I came across these huge maps at the Denver airport last week detailing a myriad of museums, attractions, and classic Americana. From the "World of Tools" to the "Museum of Questionable Medical Devices," to the "World's Largest Mr. Peanut," to the "Mother Featherlegs Monument to Prostitutes," to the "Barbie Doll Hall of Fame," seems nothing escapes the interest of the the American public. enjoy.
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Well, i found it while exiting the terminal, and exited at "Door 507" -- If i recall correctly, that's Level 5, East Side, in the Jeppesen Terminal. It's not too far inside the terminal from Door 507 - maybe 50 or 60 meters. You have to go outside security.
Or just print out one of those photos and ask someone where it is.
have fun!
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The World's Largest Ball of Bras at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. They even plug it with sayings like, "Let your cups runneth over", the "jug-ernaut exhibit" etc. The thing is HUGE. They also have a car covered with thousands of bent forks & spoons, a make-your-own-robot thing, etc. It's at Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page. ---St. Augustine
Posts: 771 | Location: St. Louis, MO | Registered: 28 April 2005
"It was the most efficient campaign I have seen in my 20 years in politics." -- Sam Burrell, alderman of Chicago's West Side 29th Ward, on the phenomeal Project Vote! voter drive of 1992 which was responsible for adding 150,000 black voters to the Chicago rolls. This helped Bill Clinton and Carol Mosley Braun win Illinois in the '92 elections. The project was spearheaded by an unknown 31-year-old lawyer and community organizer by the name of Barack Obama.
Its chock full of 19th century tools and tradecraft, including a real whaling rowboat, and a watchmakers workshop. The sight of items hanging from the ceiling is just bizarre and fascinating. Great tiles too. The building is the first example of a reinforced concrete building made in the USA, for architecture fans, using a unique and practical spiral layout, long before the Guggenheim Museum.
The Muller Museum, Philadelphia.
A series of rooms devoted to medically bizarre conditions and all kinds of body parts in glass jars. Still used by medical students.
The Bodies exhibit in NYC.
It shows plasticized human bodies down to skin, muscles, organs and bones, some of them in bizarrely happy playful poses, all smiling. Hold a rubberized human brain in your hand.
Posts: 2350 | Location: Philadelphia | Registered: 19 November 2004
Ah, yes, Portland's 24-Hour Church of Elvis - I always forget about it... Nice to know it made the map. And don't forget, anyone who's in town for the December BnA shindig - you can get married at the Church of Elvis. And you can marry whatever - or whoever - you want:
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Cheap (not legal) Wedding $5.00 Polaroid $2.50 extra (Includes wedding rings, marriage certificate, use of bridal veil and trip around the block with just married sign and cans.)
Awesome map -- these kinds of things have made up a large portion of my trip thus far!
Birth place of the jackalope? Saw that this afternoon, in Douglas, Wyoming. But you want to ride a jackalope? No problem, just hit up Wall Drug, in Wall, SD.
Oh, but you are more interested in the funny signs? Try driving through the Texas Panhandle. See Earth, Sudan, Progress, Halfway, Happy, etc. But for a really great town name, one can't beat Hooker, OK. Send yourself a postcard, just to see the postmark, HOOKER, OK! Yeah!
Just wait until I am actually back home -- Oh, the places I have seen.... the world's largest ketchup bottle and the largest walleye are just the tip of the iceberg.
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Posts: 2598 | Location: Back at work. | Registered: 23 September 2005
I hate to tell you that the 24 Hour Church of Elvis is a mere shadow in Portland's past. But! We are now home to the only velvet painting museum in the nation, the Velveteria.
It's true - but I still see Elvis around occasionally. I'vd seen him at the Saturday Market, doing his thang.
Ye Old Curiousity shop in Seattle was always intriguing to me when I was a kid. There are two dead people in there on display. That's unusual. Does anyone know if those two are real?
Oh yes, Ye Olde Curiousity Shop is awesome -- especially since it has such a great collection of shrunken heads. Because really, who doesn't enjoy a good display of shrunken heads?
Those mummies are pretty interesting, too. Does it matter if they are real? They do the job one way or the other.
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Posts: 2598 | Location: Back at work. | Registered: 23 September 2005
This one really isn't a musuem but it's close: Bishop's Castle. Jim Bishop built/is building a castle by himself. He is a little crazy but the place is cool. Want to climb a 160 ft tall tower on nothing more than steel grating, youi can. If you are scared of heights you might not want to climb it.
Posts: 1067 | Location: LoDo'in my way around | Registered: 03 October 2005
Ripley's Believe it or Not museum...there are about 10-20 around the country, I've been to the one in Myrtle Beach, it has the weirdest things I have ever seen
Seriously, you've been gettin a little out of hand with the puns recently. I think we're gonna have to ask you to tone it down a bit. You're at a 7, we're gonna need you at a 3, mkay? Thanks.
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