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The Cardiff Giant
The Cardiff GiantGigantic ten-foot tall stone manThe Cardiff Giant, a gigantic ten-foot tall stone man, emerged out of the ground and into American life on October 16, 1869, when he was discovered by...
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Kemi SnowCastle
Kemi SnowCastleCastle and surrounding structures built anew every winterLess than 100 miles below the Arctic Circle in Finnish Lapland, beauty is fleeting. Each year, the massive SnowCastle in Kemi is...
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Big Hole and Open Mine Museum
Big Hole and Open Mine MuseumMined to a depth of 240 meters with a perimeter of about 1.6 km, the largest hand-dug excavation in the worldIn 1866, Erasmus Jacobs found a tiny white pebble on the banks...
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Judaculla Rock
Judaculla RockMysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North CarolinaCave drawings are more often thought of as the domain of France, but there are incredible...
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The Museum of Witchcraft
The Museum of WitchcraftThe world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia When one thinks of persecuting and burning witches, one imagines long-ago rural England or Salem, Massachusetts in the...
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National Ignition Facility
National Ignition FacilityLocation of the most powerful laser in the world, and the potential birthplace of tiny starsThe government website for the National Ignition Facility has a curious recipe on...
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Voodoo Doughnut and Wedding Chapel
Voodoo Doughnut and Wedding ChapelThe magic's in the hole!The notorious doughnut shop was founded by Kenneth "Cat Daddy" Pogson and Tres Shannon to fill a void in Portland's late night dining scene....
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Harry's Occult Shop
Harry's Occult Shop Century-old shop, specializing in Occult productsOpen since 1917, Harry’s Occult Shop originally began as a traditional pharmacy. However, many of the first customers that came into...
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The Domes
The DomesAn abondoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has itA sign reads "No Trespassing," though it is evident that few heed the notice. The Domes were...
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Edisons Last Breath at the Henry Ford Museum
Edisons Last Breath at the Henry Ford MuseumHoused in the Henry Ford museum is a test tube said to hold "Edison's Last Breath"Even great industrialists have heroes. Such was the case of Henry Ford and...
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Thunder mountain monument
Thunder mountain monument The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who proclaimed himself "Chief Rolling Thunder"Frank Van Zant led a fascinating and complex life and left a unique home in...
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Istana Nurul Iman
Istana Nurul Iman 1800 rooms of single-family residence in Brunei Named the Palace of the Faith Light, this $1.4 billion home in Brunei seems to display more opulence than spirituality. Completed in...
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Home-Built Razorback Hog
Home-Built Razorback HogGiant papier mache hog sits on private propertyBuilt on top of a trailer, this homemade razorback hog has seen better days. It looks as though the structure was once rolled out...
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Maijishan
Maijishan Rock cut architecture and 7,000 Buddhist sculptures in TianshuiSo precarious and improbable, The Maijishan Grottoes come across as science fiction. Perhaps a dystopian world where humans are...
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Father Paul Dobberstein's Grotto of the Redemption
Father Paul Dobberstein's Grotto of the Redemption A four story, football field-sized, nine-grotto creation made of shells, minerals, and rare stonesWhen Paul Dobberstein, a young man studying to be a...
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Harbin Ice and Snow Festival
Harbin Ice and Snow FestivalOne of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvingsMassive ice sculptures loom over visitors bundled up against...
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Circus Center
Circus CenterJoin the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortionRunning away to the circus was the threat that rambunctious young folks would threaten their parents...
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The Chair That Grew
The Chair That Grew100 year old chair with joints "cemented by nature"John Krubsack was a self-starter. A banker from Embarrass, Wisconsin, he was the first in the area to boast running water, he...
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Neukom Vivarium at the Olympic Sculpture Park
Neukom Vivarium at the Olympic Sculpture Park A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately controlled art piece Exploring the woods inevitably involves detritus - a broken branch...
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Kori no Suizokukan
Kori no Suizokukan450 frozen dead fish on display in JapanIn a lot of ways, Kori no Suizokukan resembles an average farmer's market. Locally caught fish of 80 different species are presented on ice for...
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