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MattB
Curator of the Minnesota Museum of the Mississippi and Other Natural Wonders
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Places I have been to
I have been to Harry Andrews' Chateau Laroche, Haymarket Square, America's Stonehenge (Mystery Hill), Steam Clock Gastown Vancouver, Wall Drug, 24 Hour Church of Elvis, Father Paul Dobberstein's Grotto of the Redemption, Heidelberg Project, The Corn Palace, Bishop's Castle, The Mall of America, Gullivers Pizza, Bloomingdale Trail, The Winchester Mystery House, The Dickeyville Grotto, Watts Towers , Onan's Gold Pyramid House, The Peace Fountain at Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Mapparium, Hole in the Rock, House on the Rock, The American Visionary Art Museum, City Museum, Fremont Troll, Dead River, 45th Parallel Marker, Bagley Wildlife Museum, Fred Smith's Wisconsin Concrete Park, Carhenge, International Museum of Surgical Science, Mesa Verde National Park, Doc Holliday's Grave, Maryhill Museum and Stonehenge, Pyramid of Kukulcan at Chich'en Itza, Tōdai-ji Daibutsuden: The Great Buddha Hall, World's largest seated bronze outdoor Buddha, Exploratorium, The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Abita Mystery House, Sir John Soane's Museum, Mütter Museum, Masonic Temple of Philadelphia, Philadelphia's Magic Gardens, Paper House, Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village, Historic West Baden Springs Hotel, Chapultepec Castle, Wigwam Village #2, Thunder mountain monument, Bakken Museum of Electro-Magnetism, Prague Astronomical Clock , Yangshuo and Moon Hill, Tipu's Tiger, Sala Keoku, Wegner Grotto, Cenote Xkeken, The Great Stalacpipe Organ, Old Man of the Dalles, Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, Chandelier Tree, Glass Flowers at Harvard Museum of Natural History, Kitch-iti-kipi, Falkirk Wheel, Salton Sea, Salvation Mountain, Noah Purifoy's Outdoor Desert Art Museum, San Francisco's Cable Car Museum, Cabazon Dinosaurs, Ruins of the Sutro Baths, Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum and Leaning Tower of Niles
Recent Activity
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April 3, 2012
MattB
has been to Leaning Tower of Niles
Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo
For those who have yet to make it to Pisa, Italy, the Leaning Tower of Niles, located in Niles, Illinois, provides a similar -- albeit scaled down -- experience of the famous Leaning Tower of... »
Strange Statues, Architectural Oddities | Edited by anhie
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April 3, 2012
MattB
has been to Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum
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April 3, 2012
MattB
has been to Ruins of the Sutro Baths
The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966
Low stone and concrete walls and twisted, rusty steel supports are all that remain of the enormous glass-enclosed public baths at Point Lobos. The baths were the labor of love by gold-rush... »
Incredible Ruins | Edited by Annetta, sirpogo and others
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April 3, 2012
MattB
has been to Cabazon Dinosaurs
"World's biggest dinosaur" featured in Pee Wee's Big Adventure, now houses a creationist museum in its abdomen
For the past 35 years, travelers driving west on Interstate 10 in Southern California have been greeted by Dinny the Dinosaur, a 150-foot-long recreation of an apatosaurus, whose owners have given... »
Natural History, Strange Statues, Commercial Curiosities | Edited by anhie
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April 3, 2012
MattB
has been to San Francisco's Cable Car Museum
Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.
Straying radically from the ideal of the quiet museum – one filled with the archaic artifacts of yesteryear, each lighted softly and placed behind Plexiglas – the San Francisco Cable Car Museum is... »
Museums and Collections | Edited by Shalaco, Dylan and 2 others
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April 3, 2012
MattB
has been to Noah Purifoy's Outdoor Desert Art Museum
10 acres of "Environmental Sculptures" in the Mojave desert
Set in Joshua Tree, California, Noah Purifoy's "Outdoor Desert Art Museum" is 7.5 acres of open land displaying Purifoy's assemblage sculptures, all created on-site between 1989 and 2004. Visitors... »
Outsider Art, Outsider Architecture | Edited by anhie, Sue Welsh and 2 others
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April 3, 2012
MattB
has been to Salvation Mountain
Self-built mound covered in messages of God's love
At 150 feet wide by 50 feet tall, Salvation Mountain is really more of a painted mound. The mountain was created by Leonard Knight after his hot air balloon failed in this bleak patch of desert... »
Outsider Art, Architectural Oddities, Outsider Architecture | Edited by Dylan, Clinton and 4 others
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April 3, 2012
MattB
has been to Salton Sea
The ghostly remains of an accidental sea
This may sound obvious, but most rain eventually finds its way to the oceans, either via groundwater, rivers or lakes with permeable rock underneath. Some water, though, gets trapped in large... »
Watery Wonders | Edited by M Rebekah Otto
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April 3, 2012
MattB
has been to Falkirk Wheel
Perfect sythesis of old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift
While it may look like a piece of computer-generated scenery straight out of a video game, the Falkirk Wheel actually transports boats from one disjointed canal to another as they navigate the... »
Inspired Inventions, Architectural Oddities | Edited by littlebrumble, stevied and others
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December 14, 2011
MattB
has been to Kitch-iti-kipi
Freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons per minute
Michigan's largest freshwater spring, Kitch-iti-kipi means "big cold water." Often, this massive pool is just known as The Big Spring as its traditional name is too difficult to pronounce for the... »
Natural Wonders, Watery Wonders | Edited by A Facebook user and Nicholas Jackson
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December 14, 2011
MattB
has been to Glass Flowers at Harvard Museum of Natural History
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December 14, 2011
MattB
has been to Chandelier Tree
Massive redwood tree that has a hole in the base big enough to drive through
A 315-foot-tall marvel, the Chandelier Tree in Leggett, California, has a hole cut in the base that is big enough to drive through. Six feet wide and nearly seven feet tall, the hole was carved... »
Natural Wonders, Extraordinary Flora | Edited by Nicholas Jackson
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December 14, 2011
MattB
has been to Ye Olde Curiosity Shop
100 year old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitch featuring mummies, shrunken heads and a Fiji Mermaid
A lifelong passion for curiosities was inspired by winning the book "Wonders of Nature" in 3rd grade for having the neatest desk. Joseph Standley (1854-1940) became an avid collector of Indian and... »
Unique Collections, Mummies, Purveyors of Curiosities | Edited by Annetta, Dylan and 2 others
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December 14, 2011
MattB
has been to The Great Stalacpipe Organ
An organ located deep within a cave and whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself
Deep in the Luray Caverns of Virginia sits the largest musical instrument in the world. The Great Stalacpipe Organ appears at first to be a normal looking organ, but instead of pipes, the organ is... »
Curious Caves, Musical Wonders, Subterranean Sites | Edited by Dylan and Henry
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December 14, 2011
MattB
has been to Cenote Xkeken
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December 14, 2011
MattB
has been to Wegner Grotto
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December 14, 2011
MattB
has been to Sala Keoku
Bizarre Hindu and Buddhist sculpture park
Luang Pu's ascent to fame follows a strange and murky path.
Pu was born in 1932 in Laos, and became a mystic early in his life. According to his legend, he fell through a sinkhole onto his... »
Outsider Art, Unusual Monuments, Strange Statues | Edited by serflac, atimian and others
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December 14, 2011
MattB
has been to Tipu's Tiger
A delightful crank-operated pipe organ depicts a tiger calmly devouring a hapless colonial
First discovered by the British East India Company amongst the belongings of a tiger-obsessed sultan, Tipu's Tiger is a physical reminder of the enmity felt between the residents of India and the... »
Musical Wonders, Amazing Automata | Edited by Annetta
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December 14, 2011
MattB
has been to Yangshuo and Moon Hill
Natural arch gives panoramic views of Yangshuo's karst hills
Unlike most mountains, the karst hills of Yangshuo poke up randomly as the Li River meanders around their bases. Covered in lush, green vegetation, the natural formations create a dramatic... »
Natural Wonders, Geological Oddities | Edited by serflac and atimian
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October 25, 2011
MattB
has been to Prague Astronomical Clock
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October 25, 2011
MattB
has been to Bakken Museum of Electro-Magnetism
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October 25, 2011
MattB
has been to Thunder mountain monument
The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who proclaimed himself "Chief Rolling Thunder"
Frank Van Zant led a fascinating and complex life and left a unique home in Nevada. Though he had a Dutch name, he said he was 100% Creek Indian, and in his later life went by Chief Rolling... »
Eccentric Homes | Edited by julib82, M Rebekah Otto and 2 others
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October 25, 2011
MattB
has been to Wigwam Village #2
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October 25, 2011
MattB
has been to Chapultepec Castle
Only castle in North America to ever house actual sovereigns
When we think of castles we think of Europe and Asia, of the towering spires of Neuschwanstein and the massive courtyards and interlocking palaces that populate the Forbidden City. North America... »
Eccentric Homes | Edited by Nathan_Risinger, Nicholas Jackson and others
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October 25, 2011
MattB
has been to Historic West Baden Springs Hotel
A turn-of-the-century architectural marvel built on healing mineral springs and salt licks
In the rolling hills of southern Indiana, a once world-renowned health spa known as the 8th Wonder of the World has existed for over a century.
Built around mineral springs, famous at the turn... »
Wonders of Salt, Odd Accommodations, Architectural Oddities | Edited by Mark_Casey, atimian and others
