Wacky Web Links

Events

Superb site to search for wacky, bizarre events worldwide: www.whatsonwhen.com

What's Going On: events countrywide including today's coolest place, Top Spots, Top 10 Unique Events and Top 10 One of A Kind Events in the USA. www.whatsgoingon.com

A look at the vast wastelands of the outlandish, the idiosyncratic and the forgotten: http://www.tangento.iwarp.com/weirdness.html

Southern Festivals: The South's Festival and Fair Resource. www.southfest.com

Festivals.com Celebrating Festivals Worldwide www.festivals.com

Alternative Culture/Outsider Art

An architect's links to strange buildings and art in the USA - www.narrowlarry.com

Weird and Useful Stuff - http://www.speakeasy.org/~dbrick/Hot/weird.html#Tourism Unusual

San Francisco architecture www.unusualsfarchitecture.com

Fiberglass Mania: public art run amok www.baggers.com/fiberglassmania

Zenzibar: huge alternative culture directory www.zenzibar.com

Art Cars In Cyberspace: www.artcars.com

The Bad Fads Museum in cyberspace: www.badfads.com

Mural Art's website featuring mural art and mural art culture. www.muralart.com

RetroCulture: retro culture, design and style www.retroculture.com

Raw Vision: magazine of outsider art www.rawvision.com

Illumination Project: monumental and fleeting works of art www.burningart.com

Museum of Bad Art: art too bad to be ignored www.glyphs.com/moba

The Cosmic Ray Deflection Society of North America: links to outsider art www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/1482/links.html

Photographs of the American West www.angier-fox.com

Just Plain Weird

"Insanity has found a home with Lunatic Commentaries, Alarmingly Strange Stories, and Daily Demented Comics." www.TheWeirdcrap.com

Narrow Larry: Explorations into the Un-Disney www.narrowlarry.com

Like weird sites, facts and news? You'll find lots of it at: www.theweirdsite.com

"Stan's Bookmarks" http://www.earthstation9.com/stans_bo.html "Strange, True, Unusual and Just Plain Interesting" links

Photos of bizarre roadside architecture and attractions from across the country: www.eccentricamerica.net

Back on Tack: www.gethep.net Well done site that sheds a gaudy spotlight on eccentrics and their roadside attractions.

Bizarre News: spanning the globe for the weird, strange and stupid www.bizarrenews.com

Beyond Weird: bizarre web sites from conspiracies to UFOs www.beyondweird.com

DOA: Delusions of Adequacy - an online independent music and entertainment magazine. www.adequacy.net

Duece of Clubs: links to all things eccentric www.deuceofclubs.com/map.htm

DarwinAwards.com: Commemorates those individuals who ensure the long-term survival of our species by removing themselves from the gene pool in a sublimely idiotic fashion.

Web WWWeirdness: The Official WWWeirdness Repository www.randysweb.com/weird

About.com: directory of Urban Legends and Folklore urbanlegends.about.com/science/urbanlegends/?once=true&

Weirdlinks: bizarre Index of weird web sites www.weirdlinks.com

The BigKid Collection of Bizarre, Funny & Engrossing Weird Sites: www.now2000.com/weird/index.shtml

Ishouldbeworking.com: bizarre links. www.ishouldbeworking.com/bizarre.htm

Bizarre food links www.cvixen.com/bizarre-food.htm

Dumb Warnings: dumb warnings and laws www.dumbwarnings.com

Real Haunted Houses: ghost hunter clubs www.realhaunts.com/clubs.htm

Museum of Dirt: collection of soils from around the world www.planet.com/dirtweb

Totally Absurd: totally absurd patents and inventions www.totallyabsurd.com

Urban Legends: separating fact from fiction www.urbanlegends.com

Little Museums website: www.littlemuseums.com/lm2.html

Collector Online Club Directory www.collectoronline.com/club-directory.shtml

USA Centric: strange and interesting places in the USA www.webedelic.com/usacentric.html

Project Denny's: a trek across country to dine at every single Denny's Restaurant www.p7a77.net/dennys/

Amazing Maize Maze: cornfield maze art www.americanmaze.com

The Onion: newspaper satire www.theonion.com

Gallery of Regrettable Foods: www.lileks.com/institute/gallery

Giant Lava Lamp Project www.giantlavalamp.com

Air Sickness Bag Virtual Museum www.airsicknessbags.com

EccentricTV discovers the most eccentric people, places and events throughout the world. The EccentricTV Pilot will premier on 'I Television' formally known as PAX on a national level (86 million viewers) in September, 2006.

Cities and States

Weird New Jersey: weirdnj.com

The Boardwalk Catalog: best of the Jersey shore jerseyboardwalk.com/index.html

The Arkansas Traveler's Roadside distractions web page and travel scrapbook www.aristotle.net/~russjohn/

San Francisco Chronicle: offbeat news www.sfgate.com

San Francisco Underground Travel: the good, the bad and the ugly www.sftravel.com/

San Francisco Unusal Architecture www.unusualsfarchitecture.com

Laughing Squid; art and underground culture in San Francisco. www.laughingsquid.org/

Chicago Entertainment Newsletter on the Web Master Fun List. chicagofun.org/list/index.htm

Calendar Live: events in the Los Angeles area www.calendarlive.com

Las Vegas: fun facts and Information www.lvstriphistory.com/funfacts.htm

Wisconsin Department of Tourism: Quirky Attractions tourism.state.wi.us/activities/quirky.shtml

Haunted Places: guide to haunted hotels, inns and restaurants www.haunted-places-.com

Documentary about small downs with big things www.worldslargestdoc.com

Offbeat travel stories and resources www.worldhum.com

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