We’ve covered some very specific food museums before on this blog, from the Prince Edward Island Potato Museum and the National Museum of Pasta Foods in Rome to Szentendre’s Marzipan Museum and the SPAM Museum in Minnesota. So why not add another random food museum to the list? Known as...
Over the last three years this blog has paid visits to various animal-themed attractions like Amsterdam’s Katten Kabinet, the Bunny Museum in Pasadena, the World’s Largest Pig Museum, and Dog Mountain in Vermont. Well, what’s one more? Located just north of Waco in Texas is Antiquibles, an antique mall that...
After a near-death experience in 1998, folk artist Stephen Huneck built a chapel on “Dog Mountain” in Vermont. He wanted to celebrate the spiritual bond humans have with dogs. On top of the white steeple is a Labrador Retriever with wings, while the interior is decorated with carved wooden dogs...
A fat, pessimistic, and sarcastic cat who loves lasagna, Garfield the comic strip was first published on this date back in 1978. In celebration of its 34th birthday, I’ll relive the time I visited the Fairmount Historical Museum. You probably didn’t know the cartoon is set in Muncie, Indiana. The...
The exhibits at the Neanderthal Museum in Mettman, Germany, show the history of the Neanderthal and the original discovery of the Neanderthal skeleton along with five thematic areas in chronological order, including “Life and Survival”, “Tools and Knowledge”, “Myth and Religion”, “Environment and Nourishment” and “Communication and Society”. Part of...
“My favorite exhibit of all time is the cloud room at the Andy Warhol Museum. In college, because we had free admission, if I needed to feel grounded I would go and lay on the floor in there for hours. It’s peaceful and so beautiful in its simplicity.” Did you...
I’d say just about all my friends are smokers from “smoke two packs a day” to the casual/social kind. I find it pretty gross, besides the fact that it’s freakin’ expensive. But that doesn’t mean I’m not intrigued by the Lantrip Ashtray Museum in Oroville, California. The local Postmaster, Dean...
It might look like a gas station, but appearances can be deceiving. This is actually someone’s home. Known as Reiff’s Gas Station Museum, the homeowner Mark Reiff has completely remodeled his house and front lawn to resemble a real gas station. There is even a 1950s-style diner inside with mannequins...
Paul Bunyan is a mythological lumberjack who somehow got his own REAL holiday every June 28. Statues of Paul and Babe the Blue Ox are all over the place from Bemidji, Minnesota (I hope I bump into Frances McDormand and Steve Buscemi if I ever make my way up there)...
There is nothing I enjoy better than a random celebrity museum. If you are a recent follower to this blog, then please check out my earlier posts on Lucille Ball, Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds. The Shania Twain Centre is the number one tourist attraction in the Timmins, Ontario area…actually...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S.by Nam June Paik, 1995. National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Forget about Stephen King’s Pet Sematary (even though I do like the movie adaptation’s title track by the Ramones) for a minute and turn your attention to Los Angeles Pet Memorial Park, the final resting place for dead pets of the stars. One of the oldest of its kind on...
