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51 Weird Museums Across the U.S.: One For Every State (and D.C!)
yahoo ^ | Feb. 4, 2015 | Melinda Crow

Posted on 02/04/2015 3:35:56 PM PST by bgill

We, as a country, love weird things. We celebrate it, wear T-shirts proclaiming our weirdness, and enshrine oddities that probably should have gone out with the trash a decade ago. And that’s okay.

At Yahoo Travel, we went in search of weird, wonderful, and wacky museums that are worth going out of your way to see.

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Travel
KEYWORDS: museum; states; weird
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To: Jewbacca

Everyone says obola thinks there are 57 states. That’s bs. When asked where he had campaigned, he said 57 and had one more to go and would not be visiting Alaska or Hawaii. He thinks there are 60.


21 posted on 02/04/2015 4:39:15 PM PST by MisterArtery
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To: bgill; All
Kentucky
Ventriloquists and their dummies are right up there with puppets on our list of strange
fascinations. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, you can get you fill at the Vent Haven Museum.

fits, gotta alotta double talkin' stock-puppets here.

22 posted on 02/04/2015 4:45:35 PM PST by skinkinthegrass ("Bathhouse" E'Bola/0'Boehmer/0'McConnell; all STINK and their best friends are flies. d8^)
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To: bgill

Every state? What about the other 7?


23 posted on 02/04/2015 4:46:37 PM PST by Politicalkiddo ("Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young..." -1 Timothy 4:12)
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To: bgill

Wow, the Silver Ball Museum! Gotta go!


24 posted on 02/04/2015 4:49:20 PM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
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To: bgill

There is the Boron, California 20 Mule Team Museum.

It’s right above Edwards AFB, is free and is about Borax and boron mining. Has stuff about Ronald Reagan as well, as he was host of Death Valley Days.

It’s not weird, but is a cool little museum.

Yelp

http://www.yelp.com/biz/boron-museum-boron

You Tube vid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo5OIQb0XmM


25 posted on 02/04/2015 5:12:40 PM PST by ifinnegan
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To: bgill

A Hoot!

Thanks for the post


26 posted on 02/04/2015 5:13:08 PM PST by CharleysPride (non chiedere cio che non si puo prendere)
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To: bgill
Some time ago,while driving through North Carolina on I-95,I noticed a sign for the Ava Gardner Museum.Needing a rest anyway I decided to stop.It was unusual and kinda interesting.I didn't stay much more than 20 minutes.
27 posted on 02/04/2015 5:18:16 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obama;America's First "Third World" President)
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To: bgill

In one of those “What the Heck” moments we visited the Spam Museum in Austin MN. Spent over three hours there. How it’s made. Who eats the stuff. Fascinating stories of how Spam contributed to WWII. Letters from Ike. Have told all our friends to check it out. Proudly displaying our Spam magnet on the fridge.


28 posted on 02/04/2015 5:37:57 PM PST by Boojum
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To: cripplecreek

That really is a great place to visit.

The museum is fascinating.Graveyard of the lakes.

Toured the museum to the music of Gordon Lghtfoot .

We spent about two hrs in there.

Love Michigan...in the summer.


29 posted on 02/04/2015 5:45:18 PM PST by Harold Shea
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To: central_va
"Walter Reed Medical History Museum is a scream. It’s now in MD."

This is one of the greatest museums ever.

I've been twice. Most recently about 10 years ago where it was well, made more "family friendly".

I saw it first in the 80s.

Back then they had the "brain room", the "heart room", and the shreds of James Garfield's spine exhibit.

So fascinating.

Anyone interested in military medicine and history needs to see this place.

30 posted on 02/04/2015 5:49:08 PM PST by boop (I never use the words democrats and republicans. I use liberals and Americans.)
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To: boop
This is one of the greatest museums ever.

Did you see the preserved largest impacted colon(worlds largest turd) ever surgically removed?

31 posted on 02/04/2015 5:56:20 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: bgill

wait 57...?


32 posted on 02/04/2015 5:58:26 PM PST by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: bgill

There used to be a menstruation museum in Maryland a while back. I don’t know if it’s still in operation.


33 posted on 02/04/2015 6:02:15 PM PST by rabidralph
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To: bgill

Not really a museum but there’s a life sized replica of Stonehenge in Maryhill Washington


34 posted on 02/04/2015 6:09:40 PM PST by muir_redwoods ("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
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To: rabidralph

It’s only open once a month-call ahead.


35 posted on 02/04/2015 7:58:41 PM PST by mozarky2 (Ya never stand so tall as when ya stoop to stomp a wstatist...)
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To: central_va
"Did you see the preserved largest impacted colon(worlds largest turd) ever surgically removed?"

No. I saw something like that at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia.

The megacolon was filled with straw.

At Walter Reed I DID see a ginormous amputated leg in formaldehyde, from a soldier who had it removed during the Civil War. I recommend BOTH museums for history and medical buffs.

36 posted on 02/04/2015 9:16:30 PM PST by boop (I never use the words democrats and republicans. I use liberals and Americans.)
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To: bgill

For Nebraska, they should have had the “Liars Hall of Fame”. Bill Clinton visited it during the ONLY visit he made to the State while President. The curator bowed to him (and rightly so).


37 posted on 02/05/2015 6:13:07 AM PST by jim_trent
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To: Boojum

Anybody on a longish trip driving I-90 should visit the Spam Museum. It’s right off the highway, it’s free, and it’s fun — everything you need for a break on a long drive.

Another place we like to stop along there (although only in warmer weather) is for the Green Giant statue in Blue Earth. Nothing to see except the Giant, but kids enjoy running around the little park there and climbing the stairs to get their picture taken with him and whatnot. We usually pack our own sandwiches, buzz in to the Blue Earth Piggly Wiggly and pick up crudites and chips, then have a picnic there.


38 posted on 02/05/2015 9:15:38 AM PST by Amity
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To: cripplecreek; Perdogg

I particularly liked the do-it-yourself recipe.


39 posted on 02/05/2015 1:24:41 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary men)
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To: rabidralph

They closed after 28 years.


40 posted on 02/05/2015 1:31:09 PM PST by mad_as_he$$
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