Industrial Art Gallery
"This struck me as a deeply strange kind of art. After all, the usual model for art and design these days is that you make something that's a statement on some level, and then you try to put it where people will see it. And that approach certainly doesn't apply to people carefully embedding an aesthetic sense in a place where it is not just unnecessary, but is actually unlikely to be noticed."

Alchemy
"On this web site you will be able to explore the riches of alchemical texts, some of which are wonderful works of allegorical literature, delve into its amazing, beautiful and enigmatic symbolism, and ponder its underlying hermetic philosophy, which holds a picture of the interconnection of the Macrocosm and Microcosm."

Life in Elizabethan England
"So this is not a series of essays or articles, but rather bites of Elizabethan life that are, have been, or should be 'common knowledge' for those of us who work and play in the 16th Century on a regular basis. It is primarily social history, not political or military. It is neither exhaustive nor comprehensive, but it is what the Elizabethans do, present tense."

Commercial Animation Art
"This collection of art and photos all came from the Ray Patin Studios. They produced hundreds of amazing black and white TV commericals all through the 50's and early '60s."

Toynbee Tiles
"Perhaps the urban equivalent of a crop circle. A mysterious sign appearing in the night. A cryptic message left behind by beings with a seemingly extraterrestrial agenda."

Insect Oddities & Rarities
"In this section you will find many photographs of gynandromorphs and other insect defects, well worth checking out." (The Insect Company)

Noney
"Noney is a new currency. Each Noney note is a hand drawn, hand printed and hand signed piece of art. Each note can also be traded for things. Like all money, Noney is for people to circulate. The result is a combination of public art, performance art and printmaking."

Crazy Fads
"From 1920 to 1990 we list all of the craziest fads that have come and gone. Go back a few decades and read about the silly to serious fads that helped change our society and create a pop culture."

Gallery of Monster Toys
The Gallery of Monster Toys is dedicated to preserving a disappearing facet of our popular culture. Vintage monster toys are typically overlooked by collectors, largely because they seem obsolete in today's world."

Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics
"In the name of physics decency, to protect the minds of children everywhere, so that they may grow up in a world where they know the difference between speed and velocity, we have taken the responsibility to rate movies for their portrayal of excessively bad physics."

The Joice Heth Archive
"P.T. Barnum launched his career in the mid-1830s with his exhibition of Joice Heth, an elderly enslaved African-American woman. Heth had been exhibited by others with little success, but Barnum brought her to New York, advertised her age as 161, and claimed that she had been nursemaid to the young George Washington."

The Tree Circus
"This botanical adventure began in Hilmar, California in the 1920s when Axel Erlandson, a farmer by trade, observed the natural grafting of two Sycamores... Using intricate grafting techniques, Erlandson wove his wonders with threads of living wood. Straight tree trunks became complex and compound designs in shapes like hearts, lightening bolts, basket weaves and rings."

Rune's Barf Bag Collection
"If you thought air sickness bags were simply functional items you'd be wrong -- as the galleries show. They're collectors' pieces, considered by some as pure art."

Devices of Wonder
"This website sponsored by the Getty Museum demonstrates a range of ingenious machines invented to augment visual perception and convey an illusion of reality. Spanning many centuries and including devices such as android automata, lunar landscapes, perspective theaters, magic lanterns, and camera obscuras, each represented the new media of their day..."

Museum of Talking Boards
"No other single, mass-produced item quite captures the imagination of the American public like the Ouija board. Is it just a toy as many claim, or is it a portal to a spirit realm where one may find the answers to life's many mysteries?"

Compendium of Lost Words
"The Compendium lists over 400 of the rarest modern English words - in fact, ones that have been entirely absent from the Internet, including all online dictionaries, until now."

Doctor Slang - A Dying Art
"From LOBNH (Lights On But Nobody Home), CNS-QNS (Central Nervous System - Quantity Not Sufficient), to the delightful term 'pumpkin positive,' which refers to the implication that a penlight shone into the patient's mouth would encounter a brain so small that the whole head would light up."

The Great American Dollar Bill Locator
"Do you ever wonder where that paper money in your pocket has been, or where it will go next? This is the place to find out."

Disturbing Auctions
"Found a truly funny or fear-inducing auction? You can share it with other Disturbing Auctions readers right here on this page!"

Lunchbox History
"In 1949, while 'Hopalong Cassidy' was being broadcast on NBC, something was stirring in the air. Soon, kids tuning in to their favorite TV shows would be able to partner with their TV heroes at school. A lunch box revolution was about to emerge..."

The Electronic Reactions of Abrams
"In the first quarter of the 20th century, Albert Abrams, M.D. devised what may be the greatest medical hoax of all time. His credentials as a medical man, combined with the public's fascination with and lack of understanding of the newly introduced radio set the stage for the marvelous theatrics which still play today in some bizarre corners of the 'New Age' movement."

Wisconsin Concrete Park
"In 1948 Fred Smith retired from the lumber camps, in part because of severe arthritis. But that did not prevent him from embarking on a sustained and energetic 15-year retirement project."

Handcuffs.org
"Handcuffs and similar restraints have always been fascinating to people. Although their intended use as a tool of law enforcement is well understood by all and is indeed a bit frightening, handcuffs have captured the imagination of many."

Men Who Look Like Kenny Rogers
"Have you noticed that a lot of men over a certain age look a lot like country music superstar kenny rogers? This is certainly no knock on anyone!"

Googie Architecture
"Googie architecture was born of the post-WWII car culture and thrived in the 1950s and 1960s. Bold angles, colorful signs, plate glass, sweeping cantilevered roofs and pop-culture imagery captured the attention of drivers on adjacent streets. Bowling alleys looked like Tomorrowland. Coffee shops looked like something in a Jetsons cartoon."

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