I live in Illinois, but I’ve barely been south of the capital city of Springfield, so there is a slim chance I’ll ever visit Chester, the town of all things Popeye, even though it’s only a 5 and a half drive from Chicago. Located on the bluffs of the Mississippi...
Blame the craziness of life for not blogging all week. There is life outside the internet? No, you must be lying. Wait…what’s the internet? As far as I know, the internet was not invented by Al Gore, but it is a well-known fact that a couple of Belgian lawyers birthed...
After focusing on three museums in the United States, Christmas Museum Week now moves to the country of Japan. From 1994 to 2001, the Felissimo Christmas Museum operated in Hakkaido. It looks like the museum still has an on-line presence. What did I learn? That 1549 was the first recorded...
Open since 1966, the Witch’s Dungeon Classic Movie Museum is the longest-running Halloween-ish museum in the United States. It is only open during the month of October. The brainchild of Bristol, Connecticut native Cortlandt Hull (who was literally a child when he opened this place), the museum is housed in...
I may be young, but I have seen a few episodes of Bonanza. A Dan Blocker (Hoss Cartwright) Museum? I swear to god…only in Texas.
If I had to take a guess, I’d assume this next museum is a personal favourite of the Chicken Lady. Once located in the centre of Seoul, the Museum of Chicken Art has now moved to northern Gyeonggi-do as the Maniker Museum of Chicken Art. If you’re wondering if it...
The London Sewing Machine Museum contains what else…a collection of antique sewing machines. There are 600 domestic and industrial ones, dating from the 1850s to the 1950s. Probably the best piece of the collection is a unique sewing machine, given as a wedding present to Queen Victoria’s eldest daughter 150...
I need to stop the wax museum posts. But I feel it’s my responsibility to share the creepiness with you. Please don’t try this at home.
In honor of the London Olympic Games, with its official opening ceremony, let me tell you about the World’s First Sand Sculpture Museum that has been built in Japan. What does 100,000 years of accumulation of rock and mineral particles over 323 acres, the largest such dune in Japan, have...
I still have nightmares from living in that one apartment with all the cockroaches, so I don’t think I’ll be visiting the Cockroach Hall of Fame Museum in Plano, Texas anytime soon. Here you see Michael Bodhan, who must be both equally creative and insane. After all, not everyone can...
In recognition of what would have been Jack Kerouac’s 90th birthday I bring you a one-way alley in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Located between Grant and Columbus Avenues, this isn’t some random alley, it is located next to a pub and bookstore that Kerouac used to go to when he lived...
Once upon a time Lynyrd Skynyrd sang about “Sweet Home Alabama”, but I bet they didn’t know about the town called Sweet Home. Yep, such a place exists in Oregon and it’s the sweet home of White’s Metal Detectors, one of the earliest manufacturers of metal detectors. Next to the...
