NFBC – Places – Everywhere Else 4

Erotic Heritage Museum

Location: Las Vegas, NV

Between the champagne room at Spearmint Rhino and the “barrel-rolling escorts” room at…your room, you need an occasional break from Vegas’ tawdry debauchery. So recharge amidst Vegas’ refined debauchery, at the Erotic Heritage Museum. Helmed by a staff of PhDs whose goal’s to “preserve wonders of the erotic imagination as depicted through…artistic expression”, EHM houses the world’s largest permanent collection of respectable smut.

Between the champagne room at Spearmint Rhino and the “barrel-rolling escorts” room at…your room, you need an occasional break from Vegas’ tawdry debauchery. So recharge amidst Vegas’ refined debauchery, at the Erotic Heritage Museum.

Helmed by a staff of PhDs whose goal’s to “preserve wonders of the erotic imagination as depicted through…artistic expression”, EHM houses the world’s largest permanent collection of respectable smut. Sophisticated titillation’s courtesy of artistes including Francois Dubeau (black and white pen sketches of lithe female forms), Bobby Logic (brightly colored, pop-artish renderings of futuristic lesbians), and Todji Kurtzman, whose anatomical sculptures employ the disconcerting technique of forced perspective” (with bronze, apparently “No” means “Yes”). For kitschy, apartment-friendly fare, hit up EHM’s reasonably-priced Boutique: poster art (Hot and Saucy Pizza Girls, Teenage Pony Girls, various other Girls), books (Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature Vols. I and II, The Sex Researchers), and a full line of old-school adult sex ed films, including seminal classics Johnny and Bonnie (“a great example of the use of verbal communication”), and Going Down to Bimini (“a great soundtrack by Leon and the Vibrators”).

If you’re looking to pimp out your vestments, Boutique’s got hats & tees sporting the logos of the EHM, and the venerable sex think tank Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality — so when you get busted doing something horrible, you can say, “I’m not tawdry, I’m a professional”.

Dezer Museum & Pavilion

Location: Miami, FL

Have you ever been like “man, if the Back to the Future DeLorean, an Aston Martin with machine guns attached to it, a pink Edsel, crap-tons of Vespas, and a Russian tank aren’t all at my Bat Mitzvah, I am just going to flip”? Well, if so, and even if not, your prayers have been answered by the Dezer Museum & Pavilion: an absurdly beautiful motorized heaven hosting over 1000 vintage cars (1927 Duesenberg worth $1mil! Ghostbusters’ Ecto-1!), motorcycles, bikes, and more.

Have you ever been like “man, if the Back to the Future DeLorean, an Aston Martin with machine guns attached to it, a pink Edsel, crap-tons of Vespas, and a Russian tank aren’t all at my Bat Mitzvah, I am just going to flip”? Well, if so, and even if not, your prayers have been answered by the Dezer Museum & Pavilion: an absurdly beautiful motorized heaven hosting over 1000 vintage cars (1927 Duesenberg worth $1mil! Ghostbusters‘ Ecto-1!), motorcycles, bikes, and more just opened in North Miami. Go in and gawk, or rent it for a wedding, birthday party, or that Bat Mitzvah, but first, click the image above to hit a gallery filled with some of the finest examples. Mazel tov!

American Classic Arcade Museum

Location: Laconia, NH

Comfortably situated on the third floor of the world’s largest arcade (seriously, in NH!), ACAM’s a veritable hands-on retro gamer’s Shangri La dedicated “to promoting and preserving the history of coin-operated arcade games” by rockin’ gaming exhibits, memorabilia (think Dragon’s Lair posters), and over 280 original, fully functional vintage standing/tabletop classics that date from the early 70s through 1987, like your parents. Gross.

New Hampshire has a lot of things going for it: the first primary of the election cycle, no personal income or general sales tax, and it isn’t Maine. Now adding a sweet palace of old video games to that list, the American Classic Arcade Museum.

Comfortably situated on the third floor of the world’s largest arcade (seriously, in NH!), ACAM’s a veritable hands-on retro gamer’s Shangri La dedicated “to promoting and preserving the history of coin-operated arcade games” by rockin’ gaming exhibits, memorabilia (think Dragon’s Lair posters), and over 280 original, fully functional vintage standing/tabletop classics that date from the early 70s through 1987, like your parents. Gross. Jewels from the Golden Age include the first ever coin-op video game, Nutting Associate’s 1971 Computer Space, as well as other early pioneers like Exidy’s controversial 1976 Death Race that let you score points by running over stick-figured monsters, Atari’s 1972 Pong, and even Tatsumi’s TX-1, one of the original sit-down driving games that utilized not one, but three screens — a tactic also used by the Patriots in Tecmo Bowl. More contemporary rows of donated and lovingly restored machines are organized by system manufacturer: Nintendo (Donkey Kong, Mario Brothers, Punch-Out), Atari (Pac Man, Berzerk, Galaxian), Taito (Space Invaders), Sega (After Burner, Turbo), Bally Midway (Tron), plus color vector games like Star Wars and Tempest, and classic fighting faves like Double Dragon, Street Fighter, and Mortal Kombat (think you’re not playing it? GET OVER HERE!!).

Because it’s more fun when there’re losers, ACAM also hosts an annual tourney hoping to draw retro gamers from across the globe — an epic event assuming it doesn’t turn into a Maine one.

Mob Museum

Location: Las Vegas, NV

The Mob Museum is here to set the record straight on Vegas’ deep-rooted organized crime history, with old-school-photo-accompanied slides discussing mobster Bugsy Siegel (the brains behind the Flamingo re-opening, and hence, the Strip), a recording of a mafia induction ceremony, and the truth about casino “skimming” — where the mob doesn’t report casino earnings to the IRS, not how they decide to get “healthy”, and stop using 2% with their Honey Bunches of Oats.

The MM just launched a site to get folks amped about the museum seeking to set the record straight on Vegas’ deep-rooted organized crime history, with old-school-photo-accompanied slides discussing mobster Bugsy Siegel (the brains behind the Flamingo re-opening, and hence, the Strip), a recording of a mafia induction ceremony, and the truth about casino “skimming” — where the mob doesn’t report casino earnings to the IRS, not how they decide to get “healthy”, and stop using 2% with their Honey Bunches of Oats.

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