My stepmom is the director of operations at the mütter museum and we both seriously fangirled about this mention! It really is a cool museum, you should all come sometime!
I've been there like twenty times, but usually go the Academy of natural Sciences because I have a membership, or they Academy of fine art to make pottery or the Art museum, All such beautiful buildings.
the mutter museum is so cool if you're interested in medical history and medical oddities. the coolest thing is that they're always switching out exhibits because their collection is so huge, so whenever you go you're bound to see new things!
The sign museum is really worth a visit! I'm not particularly interested in signs, but it was a really interest set up. And it's only only neon (though the vintage neon signs are great), but also a variety of other mediums like hand painted posters and calligraphy. If you're in Cincinnati and on a museum crawl, DEFINITELY check out the Underground Railroad museum. It is beautiful and wonderful and terrible and you will cry.
This is my favorite flavor of mental floss video (although I like them all). Strange, silly, lots of humor opportunities for John and the writers. Yay!
The Museum of Broken Relationships in Croatia is amazing, I was there this past summer. It's really interesting to see the items people have given and the explanations. You kind of feel weird peering into someone else's break up, but in a kind of beautiful way. Really cool.
I do appreciate how Mental Floss handles the need to mention their sponsors and whatnot, as a thank you instead of making thorough references through the video =w=
a few quirky museums that can be found in vienna: condom museum, torture museum, trash mueum (seriously it's about how trash gets taken care of in the city), circus & clown museum, museum of contraception and abortion, a schnaps museum, teddy bear museum, a teeth museum and a magic set museum
One correction, and only because it makes it even more awesomely boring. It's the gopher HOLE museum. That's right people, even the ankle breaking indicators of the presence of vermin are worthy of their own museum, in nowhere Alberta.
I have been to the towing museum in Chattanooga twice because it makes me happy that exists. Also, a surprisingly beautiful sculpture of rescue in front.
I just learned the term "toxic megacolon" a couple days ago and now I've heard it mentioned here. A decent question for the weekly question thing would be: "Why do you frequently hear a word for term you've just learned within a week of learning it?"
The National Museum of Funeral History was actually totally worth it. My friend and I went during the week, so we had it to ourselves, and there was so much to look at! the other half of the building is even a mortuary science college if you really want to learn more about funeral preparation.
I've lived in Houston for almost 10 years. When we moved here, the museums and shows were what I was most excited about. To this day, the only museum I've been to is the Funeral Museum =] I'm totally satisfied with that.
Just a tip to any mental floss fans out there: check out No Such Thing As A Fish. It's a podcast by the people that make QI and it too has a load of really cool and funny facts. I only thought of it because they were mentioning the Broken Relationship Museum earlier this week.
This list is utterly incomplete. A list of weird museums surely needs to include the Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health! It has a vast collection of the history of how women have dealt with menstruation, an excessive collection of tampons and pads, a dress made out of tampons and is located in some dude's basement and you can only go in with an appointement and if your group isn't too numerous!
thumbs up for recognizing Croatia :) i've been to the Broken Relationship museum, and it is quaint at first sight, but after a while you realize just how sad it is
Gone are the days that we where known for our intelligence and ingenuity. Now we have to disprove stereotypes if we ever set foot outside of our borders.
No, that's probably not weird enough considering it's very popular and in Washington DC. Compared to other things on this list it's not a strange one lol.
So much sass!! John Green you are an inspiration to all with your ability to make me enjoy listening to such nonsense as people who collect banana artifacts
John, Bigfoot hunter John Green is going to come down to Indianapolis and kick your behind if you keep "besmirching his name" like this. You'd better watch your back.
I actually went to the spam museum when I was 11 years old. It was nice there was a little puppet show about spam and an exhibit about spam during WWII. And a gift shop where I bought my grandmother a lovely magnet.
*cough* sellout *cough* In all seriousness, I will never use geico, even if they are supporting a youtube channel that I love. Their annoying commercials have ruined my relaxing TV watching experience too many times to count. I would much rather spend an extra few bucks each month than know my money is going to those assholes.
If I had my choice of who to boycott for their bad commercials, it would have to be Progressive. Flo gives me flashbacks of all those bad diner car breakfasts from my childhood.
mcool13thebass Firstly, it's a joke...an expanded view of the traditional definition in favor of the colloquial one is not uncommonly employed. Secondly, I do realize that the usage of sellout is a bit outside of it's traditional sense, as mental floss has never professed anti-commercialism viewpoints.
The Mütter Museum is amazing! There are drawers of things that people have swallowed and jars of preserved, diseased body parts. It's absolutely fascinating.
The ramen museum is actually really cool! At the end, you get to make your own personalized cup of instant noodles, with lots of weird flavours to choose from. You can also choose normal flavours, if you're boring.
Massachusetts has 3 spots on the list! I'm so proud, we may be one of the smallest museums but that doesn't us from being a contender of weirdest museums!
The Pencil museum is awesome! I have been several times. They have an exhibition of the history of local pencil production, plus you get a fee pencil with the price of entry. Also the shop is a pencil lover's paradise.
If you include the gelato museum, you should also include the chocolate museum in Cologne! And if you're going to include the lamp museum you mustn't forget the chair making museum in High Wycombe, UK.
You usually think of the middle of the country as being full of these weird museums (and clearly it is), but strangely it seems like Massachusetts actually has the highest density of weird museums off this list.
Yeahhhh the Pencil Museum! I've been there three times, not because I want to, but because my mother adores the place. I do not undersand the attraction.
Whoo! Two museums from my hometown. (Fort Mitchell, KY is just a bedroom community of Cincinnati, OH) But the sign museum is actually pretty awesome. They have a full service sign shop inside that you can get custom signs from.
About a year ago I stumbled across one of these videos and liked what I saw, and decided to subscribe. Ive been watching all of the Mental Floss videos since, and I'm embarrassed to admit I had no idea John Green was a writer, until about 1 week ago. I saw the trailer for the fault in our stars, and heard "based on the novel by John Green". I thought there was no way it was the same guy, but decided to look it up anyway, sure enough, there it is, John Green wrote the fault in our stars. Long story, slighter shorter, I decided to watch the movie and it was probably the saddest movie ive ever seen. I'm not sure I can watch these video with the same humor, wonder and amusement that I use to watch them with, now knowing this man is capable of making such a beautiful and depressing movie. I always was a fan of your videos, but now I'm a fan of your work all over again. Okay.
My mind blowing question is: Who first invented chocolate? Also, John Green, I love your book The Fault in Our Stars!!! Best book ever. I cried through the movie too, which I also thought was amazing. This book & movie are litterally my favorite things ever!!! Can't wait till the dvd/cd of the movie comes. thanks for writing such an inpirational book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HOLY CRAP. I live in Arlington Massachusetts and I NEVER heard of this museum. I'm gonna go there right now! I'm not even joking, right after this video I'm gonna find out where it is and walk there.
I read a book last year called Behind the Scenes at the Museum of Baked Beans, about all kinds of odd museums in UK, including a fan museum, the pencil museum that was mentioned in this video, a lawnmower museum and of course a Museum of Baked Beans.
I was watching this specifically to see if you would mention the Towing Recovery Museum. I drive by it often and have yet to go in! The statue in the front is pretty neat.
I've actually been to the International Towing and Recovery Museum. It's actually a pretty interesting museum. They've got tow trucks and wreckers from the early 1900s to the present.
Being a Minnesotan, I can explain the Spam museum. It was invented in Minnesota, and our chief export in WWI and WWII. Our history museum has a section it, we also have a Root Beer museum
You forgot the Salt and Pepper Shaker museum in Gatlinburg, TN. It's actually really cool to see. They have over 1000 sets of salt and pepper shakers and it's really cool.
I love the Mutter museum! My great uncle actually had the slides with Einstein's brain for a while, before he gave them to the person who donated them to the museum :)
Not exactly a museum in the traditional sense, but the City Museum in St. Louis is awesome. It's basically a warehouse that's been transformed into a 10-ish story jungle gym for adults.
I've been to the funeral museum - I have a cousin that is a mortician and he dragged us there one day when he came to visit us and it was actually REALLY interesting! Not something I'd ever think about visiting on my own but I'm glad I went. Another bizarre museum that I was kind of hoping had been mentioned is the Buckhorn Saloon and Museum in San Antonio, TX. If you're a fan of taxidermy or just strange/unique animals in general, you should visit if you're in the area.
I have been to the Mütter and it is AMAZING. It has a corpse that turned into soap instead of decomposing (known as "The Soap Lady") and Abraham Lincoln's death mask and a whole wall of skulls that you can adopt! And if you go during the X-Mas season, you need to check out their tree - it's decorated in skulls and two -headed plushies. It is the second greatest museum I have ever visited. The BEST museum is in Los Angeles. The Museum of Jurassic Technology. Admission is "Pay What You Want" and it is basically a museum of random crap. They regularly rotate out exhibits, but when I went, there was a room dedicated to animals that were sent into space, another room dedicated to microscopic art that uses butterfly scales as a medium, a room dedicated to string games, a room dedicated to trailer parks, a room devoted to old wives tales, and a room dedicated to tiny sculptures that are sculpted on the head of a pin. Number 3 is in NYC and it is just called "Museum". It's located in a rented out, alley-facing elevator shaft.
You missed the best museum, the witch museum found in Boscastle Cornwall. They not only have a large collection of witching articles but also a decent history as well, along with the fact that during the massive flood they had they lost most of the museum to the sea, only to have divers retrieve it all back and put it back the way it was before it happened (along with most of the village bricks and all). It's also just a beautiful place to visit.
Having personally visited the lamp museum I can attest to the fact that it was quite isolated -- though it was significantly better than the french fry museum next door. As Rick Steve's travel guide said: Skippable unless you're a lamp enthusiast, in which case BOY are you in luck. After that, we had to check it out.
I had a dream that I met you last night. I was gravely disappointed to wake up, as you had written me a critique of my novel that I haven't written yet, and I woke up before I could read it. :(
HOLY CRAP IM SHAKING!!!! THATS ME. Literally all I did was hear an ice cream truck outside, wrote the comment and BAM! Dreams can come true! TAKE THAT LIFE!
My stepmom is the director of operations at the mütter museum and we both seriously fangirled about this mention! It really is a cool museum, you should all come sometime!
I've been pining to go for almost a decade. I wanna go SO BAD.
you definitely should! they have a room entirely full of skulls and several leather objects made from human skin. it's awesome.
I knew they would talk about it, didn't even watch 10 seconds of it yet.
I live in PA, and I've never gone but I really want to!
I've been there like twenty times, but usually go the Academy of natural Sciences because I have a membership, or they Academy of fine art to make pottery or the Art museum, All such beautiful buildings.
the mutter museum is so cool if you're interested in medical history and medical oddities. the coolest thing is that they're always switching out exhibits because their collection is so huge, so whenever you go you're bound to see new things!
If that museum of towing vehicles doesn't call their hall of fame, a Haul of Fame, they have missed a great opportunity.
The sign museum is really worth a visit! I'm not particularly interested in signs, but it was a really interest set up. And it's only only neon (though the vintage neon signs are great), but also a variety of other mediums like hand painted posters and calligraphy.
If you're in Cincinnati and on a museum crawl, DEFINITELY check out the Underground Railroad museum. It is beautiful and wonderful and terrible and you will cry.
People must be dying to get into the museum of funerals. I think the exhibits are a bit stiff though.
Oh, I am awful.
I was going to make the same joke, but I was a bit late.
This is my favorite flavor of mental floss video (although I like them all). Strange, silly, lots of humor opportunities for John and the writers. Yay!
The Museum of Broken Relationships in Croatia is amazing, I was there this past summer. It's really interesting to see the items people have given and the explanations. You kind of feel weird peering into someone else's break up, but in a kind of beautiful way. Really cool.
I could open a Canadian Branch
I do appreciate how Mental Floss handles the need to mention their sponsors and whatnot, as a thank you instead of making thorough references through the video =w=
a few quirky museums that can be found in vienna: condom museum, torture museum, trash mueum (seriously it's about how trash gets taken care of in the city), circus & clown museum, museum of contraception and abortion, a schnaps museum, teddy bear museum, a teeth museum and a magic set museum
Just want to say congrats on the movie john! Your book has inspired a lot of people and the fact that it's getting even more recognition is awesome!
Here in Alberta we have a Gopher Museum! yes Gophers, the little critters we shoot for fun..
One correction, and only because it makes it even more awesomely boring. It's the gopher HOLE museum. That's right people, even the ankle breaking indicators of the presence of vermin are worthy of their own museum, in nowhere Alberta.
Haha!!!
Thank you for helping me understand people who hate museums a little better.
8:33 thanks for watching menopause here on youtube.
Miss spelling is john green things or probably green's family things
that's exactly what I thought he said
I know I'm 8 years too late but there's the Glore Psychiatric museum in St. Joseph Missouri, you wouldn't believe what some people have swallowed
Anyone with a thousand bucks can take the cat? I'll take it.
You never said I had to give you the thousand bucks, I'll just take the cat.
I just realized with how long I am not subscribed and you wrote the fault in our stars paper towns and looking for Alaska! you are an amazing author!
I live in New Delhi and I have seen that museum.
It's a refreshing experience
Anyone!!??
No?
Ok...
Two of my favorite things...weirdness and museums.
JOHN THIS IS THE SECOND TIME YOU HAVE DONE THIS IT IS PRONOUNCED "KEZZICK" AHHHHHHHHHHH
Mispronouncing words is his thing!!!
I have been to the towing museum in Chattanooga twice because it makes me happy that exists. Also, a surprisingly beautiful sculpture of rescue in front.
Okay here's one for you John green how come the pork-chop piggy bank never seems to be full?
*pork-chop
Hale M Thanks for telling me, I changed it. :)
Congratulations! He has now made an entire video answering this. Basically, he claims there are not that many quarters in it yet.
I just learned the term "toxic megacolon" a couple days ago and now I've heard it mentioned here.
A decent question for the weekly question thing would be: "Why do you frequently hear a word for term you've just learned within a week of learning it?"
I know why it happens, but it's still always strange to see a video that has 301 views and 604 likes.
It's how UA-cam quantifies views in the first day or so after it is uploaded
Evan Lacey Someone needs to learn to read…
Well if you knew why it happens why are you asking the question?
…I did't ask a question.
"i know why this happens" "its strange that it happens"
The National Museum of Funeral History was actually totally worth it. My friend and I went during the week, so we had it to ourselves, and there was so much to look at!
the other half of the building is even a mortuary science college if you really want to learn more about funeral preparation.
Can you guys do a "... rare and weird diseases" ep?
Forget I said anything, I've found the "medical conditions" episode.
KellyMcAnena you know you can delete your comment right.
KellyMcAnena Share the link please!!!
I was hoping the mustard museum was going to be on here! Thank you John!
Does the lamp museum have the leg lamp from the Christmas Story
When I saw the title I knew the Museum of Broken Relationships should make the list. I was not disappointed.
Damn John, your hair looks good today
I've lived in Houston for almost 10 years. When we moved here, the museums and shows were what I was most excited about. To this day, the only museum I've been to is the Funeral Museum =] I'm totally satisfied with that.
I wonder why on an intro there are worldwide sights, but all videos are only about America? Pyramids and Eifel tower are somewhere in Texas apparently
Croatia and Japan are in America
You learn something new every day
There is an Eifel tower in Paris, Texas. But it has a red cowboy hat on top. Paris, Texas also has a diner with the best hashbrowns ever. just saying.
Ahh Iceland,USA wherever you are
Just a tip to any mental floss fans out there: check out No Such Thing As A Fish. It's a podcast by the people that make QI and it too has a load of really cool and funny facts.
I only thought of it because they were mentioning the Broken Relationship Museum earlier this week.
This list is utterly incomplete. A list of weird museums surely needs to include the Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health! It has a vast collection of the history of how women have dealt with menstruation, an excessive collection of tampons and pads, a dress made out of tampons and is located in some dude's basement and you can only go in with an appointement and if your group isn't too numerous!
Geez, and I'll probably die without seeing that one.
That's cool. (I can say that because I'm a female). I just hope there's no used products. 😂
thumbs up for recognizing Croatia :) i've been to the Broken Relationship museum, and it is quaint at first sight, but after a while you realize just how sad it is
Pretty sure "every pez dispenser ever" would be WAY more than 900.
He means every PEZ design created. Not each individual dispenser.
Right. I'm positive there have been more than 900 designs.
*****
Pez dispenser database appears to have almost 7k entries.
***** "There are over 550 unique dispenser heads with thousands of variations." And look at pez.com, there are many designs to prove the point.
over 9000
Does anybody else get excited when their town gets mentioned? Int. Towing and recovery museum you've done it again.
'Muricans put strange things in their museums.
At least we don't have the penises of every mammal in Iceland!
Someone has to do it.
Gone are the days that we where known for our intelligence and ingenuity. Now we have to disprove stereotypes if we ever set foot outside of our borders.
Not all of them were in the US. Some were in Iceland and Tokyo.
Toilets: India,Penises: Iceland, Ramen: Japan. Really?
Torrington gopher museum!!!!!! Best weird museum I've ever been to.
Wilson is in the background!!!!
The amount of sarcasm in this video is stifling.
what about spy museum?
I don't know what that is, but it doesn't sound too weird.
No, that's probably not weird enough considering it's very popular and in Washington DC. Compared to other things on this list it's not a strange one lol.
So much sass!! John Green you are an inspiration to all with your ability to make me enjoy listening to such nonsense as people who collect banana artifacts
huh, no creationist museums, strange...
Beacuse those are being saved for '29 False Museums'
GameZilla98 I wish I could give that comment a +100. That's excellent!
Creationist museums exist. They're called "mental institutions".
Adam and Eve riding a dinosaur to the apple tree.
Well at least there's a bigfoot museum, they should just make it a part of that one.
Firstly, thanks for giving me not one but two reasons to stay here in Minnesota!
Secondly, thanks for giving me yet another reason to visit Croatia!
John, Bigfoot hunter John Green is going to come down to Indianapolis and kick your behind if you keep "besmirching his name" like this. You'd better watch your back.
the mutter museum is seriously the coolest place i have ever been
THIS IS MY CHANCE POTATO
NO POTATO, IT'S MY TIME
Tog Sniffer Such is life.
Potato is love, potato is life
The things that Idaho is famous for still astounds me. I live so close to Pocatello and have never heard of the museum of clean.
Does anyone else find it ironic that the toilet museum is in India?
Ditto.
I actually went to the spam museum when I was 11 years old. It was nice there was a little puppet show about spam and an exhibit about spam during WWII. And a gift shop where I bought my grandmother a lovely magnet.
*cough* sellout *cough*
In all seriousness, I will never use geico, even if they are supporting a youtube channel that I love. Their annoying commercials have ruined my relaxing TV watching experience too many times to count. I would much rather spend an extra few bucks each month than know my money is going to those assholes.
If I had my choice of who to boycott for their bad commercials, it would have to be Progressive. Flo gives me flashbacks of all those bad diner car breakfasts from my childhood.
*****
I have no idea how Flo would remind you of that, but hey, I'm not one to judge :P
geico is truly a piece of shit.
I don't think "sellout" means what you think it means.
mcool13thebass
Firstly, it's a joke...an expanded view of the traditional definition in favor of the colloquial one is not uncommonly employed. Secondly, I do realize that the usage of sellout is a bit outside of it's traditional sense, as mental floss has never professed anti-commercialism viewpoints.
The Mütter Museum is amazing! There are drawers of things that people have swallowed and jars of preserved, diseased body parts. It's absolutely fascinating.
DFTSHDTLTBA Got it
The ramen museum is actually really cool! At the end, you get to make your own personalized cup of instant noodles, with lots of weird flavours to choose from. You can also choose normal flavours, if you're boring.
Yea Burlingame!!! John, you don't know how many people from around this town are freaking out on Facebook over your mention. Thanks. :)
YESSS! You mentioned the mustard museum!
The "Museum of Death" in Hollywood is absolutely FANTASTIC
Massachusetts has 3 spots on the list! I'm so proud, we may be one of the smallest museums but that doesn't us from being a contender of weirdest museums!
we love the big foot museum!! come visit any time!
You can also taste and buy(regular or travel size) mustard at the National Mustard Museum. I went there last year so
The pencil museum is actually really awesome!
Laughed the whole time, and loved the closing phrase :)
I live in Somerville and have visited the Museum of Bad Art many times, so I exist in the Mental Floss-verse . . . I feel validated.
The Mutter has been on my list of dream vacations for years now.
I'm hoping very soon I can finally make it out to Philly to visit.
The Pencil museum is awesome! I have been several times. They have an exhibition of the history of local pencil production, plus you get a fee pencil with the price of entry. Also the shop is a pencil lover's paradise.
I clicked on this betting The Mütter Museum was on the list. Gotta love my city.
If you include the gelato museum, you should also include the chocolate museum in Cologne! And if you're going to include the lamp museum you mustn't forget the chair making museum in High Wycombe, UK.
You usually think of the middle of the country as being full of these weird museums (and clearly it is), but strangely it seems like Massachusetts actually has the highest density of weird museums off this list.
Yeahhhh the Pencil Museum! I've been there three times, not because I want to, but because my mother adores the place. I do not undersand the attraction.
In my hometown we have a lawnmower museum, which has various garden items that used to belong to celebrities, as well as many lawnmowers (shocking!)
I love his sarcasm.
Whoo! Two museums from my hometown. (Fort Mitchell, KY is just a bedroom community of Cincinnati, OH) But the sign museum is actually pretty awesome. They have a full service sign shop inside that you can get custom signs from.
About a year ago I stumbled across one of these videos and liked what I saw, and decided to subscribe. Ive been watching all of the Mental Floss videos since, and I'm embarrassed to admit I had no idea John Green was a writer, until about 1 week ago. I saw the trailer for the fault in our stars, and heard "based on the novel by John Green". I thought there was no way it was the same guy, but decided to look it up anyway, sure enough, there it is, John Green wrote the fault in our stars. Long story, slighter shorter, I decided to watch the movie and it was probably the saddest movie ive ever seen. I'm not sure I can watch these video with the same humor, wonder and amusement that I use to watch them with, now knowing this man is capable of making such a beautiful and depressing movie. I always was a fan of your videos, but now I'm a fan of your work all over again. Okay.
Japan also has a musuem devoted entirely to luggage, which is pretty awesome. And from personal experience, the ramen musuem is the best musuem ever.
I find it cute that you have that cat next to Sherlock and Watson
I'm so glad the Mutter Museum made the list.
My mind blowing question is: Who first invented chocolate? Also, John Green, I love your book The Fault in Our Stars!!! Best book ever. I cried through the movie too, which I also thought was amazing. This book & movie are litterally my favorite things ever!!! Can't wait till the dvd/cd of the movie comes. thanks for writing such an inpirational book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HOLY CRAP. I live in Arlington Massachusetts and I NEVER heard of this museum. I'm gonna go there right now! I'm not even joking, right after this video I'm gonna find out where it is and walk there.
I read a book last year called Behind the Scenes at the Museum of Baked Beans, about all kinds of odd museums in UK, including a fan museum, the pencil museum that was mentioned in this video, a lawnmower museum and of course a Museum of Baked Beans.
The fault in our stars is AWESOME!
I was watching this specifically to see if you would mention the Towing Recovery Museum. I drive by it often and have yet to go in! The statue in the front is pretty neat.
I've actually been to the International Towing and Recovery Museum. It's actually a pretty interesting museum. They've got tow trucks and wreckers from the early 1900s to the present.
I was hoping the Mutter museum would be mentioned. That place is weird, disturbing and awesome all at the same time.
Being a Minnesotan, I can explain the Spam museum.
It was invented in Minnesota, and our chief export in WWI and WWII. Our history museum has a section it, we also have a Root Beer museum
You forgot the Salt and Pepper Shaker museum in Gatlinburg, TN. It's actually really cool to see. They have over 1000 sets of salt and pepper shakers and it's really cool.
I can't believe they didn't mention the Batta Shoe Museum in Downtown Toronto!! It certainly a sight to see!
I love the Mutter museum! My great uncle actually had the slides with Einstein's brain for a while, before he gave them to the person who donated them to the museum :)
Not exactly a museum in the traditional sense, but the City Museum in St. Louis is awesome. It's basically a warehouse that's been transformed into a 10-ish story jungle gym for adults.
I've been to the funeral museum - I have a cousin that is a mortician and he dragged us there one day when he came to visit us and it was actually REALLY interesting! Not something I'd ever think about visiting on my own but I'm glad I went.
Another bizarre museum that I was kind of hoping had been mentioned is the Buckhorn Saloon and Museum in San Antonio, TX. If you're a fan of taxidermy or just strange/unique animals in general, you should visit if you're in the area.
I have been to the Mütter and it is AMAZING. It has a corpse that turned into soap instead of decomposing (known as "The Soap Lady") and Abraham Lincoln's death mask and a whole wall of skulls that you can adopt! And if you go during the X-Mas season, you need to check out their tree - it's decorated in skulls and two -headed plushies. It is the second greatest museum I have ever visited.
The BEST museum is in Los Angeles. The Museum of Jurassic Technology. Admission is "Pay What You Want" and it is basically a museum of random crap. They regularly rotate out exhibits, but when I went, there was a room dedicated to animals that were sent into space, another room dedicated to microscopic art that uses butterfly scales as a medium, a room dedicated to string games, a room dedicated to trailer parks, a room devoted to old wives tales, and a room dedicated to tiny sculptures that are sculpted on the head of a pin.
Number 3 is in NYC and it is just called "Museum". It's located in a rented out, alley-facing elevator shaft.
got to admit i'm disappointed the telephone museum in guernsey wasn't mentioned because i love that museum
Love this channel and love your books. I'm sorta a geek when it comes to books and facts but anyway love mental floss
If you ever do a followup to this episode, be sure to look into the teddy bear museums in England or Korea
Love the mustard museum!!
There's a veterinary museum in Jefferson City, Missouri. But a gelato museum sounds way more fun.
In Gatlinburg, TN there is a salt and pepper shaker museum. I don't remember where but I have also seen the International Quilting Museum.
You missed the best museum, the witch museum found in Boscastle Cornwall. They not only have a large collection of witching articles but also a decent history as well, along with the fact that during the massive flood they had they lost most of the museum to the sea, only to have divers retrieve it all back and put it back the way it was before it happened (along with most of the village bricks and all). It's also just a beautiful place to visit.
Having personally visited the lamp museum I can attest to the fact that it was quite isolated -- though it was significantly better than the french fry museum next door.
As Rick Steve's travel guide said: Skippable unless you're a lamp enthusiast, in which case BOY are you in luck. After that, we had to check it out.
I had a dream that I met you last night. I was gravely disappointed to wake up, as you had written me a critique of my novel that I haven't written yet, and I woke up before I could read it. :(
HOLY CRAP IM SHAKING!!!! THATS ME. Literally all I did was hear an ice cream truck outside, wrote the comment and BAM! Dreams can come true! TAKE THAT LIFE!