Hi there!  Are you a hipster parent?  The kind who would rather die a death by a thousand cuts than take the kids to the Happiest Place on Earth?  Well, you've come to the right site!  I have found three excellent alternative destinations just for you and your ironic tee-shirt-clad kids.

1.    The Mutter Museum at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia:  An oldie but goody, the museum features an outstanding collection of medical oddities professionally displayed. Highlights include:

• The 40 pound colon, looking like "a sand worm from Frank Herbert's Dune -- arranged with one end rearing up from the tastefully underlit display."
• Celebrity body parts, including the "Secret Tumor of Grover Cleveland," and the "Thorax of John Wilkes Booth."
• The soap woman: The body of a woman who died of yellow fever and was buried in soil with certain chemical properties . . . that turned her into soap!

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Please note that this is a very serious place designed for study by "members of a dignified overpaid profession.  Shouts of 'Will ya look at this MONSTER BABY?' are entirely inappropriate."

2.   Museum of Bogota's Exhibit of Laziness:  An exhibit in a museum in Bogota, Columbia, featured sofas, televisions, hammocks and beds - anything associated with the avoidance of work. Marcela Arrieta, the museum curator, explained:

We always think about laziness as an enemy of work. So we wanted to explore that and make people think about the social issues implied in taking a nap, in being jobless or in feeling that maybe we are wasting time.

The exhibit, which you missed -- sorry! -- took place over the holidays. But you could always set up an impromptu exhibit of laziness in your own living room. All you need is a TV and a couch. Let me know how it goes.

3.    Memory Village in Haiti: It's not open yet, but you will definitely want to put this theme park on your "100 hipster places to visit before I die." 

Memory Village will allow visitors to play "slave for a day." Participants will be given traditional African clothing

and then 'kidnapped', chained and forced to march to a slave ship in a mock crossing of the Atlantic. They will then be part of a reenactment where slaves were taken to market to be sold and later broken down with torture in quarantine and put to work on a plantation.

Since even the most hardcore hipster may balk at the idea of spending 12 hours as a slave, there is a payoff. Toward the end of the stay, participants will get to take part in a reenactment of the slave rebellion which eventually led to the establishment of Haiti. So you get to rid yourself of the guilt handed down to you by your brutal ancestors and kill your masters!  Now that's hipsterrific.