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 thats okay.
At Yahoo Travel, we went in search of weird, wonderful, and wacky museums that are worth going out of your way to see.
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Texas - National Museum of Funeral History
Oregon - Vacuum Cleaner Museum
West Virginia - The Mothman Museum
Hey we have a Moist Towelette museum in Michigan.
The Mothman Museum would clearly be worth a visit.
Pretty sure there are 57 states. Obama told me.
#57, the Obama Museum o fArt
The Mustard Museum is here in Wisconsin.
The Agate museum in Grand Marais MI is pretty cool but the one to visit is the Shipwreck museum at Whitefish point.
http://www.shipwreckmuseum.com/whitefish-point-4/
I was pretty sure that the Twine Museum, houses the world’s largest ball of twine, would be Minnesota’s weirdest museum. But checking out the website for the House of Balls makes me see why it’s the winner, thought it seems like it would be a better fit in the “Museums Run by a Psychopath” article.
People with obsessions like this fascinate me, too.
A French postman did something similar:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Cheval
-JT
For Maine, I’d pick the Wilhelm Reich Museum in Rangeley.
http://www.wilhelmreichtrust.org/museum.html
Colorado has a tropical insect museum. You would have thought it would have something to do with loco weeds.
What about the other 5 states?
Walter Reed Medical History Museum is a scream. It’s now in MD. Go BEFORE lunch.
Ditto on Coral Castle being fascinating - visited there in ‘85 - want to go back someday...
Geez, Colorado’s isn’t weird at all. And Wyoming’s is the Old Territorial Prison, which is actually a pretty interesting place. Butch Cassidy was once a “guest.”
Found this by accident, near Baltimore’s BWI airport.
Had an Enegma Machine on display at that time.
National Electronics Museum
http://www.nationalelectronicsmuseum.org/
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