Treasures of our Town
Embark on an exhilarating voyage through the heart of America's captivating towns and cities with the enthralling travel podcast, "Treasures of our Town." Join your experienced hosts, Craig (Seemyshell) and Joshua (Geocaching Vlogger), as they unveil the hidden gems and extraordinary treasures that lie beyond the surface.
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Treasures of our Town
10 Hand Picked QUIRKY Museums in the US!
This episode highlights the fascinating world of quirky museums across the United States, featuring ten unique destinations that offer a blend of amusement and insight. From the Museum of Bad Art to the Neon Museum, we delve into a range of unconventional choices, each offering a special charm and a story worth exploring.
• Highlighting the Museum of Bad Art in Somerville, MA
• Exploring the interactive National Video Game Museum in Frisco, TX
• Discussing the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, ME
• Visiting the Star Trek Original Series Set Tour in Ticonderoga, NY
• Celebrating the Spam Museum in Austin, MN
• Showcasing the Oz Museum in Wamego, KS
• Introducing the Mutter Museum focusing on medical curiosities
• Taking a trip to the Dr Pepper Museum in Waco, TX
• Celebrating velvet art at Velveteria in Los Angeles, CA
• Wrapping up with the Neon Museum in Las Vegas, NV
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FULL SHOWNOTES
And you might be asking yourself is there a geocache? This would be oh my gosh, a perfect place. Yeah, nope, no geocache. No, Really no cache, nothing close. I looked at Venture Labs too. No Venture Labs either. Do you love to travel? Do you love road trips? Do you love finding hidden treasures in towns all over the USA? Hi, I'm Joshua.
Speaker 2:And I'm Craig. Welcome to Treasures of Our Town. It's the podcast that explores the unique and charming towns scattered throughout the United.
Speaker 1:States. Guided by our love for location-based games like geocaching, join us as we venture into some of the country's most intriguing destinations, uncovering hidden gems and local secrets along the way. Intriguing destinations, uncovering hidden gems and local secrets along the way.
Speaker 2:On today's episode, we give you yes, you, we give you 10, 10 fun quirky museums that we have that we, josh, you and I, found together, we do five each.
Speaker 1:Yeah, five each. Is that what you picked? Yes, yes, you know, you know, I love a good museum.
Speaker 2:Exactly Now what I mean. This is not in the show notes and straight off the cuff, but what would you class as a fun or quirky museum? What's what's on the list? A similar?
Speaker 1:I would say one that maybe um has to do with something that's not necessarily like scientific, yeah, or not necessarily has like a lot of history around it, and maybe it has something to do with pop culture, or maybe it's a quirky, quirky like collection of things or something that you wouldn't conventionally think would have an actual museum.
Speaker 2:And something you wouldn't class really as more of a collection rather than museum in some cases as well, because, let's be honest, the museums that people. When you think about a museum, you think of beautiful artwork with the Mona Lisa, you know, encrusted, framed with lighting, and stuff like that too. Or you think of a museum of artifacts or a museum. This isn't the museums we're talking about, Josh.
Speaker 1:No, no. So I'm excited to hear your five. I have pulled together my five. And these are certainly places that I would love to visit. I'm very intrigued by them.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, Now again, I'll just say this once and once only. That is all. The links are in the show notes for this too, so we do have a full show notes link of each one that we're talking about. I've got them together, Joshua, today. Did you like that? Did you see the links?
Speaker 1:Oh, that's very nice of you. I did not see that you did that. Yes, I did. I'm surprised actually that you had any spare time to do that because you have had a very, very busy weekend.
Speaker 2:Yes, exactly right, and that beautiful segue to my upgrade. Josh, Thank you for that. I did have a big weekend here down in Florida for the Munzee Mecca events in Lakeland. We didn't have one, two, three, but we had four or five events in total, of which four of them made mega status for Munzee as well, which basically means there's more than 50 people at these events going around capping Munzees, having fun, talking the chat, and Rob, the president of Munzee. He was with us as well. And Josh, just say this, the lakes and parks in Lakeland, Florida, stunning this time of year. I was walking around in a shirt and shorts today, Josh, A shirt and shorts. Like short sleeve shirt and shorts. So there you go, Wow.
Speaker 1:But, more importantly, quite a contrast to what I experienced today.
Speaker 2:Exactly. But, more importantly, before we go into you as well and that is this I am very proud to announce, if you haven't already heard, that I'm part of the Munzee team, the official Munzee team. In just like a very short amount, very small amount, but still, I am actually part now, josh, of the Munzee team. I have, Josh, I have my own badge of the Munzee team. I have, josh, I have my own badge. You probably heard me on the podcast say to Rob that I was jealous of you, I had FOMO of you. You've got your own badge. Well, I've got my own badge now too, mate. So there you go.
Speaker 1:Well, congratulations. Thank you, mike. I am so, so happy for you and I know you have such a passion for the game. I can't think of a better person to join the Munzee team. But you, craig, see my shell and you're going to bring so much good things to Munzee because you are, you are a player.
Speaker 2:I am, I always play.
Speaker 1:You know what players like. Yes, so I'm excited for your contribution to Munzee. But this doesn't mean that you are now no longer a geocacher. No, of course not. You're still C Michelle, the Aussie geocacher, exactly.
Speaker 2:I coexist. In the Munzee world they're calling it coexist. In other words, you can do both without any sort of you know degradation to either side of the fence. So, yes, I'm going to a block party, josh, next weekend, in Florida too. So there's another one for you my first ever block party, josh. I'll have the icon.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's so cool.
Speaker 2:So, craig, tell me what were some of the highlights of this weekend at Munzee Mecca for you, for me, I mean, look, always number one for me is meeting the other players, and whether that's Munzee or Geocaching, it's the same same for me. You know what I'm like. I love the socializing with other players talking it up. You know meeting them Because we all know. We all know it's like Geocaching is the same.
Speaker 2:You know their Geocaching name and all of a sudden, if you haven't met them before, you're starting to put faces to names. You see as well, or likewise, you actually reconnect with all the old friends you've had and you've seen many times before as well, and you, uh, you talk up the different things. Munzee is different to geocaching, though, because it is extremely competitive on a day by day basis, and so every day, every morning, that morning everyone would be talking about who was number one the day before on the leaderboard. So that was really cool to actually see everyone say you know, oh, I was number one, oh, I got picked for number two. You know that sort of thing too.
Speaker 1:So, yes, but yeah, it's meeting people. That's awesome. Well, the sad thing is, though, because you are now an employee, that means that you are pulled off of the leaderboard.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes I am, but in saying that I'm not a competitive guy in that regard, I'd rather sort of you know, intermingle and play, you know, friendly with people and stuff as well, and do videos as well, and photos and videos too, and I still do that as well. So videos are coming out shortly, josh, for a tour of the town, which is a new Munzee thing that they put out Not new, but it's only for this event really every single year.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I remember we did that two years ago we did a tour of the town on the Space Coast. That was a lot of fun. It was kind of like a geo-tour for Munzee Exactly. I'm a fan. I wish more events would do that.
Speaker 2:Maybe that's something that's going to happen. More mega events will have their own tour of the town, exactly. There's a great possibility for it too, so, which is really cool to see. But meanwhile, josh, well tell me, do you want to start with your upgrade or your delay?
Speaker 1:it's up to you well, I'll do my upgrade okay, what's your upgrade? Then this weekend tiktok didn't die.
Speaker 2:Well, it paused. It paused for a few hours.
Speaker 1:It went to sleep. It went to sleep for a few hours, so that's good. You know, I've built a following on that platform, 635,000 people, and it just kind of broke my heart to just be like poof, poof, those people, they're gone. They're gone, but they're not. So we've got an extension, we've got a 90-day extension. Hopefully they can sort it all out.
Speaker 2:Just sort out your stuff, people. Come on, let's figure it out and my other upgrade. Oh, you too.
Speaker 1:First of all, here's the deal. Yeah, what's the temp? What was the high temp down there today?
Speaker 2:Oh, in Florida in Fahrenheit it was 74.
Speaker 1:Okay, today the wind chill, minus 11. Oh, fahrenheit Wow A high, a high of negative one. Fahrenheit oh, wow, a high. A high of negative one oh wow. So so when it gets that cold here, especially with the windchill, it's literally dangerous to be outside for too long, too long Exactly. Exactly. You know what, craig? That didn't stop me.
Speaker 2:That didn't stop me from playing our game.
Speaker 1:Munzee Went out in my heated car and I finally capped the GCV silver play button garden. Wow, because today was triple points and with the booster I got six times the points. That's cool. I capped that whole thing, took me a half hour and I got about 100,000 points just off of that. And if people don't know what I'm talking about, munzee has the ability for people to create these gardens that look like things you know, like burgers or anything. Actually, I've seen minions, I've seen pieces of pizza, I've seen. So Craig was so kind to create one that looked like my silver play button that I won from YouTube.
Speaker 1:So, people all over the world dropped pins basically in my neighborhood, and today was the day I capped them. So that was an upgrade for me today.
Speaker 2:That's really cool. Are you attempting to catch our good friend and patron as well, Minnesota Boy, Minnesota Boy, Minnesota Boy.
Speaker 1:He's too far ahead of me. I don't think I'll ever catch him.
Speaker 2:What about me? Are you going to catch me at all? I don't think so.
Speaker 1:No, not possible, Not possible about me. You're gonna catch me at all? I don't think so, but anyway, no, not possible.
Speaker 2:Not possible now that you were an employee, and not only, but also in like a munzee rich state like florida, you know, or minnesota is too, but still well yeah, minnesota is pretty.
Speaker 1:I think florida and minnesota might be the most rich in this country, but yeah, but. But right now it's tough to get out, especially to cap those physicals.
Speaker 2:That's true, that's true.
Speaker 1:Anyway, I still got to play a location-based game, which was fun. Oh, and here's the thing you know how location-based games we always say they bring us to places that we wouldn't know about otherwise, absolutely yeah. So I'm capping in a neighborhood close to my house, yeah, a neighborhood close to my house.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm clapping it and all of a sudden I was like, oh my gosh, is that what I think it is? And I look at it. I'm like it looks like a little free library, but no, it's not a free little library. It's blue and yellow and I look closer and it's, it's good. I don't know if you've seen these. I've seen these on tiktok, but I've never seen one in real life. It was a little free blockbuster. Oh no, really yeah it was cool.
Speaker 2:Did it have videos in there? Yes, were they CDs or actual VCRs?
Speaker 1:No, they were DVDs. Oh, DVDs, yeah people can exchange their DVDs in there. There were probably 20 movies in there. That's incredible. I've seen these little free blockbusters on TikTok but I was like, oh, that'd be cool to make one, and there's one in my neighborhood so again, the places that, uh, that our games take us to anyway, that was really cool. Yeah, location-based games bringing to stuff that we didn't know otherwise, exactly greg what? What are your delays?
Speaker 2:well, josh, okay, this delay goes towards my uh, my getting to know my vehicle we'll just say that and getting to know its height and getting to know what to do before I move the vehicle around. And that is, I was stationed up and I was parked up nice and easy as well, and I had my roof vent open. Now, if people don't realize, with the roof vent it's like a plastic cap that goes over the top and there's a fan underneath and the plastic cap goes up on one edge, and so it just sits basically totally up. And, uh, unbeknownst to me, I thought to myself you know, I have to move this van a little bit over, because I think I was in a different car spot or whatever, and so I moved it ever so slightly, the the van itself, to another car park and parking spot and, however, I didn't put the roof vent back down. And so what that means is that when I reversed back in, I didn't see a low hanging branch which, pow, went straight through the plastic. So now it's still.
Speaker 2:I fixed it, josh, I fixed it. Gaffer tape, gaffer tape is king. And so it poured down raining today here too, and the gaffer tape held nicely. So no leaks, so I'm happy with that.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, gaffer tape held nicely, so no leaks, uh, so I'm happy with that. Yes, yes, yes, that's a bummer, but you know it's all a part of getting to know exactly, to know your new, exactly.
Speaker 2:Exactly. What about your delay, josh? What's been happening with you? What do you feel bad about? What do you feel what's sad for?
Speaker 1:you, it's just, I am just, uh, a green-eyed monster. You know, I am just filled with so much jealousy. Um you in florida this weekend and lovely temperatures like again we don't talk about the weather on this podcast, but again minus 11, wind chill, and get this craig. Not only that, my wife, she's on a cruise. Oh, I don't know the. I think she's in the Pacific Ocean somewhere near Mexico.
Speaker 2:I don't know where she is, so she's got good weather as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she messaged me she goes. I'm in the finals of a family feud contest with a bunch of strangers.
Speaker 2:That's Tammy. That is 100% Tammy. That's exactly what she does, so wow.
Speaker 1:So I, craig, I made him, I, I, I clearly made a mistake. I should have gone down to Florida this weekend because of the weather, because I probably would have had a place to stay for, probably free.
Speaker 2:I stayed with you guys.
Speaker 1:And, uh, you know, the flights are pretty decently cheap, so I I made a mistake. There was not a lot to do here this weekend. I should have been down there so.
Speaker 2:I will say big time FOMO. One more, one more, little quicker. Uh, you know delay for me as well, and that is we did stay down here. Rob and I stayed down here. Nice little Airbnb back it had a fire thing at the front as well. So, however, we stayed there for three nights. Not once could we use the hot tub, because the heat in the hot tub didn't work and I I thought we thought either you or minnesota boys actually put a hex on us and because you would be missing out with the hot tub beers as well, um, and even to the point when we thought we'll go out the front and do the fire and we lit the fire and the fire lasts for maybe 10 minutes and then the gas bottle ran out. So it's one of those things.
Speaker 1:But the the airbnb did have a hair dryer which wasn't used, but anyway, well, you know, that's okay because, when we go to morgantown, west virginia, for geo wood Woodstock, we have a hot tub we have a fire. Yes, it's going to be, Tim's going to be along with us.
Speaker 2:It's going to be a great time. It will be. It will be so. We're going to move on to the museums, Josh.
Speaker 1:Yes, it is time to talk about the quirky, maybe strange, yes, unconventional museums. I love a good museum and, um, I don't think, I don't think. Well, I know I have not been to any of these museums that I found, but I looked at your list, craig, and guess what? I've been to one of your museums that you're listing.
Speaker 2:I looked at your list, josh I looked at your list and I've been to two of yours that you listed so there you go.
Speaker 2:What a one-upper yeah, absolutely one up here. So, exactly, I'm gonna start josh, I'm gonna do my number one and no particular. These people are not in any particular order whatsoever. The first one, josh, is called moba m-o-b-a and it stands for the museum of bad art. Um, it's in somerville, massachusetts. Now this is the reason why it is literally a museum of bad art, like art you would see in a maybe you know, a primary school, high school, oh, you don't call it probably for something else, but like a school art competition or or even ones that the kids bring home from school. This moba was born from a dumpster, so what happened was that someone was going through a pile of trash back in 1994 scott wilson his name was and he rescued. It's called, and he called it lucy in the field with flowers, and then from there the rest is history. So that's how it started. So he's saying as well that the art so it's. He's. One of his sayings is that the art is so bad it's good.
Speaker 1:So, yes, so he literally found a piece of art in a trash bin and he's like I'm going to start a museum of bad or trashed art.
Speaker 2:Trashed art. Yeah, exactly, there's lots of unique exhibits and they do change up the exhibits often because, you think about it, josh, there's a lot of bad art out there. Let's be honest, not everything is a Mona Lisa, but he categorizes themselves. So he does, instead of saying, you know how people say, oh, it's a portrait, but no, he says portraits, you see that sort of thing too. Or he says unlikely landscapes. You know, oozing, my religion is one of them too. When it's like a religious sort of theme, that's very questionable too. So it is really really cool. As I said before, all the links are in the description. You can have a look itself and you can see what's on display there right now. And, josh, I dare say you're doing that right now with the link and you can see that the actual it does look like a, you know, a primary school wall, kindergarten wall of art of sorts, and um, but these were made not by children, so so that's what they are exactly oh, you're right I'm looking at the website and yeah, it's so.
Speaker 2:Some of it is so bad that it's good, exactly one thing that you would love, josh, too, and that I do as well, and that is is um they, they love the, they love the critiquing of creativity. In other words, they celebrate, they don't mock. So they celebrate artists of all kinds. They celebrate their passion, their dedication, showing their art, whether they're as good, bad or indifferent, and so they say that every artist has their own story to tell, in their own way, and that art itself can be perceived in one's eyes differently to another. So I think that's good. I like it.
Speaker 1:So it's very inclusive of, uh, of all people who have passion for art yeah I love a good art museum and I think this would be quite amusing to yeah, to visit this one. Now, craig, we we decided that each of these, because this is a podcast that's guided by location-based games, I'm wondering if there is a geocache located at the Museum of Bad.
Speaker 2:Art, and I think this is a very, very good idea too, josh, to mention, in regards to caches, adventure labs, whatever it might be in regards to showing people to different locations, because if there's not one there, then maybe you have that virtual pinpoint that you want to sort of use, etc. Maybe you have an adventure lab that you want to use and this one here, josh, there's no caches around, nothing celebrating the cache whatsoever, the museum whatsoever, so there, it is my good friend Doug McRae lives in Massachusetts.
Speaker 1:Maybe he'll put something there. Maybe he will.
Speaker 2:When he gets back from his recent trip. But anyway, what are you going with, Josh? What's yours All?
Speaker 1:right, my first one is the National Video Game Museum in Frisco, texas, which is north of Dallas, and this place is just a treasure trove of gaming. If you love video games past, present and future, you will love this place. It looks like it's extremely interactive. It actually does have some history. I mean, there's an exhibit where you can see all the video game consoles throughout time. We're talking Atari 2600, the NES, sega, genesis and maybe Rare Systems You've never even heard of before.
Speaker 2:Maybe never actually caught on the Commodore 64. Yes, exactly, maybe rare systems you've never even heard of before.
Speaker 1:That maybe never actually caught on. The commodore 64, yes, exactly, or uh? Do you remember calico vision? Do you remember that? No, that console yeah, that was. That was during the age of atari and it was like it was. I think it was because it was more expensive that it never took off. But the Atari 2600 was huge, but ColecoVision came out at the same time and I think Atari was like a 4-bit but Coleco was like an 8-bit, so the graphics were like way, way better. Anyway, for all you 80s nerds out there, you might remember that one friend in your neighborhood that had the ColecoVision it's really interactive. You can actually go in. There's a retro arcade machine so you can play. You know the classic pac-man donkey kong street fighter. Yeah, get this, greg. I thought this was great. There's an. There's an 80s living room set up like an 80s living room.
Speaker 1:It completely like wood panel walls shag carpet retro TV setup, um and Atari is connected to it, so I I think this place would be great for, you know sort for photo ops as well, yes absolutely, Absolutely. Um, a couple of things. I know we need to move on, but there's a giant game of pong, Craig. Giant game of pong. It's on an oversized, massive wall. You can challenge your friends to pong artifacts. There's a Hall of Fame, Again, playable exhibits, a development lab, a collection wall of over 100 gaming systems Wow.
Speaker 2:So this is awesome. This is somewhere I want to go 80s nerds heaven, basically. Josh, I am looking at the website and it's, I see the 1980s bedroom. It's even, it's a so stereotypical american. You know 80s bedroom that you see in the tv shows and the sitcoms and the and the movies. You know you've got the banners, the school banners, you've got the band pictures up in the walls as well too, and and even the bed sort of half made and stuff too. So I'm not sure whether there'd be any magazines under the bed, but anyway, um yeah, there's lots and lots. Oh, that's, that's great. It looks fantastic. It looks really, really cool. Now, now again, is there a cache there to celebrate it?
Speaker 1:to answer your question.
Speaker 2:Yes oh really is.
Speaker 1:There is an lpc in the parking lot I like it.
Speaker 2:I like it, but so the the lpc does it. I like it. But so the the LPC does it actually say the LPC say that uh brings them to the arcade, to the museum? I don't think so. It's just a, it's just an LPC.
Speaker 1:I'd have to yeah, I'd have to double check because I think there might be other museums, like actual real history museums, attached to the same building that this museum is. But yeah, yeah, yeah, there's, I think. I think there's other museums there, but no, there was no mention of the. You know it wasn't video game themed. That would have been smart. They would have put like a little little console under the controller.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Controller underneath. Exactly, Exactly. I like it, Josh. My number two and we're going to. It's still in the US, it's still in Portland, Maine. It says it's international because it's the only one in the entire world the International Cryptozoology Museum, Cryptozoology. Do you even think? What do you think when you hear the word cryptozoology, Josh?
Speaker 1:I know what cryptozoology is oh, you do. It's like mythical creatures, right like mythical creatures.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, exactly right. Mythical creatures, such, you know, the bigfoot and loch ness monster and all that sort of stuff too. So this is a one-of-a-kind museum. It's the world's only museum that's actually dedicated to cryptozoology, which, it states, the study of hidden or undiscovered animals like bigfoot, loch Ness Monster and Chapachabarga or something. I can't even read that. What it says Chubacabra, chubacabra, it's Chubacabra. What's Chubacabra?
Speaker 1:I've never heard of Chubacabra. It's like a oh gosh. Chubacabra is like. I think it's like a really horrible looking badger.
Speaker 2:Like a really horrible giant rodent, I think. I think that's what chupacabra is nice like, like a lot of places. Joshu, this one actually started in the uh, the, the owner's living room. So the founder, lauren coleman. They began collecting these sort of little artifacts in their home back in the 1960s. Their passion grew, of course, into the museum, which is now open to the public portland main from 2003 until now. And, josh, they state, they state they have a real life bigfoot hair sample. They say that it comes. It comes with a, um, an actual, what do you call it? A sheet, uh, dna sheet saying that it is actually a bigfoot hair sample as well. Yeah, of course, they've got to have the plaster cast of the footprints there and uh, and even a fiji mermaid, apparently. Have you heard of a fiji mermaid? I've known of a fiji mermaid.
Speaker 2:No, I haven't either I'll have to look up that later, but anyway, um, so they say that cryptid science meets pop culture, because all these things came out through pop culture, but there's still some science behind it as well. And they say not all are actually monsters. So, like you know, bigfoot, nessie, but there are all other cryptoids as well, like I can't even pronounce, but some of them are, like a prehistoric fish that was apparently rediscovered back in 1938. And also the giant squid as well.
Speaker 1:So it sounds like some of this stuff that they believe is like this is real stuff. Obviously it's Bigfoot's hair that's real, but I'm sure that it sounds like they admit that some of this stuff is legend, so it's kind of like a half-truth, exactly.
Speaker 2:Exactly, exactly right, and I like it because they say it's the study of hidden or undiscovered animals. So it's like, well, we haven't really seen one of these in real life, but it's a possibility that it could be out there. So it's hidden from the human eyes and science and technology, so that's really cool. The International Cryptozoology.
Speaker 1:Museum, yeah, and you know what? I want to go to Maine. So bad.
Speaker 2:Yes, me too, I haven't been to Maine yet I need to get up there.
Speaker 1:You know I need that whole northeast of all those states and then I've got a geocache in every state in this country. So we need to do it. We've got to get up there, Exactly. We've got to get up there Exactly. We've got to take our time. It's like at least a week of fun up in the.
Speaker 2:Northeast. Oh very much, but not this time of year. I'll say that no, no, Unless you've got your own sled. You know the snow sleds. But this one here, Josh, it does have a cache at the front. It's just a traditional, it's not actually related to the museum, but again, it is at the front of the actual museum itself. So there is a cache there. What's your number two, Josh? My?
Speaker 1:number two. We're staying very close to Maine. We're going to go just a little farther down south. We're going to I'm going to murder the name of this town Little town, little town, ticonderoga.
Speaker 2:Ticonderoga, ticonderoga, yeah, ticonderoga.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay. So here's how it's spelled T-I-C-O-N-D-E-R-O-G-A. So listeners, correct us. If you live anywhere near Tikta-Tikta-Tikta-Tikta-Tikta-Tikta-Tikta-Tikta-Tikta-Tikta-Tikta-Tikta-Tikta-Tikta-Tikta-Tikta-Tikta-Tikta-Tikta-Tikta-Tikta-Tikta-Tikta-Tikta-T oh, New York.
Speaker 2:Sorry, new York.
Speaker 1:So we're talking northern New York, so I wonder if it's close to you. Know we've had episodes about TV movie locations. I wonder if it's near the Wonderful Life.
Speaker 2:I think you're going to bring that up. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Exactly. Maybe We'll have to look.
Speaker 1:This one. I think we've had conversations about this.
Speaker 2:It's possible.
Speaker 1:This is the Star Trek original series set tour.
Speaker 2:Oh, original series, like with William Shatner himself.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh. So this place is just a building filled with replicas of the original Star Trek set, Wow. So of course, we got the bridge of the Enterprise, We've got the transporter room where Scotty he could beam you up, we got sick bay and Dr McCoy's office. We got engineering. We have Spock science station captain's quarters, the Jefferies tubes this sounds oh, get this, Craig.
Speaker 2:The.
Speaker 1:Tribble Room. The Tribble Room. What's the Tribble Room?
Speaker 2:I'm not a Trekkie. I'm not a Trekkie, no.
Speaker 1:Okay, so Nancy, you know Nancy from the Deadliest Caches.
Speaker 2:Deadliest Caches. Yes, you love Nancy.
Speaker 1:She loves Star Trek. She's probably been here.
Speaker 2:She's been here. Yeah, 100%, she's been here.
Speaker 1:There's an episode in the original Star Trek. It's called the trouble with tribbles and basically the whole, the whole enterprise has these little fur balls like that just keep on multiplying all over the whole, the whole place. So so there must be a room filled with just all these little fur balls oh wow, like the gremlins sort of style kind of yeah, but they're just they're just balls of fur.
Speaker 2:basically, they didn't do anything. They're troubles, nobbles, they're tribbles. No, they just tribble, they dribble around.
Speaker 1:Anyway, if you are a Star Trek fan, this is the place to go. You can. This is like a photo dream. This is an Instagrammable place.
Speaker 2:TikTok place Still TikTok, still available.
Speaker 1:Oh, totally.
Speaker 2:So this is a TikTok place place, a big tick tock place yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So this place, it's just right downtown of tick tock josh, I am looking again at the uh, at the website itself, and I've scrolled down to special photo tours and it's got a photo of what they have on the bridge. Like you get the special star trek seating, like you know how you got that, that old school real back in the day, the whole silver square looking seat that was supposed to be technologically advanced and all it looks exactly the same. It doesn't look any different. And they say that you can do regular tours. You take your photo of your phone or your camera with you too. Um, lots of poses that can happen. You can do the whole lot, um, and prices start at 49.99 for uh for regular tours, so that's not too bad it looks.
Speaker 1:I mean, if you look at the pictures, it looks. It looks real, it looks like the real the real the real real place and here's the thing in the day. Yeah, it's not. And also it's not just uh, it's not just a recreation. There's actually also uh, props show used oh wow, the original series. So if you're, if you're a fan of star trek, like you're gonna see, like I think, tricorders that are used from from the show right, that's really cool and you might be asking yourself is there a geocache?
Speaker 1:This would be, oh my gosh, a perfect place. Yeah, nope, no geocache. No, really no cache, nothing close. I looked at Venture Labs too. No Venture Labs either.
Speaker 2:No Venture Labs either. And if people don't know rules and regulations, you can't really make someone do the tour, especially if it's a paid tour either. So you can't, it can't be commercial. So remember that if you want to place a cash here, but placing a cash at the front, for instance, with you know the idea of if you're going to go there, then you might as well go in. So that's my note, exactly. That sounds cool. I love that. I love that. All right, josh. Moving on to my number three, are you you ready for my number three? I know you've already read it and you love it. My number three is located in your home state of Austin, minnesota, and I'm talking about the Spam Museum. Yes, spam, the ham in the can Spam Museum.
Speaker 1:Did you?
Speaker 2:like me picking this one. Yes.
Speaker 1:If you didn't pick this one, I was going to pick it.
Speaker 2:Oh well, they're lucky. I did the show notes first.
Speaker 1:Exactly Spam. You know one, I was gonna pick it the. Oh, we'll be lucky, I did the show notes first, exactly, spam. You know that spam is a. Spam is an acronym before spice. I don't know. Some people say it's spice ham, but it's actually. There's actually an acronym.
Speaker 2:But anyway, craig you're right, I've been here yes, I craig this actually.
Speaker 1:yes, this this summer I took a. I never visited the Spam Museum. It's about an hour south of me and I went down there just by myself, to experience the Spam Museum.
Speaker 2:It's cool, really it's cool. Did you do a video? Oh yeah, did you do a video? There's a TikTok.
Speaker 1:I have a TikTok of it. Oh yeah, Did you?
Speaker 2:do a video. I have a TikTok of it.
Speaker 1:Oh, tiktok, we need to put that in the show notes because-.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, absolutely, absolutely. I do a TikTok of it But-. That's really cool Anyway spam.
Speaker 1:Do people know what spam is? I hope so. Yeah, everyone knows, Okay good.
Speaker 2:Spam is worldwide. It even hits Australia. A canned ham that lasts on the shelf for years and years and years and years and years. Spam is huge, normally over in Hawaii, in Hawaii itself, they use spam for almost everything. You can get spam in McDonald's in Hawaii on your breakfast sandwich, josh, with egg and spam breakfast sandwich Delicious. You can get spami from the the gas station, like on and in a plastic wrap, but it's on the uh, like sushi rice. So you got like a sushi spam. Delicious, absolutely delicious. But anyway, I'm digressing, getting back to this actual museum, the spam tastic history. The museum celebrates the history of the spam, the iconic canned meat that debuted in 1937 and become a global phenomenon, especially during world war ii, and a staple for the soldiers, hence the reason why it is infiltrated through hawaii as well. One of the best things, josh, about this, this, this museum it's free it is free.
Speaker 1:It's a really nice museum for being free.
Speaker 2:That's really cool for free, exactly so. And once you go, now my question for you, josh as well. You've been there. You said you were there. Did you become a spam ambassador?
Speaker 1:yeah, I did not become a spam spam ambassador.
Speaker 2:Ambassador but that's what they call. As I said, that's what they call their um, their people, the friendly people there who actually the tour guides. They call them spam ambassadors.
Speaker 1:They were all the spam ambassadors were very friendly. They were very friendly yes, um and you're right, the history of spam. You walk through and you can like you're walking through and you're looking like at your like a world war ii war post and there's like mannequins that are holding spam and then you walk further down and all of a sudden now you're in Hawaii, because spam is such a big deal in Hawaii, it's big in.
Speaker 2:Hawaii. Yeah, it's big in Hawaii. It was a worldwide impact. I mentioned before Hawaii, south Korea, philippines. All those sort of locations love spam because it lasts for so long and they can still. It tastes fresh even after days, weeks, months before it gets there. But also, josh, at this museum they give out free samples. You get free samples of your Spam. That's really cool, josh. Another question for you, since you've been there. Now I can actually question you Did you go to the gift shop?
Speaker 2:The gift shop was amazing it was a great gift shop anything and everything you could think of spam was there I got my wife a pair of little tiny spam earrings with two little cans hanging from her ear.
Speaker 1:And because spam is such a minnesota thing, I I was like I got these for you, tammy, to wear to the minnesota state fair because they have, they have like a spam booth there, where people you know, yeah yeah, and did she wear them there?
Speaker 2:no, she forgot oh, no, no, no, but other things there that I saw and when I read in my research, I loved as well. Obviously, spam branded clothing is there as well, but josh, they've got spam flavored lip. Yeah, they do. Do you have some? Did you get some? I didn't give you that because here's, here's the here's the truth.
Speaker 1:Are you ready? After, after I did the spam museum. I was hungry so I went down to the, to the local diner and because you know it's right, kind of downtown austin and a lot of these diners they serve spam burgers okay so I went down.
Speaker 2:I had a spam burger.
Speaker 1:And I'll just be honest with you I don't like spam, it's not good I don't like it? Oh really, josh, do you like Spam? Do you like it? I love Spam. Yeah, I love Spam, it's delicious.
Speaker 2:I'd rather just have regular ham Spam.
Speaker 1:I'm just the texture. I don't like it.
Speaker 2:Dog food. Some people say is like a slab of dog food.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's kind of like a little dog food-ish dog food?
Speaker 2:yeah, it is. It is, josh. I eat spam, so you're ready for this. I'll eat spam directly out of the can, without heating it up as it is. That's how I can eat it. Or I can have it fried, or you know, or I can. I can, even. I can even dice it up like actual dice it up, so it's like little little dice bits of meat, and put that like in a spaghetti sauce too, like, oh yeah, see, you may, you may. If it's diced up like that, you may find it different, you know, rather than just literally pulling out a big, big fist full of meat and putting it in your gob, just saying so yeah, it's uh fried spam actually sounds.
Speaker 1:Sounds pretty good actually.
Speaker 2:So yes, yeah, the crispiness of the sprite. You got to do the crispiness on each side as well. So meanwhile, josh, there is a cache there in the parking lot as well. It's a traditional, but again, but it well okay. Of course you already found it. I didn't tell you anymore, but for those out there who haven't found it, there is a cache in the traditional cache in the parking lot and it's not related to the museum itself. All right, josh, you're up.
Speaker 1:Next what you got next all we are now going to? Oh my gosh, Craig, this might be my favorite of my list. Really, we're going to Wamego, Kansas, which it just breaks my heart, Craig, because I've driven by this city more than once.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:And I have never stopped at the Oz Museum, oh really.
Speaker 1:It's another Wizard of Oz Museum and this one is a sight to behold. So if you listen to this podcast, craig and I together we went to the Wizard of Oz Museum on the Space Coast and had a lot of stuff. But I looked at the pictures of the Oz Museum in Wamego, wamego, kansas, and it is just a beautiful place, houses over 2,000 artifacts related to the Wizard of Oz. We got original movie props, costumes, scripts, promotional items, tons of collectibles. We got film costumes a replica, not the real one, a replica of Dorothy's slippers, because, did you hear?
Speaker 1:Dorothy's slippers. They just went for like $30 million.
Speaker 2:Really the real one, the actual real one. Wow, wow, wow.
Speaker 1:Interactive displays. And so here's the thing million dollars really the real one, actually real one, yeah, wow, wow, wow. Interactive displays. And so here's the thing, and you remember when at the, at the one in space coast, there was like a interactive room and that where there's project, you know, they projected the yellow brick road.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, in like 3d projection, projection thing on all the the floor and the ceiling and every wall.
Speaker 1:Well, this one has a real yellow brick road, not a projected one that you can skip down, and you saw how excited and happy I was skipping down the one in the Space Coast. Imagine me skipping down this one, wow, wow.
Speaker 2:Well, josh, I've been to this one what this is the one I've been to. I've been to this one in what this is the one I've been to. I've been to this one in 2018, when I first came over to the US and I did my trip across. I stopped here at Wamego, kansas, and, yeah, we went to the actual Oz Museum. Josh, you ready for this?
Speaker 2:It gets better because it's not just the museum. Almost some parts of the town and the downtown they embrace the oz museum. You can you don't have to go into the museum to skip down the yellow brick road, josh. There's yellow brick roads throughout the town and you can skip down through alleyways that are yellow brick roads, through the alleyways it. The town itself, josh, celebrates and encompasses oz itself as a uh, as a brand. And now I remember going I said before going with you to florida.
Speaker 2:The florida one had had some great artifacts of the the different locations, different outfits and the different, the old books and the old uh games and stuff like that too. But this one, josh, is a little bit different. This one's, I'm gonna say, a little bit more well kept. Yeah, in terms of it's, it looks really refined. It doesn't look run down. There's no dust around, for instance, as well. It is very, very, very well kept and everything's behind a really nice glass. But the glass casings themselves, like on the wall, uh, are built out of the wall like they like you literally walking part through some of the oz itself, like in the wizard of oz itself yeah, because the one in the space coast was one up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the one of the space coast was basically a strip mall. Now, it was cool to see some of the artifacts, but it wasn't the just. It wasn't displayed as nicely as this one looks like.
Speaker 1:Um yeah, it was, and you're right, the the whole downtown is filled with oz murals and it's really cool. And so here's the deal. Here's the deal for geocachers is there a geocache? Yes, get this craig. Did you do it? Did you do it? It's a webcam. Yes, it's a webcam called where in the world is toto? So not only that, yes, it's wizard of oz themed webcam webcams are very very rare, of course, and there are also Oz-themed adventure labs murals throughout the town where it's an Oz-related thing.
Speaker 2:So I didn't do the adventure labs, because they weren't created back in 2018. And I will say this I lived and breathed by our personal motto and that is the webcam brought me there. Yeah, neat, because the webcam it was high on my list of caches to obtain. So the reason why I was there was because of the webcam. And then doing the webcam, looking around and I saw it across the road. I'm like we have to do this. So, yeah, we went in and did the Oz.
Speaker 1:Muse. So, Craig, this might change my mind because, Mingo. Madness is coming up again for the 25th anniversary of mingo, I think it's the early, early may, and so, um, this is on the way to mingo, this is out. This is not far from manhattan kansas, which I've been there for mocha too, um so, I might, I might actually drive, or I might fly into Kansas City and do Mingo Madness, because I would love to spend some quality time at the Oz Museum.
Speaker 2:Yep, definitely, definitely. Mingo Madness, May 8th. So the 8th of May is Mingo Madness in Colby, Kansas, for those people wondering. So, Josh, guess what what I'm planning on being in Mingo for Mingo Madness.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, when is the event in Uranus, Missouri?
Speaker 2:That's just before it. It is. I love the way you said that. Uranus Exactly. Yes, yes, you say it's Uranus, but anyway, the Uranus one is the Fudge Factory, et cetera as well, and that's May the 2nd, may the 2nd. So.
Speaker 1:And then drive across. I could drive down there. Wait, wait. Where's Uranus? Where's Uranus in Missouri? Uranus I mean Uranus in Missouri.
Speaker 2:I'm just looking now for you. It's almost in the middle, but slightly south.
Speaker 1:Oh snap.
Speaker 2:But almost in the middle. So you could possibly, Josh, how's this? You could possibly even fly in. Look at us, we're making plans live on air here as we speak. Exactly, why not? Why not? You could fly in there to what's that big city next to it? Kansas City. You could fly into Kansas City. I could pick you up, Josh, in Kansas City, take you down to the Munzee events there in Missouri and then we'd drive across together to Mingo Madness and stopping at Oz Museum.
Speaker 1:Would you spend some quality time there with me?
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, are you going to twist my arm? Of course, buddy. And then people are listening now going. Oh, we're just listening to bros talking now.
Speaker 1:So I wonder, I wonder which way are you heading after, after Mingo?
Speaker 2:Madness, we're still. I'm heading directly back, uh, back um east, because, mind you, when I say directly back east, I'm heading back through.
Speaker 1:Kansas city again. That could work great.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I could drop you back off at Kansas City to fly out, Because after that one there in Mingo I'm heading my way to Geo Woodstock in Morgantown, West Virginia. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:This is exciting.
Speaker 2:That'll be the one after that's May 21st.
Speaker 1:This is an exciting May. I have more of a reason. The F, I have more of a reason. The fudge factory in Uranus and the Oz Museum and Mingo Madness, this might be. I just might have made some plans during this podcast.
Speaker 2:We should?
Speaker 1:we really got on a rabbit trail. We should keep going.
Speaker 2:We really did, we should, we should keep going. Exactly right. I'm going to go to my number four, and my number four is the Mutter Museum Mutter. Mutter Museum, mutter.
Speaker 1:Like as in mother, go to my number four and my number four is the mutter museum mutter, mutter like mother.
Speaker 2:What's the? What's the mutter? No, m-u-t-t-e-r.
Speaker 1:Well, that's how you say mother in german.
Speaker 2:No, it is, what's possibility? It's in philadelphia, pennsylvania itself as well, but this one here, the mutter itself, is all about. Now, this is the quirky, the weird, weird, spooky quirky. Okay, this is all about actual science and the human body. So there's things in this museum that we would class weird, strange, different in terms of you know, two umbilical cord babies joined together at the hip, and all those sort of things. Yeah, they say that a slice of Einstein's brain is also located For scientific study, of course as well. Is there? Exactly, there's skulls galore throughout and there's all different sized skulls over 100 human skulls itself, and they've been gathered since the 19th century. You've got other medical things as well. Like josh, you're just talking about uranus. They've got a giant colon weighing 40 pounds, uh, to conjoin twin skeletons. So, yeah, rare, bizarre medical cases. Um, is, is this, this? That's what this is. So if you're interested in that sort of thing and there are people out there absolutely interested, want this sort of stuff then have a look at this sort of museum.
Speaker 1:It is like really weird, more than quirky I'm looking at like, like old, like physician tools that they have yes, exactly, and can you?
Speaker 2:so you look at all these old physician tools and some of them are like a hacksaw and you think to yourself really, they used that to saw off someone's leg of gangrene back in the early 1900s. You know that sort of thing. I'm like wow, absolutely incredible. And again, as I said, this one here, josh, is not for those, let's just say, faint at heart or a little bit queasy in some cases as well. Yes, yes, yes, there is a traditional as well at the museum, but it's not related to it, so there you go there's a lady called the Soap Lady.
Speaker 1:I don't know what that means.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's it. Okay, that's a popular exhibit there too, and it's a mummified remains of a woman whose body underwent I'm going to murder this name as well saponification, apparently. So she turned all her fat into a soap-like substance after her burial, due to a unique environmental condition. So something happened when she got buried that turned all her fat itself into some sort of soapy substance that doesn't.
Speaker 2:That doesn't disintegrate that doesn't decompose wow, yes, the things, the soap, like things we learn on this podcast you're welcome, and everyone's got this bad visual now of uh of looking down at their stomachs thinking that could could be soap.
Speaker 1:All right, I don't know if that one interests me, but I do want to visit Philadelphia because I want to visit the Rocky statue and run up the stairs.
Speaker 2:Oh yes, just for the video, just for the B-roll. What's your next one, mate? What's your next one?
Speaker 1:My number four is oh, this is fun. I'm drinking it right now, as we speak really do you know what that is? Ice? It's ice, but you know what that liquid is? It's what's dr pepper? Oh, because we're going to waco texas, not just known for cults, or that horrible cult.
Speaker 2:No, no, that's on the outside of Waco. Oh yeah, that's on the outside of Waco.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is down, like, I think, downtown Waco. We're talking about the Dr, Pepper Museum.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow, where the original, the OG Dr Pepper, was created.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was where Dr Pepper was invented. You learn the history. Yes, it was created. Yeah, it was where Dr Pepper was invented. You learn the history. Yes, it was created in 1885. And I really like this because this summer I did finally visit the World of Coke down in Atlanta, which was just a really fascinating museum, all about Coca-Cola. Well, this one this one is maybe doesn't have as much polish to it, but it's like an old building. I looked at the building. The building kind of looks like the Alamo, like it looks very old, like old building.
Speaker 1:And you can explore the old bottling plant. You can taste different types of Dr Pepper. Of course they have like an exhibit about the formula. When I was in the world of Coke there was a whole thing about the formula. That's a really big deal in the world of sodas is to have the formula and there's an outdoor courtyard. Yeah, you can try other unique soda flavors, limited edition Dr Pepper flavors that you can't find anywhere else. So I just think this is cool. I love Dr Pepper. I especially love.
Speaker 1:Diet Dr Pepper right now. I don't know about you, but Diet Dr Pepper is like the one diet soda that doesn't taste like it's diet. Yes, yes exactly, I love me Dr Pepper. I would love to visit the Dr Pepper Museum.
Speaker 2:And what about a cash drive? No cash.
Speaker 1:Not a one.
Speaker 2:Well, josh, josh, I've been there, you have. I went here, yes, recently, and there is a cash there. It's a virtual out the front, really. And the virtual is in regards to Dr Pepper. Yes, yes, yes, I've been here. I didn't go in because it was a Sunday at the time and it was closed. I was like, oh no, but there's a big bottle out the back as well that you can get photos. A great photo opportunity with my van itself. Tuesday. Her name is. She's got her own Instagram account and there's photos of her in front of this Dr Pepper Museum in Waco, texas. I want to see that picture. And again, josh, what? Again? I was driving through. I would not have stopped if it hadn't have been for that virtual.
Speaker 1:Gosh, that's funny, I didn't see it Again. It's one of those things. I didn't see the virtual yes.
Speaker 2:I know, I know, I know Jeez, but not only that, josh, if you're, I think it's on Netflix and there is a documentary style video, et cetera, on the issues with Dr Pepper and how the company that's got it now took over from the original Dr Pepper and tried to change it on the original Dr Pepper, and so that's why you'll find that you won't see actual. The sign at the front of the building is not called Dr Pepper on the front of the sign anymore. The only parts you see that are Dr is the uh, the. The monument is standing in front the bronze statue of the creator, the inventor, standing in front with a dr pepper in his hand, with kids around him as well. So that's the only thing dr pepper related that they're allowed to show um due to copyright purposes now as well. So that's a big.
Speaker 2:It's a big contentious issue is you know who created Dr Pepper and who's got the rights to it? They do have an event there every year as well where they sponsor this big event too, and they do like a fun run and all this sort of thing too. And what happened, josh, is that Dr Pepper the new owners of Dr Pepper came in with their big trucks and overtook the event from this little soda factory, what, which wasn't very nice, wow, yeah, you've got to see the docuseries on Netflix that is really interesting and I still can't find this virtual.
Speaker 1:You're going to have to send me the GC code. I'm looking for it, but I can't find it Exactly, that's okay.
Speaker 2:Otherwise, go on my, on my, uh, my instagram, tuesday's instagram, and you'll see a photo of her in front of the pepper museum. All right, moving on now to my one I've got to flick it straight back up now to mine. Mine is oh, we're up to number five already. That's right. This one, josh, is fun. This one I, this one I want to go to as well. It's called Velveteria, velveteria.
Speaker 2:Velveteria is the Museum of Velvet Paintings, so in other words, painting on velvet or creating velvet art through, you know, just literally gluing velvet up on the walls, etc. Located in Los Angeles, california, near the China land sort of area in LA, it is a velvet art wonderland. So everything you see in there is all about velvet, showcasing over 500 pieces of the unique textured art form they say as well, so eclectic themes. Of course, there's a black light room, josh, so you go in there and they're glowing. The velvet paintings glow as you walk through. That's cool, because they're all displayed under the ultraviolet light. That's really cool as well.
Speaker 2:And they say that this is global velvet art. It's very eclectic. You know what I mean. There's not that many around, it's not really heard of too much, and it's only because of our research that we've done for this podcast, for today's episode, that I saw this and went. This actually interests me. This intrigues me as well. And again, saw this and went. This actually interests me, this intrigues me as well. So, and again, it's one of those museums, josh, again born from passion. The museum was founded by carl baldwin and karen anderson, who fell in love with velvet art while collecting it as a hobby, and then their mission now is to, to, to show it to the rest of the world, you know, rather than have it just overlooked, art form.
Speaker 1:So, yes, and no cash, oh, sad, do you know what I think of when I think of velvet paintings. What do you think of what's?
Speaker 2:the first thing you think of when you hear velvet painting. First thing I think about is literally the feel of the texture feel I want to touch the art. I want to feel that velvet. At the same time I want to be able to change the artwork myself by touching it. But at the same time I want to be able to change the artwork myself by touching it. And you know the velvet goes different shades as you stroke one way to the other, different directions.
Speaker 1:I think of velvet Elvis paintings Like that's the one thing I think. Oh, velvet Elvis paintings. It's like it is so iconic. You're driving along and all of a sudden on the side where you see a guy that has like 20 velvet Elvis paintings like laid out $20 a piece. That's what I think of.
Speaker 2:Have you ever seen that they do have velvet Elvis? Yes, and they do have a site as well. They do have velvet Elvis as well. I think they've got a whole room. Oh, I'm sure.
Speaker 1:I'm sure they do, because that's what I think of Sad that there's no cache. It would be cool if somebody made a little cache, a little Velvet Elvis cache. That would be kind of cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the link itself as well in the show notes. There's no actual website for it, but I found it on Atlas Obscura.
Speaker 1:Which, by the way, is a great website. You can get all kinds of crazy stuff, learn all kinds. We could do a whole podcast just about that website. Okay, are you ready for my last one? Yes, your last one, this one I've seen photos of this. This one I want to visit a lot of people. This isn't really obscure. A lot of people have visited this, and that is the neon museum in las ve Nevada. Oh wow, have you been to this?
Speaker 2:No, I haven't.
Speaker 1:It's been in many movies, oh yeah, and basically it's like a neon kind of graveyard. They call it a neon boneyard. Yes, You're actually walking outside and it's just like all these basically retired neon signs.
Speaker 2:Signs yeah.
Speaker 1:In Vegas and at night, oh, my gosh, my gosh, craig, at night they light it all up and you're just like walking outside through through all these like neon signs um from you know like there's 200 of them, um, a lot of them, some dating back from the 1930s. They have restored ones. They have a guided tour. There's a show, there's like a neon show. You can take photos um, you get to see like neon art and the different craftsmanship of of all that and they have um old signs from, uh, the original, like moulin rouge, the golden nugget, the hard rock, cafe guitar, caesar palace, all those iconic neon signs. They're all there and you gotta go.
Speaker 1:It's very clear, you gotta go at night time yeah, 100, because I mean it is open during the day. And and yes, yes, vegas, this is so, vegas, yes it is way more expensive at night than it is during the day.
Speaker 2:Well, it's a.
Speaker 1:You know it's, it's price gouging, yeah yeah so this is I believe this is like north of, like the strip it's it's a little off the beaten path, but, um, but yeah, I next time. There's a lot of things I want to visit that in vegas that I've never visited before, but this is certainly one of them. And greg, yeah, is there a geocache? There's not a physical geocache there, but this is great. This is perfect way to end this show. Are you ready? Yeah, there is a adventure lab. That a five-stage adventure lab that goes to five different quirky museums in vegas.
Speaker 1:That's really cool so there's the neon museum, the mob museum, there's a museum in the mob yeah, yeah, um, there's a haunted museum, all about things that are haunted, there's a national atomic test museum and and I really want to visit this the pin Pinball Hall of Fame oh, of course you do Filled with pinball machines.
Speaker 2:You know, I love my pinball machines. You do you love, love, love your pinball machines, exactly so it would be so fun.
Speaker 1:This would be a great video to go to all five of these museums in one day, because they're all pretty close to each other.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that would be a fantastic video, and you'd have to do this one last at night.
Speaker 1:I think that would be ideal, that would be ideal.
Speaker 2:Now I'm looking through again the link itself and, yeah, it's literally a boneyard of all the old light and neon signs. Look at it when they light up at night, josh. It looks like everyone's going to get a suntan, like that's how neon we're talking. Um, but safety wise, there is a railing that goes all the way around. You can walk around in safe. You don't touch the lights, you know at all. The lights are, all you know, done correctly and stuff too, which is nice to see. Um, and I can see as well that there's is. There's some sort of trail within the actual thing as well, whereby it looks like some kids are doing some sort of homework on each stage of the lights, which is pretty cool. I like that.
Speaker 1:I like that. That's really cool If you look at the website. Yeah, if you look at the website, you're just going to be like oh my God, I totally have to visit this place. It looks so cool, exactly.
Speaker 2:So there it is, josh. You only have like a hyperlapse from afternoon to night where it turns it on and the people are walking fast in between and you get the full gist and the whole idea of what it is all about. So that is really cool, josh. Good pick, mate, good pick, thank you, thank you very much. Oh, you went Elvis there, you all went Elvis on me too.
Speaker 1:No, thank you, Thank you. Thank you very much. Viva Las Vegas, viva Las Vegas. Okay, I just freaked my dog out. Yeah, you did. He perked his ears up. He's like why are you singing all this stuff?
Speaker 2:Anyway, josh, anyway, do we have? That's the 10. That's the top 10. That's the 10. That's the 10. I like it. Another great show.
Speaker 1:We could do another show. I mean, there are so many quirky museums. That's that's one of the things that's like one great and wonderful about our country is there's so many quirky, interesting things, like like these museums. So so this is yeah, this is quirky museums. Maybe one, maybe we'll do another episode and we got a lot more things that we need to visit craig absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 2:And, josh, obviously, a lot of these museums themselves as well. They were started by one person with a love and a passion. I'm handing you the football, josh. I'm handing you the football. Why would that be, josh?
Speaker 1:A love and a passion, because you know why, wherever they live, they're just proud of their town. They're really proud of it, 're just proud of their town, they're really proud of it. They're proud of their collections, they're proud of their quirky hobbies. They're and they're proud of their town because that's a damn rare thing these days.
Speaker 2:There you go. So there you go, people. You heard it live. I'm the quarterback, josh, is the? What do you call it when you catch? The person who catches? I don't even know.
Speaker 1:I'm the receiver.
Speaker 2:You're the receiver, I'm the quarterback, you're the receiver and we just scored a touchdown, perfect.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we did, and I would have forgot, I almost forgot.
Speaker 2:I know, I know, I saw it in your eyes You're winding up. You're winding up.
Speaker 1:We need to put it in the show notes. Remember the say the. Thing.
Speaker 2:No, that's the whole point. I don't want to be natural, josh. Don't read it. It's natural. It's got a flow. You've always said you like the flow, and so do I too. Yeah, we got a good flow. There you go. Speaking of flows, josh, we have patrons out there who also enjoy the show that much that they like to support us. See, yes, they do. Segway, segway, segway. Yes, tell us, josh, for those people out there who aren't patrons, how can they be patrons?
Speaker 1:Yeah, we have patrons. They support our show. They make this all possible. Podcasts are expensive, so if you have been listening, you're not supporting us. Why not jump on board? Join us? You get special content from us. We sometimes do bonus episodes, which we call Golden Nuggets, and you make it possible to not have any sponsors, no annoying commercials, so consider joining us. Here's where you'll find us patreoncom backslash treasures of our town.
Speaker 2:That's really cool and also we may be doing some little Golden Nuggets If we do meet up Josh in Uranus and do the trip across, we could do some Golden Nuggets on that trip. Oh yes, we could do some golden nuggets on that trip.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, let's be honest, we can do golden nuggets in Uranus, yeah.
Speaker 2:Anyway, how else can people find?
Speaker 1:us, Josh. If they want to find us, Feel free to reach out to us at trenchesmaritownpodcast at gmailcom, or you can follow us on Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.
Speaker 2:So that's it for our show today. Please subscribe, rate and review on your favorite podcasting app and, as always, Josh.
Speaker 1:May your travels always lead you to the most unexpected and amazing hidden museums around the United States and the world. See you next time, everybody, goodbye.
Speaker 2:Goodbye.
Speaker 1:Go have an adventure. Bye adventure.
