If winter fun is on your vacation agenda then Maine should definitely be on your planner.
There is so much to see and do there you may find yourself extending your vacation! Skiing, snowmobiling, moose watching, fishing and great food in…
Have you ever wanted to get a taste of China but don’t have the budget for a trip to the Orient?
Then you need to head the car to The Forbidden Gardens in Katy, TX.
The gardens are an outdoor museum replicating…
Who is the first “spokes-animal” you remember?
If you are over twenty-five chances are it is Elsie the Cow, the spokes-cow for Borden Dairies.
Around before the Energizer Bunny, the Quick Bunny and even Morris the cat, Elsie was THE symbol of…
If you’re in the neighborhood of Spring Green, Wisconsin this holiday season, drop by The House on the Rock for it’s annual Christmas tour. The house was built in the 1940’s by Alex Jordan who intended it to be a…
The Poe Museum is located in Richmond where Edgar Allan Poe lived and worked.
The museum features the life and career of Edgar Allan Poe by documenting his accomplishments with pictures, relics, and verse, and focusing on his many years in…
Sure, we all watch the Super Bowl to root for our favorite team, gorge ourselves on an endless supply of cheap beer, six-foot long subs and yell at the players through our TV screen.
But if what I suspect is true,…
Elias F. Stenman, a mechanical engineer who designed the machines that made paper clips, decided to make a house out of paper. He thought the paper would be good insulation.
Elias began building his house in Rockport, Massachusetts in 1922. He…
Do you have a fascination with the bizarre? Or, perhaps, a long-neglected interest in the medical profession?
The place for you, then, is the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A visit to the Mutter Museum is a view into a world…
Enter the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices in Minneapolis, MN, (dubbed “The Quackery Hall of Fame”) and you’ll get a closeup look at the world’s largest display of “what the human mind has devised to cure itself without the benefit…
Interested in the trappings of death? Curious about the way people have been buried over the last two centuries?
Then visit the National Museum of Funeral History!
The museum was founded to preserve historical artifacts from the 19th and 20th centuries and…