by Maledicta | Apr 6, 2019 | Oddities and Curiosities, Weird Tourism
Wisconsin is home to many places considered sacred and powerful by the indigenous people. When British author Neil Gaiman came to live in the US, he felt such an affinity for the state that he decided to make his new home in rural Wisconsin. And that was where...
by Maledicta | Nov 4, 2018 | Halloween 365, Weird Tourism
Mexico isn’t the only country that sets a date with the dead. Around the world, different countries, cultures, and religions have unique relationships with their dead. And yet, there are plenty of festivals of the dead—which take place over the course of days,...
by Maledicta | Oct 29, 2018 | Oddities and Curiosities, Weird Tourism
If you ever happen to visit central Mexico, don’t forget to plan an outing to the small mining town of Guanajuato, home to one of Mexico’s most popular tourist attractions – a museum that displays the mummified corpses of over 100 of its deceased...
by Maledicta | Aug 19, 2018 | Weird Tourism
In his 40 short years on this earth, Edgar Allan Poe lived a rather nomadic life. He lived in multiple east coast cities, including Boston (where he was born and returned years later), Baltimore, Richmond, Charlottesville, New York City, Providence, and...
by Maledicta | Aug 13, 2018 | Oddities and Curiosities, Weird Tourism
A refreshing change from Gettysburg’s plentiful Civil War museums and memorials, this delightful cabinet of curiosities is (unfortunately) in its final season. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, is a town whose claim to fame is history. The quaint streets...
by Maledicta | Jul 31, 2018 | Interesting People, Weird Tourism
How a notorious 19th century (accused) axe murderer became today’s pop culture icon “Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother Forty Whacks. When she saw what she had done She gave her father Forty-One.” Thanks to the schoolyard rhyme, even...
