When I was 9 or 10 years old my mom dressed me up as a hippie for Halloween. Looking back over twenty years later, I can’t think of anything more frightening. And what’s even scarier (well, in my mind anyway) is that a tie-dying museum exists in the world. I...
Usually I’m telling you about some strange museum that no one ever visits. But this time I thought I’d turn things around and share a picture with you that belongs in its own museum. As you try to think of a name for our new museum, let me get busy...
Opened just last year, the New York Tattoo Museum is located in Staten Island’s Old Town neighborhood. On the upper floor of tattoo artist Dozer’s Island Tattoo parlor, tattoo fans can find three exhibits and two glass cases full of historic artifacts from the tattoo trade. It starts with the...
When you google “weird museum” you usually get the Sulabh International Museum of Toilets as one of the results. But we don’t want to cover popular google searches on this blog. Also, who wants to write about a collection of toilets when there is a toilet-shaped museum in existence? Opened...
Rosh Hashanah began last night, September 28th, at sunset and will not officially end until tomorrow night. Let’s party like it’s 5772! And speaking of Jews, probably one of the most random museums ever is the National Museum of American Jewish Military. No disrespect here. After all, I have a...
Even though I lived in Great Britain for over a year, I didn’t make it down to see the country’s number one tourist attraction, Stonehenge. Fortunately (or unfortunately) America has its own version in Virginia. Foamhenge was made entirely of, yes you guessed right, foam. It was created by artist...
Nothing is scarier than seeing Charley Pride (I mean Garry Shandling) at the Music Valley Wax Museum of the Stars in Nashville, Tennessee. Actually I take that back. I’ll stare at a million Charley wax figures any day over listening to his music.
Time for another creepy museum, maybe not in the classic sense, but it’s still a bit weird for an art museum. What am I talking about? That would be the Vigeland Museum at Slemdal, one of Oslo’s best kept secrets. The museum is basically a mausoleum to artist Gustav Vigeland...
As one gets older, only specific memories stick out in the brain. Or maybe it’s more like a conglomeration of random events pieced together to create a distorted reality. I don’t know where I’m going with this, but I’ve blocked most of my time in high school. I mean, come...
Occasionally people say I’m funny, but I know my humor is sometimes dry and not everyone’s cup of tea. If comedy is supposedly subjective, then that doesn’t explain why a Laughter Museum exists in the world. Even though I’m not surprised to learn this place is located in Germany (hopefully...
Fourth of July is one my least favorite holidays, not that I hate America or anything (okay, maybe sometimes). I just hate what the holiday has become…loud, obnoxious people blowing up fireworks and drinking lots of beer. Exactly what the founding fathers had in mind, I’m sure. If I wasn’t...
Mummified Cherchen Man - Xinjiang Regional Museum, Urumqi, China “Solid as a warrior of the Caledonii tribe, the man’s hair is reddish brown flecked with grey, framing high cheekbones, a long nose, full lips and a ginger beard. When he lived three thousand years ago, he stood six feet tall,...
