Cheers Dee! 
OK so we will make this the official "what is the weirdest tourist attraction" thread. 
For Lone Wolf: Weird days out...
Brilliant! Makes me want to make my shed a museum (but then I'd have to ditch the comfy armchair, magazines and booze when I want to smoke in comfort).
The museum I remember vividly from my childhood has now closed, thank fuck. It was situated in Jamaica Inn in Cornwall, and while the bits on smuggling were cool, the bits on Daphne du Maurier were meh, the section which wrought terror into my heart was the bit called Mr Potter's Museum of Curiosities, of which this is a fair representative of the contents....
that's right boys and girls, dead animals stuffed, dressed and displayed in eerie tableaux that any serious fetishistic murderer would be proud of. No wonder I ended up the way I did..
Now,anybody got more?
Known and loved by East Anglians everywhere, it's Gnome Magic. More gnomes, in a garden, than you can shake a fishing pole at. The website even has a build your own gnome game with a frankly rather suspicious throbbing red thing...
Lovely for kids.... 
dee wrote:
the section which wrought terror into my heart was the bit called Mr Potter's Museum of Curiosities, of which this is a fair representative of the contents....
that's right boys and girls, dead animals stuffed, dressed and displayed in eerie tableaux that any serious fetishistic murderer would be proud of. No wonder I ended up the way I did..
Now,anybody got more?
Shit.. I had suppressed this horrific memory until just now when it's all resurfaced in a terrifying flurry of dead stuffed paws and teacups 
Rob Ray wrote:
Known and loved by East Anglians everywhere, it's Gnome Magic. More gnomes, in a garden, than you can shake a fishing pole at. The website even has a build your own gnome game with a frankly rather suspicious throbbing red thing...
uurgh. gnomes make me uncomfortable.
Jenni wrote:
dee wrote:
the section which wrought terror into my heart was the bit called Mr Potter's Museum of Curiosities, of which this is a fair representative of the contents....
that's right boys and girls, dead animals stuffed, dressed and displayed in eerie tableaux that any serious fetishistic murderer would be proud of. No wonder I ended up the way I did..
Now,anybody got more?Shit.. I had suppressed this horrific memory until just now when it's all resurfaced in a terrifying flurry of dead stuffed paws and teacups
That's nothing - you should have seen the stuffed frogs.
It's only just struck me - d'you think Mr Potter was Beatrix's dark twin? She was up in the lake district, doing her nicey-nicey watercolours, and he thought "there's a few bob to be made in anthropomorphising wildlife...hmm. but I can't draw to save my arse....got it! fetch the sawdust and the bellows!" I bet he laughed evilly while he was stuffing the animals.
jef costello wrote:
There's a Ramones museum in Berlin. It's just two rooms in a guy's house that are full of Ramones related crap he has collected over the years. I didn't go obviously.
you obviously missed out, i would have definately gone to that one, the ramones are brilliant!!! you complete and utter philistine!!
Yeah, but wouldn't you have been a bit uncomfortable in someone's house? I mean, in a museum if you disagree with something, or get bored, you can amuse yourself in other ways (like pushing your brothers off tanks at the Bovington Tank Museum), but if it's a house, then it'd be a bit weird.
:( jambo1 wrote:
yes i see where you are coming from, guy could be some sort of serial killer!!! but i suppose someones house/shed etc its kinda cosy and personal. also if the guy turned his back on you i suppose you could nick his ramones gear.
Depends what the Ramones gear is, tbh. Unwashed shirts and stuff from a gig, toenail clippings, that kind of thing? And what if he is really enthusiastic about it, but after 10 minutes you want to leave coz it is shit? The social discomfort would be unbearable.
dee wrote:
jambo1 wrote:
yes i see where you are coming from, guy could be some sort of serial killer!!! but i suppose someones house/shed etc its kinda cosy and personal. also if the guy turned his back on you i suppose you could nick his ramones gear.Depends what the Ramones gear is, tbh. Unwashed shirts and stuff from a gig, toenail clippings, that kind of thing? And what if he is really enthusiastic about it, but after 10 minutes you want to leave coz it is shit? The social discomfort would be unbearable.
I think you're about right there Dee. He has Joey Ramone's trainers apparently.
As you are generous in posting stuff for others, a gift for you...enjoy xx
Why not visit the Lawnmower museum in Southport?http://www.lawnmowerworld.co.uk/
See:
Lawnmowers of the Rich and Famous!
Some of the fastest Lawnmowers in the world (seen on TV).
The Unique Cordless Electric Ride on Mower.
Lawnmowers being used before the time of Custers Last Stand.
The water cooled 'Egg Boiler Lawnmower.
A genuine 2" Lawnmower.
Marvel! at the revolutionary nature of the origins of the lawnmower!
"The lawnmower was invented by Edwin Beard Budding in 1830. He was working in a cotton mill in Stroud, Gloucester, where he designed a machine to cut the knap off cloth. His revolutionary idea was to use it to cut grass!!. At the time people thought he was a lunatic to use such a contraption, so he tested the machine at night so no one could see him."
Crazy name, crazy guy!
And they have a DVD.