The Museum of Jurassic Technology is one of the strangest institutions in the nation, featuring exhibits that blur the lines between education and art, and fact and fiction. The museum has become a sort of postmodern cultural mecca. Can you be convinced that the solid metal brick houses a rare kind of sonic bat able to materialize through solid matter? If any museum can turn you into a character from a Philip K. Dick novel, this would be the one.
Just a few blocks down is the Hare-Krishna museum featuring animatronic recreations of the Bhagavad Gita.
Tired of reading tabloid magazines about celebrities struggling to live? Good thing you're in L.A., where more famous deaths occur than any other state in the union. One particularly grim tour company has capitalized on this fact and offers the dearly departed tour. See the lamppost your favorite celebrity leaned against as he experienced their last drug overdose, have your picture taken at the house of Manson's murders ... three hours of horror and delight.
It's certainly no Madame Tussauds, but the appeal of this L.A. "museum" is as much in seeing the awkward re-creations of celebrities as it is noting the model's apparent failures. Most recently mocked on The Tonight Show, the wax celebrity look-a-likes seemed to be designed out of jest, or perhaps are just not entirely finished. Either way, this is the most conventional stop on the LA unconventional tour, but not the least entertaining--as long as you know what to expect.
