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Ueno Zoo Escaped Animal Drill
Ueno Zoo Escaped Animal Drill"Wild" beasts break loose from Tokyo Zoo to the delight of Japanese childrenUeno Zoo's "Escaped Animal Drill" is one of Tokyo's oddest annual events, but one that has built...
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Shanghai Circus World
Shanghai Circus WorldChina's most famous acrobatics act Shanghai Circus World is widely regarded as one of the greatest acrobatic acts in the world. Housed in a geodesic dome in a northern suburb of...
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Moon Amtrak
Moon AmtrakDespite efforts to stop them, thousands gather every year to moon passing trainsThe story is simple: On a hot summer day in 1979, one guy told his buddies that he would buy free drinks for...
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All Saints Day Kite Festival
All Saints Day Kite FestivalGiant kites are flown during this Day of the Dead celebration in GuatemalaOn November 1st of every year the people of Santiago Sacatepéquez, Guatemala, put together giant...
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Gibsonton, Florida
Gibsonton, FloridaWhere sideshow performers often spend winterAn unincorporated census-designated place in Florida's Hillsborough County, that is only home to about 8,000 people, Gibsonton is known as...
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Le Village des Automates
Le Village des Automates An often-shuddersome journey into a low-tech, robotic themepark. American kids are lucky that they only have to deal with Chuck E. Cheese. After visiting Les Village des...
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Okinawan Bullfights
Okinawan BullfightsA bovine sumo match in which both bulls live to fight another dayThere is no matador in an Okinawan bullfight, or "tougyu." The athletes are the bulls themselves and spectators are...
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Battle of the Oranges
Battle of the Oranges 12th century Italian skirmish, reenacted with 500,000 pounds of flying citrus Each year in the days preceding Fat Tuesday, townspeople of Ivrea divide up into nine different...
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Lord Mayor’s Parade, Belfast
Lord Mayor’s Parade, BelfastRobotic car thieves, freakish animals and huge neon floats in Northern Ireland's capitalFeaturing an eclectic gathering of robotic car-stealing monsters, multi-headed...
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Busójárás
BusójárásFestival of Perpetual Life and Rebirth During February in the small Hungarian town of Mohács, the townspeople dress as horned monsters, wander the town swilling spiced wine and homemade...
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Down House
Down HouseThe Origin of On the Origin of SpeciesCharles Darwin (naturalist) left a formidable legacy for scientists, as well as for unsuspecting clergy. From 1842 til his death in 1882, Darwin and his...
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American International Rattlesnake Museum
American International Rattlesnake MuseumA museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakesThe Rattlesnake Museum is home to the most diverse collection of rattlesnakes in the world, with live displays of...
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Museum of Ancient Life
Museum of Ancient LifeLargest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the worldOpened in 2000 as part of the $23-million Thanksgiving Point museum complex in Lehi, Utah, the Museum of Ancient Life...
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Wagner Free Institute
Wagner Free InstituteA rare view of a preserved Victorian science museumIf you had an interest in science and lived in Philadelphia in the 1840s, you almost definitely knew William Wagner. You'd...
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The Nature Museum Feejee Mermaid
The Nature Museum Feejee MermaidAntique gaffe kept in the basement of a small Vermont natural history museumThe Nature Museum in Grafton, VT, is a small natural history museum in a converted house that...
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Naturhistorisches Museum
Naturhistorisches MuseumBeautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermyThe rooms of the Naturhistorisches, or Natural History Museum, in Vienna,...
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Anniston Museum
Anniston MuseumA natural history museum with an extensive collection of bird dioramasThe Anninston Natural History Museum holds one of the oldest taxidermy collections in the United States, created by...
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Bologna Zoological Museum
Bologna Zoological MuseumThis zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet Monkeys with bared teeth and wild eyes, lumpy looking cheetahs, and a toothy looking polar bear are all...
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Waco Mammoth Site
Waco Mammoth SiteVisitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one eventIn 1978, two men were hunting for arrowheads along the Bosque River in Waco, Texas,...
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Nabokov's Butterflies
Nabokov's ButterfliesSpecimens collected by the author of Lolita and self-taught lepidopterist exhibited in his childhood homeWhile renowned for authoring literary masterpieces like Lolita and Pale...
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