Weirdness in Louisiana

 

The Abita Mystery House is just plain weird (and cool).  It’s also called the UCM Museum (you-see-um mu-se-um).  A quote from yelp “I love this place, it’s like a flea market and a circus house of oddities had a love child that grew up and married a hoarder.”  It’s full of bizarre collections and folk art using recycled items by artist John Preble. 

There are many paint-by-numbers paintings (some that John recognized from his youth).

 

This is the “House of Shards”.  It’s a building covered in broken tile in a mosaic.

It’s not often I take a picture of a bathroom, but the wall is covered with bottle caps (over 250,000 in the total museum) and computer boards on the ceiling.

 

Finally, Buford the Bassigator.  Don’t ask.
 

 

If you are ever in the area, you need to visit.