| A lot of people think museums are boring. They're | | | | grows and enjoy a free guided tour explaining the |
| filled with all that old stuff and if you want to | | | | process that goes into creating these |
| know what something is, then you have to read. | | | | one-of-a-kind corn murals. |
| Boring! So for those looking for an alternative to | | | | 4. Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia - Yep. |
| the same old "history lesson in a building" that | | | | A Pez Museum. See the Guinness World Record |
| comes from most traditional museum visits, I | | | | Holding - Snowman Pez dispenser, largest in the |
| offer these five fun, weird and wacky museums. | | | | world at nearly 8 feet tall. A must for those with |
| 1. The Museum of Bad Art - Located in Dedham | | | | a Pez obsession. |
| Square just outside of Boston, this is a shrine to | | | | 5. The Historical Torture Museum - On exhibit in |
| all things hackneyed and misguided in the world of | | | | San Francisco, this museum explores the various |
| art. Stressing that its not about incompetence, the | | | | instruments of torture used throughout man's |
| museum's website notes that their collection is | | | | existence. Learn more than you'd ever want to |
| "from the work of talented artists that have | | | | know about the Iron Maiden, the garotte, |
| gone awry to works of exuberant, although | | | | Inquisitonal Chairs, Heretic Forks and Branks. |
| crude, execution by artists barely in control of the | | | | Honorable Mention: The National Museum of Health |
| brush." MOBA is worth the trip. | | | | and Medicine - I sense a cover-up here. The name |
| 2. The International UFO Museum and Research | | | | sounds incredibly boring and the website tries to |
| Center - Dangerously close to mainstream, this | | | | fool you with this dry description...The Museum |
| exploration of UFO sightings and cover-ups in | | | | houses a collection of over 24 million items |
| Roswell, New Mexico is the premier UFO museum | | | | including archival materials, anatomical and |
| on the planet. It is quite likely that the visitors to | | | | pathological specimens, medical instruments and |
| this museum are a greater oddity than the | | | | artifacts, and microscope slide-based medical |
| exhibits themselves. | | | | research collections. |
| 3. The Corn Palace - Art, History and Corn merge | | | | What they should be saying is...See deformed |
| in this South Dakota tribute to all things "corn." | | | | fetuses, birth defects, chunks of Abraham |
| The Corn Palace is covered with murals made | | | | Lincoln's skull and more morbid anatomical oddities. |
| from corn that change each year. Learn how corn | | | | That's what's really in this museum. |