There’s a Pinball Museum in Las Vegas, where I once wasted lots of quarters playing Guns N’ Roses pinball and Paperboy arcade. But who would have thought there would be another Pinball Museum in the world? And in Germany no less? Actually that’s not much of surprise. So if you...
For all the fast food junkies out there, your dreams have come true in web form. Collector Chris Harne’s condiment hobby came about when he stopped buying ketchup and saved free packets at every restaurant possible, which then led to saving other condiments. And now he has an on-line Condiment...
An eclectic shop/museum supposedly established in 1967 by a Portland (Oregon) explorer named Conrad Talmadge Elwood whose love for all things weird caused him to have a dream of the store (which he promptly forgot) is not a new sketch from the tv show Portlandia. The store is actually real,...
Between check-ins on foursquare and posting selfies all over the internet, people now think the world revolves around them. But no one beats the narcissism of a Mr. Robbie Antonio. The 36-year-old real-estate developer has built a new house in Manila by renowned architect Rem Koolhaas. But that’s not what...
On this date in 1963 U.S. President John F. Kennedy was killed in Dallas, Texas. Millions of people have visited the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, which is located on the sixth and seventh floors of the Texas School Book Depository where Lee Harvey Oswald worked and fired the...
This next one’s not a museum, but an appropriate random attraction now that Hillary Clinton is officially running for U.S. President. Her husband Bill (I don’t know, you might have heard of him) was born in Hope, Arkansas (so was Mike Huckabee, by the way). Well, next to the town’s...
Although it’s nice to know that Petitcollin, the last French traditional doll factory, is still active, their museum (aka Musée de la poupée Petitcollin d’Étain) is a bit on the creepy side. Founded in 1860 by Nicolas Tin Petitcollin, this iconic brand has specialised in the manufacturing of plastic toys...
It’s become a tradition here on the blog to recognise the week of July 4th, you know, that time of year when Americans celebrate their Americanness with fireworks (invented by the Chinese) and ‘Made in the U.S.A.’ t-shirts (most likely made in China). In past years I’ve you told you...
A huge, three-headed elephant statue standing upon an equally gargantuan pedestal is the first, and last, thing you see when visiting Samut Prakan's Erawan Museum. The top floor represents the Travatimsa Heaven, which is located on top of Mount Meru in Buddhist cosmology.
On this day exactly one hundred years ago, Orson Welles was born, so it seems appropriate to write about the 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast, in which Welles’ Mercury Theatre on the Air enacted a Martian invasion of Earth that was based on H. G. Wells’s 19th century...
Who wants to go see a museum that will see you back? The Musée des Lunettes et Lorgnettes is an Eyeglass Museum in Paris created by sixties avant-garde optician Pierre Marly. Remember the oversized sunglasses that Jackie Onassis wore? Well, he designed those thingamajigs. The museum displays 3,000 objects, including...
I don’t know how many of you are aware of the Odd Fellows but I’ve always noticed their buildings while traveling around the country. Believe it or not, they have a museum in Wisconsin (unfortunately it does not have a website or any other info source). Luckily, Matt from the...
