I’ve seen the Witch Museum in Salem MA. Admittedly, it was back in the 90s, but I thought it was interesting, not boring.
I have also seen the Hershey museum. I thought it was OK. Maybe I just don’t have high enough expectations for entertainment. I don’t know.
I will say that, for me, the most overpriced and under delivered attraction I have seen is the Winchester mystery House in San Jose California. Big-time waste of money.
I enjoyed the Witch Museum in Salem. I had several ancestors in prisons up there for witchcraft. Assume they were just unpleasant personalities. Luckily for my existence, they all got out safely.
And I did enjoy the Hershey museum because I couldn’t have imagined a vat of chocolate that big swishing back and forth. I say this with a box of Hershey cherry kisses on my desk.
“I will say that, for me, the most overpriced and under delivered attraction I have seen is the Winchester mystery House in San Jose California. Big-time waste of money.”
When I was about ten years old Disney put out an occasional magazine you could buy at Gulf gas stations. I was living on the East Coast and had never been to California. One of the first articles was the Winchester House.
Flash forward fifteen or so years later, I’m living in LA, driving back from San Francisco with my girlfriend, we’re going to drive down to San Simeon and to go Hearst Castle the next day. I planned to get most of Big Sur in during daylight.
We stopped on San Jose for gas, and I saw a sign that said “Winchester House” with an arrow. I told me girlfriend, “We’re going to see the Winchester House.” It was o.k.
But we drove through Big Sur in the dark, and I got stuck behind someone driving fifteen miles an hour, for about an hour, and they WOULD NOT turn out. I was laying on the horn for about half an hour.
The good thing is, I never have to see it again.
I’m surprised Plymouth Rock isn’t on the list. The good thing about it is as soon as you see it, you figure out there’s nothing to it. No waiting around to see if it gets better.
I bought a great t-shirt at the Salem museum. Wife and I enjoyed it.
I love the Winchester house. Saw it as a kid when they explained it better than the last time in 2006.
I knew more about it from 1968 than they did.
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