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Inside the Temple of Tolerance House

Sunday, April 15th, 2012

If you’re visiting the Temple of Tolerance in Wapakoneta, Ohio, and temple master Jim Bowsher is around, ask politely if you can go inside his house.

The Casket of Howard Finster

Sunday, April 8th, 2012

“Sometimes kids are creeped out by the casket,” said Jordan Poole, executive director of the Paradise Garden Foundation. Jordan was showing us around Paradise Gardens, an enclave built in the 1970s by folk artist Howard Finster.

The World’s Most Mysterious Motorcycle

Sunday, April 1st, 2012

Our favorite exhibit at Wheels Through Time in Maggie Valley, North Carolina, is the Traub, a one-of-a-kind motorcycle that may have dropped in from another dimension.

Watch Gladiators, Flee The Minotaur, Then Buy A Pumpkin

Monday, May 16th, 2011

Chris Gounalakis wants to sell you a pumpkin. He knows how to do it, too. He’ll get you to come to his farm to watch the gladiator battles, or to be chased around its labyrinth by a live minotaur.

Bigfoot, Aliens, Bug Food Thrive In The Peculiarium

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

Would you rather eat ice cream that’s been sprinkled with dead bugs, or have a photo of yourself being disemboweled by aliens? At the Peculiarium in Portland, Oregon, you can have both.

Castle Blood: Where Every Day Is Halloween

Friday, April 15th, 2011

Halloween attractions rise from the dead every October only to fall back into the grave November 1st. No one has yet figured out how to trick-or-treat profitably 365 days a year, but some ghoulish attractions confidently display their outdoor skulls and props year-round as photo-ops for the macabre-starved.

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