Say you've spent the day driving through the deserts near Joshua Tree National Park

in California, it is such a cool place.

There's big rock formations, the twisted, spiky Joshua trees that give the place its name,

and then in the distance, you spot something that almost seems like a funky mirage.

There's this little bright green museum, it's kind of in the shape of an old-fashioned

camera, and on it are the words world-famous crochet museum.

When you step inside you are bombarded with cuteness, lots of bright, fun colors, smiling

faces.

The smiling faces of cute little creatures, crocheted creatures made of yarn, covering

every inch of this tiny museum, capacity to people.

There's the chicken wing to the left, there's a whole bunch of chickens and eggs and birds,

and then there's my poodle collection, and then there's a whole, like, a food pantry

area where there's cakes and cookies, a taco, fruit, all kinds of fun foods, and then

there's people, animals, bears, somebody even made a replica of the crochet museum,

so there's a crocheted, crocheted museum inside.

I'm Amanda McGowan, and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible,

and wondrous places.

Today we're heading to the deserts of Joshua Tree, to the world famous crochet museum,

or as its creator describes it, in four texts of love and joy and peace.

That's after this.

I was never that inspired going to an art supply store and seeing a blank canvas and

paint that just seems like ultra-boring to me, finding an old board in an alley, or just

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