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They all demonstrate perverted fascination with us looking at objects, and with objects looking at us, which is why we list them (''below''):
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[[image:LynxSM2008.jpg|thumb|200px|The [[Lynx]] (''Lynx canadensis'') with her kitten. Some authorities group this animal under ''felis''. Her urine is said to harden into precious stones.]]
  
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== Real Places We Like (and have been to!)==
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===Links===
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A selection of our colleagues who demonstrate a fascination with us looking at objects, and with objects looking at us. We list them, electronically, for your illumination and erudition.
  
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[http://www.americanprecision.org/ '''The American Precision Museum''' in nearby Windsor, Vermont a world renown repository for machine tools.]
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== Virtual Places We Like ==
  
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[http://dc.about.com/od/smithsonianmuseums/p/AnacostiaMuseum.htm The '''Anacostia Museum''' focuses on the families and neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. and the national history and culture of African Americans.]
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[http://thehumanmarvels.com/ J. Tithonus Pednaud presents a compendium of human oddities, Albino; Bearded; Conjoined; Deformed; Dwarfism; Fakes… Etc.]
  
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[http://www.avagallery.org/ '''AVA Gallery,''' our friends and neighbors in Lebanon, New Hampshire.]
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[http://www.lostmuseum.cuny.edu/home.html The '''Lost Museum''' is home to a '''virtual P. T. Barnum's American Museum''' on-line!]
  
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[http://www.barnum-museum.org/ '''The Barnum Museum of Natural History''' in Bridgeport, Connecticut.]
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[http://pages.infinit.net/cabinet/introduction.html '''McGill University''' has a virtual Wunderkammer. Its all about History and interaction.]
  
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[http://www.bluenilebotanicals.com/ A parallel universe of natual history can be found at '''Blue Nile Botanicals'''.]
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[http://www.roguetaxidermy.com/index.php The '''Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermy''' has a Web site. They also give tours of garbage dumpsters in Manhattan's Chinatown, in search of rare specimens.]
  
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[http://www.calvin-coolidge.org/ '''Calvin Coolidge''' was born in nearby Plymouth, Vermont. You can see his grave. And buy cheese!]
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[http://www.roadsideamerica.com/ '''Roadside America''': Two words that say it all.]
  
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[http://www.cityreliquary.org/ '''The City Reliquary''' in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is one of our favorite ''Civic Organizations!'']
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[http://www.shockedandamazed.com/ You will be '''Shocked and Amazed''' at '''shockedandamazed.com''' and you'll find "A great bunch of magazines" and "A great web site!"]
  
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[http://www.confederatemuseum.com/ '''Confederate Memorial Hall''' in New Orleans has Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard's slippers on display!]
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[http://www.showhistory.com/ Our colleague James Taylor presents an encyclopedia of novelty & variety performers & showfolk!]
  
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[http://www.coneyisland.com/museum.shtml '''The Coney Island Museum,''' The only museum in the world dedicated to interpreting and preserving the history of '''Coney Island.''']
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[http://www.weirdamerica.com/ '''Weird America''' seems to be as enamored of the Main Street Museum as we are of '''Joe Citro'''!]
  
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[http://www.creationmuseum.org/ A biblical science museum—o my! '''The Creation Museum''' in Cincinnati.]
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== Museology: Museums-about-Museums ==
  
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[http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/rauner/manuscripts/ Our friends at '''Dartmouth Special Collections''' curate valuable collections of '''human hair''' and, of course, '''Daniel Webster's socks!''']
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[http://www.cityreliquary.org/ The '''City Reliquary''' in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is one of our favorite ''Civic Organizations,'' with a new-old perspective on New York City.]
  
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[http://www.hartfordhistory.org/ Official website of the '''Hartford Historical Society''' *White River Junction is a village of Hartford, Vermont.]
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[http://www.coneyisland.com/museum.shtml The '''Coney Island Museum''' is the only museum in the world dedicated to interpreting and preserving the history of '''Coney Island'''.]
  
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[http://www.fairbanksmuseum.org/ '''The Fairbanks Museum''' in St. Johnsbury, Vermont is located just one hour north of the Main Street Museum.]
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[http://www.creationmuseum.org/ The '''Creation Museum''' in Cincinnati is a Biblical science museum. O My!]
  
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[http://www.uvm.edu/~fleming/ The Main Street Museum has co-curated shows of artifacts at the '''Robert Hull Fleming Museum''' in Burlington, Vermont. As well as art, they have '''Vermontiana''' galor!]
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[http://www.muttermuseum.org/ The '''Mutter Museum''' is the museum of the College of Surgeons in Philadelphia, memorializing Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins," and the "Soap Lady." And who doesn't love the Bunkers and the Soap Lady?!]
  
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[http://www.fortat4.org/ Our neighbors present living history at '''Fort Number Four''' in Charlestown, New Hampshire.]
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[http://www.reanimationlibrary.org The '''Reanimation Library''' in Brooklyn is a specialized repository for books that have fallen out of mainstream circulation but take on new life as resource material for various cultural archeologists.]
  
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[http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/ the '''Hood Museum''' at nearby Dartmouth College has a '''mermaid!''']
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==Natural History and Other Great Collections==
  
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[http://www.phallus.is/ '''The Icelandic Phallological Museum'''—"is probably the only museum in the world to contain a collection of phallic specimens belonging to all the various types of mammal found in a single country." What could be better than that?]
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[http://www.phallus.is/ The '''Icelandic Phallological Museum''' may be the world's only museum showcasing the phalli of all the mammals found in a single country. What could be better than that?]
  
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[http://chapelapps.wlu.edu/ Visit the Lee Chapel at Washington and Lee University. See Lee's horse, Traveller's (1857 – 1871) grave!]
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[http://www.kunstkamera.ru/ The Marvelous '''Kunstkammer''' of Peter the Great in St. Petersburg, Russia.]
  
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[http://mjt.org/ '''The Museum of Jurassic Technology''' in Culver City, California, as well as cultivating "a chain of flowers to guide us", curates and disperses to the public, relics from the Lower Jurassic, especially those demonstrating "curious technological qualities". After all, ''No One May Ever Have the Same Knowledge Again...'']
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[http://pem.org/museum/ The '''Peabody Essex Museum''' in Salem, Massachusetts houses ''wonders!'']
  
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[http://www.moc.org/site/PageServer '''The Museum of the Confederacy''' in Richmond, Virginia.]
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[http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/ '''The Pitt Rivers Museum''' is Oxford's great collection of ''everything.'']
  
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[http://www.muttermuseum.org/ Who doesn't love Chang and Eng Bunker and the "Soap Lady" '''The Mütter Museum''' of the College of Surgeons in Philadelphia]
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== Local Interest: Our Colleagues for a Great Local Trip ==
  
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[http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/ '''The National Civil Rights Museum''' is in the former Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee pays tribute to the struggle for black civil-rights and has a really sweet vintage '''Cadillac''' in parked out front!]
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[http://www.americanprecision.org/ The '''American Precision Museum''' in nearby Windsor, Vermont is both a world renowned repository for machine tools, and a record of the Upper Valley's long history on technology's cutting edge.]
  
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[http://www.palaceofwonders.com/home.html Where will you ever see another one like it? '''The Palace of Wonders''' in Washington, D. C.]
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[http://www.breadandpuppet.org/ '''Bread and Puppet''' our outstanding, brave, colorful, merry, ''fierce'' colleagues in all things theater ”and they even have their own museum in a barn!]
  
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[http://pem.org/museum/ '''The Peabody Essex Museum''' in Salem Massachusetts houses ''wonders!'']
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[http://www.cartoonstudies.org/index.html The '''Center for Cartoon Studies.''' Who knows, perhaps White River Junction was a cartoon before it was a town. Sometimes it seems that way and so a "Cartoon College" is a natural fit for our Downtown. "Hey CCS! Youre the Best!"]
  
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[http://www.ramp-vt.org/ '''The Rockingham (Vermont) Arts and Museum Project.''']
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[http://www.calvin-coolidge.org/ The '''Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation''' celebrates and studies America's 30th president, who was born in nearby Plymouth, Vermont. You can see his boyhood home and his grave. And buy cheese!]
  
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[http://www.reanimationlibrary.org '''The Reanimation Library''' in Brooklyn is a specialized repository for books that have fallen out of mainstream circulation but take on new life as resource material for various cultural archeologists.]
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[http://www.fairbanksmuseum.org/ The '''Fairbanks Museum''' in St. Johnsbury, Vermont is located just one hour north of the Main Street Museum an hour well spent to reach this fascinating and stately institution.]
  
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http://www.splcenter.org/index.jsp
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[http://www.uvm.edu/~fleming/ The '''Robert Hull Fleming Museum''' in Burlington, Vermont has art and ''Vermontiana'' galore! The Main Street Museum has co-curated shows of artifacts there, too.]
  
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[http://ucmmuseum.com/ In Abitta Springs, Louisiana, there is '''The UCM Museum''' where an unforgettable time can be had viewing dioramas of "Aliens Landing at Mardi Gras!"]
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[http://www.northernstage.org/ '''Northern Stage''' right here in White River Junction is a great place for live theater. Check out a show after visiting the Museum!]
  
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[http://vermonthistory.org/ See the stuffed catamount in the '''Pavilion Building in Montpelier''' and don't forget '''The Vermont History Center''' in Barre, Vermont.]
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[http://vermonthistory.org/ Check out the '''Vermont Historical Society'''. Their '''Pavilion Building''' in Montpelier is home to a real (stuffed) catamount. And don't forget the '''Vermont History Center''' in Barre, Vermont.]
  
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[http://www.nps.gov/archive/vick/vcmpgn/key.htm The National Park Service and the battlefield at '''Vicksburg.''']
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==Road Trips to See Relics: Real Places We Like==
  
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[http://www.oldcourthouse.org/ See all the cannonballs those d--m Yankees fired at Vicksburg at the '''Old Courthouse Museum''']
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[http://www.nps.gov/anjo/index.htm '''The Home of Andrew Johnson''' in Greenville, Tennessee is now a National Park. Be sure to check out the willows in the back yard. They grew from little shoots taken from willows growing around Napoleon's tomb at Fontainebleau. Not kidding.]
  
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[http://www4.vmi.edu/museum/ And across the street from Traveller—''Little Sorel'' horse of Stonewall Jackson is "mounted" not stuffed"—please, at the '''Museum of the Virginia Military Institute.]
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[http://www.barnum-museum.org/ The '''Barnum Museum of Natural History''' in Bridgeport, Connecticut: Mother Nature's world P.T. Barnum-style!]
  
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[http://www.bostonhistory.org/ '''The Bostonian Society''' in Boston. You can search their "object catalog" online. Neat Stuff!]
  
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[http://www.dimemuseum.com/ Sadly no longer in one, physical location the wonderous '''Dime Museum''' formerly of Baltimore, still has a web-site.]
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[https://www.cazenoviapubliclibrary.org/museum-gallery/museum/collection-description/ '''The Cazenovia Public Library''' in Middle-New York State has a museum, with an Ethiopian neck rings and an Egyptian mummy!]
  
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[http://www.freakatorium.com/ Let's hear it for the fabulous '''Johnny Fox!''']
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[https://villazorayda.com/ '''The Villa Zorayda''' is a collection of wonders from the "East" including an Egyptian rug made of cat hair! All in moss-draped St Augustine, Florida.]
  
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[http://www.kirchersociety.org/ The '''Athanasius Kircher Society''' proves that the internet is the 21st century's Cabinet of Curiousities.]
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[http://www.museumofbadart.org/ '''The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA)''' are long-term friends. Conservation teams from the MSM stabilized "Peter the Kitty", one of the master-works from this Dedham, Massachusetts, collection.]
  
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[http://www.lostmuseum.cuny.edu/home.html There is a '''virtual P. T. Barnum's American Musuem''' online at the "Lost Museum"]
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[http://www.sandersonmuseum.org/?page_id=26/ '''The Christian Sanderson Museum''' in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania is something "anyone born in the 20th century" should see. (Maybe anyone born in the 21st as well...)]
  
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[http://www.roguetaxidermy.com/index.php '''The Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermy's website.''' They also give tours of Manhattan's Chinatown garbage dumpsters in search of rare specimens.]
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[http://ucmmuseum.com/ The '''UCM Museum''' in Abita Springs, Louisiana, offers you an unforgettable time, viewing dioramas of "Aliens Landing at Mardi Gras!"]
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[http://www.weirdamerica.com/ '''Wierd America''' seems as enamored of the Museum as we are of Joe Citro!]
 

Latest revision as of 16:04, 31 May 2020

The Lynx (Lynx canadensis) with her kitten. Some authorities group this animal under felis. Her urine is said to harden into precious stones.

Links

A selection of our colleagues who demonstrate a fascination with us looking at objects, and with objects looking at us. We list them, electronically, for your illumination and erudition.

Virtual Places We Like

J. Tithonus Pednaud presents a compendium of human oddities, Albino; Bearded; Conjoined; Deformed; Dwarfism; Fakes… Etc.

The Lost Museum is home to a virtual P. T. Barnum's American Museum on-line!

McGill University has a virtual Wunderkammer. Its all about History and interaction.

The Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermy has a Web site. They also give tours of garbage dumpsters in Manhattan's Chinatown, in search of rare specimens.

Roadside America: Two words that say it all.

You will be Shocked and Amazed at shockedandamazed.com and you'll find "A great bunch of magazines" and "A great web site!"

Our colleague James Taylor presents an encyclopedia of novelty & variety performers & showfolk!

Weird America seems to be as enamored of the Main Street Museum as we are of Joe Citro!

Museology: Museums-about-Museums

The City Reliquary in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is one of our favorite Civic Organizations, with a new-old perspective on New York City.

The Coney Island Museum is the only museum in the world dedicated to interpreting and preserving the history of Coney Island.

The Creation Museum in Cincinnati is a Biblical science museum. O My!

The Mutter Museum is the museum of the College of Surgeons in Philadelphia, memorializing Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese Twins," and the "Soap Lady." And who doesn't love the Bunkers and the Soap Lady?!

The Reanimation Library in Brooklyn is a specialized repository for books that have fallen out of mainstream circulation but take on new life as resource material for various cultural archeologists.

Natural History and Other Great Collections

The Icelandic Phallological Museum may be the world's only museum showcasing the phalli of all the mammals found in a single country. What could be better than that?

The Marvelous Kunstkammer of Peter the Great in St. Petersburg, Russia.

The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts houses wonders!

The Pitt Rivers Museum is Oxford's great collection of everything.

Local Interest: Our Colleagues for a Great Local Trip

The American Precision Museum in nearby Windsor, Vermont is both a world renowned repository for machine tools, and a record of the Upper Valley's long history on technology's cutting edge.

Bread and Puppet our outstanding, brave, colorful, merry, fierce colleagues in all things theater ”and they even have their own museum in a barn!

The Center for Cartoon Studies. Who knows, perhaps White River Junction was a cartoon before it was a town. Sometimes it seems that way and so a "Cartoon College" is a natural fit for our Downtown. "Hey CCS! Youre the Best!"

The Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation celebrates and studies America's 30th president, who was born in nearby Plymouth, Vermont. You can see his boyhood home and his grave. And buy cheese!

The Fairbanks Museum in St. Johnsbury, Vermont is located just one hour north of the Main Street Museum an hour well spent to reach this fascinating and stately institution.

The Robert Hull Fleming Museum in Burlington, Vermont has art and Vermontiana galore! The Main Street Museum has co-curated shows of artifacts there, too.

Northern Stage right here in White River Junction is a great place for live theater. Check out a show after visiting the Museum!

Check out the Vermont Historical Society. Their Pavilion Building in Montpelier is home to a real (stuffed) catamount. And don't forget the Vermont History Center in Barre, Vermont.

Road Trips to See Relics: Real Places We Like

The Home of Andrew Johnson in Greenville, Tennessee is now a National Park. Be sure to check out the willows in the back yard. They grew from little shoots taken from willows growing around Napoleon's tomb at Fontainebleau. Not kidding.

The Barnum Museum of Natural History in Bridgeport, Connecticut: Mother Nature's world P.T. Barnum-style!

The Bostonian Society in Boston. You can search their "object catalog" online. Neat Stuff!

The Cazenovia Public Library in Middle-New York State has a museum, with an Ethiopian neck rings and an Egyptian mummy!

The Villa Zorayda is a collection of wonders from the "East" including an Egyptian rug made of cat hair! All in moss-draped St Augustine, Florida.

The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA) are long-term friends. Conservation teams from the MSM stabilized "Peter the Kitty", one of the master-works from this Dedham, Massachusetts, collection.

The Christian Sanderson Museum in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania is something "anyone born in the 20th century" should see. (Maybe anyone born in the 21st as well...)

The UCM Museum in Abita Springs, Louisiana, offers you an unforgettable time, viewing dioramas of "Aliens Landing at Mardi Gras!"

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