Den Gamle By in Aarhus, Denmark is one of the best and weirdest museums I’ve ever been to. It started as a place they transported really old buildings that were being torn down, rebuilding them into an old town, brick by brick. Cool enough, but they added a concept of recreating stores and apartments from 3 random years in history into neighborhoods: 1927, 1974, and for some baffling reason 2014. Exact replicas based on actual places. The execution is outrageously good. The level of detail, down to the olfactory variety, astonishing and sometimes really hilarious. From 74: A hippie communal apartment, a gynecologist office, a book store with a porno mag rack behind beads next to the children’s section. By the way, they don’t shield the kids from anything in this country and they mostly seem to turn into sensible adults. From 2014: a lesbian family, a single woman’s apartment, a Blockbuster Video that’s closing down. Funny. Tons and tons of random replicas. Actors in the stores and around town engage with you. There are period-correct phones in the rooms and you can call the other stores apartments and have conversations with visitors. Vibe’s niece Ida fooled me good in the paint shop calling from the butcher shop, asking if we had red paint to cover the blood on the walls. Had no idea it was her. Solid fun for 4 hours.