Ripley's Believe It Or Not! in Baltimore's Inner Harbor celebrated their official grand opening yesterday. The opening included a sideshow act with a fire eater, sword swallower, stilt walker, and a man laying on a bed of nails. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and her daughter were in attendance along with TV's Gomez Addams. Visitors to the museum's opening party were greeted by Sideshow Bennie, a man also known as the Human Doormat. In order to enter, you couldn't walk around Bennie -- you had to walk on him! Even the ribbon cutting had to include something unusual, so the museum cut through a portion of the high wire Nik Wallenda used to walk across the Inner Harbor earlier this year.
The museum's exterior features a two-story green serpent with steam coming out of his nose, while the inside is full of weird and wacky artifacts. To learn more about the unusual collection and the museum's seven galleries and other attractions, read through the Ripley's Blieve It Or Not! guide.
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Photo by Libby Zay.
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