If you plan to visit the city of Tomar in Portugal, make sure not to bring any pyromaniacs with you. Located south of the old town in the former Convento de Sao Francisco is the Matchbox Museum (or the Aquiles da Mota Lima Museum of Matches). Believe it or not,...
Happy April Fools’ Day! What started as an April Fools joke in 2012 became a permanent art installation in Elberta, Alabama. Created by the artist Mark Cline, who often displays creations on April Fools’ Day like “Foamhenge”, the “Lady in the Lake” first appeared in a pond at Barber Motorsports...
Believe it or not, this blog has never paid a visit to the 51st U.S. state known as Puerto Rico. And I’ve been writing about one-of-a-kind attractions for five years - my sincerest apologies! I guess this next place just slipped my notice. In the mountains of central Puerto Rico...
I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of talking about houses. Thank god historic house museum week is over. But before we move on, let me tell you about one of the best house museums I’ve ever visited, if you can call it that…Sir John Soane’s Museum probably belongs...
Weird things I learned about the state of Rhode Island: It is considered an offense to throw pickle juice on a trolley, one cannot sell toothpaste and a toothbrush to the same customer on a Sunday and, last but not least, one is breaking the law if he or she...
The only way to recognize Presidents Day is with a bad wax museum picture. And yes, I know…Benjamin Franklin was never President. But some people think he was. So whatever.
This life-sized wax effigy of King Charles II was made soon after his death in February 1685. It stood over the king’s grave in Westminster Abbey for 150 years before being moved to the Jesus Chapel/Islip’s Chantry, where it was photographed by Sir Benjamin Stone in 1896. Now on...
Barney Smith, curator of the Toilet Seat Art Museum, posing with his collection of toilet seat creations. He now has over 1,000 pieces. Smith numbers, photographs and catalogs each seat, including the work’s particular inspiration and information about who donated the seat materials. So next time you’re in San Antonio,...
As someone who nearly flunked basic algebra in high school, I’m not entirely sure what it all means. So after looking that shit up on Wikipedia I have learned it is a holiday (oh yeah, are banks closed?) commemorating the mathematical constant π. Pi Day is celebrated on March 14...
Considering both emlueders and shuraiya have requested Alaska’s Hammer Museum, I will cover it again because I’m nice like that and also I’m lazy as hell (I’ve repeated museums before…don’t tell anyone, please). Who doesn’t love a gigantic hammer? I know I do. And what better way to greet visitors...
As a poor grad student in the UK, I admit to surviving on cheap food like sausage rolls, jacket potatoes and pasties. Did you know there is a museum dedicated to that last “delicacy”? But it’s not in Cornwall as you’d expect…no, the world’s first Cornish Pasty Museum is in...
Better late than never! As I promised earlier, here is my other post about James Dean, on the sixtieth anniversary of his death. I’ve told you more than a few times about when I went to his hometown of Fairmount, Indiana. There was a visit to the local museum, where...
