Abita Mystery House, Abita Springs, Louisiana

We went to the craziest place today - they call it the Abita Mystery House & Museum.  It's a fun roadside attraction.  

For over 10 years people have walked through the maze of buildings that include a vintage gas station, a hot sauce house, a big exhibition hall, and the beautiful House of Shards. Maintained by artist/inventor John Preble, whose inspiration came from the Tinkertown Museum in New Mexico, it offers thousands of folk art objects ranging from miniatures, to pottery, to Louisiana-themed sculptures like Darrel the Dogigator (half alligator, half dog) and Edmond the Allisapien (half alligator, half homo sapiens).  Using 1000's of found objects, and home made inventions, artist John Preble created an incredible mini town that pokes fun at Southern Life: Mardi Gras parades, UFO landings, voodoo fortune tellers, oil refinery plantations, alligator wrestlers, and Cajun chefs. It was really fun to tour this place.

Originally called the UCM Museum until its official name change in 2007, the house entrance is a vintage gas station, with filling pumps and bright decor, which leads to open air sections, the main exhibition hall, a ninety-year-old Creole cottage, and the House of Shards, among other attractions. The Mystery House is unique in that it bears a particularly odd aesthetic, drawing alternative crowds with an eye for the strange. John Bullard, director of the New Orleans Museum of Art, has even gone as far as saying that the Abita Mystery House is the "most intriguing and provocative museum in Louisiana."

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Have you ever walked along a foot path and stopped to pick up an interesting rock? John Preble has, thousands of times; and it wasn’t only rocks, there were bottles, bottle caps, license plates, springs, motors, pottery shards, and “what all.” And he didn’t throw any of it away, instead it all eventually came together in the fantastic man-made world known as the Abita Mystery House in Abita Springs, Louisiana.

You know that saying 'one man's trash is another man's treasure'?...what is John Preble's motto. Can you imaging walking down the street or driving your auto down the road and finding all of these treasures? It's amazing what people will throw out of their cars and autos while driving. Speaking of autos, if you are looking for bad credit auto loans, roadloans.com has the best information.