Lisa and Jason's Japanese Adventure

Day 3 Part 1 - The Million Dollar Museum

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Got these pennies over breakfast at Fast Jack's diner.
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The machine screwed up a couple - something I've never seen happen before!
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Got my weight and fortune nearby for a quarter.
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Not sure if this counts as a fortune or an insult...
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KITT insisted we start our day with one of America's cheesiest tourist destinations, "The Million Dollar Museum."
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Back in the day they boasted that the contents of the museum were worth a MILLION DOLLARS. Doesn't have quite the same ring to it as it used to.
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Exhibits ranged from the bizarre to the just plain weird, like this two-headed snake.
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The signs were all handwritten marker on paper, like the one for this two-headed turtle.
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Most of the "exhibits" were behind chicken wire, like this collection of bull horns.
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Sometimes it was hard to tell if they were kidding or not. I don't think they were.
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They were proud to have one of America's largest collections of different varieties of barbed wire...
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...And more beartraps than most hunting stores.
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This was my favorite tag.
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Across the street I picked up this variation on the squished penny - the stamped penny!
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It symbolizes the mysteeeeeriously similar circumstances between the Lincoln and Kennedy assasinations.
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I passed by the Bruckheimer tree and headed North for Carlsbad Caverns!
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