If you’vr a cleanliness freak (I am not) you need to visit Pocatello, Idaho, home of the one, the only, Museum of Clean.
This 75,000-square-foot shrine to cleanliness celebrates everything from vintage dustpans to early vacuum cleaners the size of a Smart Car. There’s even a horse-drawn vacuum named Puffing Billy, which sounds like a children’s book character but actually roamed city streets in 1901 sucking up soot.
The only word that comes to mind is bizarre. Maybe you’ll find displays of antique mop wringers, gleaming toilet art, soap carvings and a “Garden of Clean” captivating–it doesn’t do anything for me.
Even stranger, you can hear what a mop sounds like when used as a musical instrument. They’ve got that covered in the Orchestra of Clean, where commonplace cleaning tools are transformed into rhythmic percussion instruments. You’ll never look at a Swiffer the same way again.
Just remember to wipe your feet on the way in. They’re serious about that.