WEIRD

Everyone knows you can buy cheese, fruitcake, and really good beer from monks, but those aren’t the only businesses that these holy men dabble in. Here are some stranger things you can acquire from them.

A woman using an outhouse in Alaska got more than she bargained for when a black bear bit her backside.

Wondering how to profit off your impressive collection of belly button lint? Looking to avoid big cats while exploring the Amazon? The world of perfume has the answers.

Street harassment is no laughing matter. Unwanted touching is gross and intimidating. But we promise not to judge if you chuckle, just a little, at the following story.

The history of American newspapers is a vibrant one, and the publications that fill it have had some pretty colorful names to match.

On a cart in Anna Dhody’s office sits a small, innocuous box marked “caramel Danish rolls.” Open it up, though, and you won’t find a pastry; instead, there’s a human skull nestled inside. Nearby, there’s another cardboard box—this one labeled “brain slice

These parks might not be the happiest places on earth, they just might be some of the weirdest.

Employees had to work at the same time and wear the same outfit, and if one called out sick, the other twin was forced to take the day off.

Since the late 1980s, Purdue University has invited students to make Rube Goldberg machines accomplishing simple tasks in absurdly complex ways.

You know the saying: "Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door." But improving on the mousetrap is tough—just ask Joseph Barad and Edward Markoff. Their attempt, "Device Employed for Exterminating Rats, Mice and Other Animals,

All it took to locate the bones of Richard III was 500 years, a psychic vision, and a grassroots movement.