On this date in 1952 VP candidate Richard Nixon made his famous “Checkers speech” (here’s a video if you have a thing for Tricky Dick). It’s like if Sarah Palin stopped hunting wolves and adopted a pet moose, making voters think “Oh, gee…how nice!”, in turn helping McCain win the...
At San Francisco’s Musée Mécanique, you will find pieces from Playland at the Beach amusement park. This is the world’s largest private collection of mechanically-operated musical instruments and penny arcade machines. Play with orchestrations, player pianos, music boxes and antique slot machines 365 days a year.
On this date in 1885 the soft drink Dr Pepper made its first appearance at a drug store in Waco, Texas. The drink is not a real doctor, therefore the period is silent, or more like invisible to the seeing eye. Today a museum in Waco pretends to celebrate this...
Potato Museum #1 (aka Das Kartoffel) in Munich, Germany
Potato Museum #2 (aka Friet or Belgian Fry) in Brussels, Belgium
If your conscience is represented by an Angel Museum on your right shoulder, then obviously the left holds the temptation of the Devil Museum. The Žmuidzinavičius Museum (I challenge you to a Lithuanian Spelling Bee) in an obscure part of Kaunas displays over 3,000 sculptures and carvings of devils from...
For some reason I have the song “That's Your Funeral” from the musical Oliver! playing in my head. Maybe it’s because I have just read about the Bestattungsmuseum (Undertakers’ Museum) in Vienna. Located near the Schloss Belvedere in an old funeral home, the museum contains more than 600 artifacts documenting...
I remember taking an Earth Science class in high school (or was it middle school?) but I don’t think the Museum of Earth History has anything to do with science…or truth for that matter. This little Creationist museum, first located in Arkansas before moving to its present day location in...
Although I have not written a post about the International Banana Museum in California (and no, it’s not just a lonely banana sitting in a chair), in the early days of this blog I wrote about the Banana Museum in Washington State. Yes, people there are at least TWO banana...
Have a thing for ornamental hair products? If you happen to visit Sarah Palin Land in the near future, you might want to check out the Miller Comb Museum. Ralph and Betty Miller of Homer, Alaska have collected over 3,000 ornamental hair combs since the 1960s. According to theAntique Comb...
I freakin’ love coffee. This wasn’t always the case, but once you become a professional student (BIGGEST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE) you learn to live with it. Then it becomes a part of your life like a drug and there’s no going back. This postcard from Britain shows a classic...
In its two-and-a-half year existence, this blog has covered a random teapot museum in Tennessee, a tea museum no longer with us and even a Hitler teapot…so one more tea related thing can’t hurt. Everybody loves a cuppa. Open since last summer, J’s Tea-rific Teapot Museum in teeny tiny Elloree,...
