Destination: the Museum of Spanking Machines and Initiation Devices (Illinois, USA)

After nine years and 1,900+ posts, I have sometimes wondered how many more genuinely weird places there are in the world. We’ve seen Buddhist hell. A museum of ancient Peruvian erotic pots. A park where paper is made from elephant poop. A museum of counterfeit goods.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is no small thing for me to say this, but today’s destination is in a league of its own.

Named after the Demoulin company, the Demoulin Museum (pronounced deh-MOLE-en) covers the history of products the...