Ghost Signs
"Before the invention of modern billboards, sign painters used to paint advertisements and company names directly onto building walls. These gradually fading painted signs are known as ghost signs." Russian Prison Tattoos
"Soviet researchers first discovered and studied this underground activity in the 1920s; photographs of prisoners from that period suggest an already elaborate and highly developed subculture. More than simple decoration, the images symbolically proclaim the wearer's background and rank within the complex social system of the jailed."
The Matchstick Man
"Don't you just feel sorry for the match? Its useful life is just so short. It's brought to life with just one flick of the stick and then ...poof!... the match's life is over in an instant. This seems like such a complete waste." America as It Was: A Tour in Vintage Postcards
"Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to journey across the United States in 1910, traveling through countryside and small towns, craning your neck to look up at the skyscrapers of the cities, stopping to see the current events and sites of this glorious country's history?" The Damned Art
"An exhibition of books relating to the history of witchcraft and demonology, drawn mainly from the Ferguson collection." Charlotte, the Vermont Whale
"In 1849, while constructing the first railroad between Rutland and Burlington, Vermont, workers unearthed the bones of a mysterious animal near the town of Charlotte." The American Package Museum
"The primary objective of this Website is to preserve and display specimens of American package design from the early decades of the 20th Century." Awful Plastic Surgery
A chronicle of celebrity plastic surgery... Décolleté - A Severed Head Gallery
"Represented here are historical documents and images, along with various heads from mythology, literature and popular culture." Michigan's Mysterious Indian Mounds
"Even the native Indians claimed not to know who the mound builders were. Some recalled old legends that their ancestors had conquered and ousted an ancient evil civilization which had dug for copper and built mounds." The Global State of Waveland
"There is another way to manage the earth's resources: it is for the common good; Waveland gives people who share that conviction a means of demonstrating it and of joining the campaign to achieve it. For these purposes, we no longer recognise the jurisdiction of the British Government, or any other Government over this territory..." Things that Have Been Sold in Vending Machines
Underwear, blue jeans, bread, computer punch cards, raw eggs, CDs, beer, fresh steaks, dried squid, live shrimp, emu jerky, and the list goes on and on... Pavement Terror
"I mounted a camera, pointing backwards, from the back window of the van, I hid it behind a retractable black cloth shutter and operated it with a cable-release long enough to be operated whilst driving. I would make the van backfire and photograph the frightened mayhem I'd created as I drove past." Words that Sound Dirty, but Aren't
"Balzac: A 19th-century French novelist. Coccyx: Otherwise known as the tailbone. Cock-a-leekie: A Scottish soup made with capons and leeks." Etc. Phineas Gage Memorial
"It commemorates Phineas P. Gage, who, in 1848, had a 3.5-foot-long metal rod blown into his skull, through his brain, and out of the top of his head. That's an interesting story, but what makes it plaqueworthy is that Gage survived. In fact, he never even lost consciousness." Zombie Pinups
"Seductive. Voluptuous. Ravenous. Beware of the Zombie Pinups -- creatures that roam the night breaking men's hearts and then eating their brains for breakfast!" John Titor - Time Traveler
"Although there is debate over the exact date it started, on November 02, 2000, a person calling themselves Timetravel_0, and later John Titor, started posting on a public forum that he was a time traveler from the year 2036." The Integratron
"The Integratron is a 38-foot high, 50-foot diameter, non-metallic structure designed by the engineer George Van Tassel as a rejuvenation and time machine." Vintage Magic Posters
Vintage magic posters and related items from the golden age of magic, 1890-1930: Houdini, Kellar, Blackstone, Rameses and many more! The Worst Jobs in Science
From Popular Science: "The worst, most torturous, icky, painful, stinky, dangerous, and just plain horrible jobs in science." Folk-Lore of Women (1906)
Written by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer. The Webmaster comments: "Folklore of misogny would probably be a better title for this book. Replete with Victorian stereotypes of women, this book draws on many different traditions from around the world to portray women as simultaneously the 'weaker sex' and the source of all evil." Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness
"Welcome to my Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness. On this page, I list wacky, bizarre, surreal and otherwise strange examples of technical documentation, particularly illustration." Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie
"This cheap and unobtrusive form of mind control protection offers real security to the masses. Not only do they protect against incoming signals, but they also block most forms of brain scanning and mind reading, keeping the secrets in your head truly secret." American Social Hygiene Posters 1910-1970
"The man or boy absorbed in constructive and interesting work and thoughts has no time to bother with smutty stories." Electrolux Death Ray
From Brotron.com: wonderful futuristic weaponry and robot prototypes painstakingly manufactured from Hoover vacuum cleaner parts.
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