Museum of Fascism

Thousands of admirers of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini visit his tiny home town every year. Now, the town's center-leftist mayor Giorgio Frassineti wants to open a museum of fascism on the main square, not as an homage to their cause but as a way to contain it. Frassineti wants to overhaul the town's crumbling 1937 House of Fascism, an imposing marble-and-brick edifice with a balcony once used for delivering speeches to cheering crowds, for a Museum of Fascism. "Predappio is the right place to do this, because it's a fascist symbol," said Giorgio Frassineti, the mayor of the leafy town of 6,000 in Italy's rolling northeast. "I want to use culture as a weapon of mass destruction for ignorance."