Lüdenscheid in the Sauerland region of Germany, Southeast of Dortmund, might not be on the top of the list when you visit the country. There are some quite unique and interesting places, though. One of them is the Phänomenta, an…
Helsinki Korkeasaari Zoo
Apart from the Tropicario and SeaLife, my wife and I also visited Korkeasaari Zoo in Helsinki. The main animal park of the Finnish capital comes with a very special location and a nice mixture of regional and global wildlife. Here…
Volandia Aviation Museum Milan
The last stop of a trip through Italy in late summer 2021 lead me to Volandia, an aviation museum (and much more) close to Malpensa Airport. The visit there was massive and took me over three hours. Here are some…
LWL Open Air Museum Hagen
At the beginning of July, my wife and I visited the LWL Freichlichtmuseum Hagen, the LWL Open Air Museum in Hagen. The place is a collection of historic buildings, which have been moved to the museum and re-arranged so that they illustrate…
Popeye Village Malta
In the early 1990’s I visited Malta for the first time, going on a summer vacation with my parents. The Popeye Village was already a key tourist attraction at that time. For the 1980 movie starring Robin Williams as Popeye,…
Pig Museum (SchweineMusuem) Stuttgart
A museum about pigs? Indeed, that’s something you can do when you are in Stuttgart. Interestingly, the former slaughterhouse is featuring a museum, which is not only looking at sausage and Schnitzel, but majorly on the impact of the animal…
Halton County Radial Railway / Streetcar Museum
During my trip to Canada right after the borders have been opened again in September 2021, I visited a very interesting place for train lovers: the Halton County Radial Railway Museum (sometimes also named a StreetcarMuseum) in Ontario has a…
Natural History and Mammoth Museum Siegsdorf
Siegsdorf between Rosenheim and Salzburg in Bavaria might be a rather typical spot for that region: a rather nice city, popular among tourists, close to the Alps. However, Siegsdorf turned into a special place when they found the skeleton of…