I really want to go to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Whitefish Point, Michigan. Since 1679, there have been nearly 5,000 shipwrecks in the Great Lakes. Part of the exhibit includes these water-proof matches from the infamous Edmund Fitzgerald, which were brought up by a deep-sea submersible in the...
A pizzeria and pastry shop in Redford, Michigan has more than just calzones and cannoli, it’s also home to Italian immigrant Silvio Barile’s Italian American Artistic Museum. A sculptor for over five decades, the museum combines his birthplace and new home with not just statuary but strange and somewhat confusing...
The Homeless Museum of Art is not about the homeless problem in America, it’s basically a museum without a home. Since 2002, New York-based artist Filip Noterdaeme has been acting like the pretentious douchebag that I have grown to love. His homeless museum has been located in various places -...
1 Karosta Prison 2 Witch’s Dungeon Classic Movie Museum 3 Serial Killer Museum 4 Mütter Museum 5 Museum of Vampires and Legendary Creatures (Musée des Vampires) 6 Lithuania’s Devil Museum (Žmuidzinavičius Museum) 7 Beetlejuice Museum 8 Toland-Herzig Funeral Home’s Famous Endings Museum 9 Criminals Hall of Fame Wax Museum 10...
Nearly forgot to post something today! The Kindlifresser, or “Child Eater", has been traumatizing the children of Bern, Switzerland for nearly 500 years. Built in 1546, the city’s oldest fountain depicts a sculpture who has a taste for the babies. One is stuffed in his mouth, while several others await...
In the two and half years of its existence, this blog has never paid a visit to the country of Lebanon. My sincerest apologies to the Lebanese people because it sounds you guys have one of my favourite kind of museums. Yes, I have a love/hate relationship with really bad...
Although I’m more of a Nikola Tesla fan, I’ll tell you a little bit about the Thomas Edison Memorial Tower (which also includes the Menlo Park Museum) in Edison, New Jersey. Built in 1938, the tower marks the site of Edison’s greatest triumph, specifically the light bulb, which he unveiled...
My brain is not functioning properly today. I have to preserve my energy for This Belongs in a Museum’s first birthday celebrations tomorrow. It’s going to be craaazy. We (meaning nobody) are going to sneak into a museum and take flash photographs, touch objects with our greasy hands and probably...
I’d like to share a dwarf garden in Salzburg, Austria with you. Yeah, I know this isn’t exactly what you call a museum, but museums grew out of people having collections at their homes, so this is sorta like an outdoor garden museum. Also known as the Zwerglgarten, the dwarves...
Although John Adams wanted Independence Day to be celebrated on July 2 because that’s when Congress approved independence from Britain and the majority of delegates signed the Declaration of Independence on August 2, today is America’s birthday. The dates are all screwed up, but everything’s fine as long as you...
There are so many Michael Jackson wax statues in North America, it was hard to choose just one. From Toronto and New York to St. Louis and Las Vegas, it’s like a traveling tour of melting Jacksons. But I finally settled on a young Michael statue (because I have a...
My thanks to Alyson Kluskowski for posting some pictures she took at Wall Drug, which just happens to be competing for tourists with the Corn Palace…oh, and that one other famous landmark…maybe you’ve heard of it…Mount Rushmore. Don’t know why this South Dakota tourist attraction is proud to proclaim itself...
