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