Isaiah Zagar’s Magic Gardens on Philadelphia’s South Street is a multi-level, indoor/outdoor folk environment, an unrelentingly upbeat and visually stimulating cacophony for the corneas.
On a recent trip to Philadelphia I had the opportunity to revisit The Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, to see what’s changed since last exploring this mecca of medical oddities and squirm-inducing equipment in 2004. The Mütter likes to downplay its freak show side with a sober, respectful and academic presentation […]
An article in Michigan’s Kalamazoo Gazette caught our attention, reporting that an otherwise unidentified Pennsylvania “Dime Museum” — an attraction devoted to freaks and curiosities — had just bought a stuffed two-headed calf in Kalamazoo for slightly under $3,500. Another attraction commodity, the Muffler Man, has experienced wild price fluctuations between $10,000 and $1,000 in […]
The Battle of Gettysburg saved American civilization from certain destruction. Now free Americans want to see the battle as they had done so for decades: at the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center, on a big Electric Map. Unfortunately, it’s gone — split asunder. Or, at least in storage. The map was a […]
