Glore Psychiatric Museum
The Glore Psychiatric Museum in St. Joseph, Missouri is creepy, but in a good way. The museum covers three large floors and many years of mental health treatment and history. The focus is on the …
Tag: Missouri
Selections from St. Joseph, Missouri
St. Joseph, Missouri, didn’t have the most exciting museums in the world, but that didn’t stop us from visiting! The cover photo is from a statue in St. Joseph, The Pony Express Riders by Hermon …
The National Silk Art Museum
We don’t know anything about “silk art” and honestly really never thought much about it before, but we said sure, why not, we’ll pop in and take a look. The National Silk Art Museum in …
Amusements / Food / Museums
Odds and Ends in Northwestern Missouri
A few “there’s not much to this, eh?” sites in Northwestern Missouri. Walt Disney Hometown Museum I’m honestly not clear how the Walt Disney Hometown Museum in Marceline has a 4.8 rating on Google. The …
Nature Scenes in Northwestern Missouri
We spent some time hanging out in the Northeastern corner of Missouri, where we went to two National Wildlife Refuges and stayed in various parks where we did some birding. Again and again we saw …
Jesse James in Missouri
We’re not fooling around, we went to both the Jesse James Birthplace home in Kearney, Mo and to the Jesse James Home where he was shot and killed in St Joseph, Missouri. In spite of …
America’s National Churchill Museum
America’s National Churchill Museum on the Westminster College campus in Fulton, Missouri, certainly feels out of place! I mean, Churchill was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, so what’s a full-blown museum to him …
A Few Sites in Central Missouri
Here are just a few items while we passed through the center of the state. The columns in the cover photo are at Westminster College in Fulton. They are all that remains of Old Westminster …
Amusements / Architecture / Art / Birds / Food
Scenes from in and around Kansas City, Missouri
Polly’s Pop in Independence was made using water from a local spring from 1923 to 1967. The brand was revived in 2016, and you can watch production on a vintage bottling machine through a glass …
Amusements / Architecture / Art / Food
Quick Stops in Kansas City, Missouri
Here are some of the other sites that we visited in Kansas City (Missouri) during our travels. Christopher Elbow Chocolates I had Christopher Elbow Chocolates on my radar as a place to stop while in …