The Ruby Slippers, Madonna's Bra And Einstein's Brain

A guide to the locations of, and stories behind, America's famous pieces of popular history. This work takes readers on a ride across the continent of North America looking for the iconic objects that have helped shape the consciousness of the Western world.

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Anyone who has ever wondered where Dorothy's ruby slippers, the limo that JFK was riding in when he was assassinated or Michael Jackson's sequinned glove are housed will find the answers here. Hundreds of items from America's pop culture past - its history, its sports, its movies, crime and TV - are listed in locations as famed, diverse and downright odd as the Smithsonian Institute, the Basketball Hall of Fame, the Sing Sing Prison Museum and the Museum of Pez Memorabilia. Includes George Washington's wooden teeth, the piano from Casablance and John Wilkes Booth's thorax.