a touch screen phone, sometimes it’s...
Located in the very small hamlet of West Valley in southwest New York, Real Stuff Gallery & Gifts is a farm-based store that also happens to sell strange scrap metal sculptures created by owner Paul Boccolucci. The grounds are covered in enormous pieces of metal work, like dragons, insects, pink...
