Urban Legends and Oddities
- A directory of wonderful things.
- Freaks, wonders and human curiosities!
- This site is dedicated to the search for animals that are hypothesized to exist, but for which conclusive proof is missing. This includes the search for living examples of animals that are known to have existed at one time, but are widely considered to be extinct today. Those who study or search for such animals are called cryptozoologists, while the hypothetical creatures involved are referred to by some as “cryptids”, a term coined by John Wall in 1983.
- Jan Friedman brings a wicked sense of the absurd to listings for places as strange as the Future Birthplace of Capt. Kirk in Iowa, the office building shaped like a giant picnic basket in Ohio, and the B&B in a cave in New Mexico. Take a tour and find out just how weird America truly is.
- See Todd Browning’s famous 1932 film in its entirety. For free!
- This site holds more than 1,720 resources about mermaids, including pictures of mermaids of every imaginable type, and links to articles, folklore, mermaid movie reviews, and much more.
- The Museum was established in 1997 in order to promote knowledge about the phenomenon of hoaxes. It plays host to a variety of humbugs and hoodwinks―from ancient deceptions all the way up to modern schemes, dupes, and dodges that circulate on the Internet.
- RoadsideAmerica.com is a caramel-coated-nutbag-full of odd and hilarious travel destinations — over 7,000 places — ready for exploration.
Snopes.com: Urban Legends Reference Pages
- Snopes follows the more expansive popular (if inaccurate) use of “urban legend” as a term that embraces not only urban legends but also common fallacies, misinformation, old wives’ tales, strange news stories, rumors, celebrity gossip, and similar items. A wonderfully weird and comprehensive site.
- The Bible…as told through Legos.
The Busybody: Top 20 Literary Hoaxes
- A list of what are arguably the top 20 literary hoaxes of all time.
- This site salutes the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who remove themselves from it. Of necessity, this honor is generally bestowed posthumously.
The Gallery of Regrettable Food
- This is a simple introduction to poorly photographed foodstuffs and horrid recipes. It’s a wonder anyone in the 40s, 50s and 60s gained any weight; it’s a miracle that people didn’t put down their issue of Life magazine with a slight queasy list to their gut, and decide to sup on a nice bowl of shredded wheat and nothing else. It wasn’t that the food was inedible; it was merely dull. Everything was geared for a timid palate fearful of spice. It wasn’t non- nutritious – no, between the limp boiled vegetables, fat-choked meat cylinders and pink-whipped-jello dessert, you were bound to find a few calories that would drag you into the next day. It’s that the pictures are so hideously unappealing.
- The Onion is an award-winning parody newspaper published weekly in print and online. It features satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news as well as an entertainment newspaper and website known as The A.V. Club. It claims a national print circulation of 599,000 and says 67 percent of its Web site viewers are between 18 and 44 years old.
- Be it that guests stay underground, inside an igloo, up a tree or even underwater, Unusual Hotels of the World has set out to be the online location for travellers from around the globe to access information and subsequently book rooms at unusual hotels.