Yesterday I told you about the brand-new ABBA Museum in Stockholm, but that’s not the only random music museum in existence. Even though Canada is the home of respectable musicians like Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, and Joni Mitchell (let’s forget about Avril Lavigne, Céline Dion, Nickelback, and the rapper called...
When it’s this humid outside, there’s nothing better than having a scoop of ice cream. No, this next place isn’t a museum, but it is definitely a collector of ice cream flavors, 900 to be exact. Trout, hot dog, honey pollen, crab, gherkin, spaghetti…everything you’d ever want to eat in...
No disrespect to anyone out there, but there is nothing I find scarier than organized religion. It’s probably because I went to Catholic School and still have occasional nightmares of endless masses and reenactments of crucifixions and Sister Kay telling my mom I was the devil’s child because I wrote...
My apologies for this tumblr’s absence the last few days. I know you were all waiting to read about an obscure museum to cherish and love. A much needed rest was in order to get my brain cells working again so I could form words to make sentences that will...
It might come as a surprise to many of you that the National Museum of Pasta Foods is found in Rome and not Olive Garden. Located in the Palazzo Skanderbeg, the museum’s eleven rooms cover the history of pasta with exhibits on production, machinery, technologies, nutritional information, ancient and modern...
People may not write things down with pencil and paper anymore. But that shouldn’t stop you from visiting the Pencil Museum in Keswick, UK. It’s actually pretty good.
There’s nothing I find scarier than a room full of ventriloquist dummies. So of course this means I won’t be visiting the Vent Haven Museum in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky (if it is still open…this is subject to debate). It was founded by an amateur ventriloquist named William Shakespeare Berger and...
I’ve just read back-to-back books about Mount Everest, so let’s just say the topic of exploration is floating around inside my brain right now. Did you know there is an Explorers Club in Manhattan? Located in an old mansion on East 70th Street, the organization was originally founded in 1904...
There’s The Shop Around the Corner, and then there’s the Museum in the ‘Round Corner’ (otherwise known as the Museum in der “Runden Ecke”) in Leipzig, Germany. Its name comes from its location; a curved corner space in a building that once was an office of the sinister East German...
I thought photographs steal your soul, but apparently pirates do as well. The Pirate Soul Museum has the largest and most authentic collection of pirate artifacts EVER! The museum was originally located in Key West, but like a true pirate, the unburied treasures moved to St. Augustine in 2010. In...
I believe South Dakota is one of the few U.S. States without indoor plumbing, so what a surprise to learn it is home to an Outhouse Museum. An outhouse is literally outside, which explains why the museum is…you guessed it…outside. Founder, curator, benefactor and local outhouse expert Richard Papousek established...
The Angel of the North, located in Gateshead, England, is a contemporary steel sculpture designed over fifteen years ago by artist Antony Gormley. The thing is as tall as four double decker buses and has a wingspan as big as that of a jumbo jet. It is also seen by...
