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Weird Food |
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must eat to survive. However, there are "strange delicacies"
all over the world which will amaze you, perhaps intrigue you and quite possibly repulse you. A strange open-air market in Tomahon, Sulawesi, features fried rats and roasted | dog. Meet a street-corner "bug chef" in southern Thailand. And, in Mexico City, a downtown restaurant specializing in "pre- Hispanic food" is becoming one of the capital's trendiest eateries. Among its specialties: crickets, ant eggs, fly larvae, snakes and cactus worms. Not only do some people eat them, but there is also a worldwide market in worms as a food source of protein! |
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Bizarre Museums |
| Travel
to the strange and macabre "Museum of Death" in San Diego,
California, to witness their strange and bizarre collections, from serial killer artwork to an operational guillotine. Then visit the National Museum of Funerary History in Texas, where they have extensive collections of antique hearses, coffins, and bizarre tales of famous funerals. |
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Ancient Creations |
| n the wooded and rocky hills in the
southeastern corner of New
Hampshire lies a complex of stone structures bearing similarities to early stonework found in Western Europe. This massive complex suggest an ancient culture which may have existed more than 2,000 years ago and is referred to as "America's Stonehenge." |
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Bizarre Houses |
| For the last 25 years, Jim Bishop has
toiled by himself on a
medieval-style castle in a remote Rocky Mountain forest. Bishop's only known motivation is to leave for future generations a monument to one man's individualism and resourcefulness. Included with the castle comes a large metallic dragon that breathes fire and 160 foot-tall stone spires. This huge castle is the work of this one man, who is determined to build it until the day that he dies. This segment also includes a brief look at "Earth ships" in the American Southwest, and Pigeon Cove Massachusetts's "Paper House. |
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Trepanning |
| Trepanning
is the ancient practice of cutting a hole into the skull. Travel deep
into the heart of Africa, where a tribe that performs its own type of brain surgery has existed for hundreds of years. Using no modern tools or anesthesia whatsoever, the skull is cut, scraped and left to heal. Nearly all the patients recover to lead normal, healthy lives. And, investigate the bizarre story of Amanda Fielding, an English lady who has actually trepanned herself, drilled a hole into her skull, in a strange quest for increased awareness and enlightenment. |
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