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…
If you still happen to be in New Orleans for Mardi Gras, check out the Mardi Gras Museum at Arnaud’s Restaurant before you leave.
The museum was opened in 1983 and is free to the public during regular restaurant hours. The…
Ever wonder what they do with all the hair that gets cut off at salons and barbershops?
Most people chuck it in the nearest trash can, some people sell it to make wigs.
Lelia Cohoon collects it for her Hair Museum in…
Have you ever heard of a fainting goat?
Well, neither had I until I stumbled across RoadsideAmerica’s short clip on a farm in Montana, full of fainting goats.
Apparently, there is a breed of goats that when startled, faint! Some of them…
In 1876, Henry Wells, a freedman, was accused of burning down the second courthouse in Carrollton, Alabama. He was arrested in 1878 and held prisoner in the garret of the now Pickens County Courthouse.
As he looked out the second story…
Colleen Moore, a silent screen star of the 1920s (bigger than Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford in her time), was always fascinated by dolls and doll houses. As one of the most popular actresses in Hollywood, she had the resources…
Who was the most famous cow in the world? Well, Elsie the Cow of Borden Milk of course.
Elsie appeared as Borden’s milk cartoon advertising slogan. In 1939, Borden Milk entered the New York’s World Fair with an automatic milking machine. …
Today’s RoadStop is dedicated to some of Earth’s greatest craters.
In 1999, South African geologists identified the world’s largest impact crater to be located in the central Free State province. The Vredefort crater measures between 150 and 190 miles in diameter…
With Martin Luther King’s birthday just around the corner and Black History month in February get a head start on your education and fun with a trip to the Great Blacks in Wax Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.
Here you can see…
Remember in the early 1980’s when Moms were tearing each other apart in massive lines to be first to obtain Cabbage Patch dolls? Those were the dolls that one “adopted” and they came complete with names and birth certificates.
Well, not…