World’s Strangest

I’ve put a lot of miles on my car and my frequent flier card this year, tramping through villages in the South Pacific, abandoned buildings around California, the shorelines of toxic seas and junkyards littered with the carcasses of jetliners, among other places — all with my camera in tow. This is a rundown of [...]

Leonard Knight created by Salvation Mountain colorful Salvation Mountain is a colorful art installation covering much of a small hill north of Calipatria, California, near Slab City. It is made from adobe, straw, and thousands of gallons of paint. It was created by Leonard Knight to convey the message that “God Loves Everyone”. Mr. Knight refused [...]

Some of these are parodies, and some are for real — see if you can tell the difference! Cleveland Excerpts from this homemade ad were featured in Michael Moore’s new movie Capitalism: A Love Story. I like the “second attempt” more: Have a crappie time in Missouri Apparently, Missouri is the crappie fishing capitol of the world. At one point, [...]

I thought it was a mirage the first time I saw it. I was driving through the wastes of the Mojave desert, two hours from anywhere, when off in the shimmering distance appeared the silhouettes of a hundred parked jetliners. I pulled off and tried to get closer to them, but a mean-looking perimeter fence [...]