Museu Nacional do Azulejo, Lisbon, Portugal

Museu Nacional do Azulejo, Lisbon, Portugal

Many of the buildings in Lisbon, Portugal are decorated with colourful and intricate tiles known as azulejos, which comes from the Arabic word az-zulayj meaning “polished stone”. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the city has a museum dedicated to these tiles called the Museu Nacional do Azulejo,...

Design Panoptikum in Berlin is the Creepy Industrial Museum

The Design Panoptikum in Berlin is the creepy industrial museum everybody has been looking for. What appears to be an ordinary storefront on the ground floor of a grey apartment block on Torstraße is actually a bizarre collection of 3,000 historical objects and curiosities from the worlds of film, aviation,...

Peshtigo Fire Museum, Peshtigo, Wisconsin

October 8, 2019 will the 148th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire. You might know the story of a cow wrongly accused of burning down the second city’s entire commercial district which resulted in 300 deaths; 100,000 people homeless; 17,500 buildings destroyed; and $222 million in damages (more than $4...

Clown Motel, “ghost town” of Tonopah, Nevada

The Circus Circus Casino isn’t the only place in Nevada with a creepy clown sign. Halfway between Las Vegas and Reno is the “ghost town” of Tonopah, which although isn’t completely abandoned, is pretty close to it. Even the local cemetery has been closed for a hundred years, made up...

Boston Children’s Hospital Museum Collection, Massachusetts

Sometimes children do things they shouldn’t do, like stick weird things up their nose or swallow non-food items. Believe it or not, there is a museum collection at Boston Children’s Hospital full of random stuff removed from young patients going all the way back to 1918. Pushpins tack the objects...

President’s Day – 44 Artifacts For 44 Presidents(Part One)

Washington's Birthday is a United States federal holiday celebrated on the third Monday of February in honor of George Washington, the first President of the United States. It's time to learn a few things about the forty-four men who got to call themselves commander-in-chief. Baltimore’s National Museum of Dentistry, an...

National Hobo Museum, Britt, Iowa

Although I once briefly mentioned the Hobo Museum in a post nearly five years ago, I didn’t share my own photos from a personal visit I took a few summers ago. So considering it is the blog’s fifth anniversary week, I guess I’ll stop being lazy and get on with...

Hendrix’s home – Handel & Hendrix in London

Every detail of the central London top-floor flat at 23 Brook Street, where musician Jimi Hendrix and his girlfriend, Kathy Etchingham, lived between 1968-69 has been recreated. There are Persian rugs on the floor, a Victorian shawl above the bed, and newspapers and a clamshell ashtray on top of the...

Marx generator, Moscow region, Russia

Hello, Obama! ;) I don’t know if this is creepy or cool or what…but it’s definitely not something you see on a daily basis, that’s for sure. Although some people might think it’s a Tesla coil, this machine, constructed in the 1970s by the Russian Electrical Engineering Institute, is actually...

The country’s largest Mexican art collection, Chicago, Illinois

The country’s largest Mexican art collection, Chicago, Illinois

Every year the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago has a Day of the Dead exhibit (check out last year’s photos here). The only Latino museum accredited by the American Association of Museums, it has the country’s largest Mexican art collection. So it’s fitting the museum also has one...

Fort Worth Museum of Science And History, Texas

Fort Worth Museum of Science And History, Texas

It's time to let you know about one more perfect place. The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History first started out as the Fort Worth Children's Museum in 1941 on Summit Street. The building the current Fort Worth Museum is housed in opened in 2007. During this time, the...

Lawn Sprinkler Museum by Bob Bosley

125 years ago today David Kalakaua, the last king of Hawaii, was forced at gunpoint by the Americans to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving America more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights. God, those Americans really hate the monarchy, don’t they? So because of this historical...

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