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Podcast: Frozen Dead Guy

Near a Colorado mountain town, there's the frozen corpse of a Norwegian grandpa. We get the tale of how this came to be.
The Podcast Team June 7, 2023
outsider art

Podcast: Larry Spring Museum of Common Sense Physics

Exploring the intersection between science and folk art.
The Podcast Team November 16, 2022
atom bombs

Podcast: National Atomic Testing Museum

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team August 8, 2022
cryptozoology

Podcast: International Cryptozoology Museum

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team November 24, 2021
medical museums

Podcast: Museum of Quackery and Medical Fraud

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team June 15, 2021
A foggy view from Washington's Mount Rainier, the most glaciated peak in the continental United States.
Itinerary

9 Strange and Surreal Spots in Washington State

50 States of Wonder
Michelle Cassidy
Jungfrau Park.
Interlaken, Switzerland

Jungfrau Park

A Swiss amusement park entirely dedicated to the theory of ancient astronauts.
A 19th-century illustration of a woman resting while her nurse brings her refreshments.
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The 'Father of American Neurology' Prescribed Women Months of Motionless Milk-Drinking

Virginia Woolf and Charlotte Perkins Gilman were both patients of his infamous rest cure.
Abbey Perreault September 28, 2018
The Hungry Tree.
Dublin, Ireland

The Hungry Tree

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.
Riggers on the stack.
Gaithersburg, Maryland

World's Largest Deadweight Machine

The U.S. government built the million-pound stack of steel during the Space Race.
Mummies on glass display within the mausoleum.
San Bernardo, Colombia

Mummies of San Bernardo

No one knows for sure why this town's dead refuse to rot.
The Forensic Anthropology Research Facility.
San Marcos, Texas

Freeman Ranch Body Farm

Human remains in varying states of decay are strewn about this Texas State facility for scientific study.
Tumuli near Byaduk
Byaduk, Australia

Tumuli Lava Blisters

These naturally occurring but rare geological formations are each about the size of a small house.
The head of Diogo Alves
Lisbon, Portugal

Preserved Head of Diogo Alves

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.
Gravity Hill starting line.
Prosser, Washington

Gravity Hill

The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.
A street in Kodinhi, "village of twins."
Nannambra, India

Village of Twins

A village in India with a mysteriously high number of twins.
Rua do Amendoim.
Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Rua do Amendoim (Peanut Street)

Cars mysteriously roll uphill on this street.
Cryptozoology & Paranomal Museum in Littleton.
Littleton, North Carolina

Cryptozoology & Paranormal Museum

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.