What) The Orlando Odditorium Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum appears to be sinking into one of Florida's infamous sinkholes. For over 40 years, Robert Ripley, the modern Marco Polo and the real-life Indiana Jones, travelled the world collecting the unbelievable, the inexplicable and the one-of-a-kind. All of his findings were amazing and much of it extremely amusing. His collection is housed in over 27 museums in 10 countries. Each museum's collection is 90% unique and different.

    The Orlando Odditorium showcases hundreds of exhibits including: An actual human shrunken head; an exciting dinosaur exhibit, complete with dinosaur skull and authenticated dinosaur eggs; a tribute to Robert Wadlow, the World's Tallest Man; an Egyptian mummy; animal oddities; human oddities; a 10-foot section of the Berlin Wall; an interactive Illusion gallery; unusual works of art; a 1907 Rolls Royce car made from over one million match sticks; and much more! (1)

    Where) 8201 International Drive     Open daily at 9:30am     Adults: $18.95     1-407-345-0501

    Why) Although Pam was willing to stop and look at the outside of any Ripley's Museum that we “happened” to drive by, she wasn't interested in seeing the inside of any of them.  So, I chose what looked like the best one and decided to see the inside of it by myself.























I was not smart enough to find this angle so I had to get this strangely coloured picture from the internet. (2)







I guess I was more interested in finding and photographing the little lizards running around outside.







Okay, it's time to enter the museum and see whether I can find anything I like.







Just inside the entrance I found this telephone book sculpture of John Lennon by Philadelphia artist Alex Queral.







I also liked this 1977 painting by Mexico City artist Enrique Ramos called "600 Elvis's Can't Be Wrong". (3)







Of course, my pictures had too much glare so I found you these two from the internet. (4)







I also failed to successfully photograph this picture of Julius Schuster.  I was able to ... (3)







... take a nice picture of the sign below it but that is probably just a coincidence.







I also liked this carved wooden chain and ...











... this feathered alligator skull.  My favourite piece of all was ...









... this paper sculpture called "Tracking Geronimo" by Allen and Patty Eckman of Rapid City, South Dakota.  You can click
here to see some of their other sculptures that I like.  I have also added "a visit to their studio" to my future Buckys file.