In a place called El Paso County located in Colorado, America lies a massive 260 acre home turned military museum named ‘Dragonland’ by its owner.
Mel Bernstein is a 71-year man, originally from New
York. He prefers to go by his nickname the Dragon Man, which was
inspired by Harley Davidson.
His museum collection is estimated to be worth above $10 million, while his gun collection alone is estimated at $8 million.
This armoury is stored in different rooms, which are
named after countries that have gone to war with the United States.
These wars span between World War I and Afghanistan. The size of the room is 65,000 square feet.
Mel also has a reimagined World War II bunker
with its complete bullet-riddled pots and pans. This machine of war has
its uniformed mannequins stationed at anti-aircraft bazookas.
Among other collections in his museum include machine
guns, military vehicles, landmines, military swords, grenades and
countless other unused war memorabilia. These are all housed in 86 show
cabinets and a tour of the museum would take 3-4 hours to be able to see
everything.
Amazingly, everything works and nothing is fake.
Since it’s a private collection and not a government museum everything
can work.
These firearms make him feel so comfortable that
his bedroom isn’t spared from being decorated with hundreds of guns hung
up on the walls. This is to portray his obsession with weaponry.
Mel has earned himself a reputation with a whopping
37,000 followers on Facebook. More so, this place is visited by hundreds
of weekend visitors who come to shoot firearms at his range or to visit
his military museum.
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