Weird Tourism
The House on the Rock: America’s Most Insane Roadside Attraction?
by Maledicta | Apr 6, 2019 | Categories: Oddities and Curiosities and Weird Tourism. Tags: Alex Jordan Jr, American Gods, carousel, House on the Rock, Neil Gaiman, and Wisconsin. | 1 Comment
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...
Death Festivals Around the World
by Maledicta | Nov 4, 2018 | Categories: Halloween 365 and Weird Tourism. Tags: chuseok, dia de los muertos, Festivals, gai jatra, hungry ghost, obon, radonitsa, and totensonntag. | 0 Comments
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,...
Remains to Be Seen: The Incredibly Famous Mummies of Guanajuato
by Maledicta | Oct 29, 2018 | Categories: Oddities and Curiosities and Weird Tourism. Tags: grave tax, guanajuato, momias, mummies, and Santo. | 0 Comments
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...
PoeTown’s Greatest Hits – Visiting Poe’s Baltimore
by Maledicta | Aug 19, 2018 | Categories: Weird Tourism. Tags: Baltimore, Edgar Allan Poe, museum, Poe Toaster, and Westminster Burying Ground. | 2 Comments
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...
Going, Going, Gone… See the Gettysburg Dime Museum While You Can!
by Maledicta | Aug 13, 2018 | Categories: Oddities and Curiosities and Weird Tourism. Tags: Dime Museum, Gettysburg, history, last bowel movement, Lincoln, Mark Kosh, and serial killers. | 0 Comments
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...
Lizzie Borden Took an Axe… or Did She?
by Maledicta | Jul 31, 2018 | Categories: Interesting People and Weird Tourism. Tags: Abby Borden, Andrew Borden, axe murder, Fall River, Lizzie Borden, Maplecroft, and massachusetts. | 1 Comment
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...
The Cecil – Downtown LA’s Creepy Hotel of Horrors
by Maledicta | Jul 30, 2018 | Categories: Halloween 365 and Weird Tourism. Tags: American Horror Story, Black Dahlia, Elisa Lam, ghosts, hotel, Hotel Cecil, Los Angeles, Night Stalker, serial killer, and suicide. | 0 Comments
The Los Angeles landmark that inspired American Horror Story: Hotel! The Hotel Cecil in downtown Los Angeles has seen more than its fair share of suicides, murders and mysterious disappearances since its opening in 1927. Built on Main Street, an up-and-coming...
Bela Lugosi’s Dead (Allegedly)
by Maledicta | Jul 23, 2018 | Categories: Halloween 365 and Weird Tourism. Tags: Bela Lugosi, Budapest, Hartmut Zech, sculpture, and Vajdahunyad Castle. | 0 Comments
… but you can still visit him in Budapest! Though Bela Lugosi died (or DID HE?) in 1956, he was immortalized by his iconic turn as Count Dracula, Hungarian Homeboy. The Kinks, Bauhaus, and Andy Warhol have all paid homage to Bela. And now he can...
Book Review: Dark Tourism
by Maledicta | Jun 24, 2018 | Categories: Books and Weird Tourism. Tags: auschwitz, dark tourism, death tourism, mummies, ossuary, and thanatourism. | 0 Comments
Back in October 2017, we featured an article about the phenomenon of Dark Tourism, AKA Black Tourism, Grief Tourism, or “thanatourism.” As tourists seem to be increasingly drawn to places linked to death, disaster, atrocity, or ongoing...
The Mysterious Child Eater of Bern
by Maledicta | Jun 17, 2018 | Categories: Oddities and Curiosities and Weird Tourism. Tags: Bern, child eater of bern, kindlifresser, kindlifresserbrunner, and Switzerland. | 0 Comments
In the middle of the city of Bern, Switzerland, there is a fountain above which stands a statue of a man eating a sack full of babies. No one knows why it’s there or where it came from. The fountain sculpture towers above the ground, one baby half stuffed into...