Museum of the Bizarre

Museum of the Bizarre Museum of the bizarre is a fun fantastic museum of oddities and wonder fun for the whole family for all ages especially kids .
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05/21/2026

📌 Fort Perry — Marion County, Georgia
📍 32°29’21.93”N 84°30’28.61”W

Hidden beneath cultivated fields in Marion County, Georgia, LiDAR reveals the faint but surprisingly intact footprint of Fort Perry, a frontier stockade established in 1813 during the Creek War (Red Stick War). The site appears as a geometric enclosure—likely a multi-sided or octagonal defensive work—with traces of embankments, interior disturbances, and possible defensive lines still subtly preserved in the terrain more than two centuries later. Constructed under General John Floyd, Fort Perry functioned as a supply depot and fortified position along the Old Federal Road, a critical military corridor used for troop movement and communication during operations against the Red Stick Creeks in present-day Alabama.

Historical accounts suggest Floyd’s forces moved slightly off the main road to occupy higher nearby ground while establishing camp and temporary fortifications. Local reports of musket ball discoveries and battlefield debris in the surrounding area hint at skirmishing connected to the campaign, though the exact locations of associated earthworks remain debated. From above, LiDAR exposes how the fort sat within a broader military landscape tied to movement corridors, wetlands, and creek crossings that shaped both strategy and survival during the Creek War.

05/21/2026

📌 Fort Dushane — Dinwiddie County, Virginia
📍 37°09'01.36"N 77°25'04.41"W

Fort Dushane was a Union fortification constructed during the Siege of Petersburg as part of the expanding Federal siege lines west of the city. Built in late 1864 near the Weldon Railroad, the fort formed part of the Union defensive network supporting operations against Confederate supply routes into Petersburg and Richmond. LiDAR imagery still reveals the fort’s angular bastions, interior parapets, and connecting trench lines remarkably well, even though the surrounding landscape today appears quiet and rural. The fort sat roughly a mile south of Fort Wadsworth and helped secure Union positions gained after the fighting around Peebles’ Farm and the extension of Grant’s left flank toward the South Side Railroad.

Named after Colonel Nathan Thomas Dushane, the fort was occupied by Union troops as they tightened the siege around Petersburg during the final months of the war. What makes these surviving earthworks so striking in LiDAR is how clearly the geometry of the siege remains visible—carefully engineered forts, traverses, and trenches stretching across terrain that once marked the shifting front lines of one of the Civil War’s longest and most consequential campaigns.

The Wolpertinger is one of the most famous "cryptids" of German folklore, specifically hailing from the alpine forests o...
05/15/2026

The Wolpertinger is one of the most famous "cryptids" of German folklore, specifically hailing from the alpine forests of Bavaria. It is the mischievous, European cousin to the American Jackalope, though significantly more chaotic in its anatomy.
ofthestone Told me today about her favorite exhibit . So I figured this would be a good showcase of one of our exhibits called a wolpertinger!

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