Do you like weird? Do you like macabre? Do you basically have the mind of a twelve-year-old? Then you need to take out a second mortgage and spend a few hours in a
Ripley's Believe It or Not. From hand-knitted Ferraris to shrunken heads, from two-headed calves to the Lord's Prayer engraved on a grain of rice ... it's a cross between an anthropology museum and a gallery of Outsider art, with extra extra cheese.
So here's some pics from my recent trip to the
London Ripley's:
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| Horses made of spoons! |
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| Tibetan ritual mask made out of a real skull! |
Human artistry is breathtaking, and sometimes baffling:
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| This antique temple is carved out of solid jade. |
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| Toast art. Seriously. |
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| The Last Supper painted on a dragonfly. And why not... |
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| Portrait composed entriely of lipstick kisses applied to paper. Freehand. Well, freemouth... |
It was important I found you something naughty, so here it is - the
penis bone of walrus.
It's right opposite the
Feejee mermaid, who looks shocked:
To top it all they have a Mirror Maze, which I
totally loved.
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| Look! I'm about to bump into MYSELF! Waaaaaaah!! |
Okay, I may not actually be twelve inside. I might only be eight.
I went in San Francisco! It was the best fun!
ReplyDelete:-D We are both kids at heart!
ReplyDeleteGreat photos! Love Annie :)
ReplyDeleteI walk past it often and have never been inside - I was under the impression it would be a load of rubbish and prohibitively expensive. A child at school told me it was "full of weird stuff, so I fitted in well," bless him! It's on my list now :-)
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