Sep 15 marks the anniversary of the hate crime known as the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing. A monument commemorates the bombing of the church in Birmingham, Alabama, while statues across the street honor the victims of the tragedy. The historic African-American church took a central role in the Civil...
Believe it or not, but the thousands of scarecrow-like figures that stand creepily in a field in Finland that I told you about last week have some competition in Latvia. Yes, a terrifying collection of figures stand randomly in the center of the historic wine-making town of Sabile. No one...
Let’s carry on October’s theme of “scary things” with Zaffis Museum of the Paranormal located in the barn at the back of John Zaffis’ house in Stratford, Connecticut. Zaffis is the nephew of controversial paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, who are best known for their involvement in the 1976...
I bet you thought the dormouse was just a character in Alice in Wonderland and the Jefferson Aiplane song “White Rabbit”, but they are real animals. The Dormouse Hunting Museum is located next to Snežnik Castle in Cerknica, Slovenia. In this part of the world, dormice are believed to have...
The Museum of Drinking Water in Taipei, Taiwan is located in a historic pumping station by the Xindian River. Believe it or not, there’s even a Tap Water Museum out there too! Does this mean the United States will one day open a Plastic Water Bottle Museum? Stay tuned to...
Just when you think I’ve run out of tiny museums, I go and find another one. I’ve told you about the Grant Museum of Zoology’s Micarium, Edgar’s Closet, the micro-museum known as Mµseum, the Red Telephone Box Museum, Musée-Placard d’Erik Satie, the “Smallest House in Great Britain” (which I personally...
Christmas comes but once a year, except at Ed Clark’s home in San Antonio, Texas. For nearly twenty-five years, Ed Clark’s Year-Round Christmas House has been open to the kind of people who start buying Christmas crap in May and listen to Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is...
I went to a baby shower yesterday. I think I’d rather have gone to a museum. Seen at the History of Medicine Museum, Paris.
For those who have never visited the UK, then you might not know of the culture’s obsession with eating beans on everything, specifically potatoes and slices of bread. I am happy that Museum Curator Captain Beany and his Baked Bean Museum of Excellence is dedicated to preserving the magic of...
There is an American girl I know who thinks she’s living in a Jane Austen novel. She might’ve been a wee bit disappointed to find out England is full of chavs and neds and not gentlemen dressed like Mr. Darcy, but that didn’t stop her delusions. Anyway, she would probably...
The Chelsea Market in NYC had a photo exhibit of at least 50 random guys posing with their extravagant facial hair. Check out more photos here.
In honor of 10-10-10 (the date people won’t stop talking about), I started to think about the concept of time, which inevitably led me to look up the American Clock & Watch Museum in Bristol, Connecticut. Does anybody know what time it is? Does anybody really care? In Bristol they...
