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[http://www.fortat4.org/ Our neighbors present living history at '''Fort Number Four''' in Charlestown, New Hampshire.]
 
[http://www.fortat4.org/ Our neighbors present living history at '''Fort Number Four''' in Charlestown, New Hampshire.]
  
http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/
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[http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/ the '''Hood Museum''' at nearby Dartmouth College has a '''mermaid!''']
  
 
[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?]
 
[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?]
  
http://chapelapps.wlu.edu/
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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!]
  
 
[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...'']
 
[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...'']
  
[http://www.moc.org/site/PageServer]
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[http://www.moc.org/site/PageServer '''The Museum of the Confederacy''' in Richmond, Virginia.]
  
 
[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]
 
[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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[http://www.palaceofwonders.com/home.html Where will you ever see another one like it? '''The Palace of Wonders''' in Washington, D. C.]
 
[http://www.palaceofwonders.com/home.html Where will you ever see another one like it? '''The Palace of Wonders''' in Washington, D. C.]
  
http://pem.org/museum/
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[http://pem.org/museum/ '''The Peabody Essex Museum''' in Salem Massachusetts houses ''wonders!'']
  
http://www.ramp-vt.org/
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[http://www.ramp-vt.org/ '''The Rockingham (Vermont) Arts and Museum Project.'''
  
 
http://www.reanimationlibrary.org
 
http://www.reanimationlibrary.org
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http://www.splcenter.org/index.jsp
 
http://www.splcenter.org/index.jsp
  
http://ucmmuseum.com/
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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!"]
  
http://vermonthistory.org/
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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.]
  
http://www.nps.gov/archive/vick/vcmpgn/key.htm
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[http://www.nps.gov/archive/vick/vcmpgn/key.htm The National Park Service and the battlefield at '''Vicksburg.''']
  
http://www.oldcourthouse.org/
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[http://www.oldcourthouse.org/ See all the cannonballs those d--m Yankees fired at Vicksburg at the '''Old Courthouse Museum''']
  
http://www4.vmi.edu/museum/
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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.]
  
 
== Virtual Places We Like==
 
== Virtual Places We Like==

Revision as of 19:53, 29 July 2008

They all demonstrate perverted fascination with us looking at objects, and with objects looking at us, which is why we list them (below):

Real Places We Like (and have been to!)

There is a virtual P. T. Barnum's American Musuem online at the "Lost Museum"

The American Precision Museum in nearby Windsor, Vermont a world renown repository for machine tools.

The Anacostia Museum focuses on the families and neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. and the national history and culture of African Americans.

AVA Gallery, our friends and neighbors in Lebanon, New Hampshire.

The Barnum Museum of Natural History in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

A parallel universe of natual history can be found at Blue Nile Botanicals.

Calvin Coolidge was born in nearby Plymouth, Vermont. You can see his grave. And buy cheese!

The City Reliquary in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is one of our favorite Civic Organizations!

Confederate Memorial Hall in New Orleans has Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard's slippers on display!

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

A biblical science museum—o my! The Creation Museum in Cincinnati.

Our friends at Dartmouth Special Collections curate valuable collections of human hair and, of course, Daniel Webster's socks!

Official website of the Hartford Historical Society *White River Junction is a village of Hartford, Vermont.

The Fairbanks Museum in St. Johnsbury, Vermont is located just one hour north of the Main Street Museum.

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!

Our neighbors present living history at Fort Number Four in Charlestown, New Hampshire.

the Hood Museum at nearby Dartmouth College has a mermaid!

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?

Visit the Lee Chapel at Washington and Lee University. See Lee's horse, Traveller's (1857 – 1871) grave!

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...

The Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia.

Who doesn't love Chang and Eng Bunker and the "Soap Lady" The Mütter Museum of the College of Surgeons in Philadelphia

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!

Where will you ever see another one like it? The Palace of Wonders in Washington, D. C.

The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem Massachusetts houses wonders!

[http://www.ramp-vt.org/ The Rockingham (Vermont) Arts and Museum Project.

http://www.reanimationlibrary.org

http://www.splcenter.org/index.jsp

In Abitta Springs, Louisiana, there is The UCM Museum where an unforgettable time can be had viewing dioramas of "Aliens Landing at Mardi Gras!"

See the stuffed catamount in the Pavilion Building in Montpelier and don't forget The Vermont History Center in Barre, Vermont.

The National Park Service and the battlefield at Vicksburg.

See all the cannonballs those d--m Yankees fired at Vicksburg at the Old Courthouse 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.

Virtual Places We Like

http://www.dimemuseum.com/

http://www.freakatorium.com/

http://www.kirchersociety.org/

http://www.roguetaxidermy.com/index.php

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/

http://www.shockedandamazed.com/

http://www.weirdamerica.com/