Vacation Planning of the Doomed

[kz_blogorambling]

When we traveled home and back, I relied on several guidebooks with titles like "Iowa Oddities" and "Off the Beaten Path in Illinois" and of course my trusty iPhone app from Roadside America. I like to find us interesting stuff to look at (like the large pitchfork). Many times we're near things in which we are interested, but we don't have time to stop (or we're passing through after closing time). For those attractions, we vow to stop on some future trip. Like, next time we'll swing by and see Algona (IA)'s huge cheeto. And we'll definitely go to the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake Iowa.

Then there are other attractions. Attraction which hold no appeal. Here's a place we passed where we are not stopping and WILL NEVER STOP:

http://www.klowndollmuseum.com/

Comments

[haardvark.livejournal.com]

Is that the Doll museum next to the corn palace in Mitchell IA? Went through THAT one on my honeymoon. Gave me nightmares for WEEKS.

[crankyasanoldma.livejournal.com]

Damnit, you Canucks need to learn to distinguish our BIG FLAT SQUARE NEARLY-IDENTICAL AGRICULTURAL FLYOVER STATES. Unlike you guys, who just threw them all together and called them "Alberta," we chopped ours up.

Mitchell is in South Dakota. I've never visited the Corn Palace, as it happens. The Klown Doll Museum (shudder) is in Nebraska. Iowa is next door to both.

[jdoh.livejournal.com]

Life hasn't been lived until you've been to the Corn Palace. That is a sight. And unlike Haardvark, I don't think it is anywhere near as scary as a clowndoll.

Iowa: Gateway to Hells. That should be their motto.

[haardvark.livejournal.com]

The Corn Palace (apparently recently relocated to the Dakotas!) isn't what skeered me to my marrow. It was the doll museum next door that did it.

http://www.realtraveladventures.com/archives/enchanted_world_doll_museum_is_a_wonderful_real_travel_adventure_for_the_whole_f.htm

I am pretty sure that's the place. I was too timid to look at the site for more than a few seconds

Bottom line, I'll take clowns over dolls any day of the week and twice on sundays.

[haardvark.livejournal.com]

Aw shit, that's embarrassing. And if I'd left the abbrev off like my first instinct dictated I'd have been in the clear. Dangit.