National Yo-Yo Museum, California

The only childhood memory I have of the yo-yo is that I couldn’t get it to work. So in frustration I tossed the stupid thing aside and went to read a book. For people born after 1990, there was actually a time when young people played with real things. Believe...

National Museum of Crime and Punishment in Washington, D.C.

Al Capone hanging out at the National Museum of Crime and Punishment in Washington, D.C. Look at his comfortable prison cell (the one he had at Eastern State, before he was transferred to the more grueling Alcatraz). Who knew Scarface was allowed to wear such a swanky suit as a...

Calke Abbey, a historic manor home in Derbyshire, England

This blog has covered odd taxidermy collections more than a few times in the last five years from Alabama’s Mann Wildlife Learning Museum and the 19th century collection of frogs in Switzerland to Romania’s August von Spiess Museum of Hunting and the largest collection of stuffed dogs at Bítov Castle...

Wax Museum at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco

Last night’s late post went over well (sarcasm) so maybe this next one will do better. How can it not? I mean, a creepy wax statue of Mel Gibson…what’s not to love? If you’re wondering why Mad Max looks so happy, it’s because his statue maker was a Gentile. Something...

Pysanka Museum – the Ukrainian Easter Egg

Pysanka Museum – the Ukrainian Easter Egg

What better time to visit the Pysanka Museum than on Easter Sunday. This is the only museum in the world dedicated to the Ukrainian Easter Egg. So appropriately enough it is located in Kolomyia, Ukraine. The museum’s exterior is shaped like an egg, while the inside of the dome resembles...

Steven Wright’s House of Dreams Museum, London, England

Steven Wright’s House of Dreams Museum, London, England

Steven Wright might be the name of a deadpan comedian, but please don’t confuse him with folk artist Stephen Wright (or English footballer Stephen Wright). Back in 1999, Stephen the artist was a stationary and textile designer. But one day after seeing Jarvis Cocker’s Journeys into the Outside, he decided...

Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania

Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania

The giant Rainbow Serpent mural entitled Snake (1970-72) was created by Australian artist Sidney Nolan and is made of 1,620 individual paintings. The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania is the brainchild of eccentric millionaire David Walsh, who’s called it a “subversive adult Disneyland.” Designed by architect...

Desert Christ Park depicts Jesus’ time on Earth, Yucca Valley

Desert Christ Park depicts Jesus’ time on Earth, Yucca Valley

Patti Smith once sang in the song Gloria these immortal words: “Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine.” Well, today is the day, guys. On Wednesday I told you about some bronze statues peeing outside the Kafka Museum. But now I have a completely different collection of sculptures for...

October 8th is International Octopus Day, Japan

October 8th is International Octopus Day, Japan

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming (again…SORRY!) of creepy museums and attractions in the month of October to bring you a post from museum-of-artifacts because today is Octopus Day (yes, you read that last part right): There are a lot of awareness days and months. People like to be aware...

Salvador Dalí’s Sundials “Le Cadran de Dalí“ in Paris

Salvador Dalí’s Sundials “Le Cadran de Dalí“ in Paris

The Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí might be best known for painting melting clocks, but he also designed a sundial. Above Rue Saint-Jacques in Paris, which has a lot of sundials by the way, is “Le Cadran de Dalí“, a curious-looking piece of art (complete with Dalí’s signature in the...

The Grave of Six Year Old Inez Clarke, Chicago

The Grave of Six Year Old Inez Clarke, Chicago

One of the most well-known and mysterious cemetery markers in the Chicagoland area, as well as a personal favourite of mine, is the grave of six-year-old Inez Clarke (1873-1880). Located in Chicago’s historic Graceland Cemetery, her parents commissioned a life-sized statue, which was completed a year later by a Sicilian...

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