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Stuff that's here

American archaeology
Astronomical anomalies
Medical monstrosities
Psychedelic biology
And anything of a weird and whimsical typology

Stuff that isn't

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Exhibits: 500 pages and counting!

Title	Description
Action Park	So good people died.
AeroVironment Nano Hummingbird	Tiny spy drone engineered to mimic a real hummingbird in flight.
Aiolornis	Extinct giant condor-like bird from the Pleistocene of North America.
Alagoas curassow	Extinct Brazilian bird; last seen in the wild in 1984.
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Lake	My kind of lake.
Alex (parrot)	African grey parrot who learned to count, identify colors, and ask questions.
Ambrosia salad	American idea of a salad.
Ammonia cookie	Scandinavian cookie leavened with ammonium carbonate instead of baking soda.
Amorphous globosus	Ball is life.
Amphicar	1960s amphibious car that could drive directly into water.
Amanita phalloides	Might make your tummy a little funny. :(
Ancestral Puebloans	Ancient Southwest culture who built the famous cliff dwellings.
Anchorage White Raven	Rare leucistic white raven observed in Anchorage, Alaska.
Andrew Johnson's drunk vice-presidential inaugural address	Andrew Johnson delivered his 1865 inaugural speech visibly intoxicated.
Angel Mounds	Mississippian culture mound complex in southern Indiana.
Animal-made art	Artwork created by non-human animals, from apes to elephants.
Anophthalmus hitleri	Blind Slovenian cave beetle named after Hitler in 1933; now poached by collectors.
Ants on a log	Children's snack of celery, peanut butter, and raisins.
Anzick-1	Oldest known human remains in North America, ~12,600 years old.
Aplastodiscus callipygius	DOODOOFART
Aplastodiscus leucopygius	DOODOOFART
Arbitration Rock	Rock in Maine that once marked a disputed colonial-era boundary.
Archaic period in North America	Prehistoric era following Paleo-Indian cultures, roughly 8000–1000 BCE.
Archaic period in the Americas	Broad pre-agricultural period across the Western Hemisphere.
Argentavis	Largest flying bird ever known; wingspan up to 7 meters.
Arlington Springs Man	11,000-year-old human remains found on California's Channel Islands.
Armillaria gallica	DOODOOFART
Aroma of Tacoma	The smelly smell that smells smelly.
Arrests of Ulysses S. Grant	Too much horsepower.
Art of the Upper Paleolithic	DOODOOFART
Artist's Shit	1961 artwork by Piero Manzoni: 90 numbered cans of his own feces.
Atari video game burial	Atari dumped millions of unsold E.T. cartridges in a New Mexico landfill.
Atitlan grebe	Flightless Guatemalan lake grebe; extinct since 1989.
Atlantic ghost crab	Fast semi-terrestrial crab that haunts Atlantic beaches at night.
Attention economy	Theory treating human attention as a scarce and commercially valuable resource.
Aucilla River	Florida river with significant submerged Paleo-Indian archaeological sites.
Bachman's warbler	Possibly extinct small American warbler; last confirmed sighting was 1988.
Baseball metaphors for sex	How baseball terminology became American sexual euphemism.
Basic English	Simplified 850-word English subset proposed by C.K. Ogden in the 1930s.
Beck's tree frog	DOODOOFART
Bee hummingbird	World's smallest bird, found only in Cuba.
Beelzebufo	DOODOOFART
Bethel School District v. Fraser	1986 Supreme Court case limiting lewd student speech at school events.
Better than sex cake	Rich American dessert cake with a provocative name.
Big Ass Lake	A lake in Ontario whose name is exactly what it sounds like.
Big Blue Bug	Giant fiberglass termite sculpture atop a pest control building in Providence, RI.
Biotic Baking Brigade	Activist group famous for pie-facing politicians and corporate executives.
Birchbark biting	Indigenous art form of biting intricate designs into folded birchbark.
Black Mesa (Oklahoma)	Oklahoma's highest point, located in the remote panhandle.
Blue-chinned sapphire	Small iridescent hummingbird from South America.
Bluefish Caves	Yukon caves containing evidence of humans around 24,000 years ago.
Boll Weevil Monument	Alabama monument celebrating the pest that ironically forced beneficial crop diversification.
Booming Ben	Last known male heath hen; died alone on Martha's Vineyard in 1932.
Bouba/kiki effect	People universally associate rounded shapes with 'bouba' and spiky shapes with 'kiki.'
Brand site	Paleo-Indian archaeological site in Arkansas.
Branchinecta brushi	DOODOOFART
Brown Mountain lights	Mysterious unexplained lights seen repeatedly over North Carolina's Brown Mountain.
Bubbly Creek	Chicago river branch still off-gassing from century-old meatpacking waste.
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo	A grammatically correct eight-word English sentence using only the word 'buffalo.'
Buhl Woman	Roughly 10,700-year-old female skeleton found in southern Idaho.
Bull Brook site	Paleo-Indian site in Massachusetts with Clovis-like tools.
Bullfrog County, Nevada	Short-lived Nevada county created and abolished in 1987.
Burgess Shale	DOODOOFART
Burning Tree Mastodon	Ohio mastodon skeleton with possible evidence of human butchering.
Buttermilk Creek Complex	Texas site with stone tools potentially predating Clovis culture.
Cactus Hill	Virginia site with possible pre-Clovis human occupation around 18,000 years ago.
Cahokia	Largest pre-Columbian city north of Mexico, near present-day St. Louis.
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site	UNESCO World Heritage Site preserving the earthworks of ancient Cahokia.
Calamitaceae	DOODOOFART
California condor	Nearly extinct giant vulture; saved from the brink by captive breeding.
Calinaga buddha	Large Indian butterfly that is the sole member of its subfamily.
Caloscypha	DOODOOFART
Candy Desk	U.S. Senate desk stocked with candy for colleagues since 1968.
Cannabis culture	Subculture and social practices surrounding cannabis use worldwide.
Capitol Hill mystery soda machine	Seattle vending machine dispensing rare sodas with no known owner.
Carolina parakeet	The only native US parrot; extinct since 1918.
Carnivorous fungus	DOODOOFART
Carrikeri Harlequin Frog	DOODOOFART
Casey, Illinois	Small Illinois town famous for a collection of record-breaking oversized objects.
Category: Abandoned shopping carts	Wikimedia collection of photographs of abandoned shopping carts.
Category: Cannabis-related lists	Wikipedia category aggregating cannabis-related list articles.
Category: Damaged computer hardware	Wikimedia collection of photographs of broken computer equipment.
Category: Dogs wearing paper party hats	Wikimedia collection of dogs wearing paper party hats.
Category: Dogs with hats	Wikimedia collection of dogs wearing various hats.
Category: Heads with legs	Wikimedia category for images depicting disembodied heads with legs.
Category: Logitech MX5000	Wikimedia category for photos of the Logitech MX5000 keyboard and mouse.
Category: Low quality images of dogs	Wikimedia category for blurry, poorly lit, or otherwise bad dog photos.
Celebes warty pig	Wild pig species endemic to Sulawesi, notable for its prominent facial warts.
Cenote	Natural sinkhole pool formed in limestone, sacred to the ancient Maya.
Centralia mine fire	Underground coal fire in Pennsylvania that has been burning since 1962.
Challenger (eagle)	Trained bald eagle famous for flying freely during the national anthem.
Cherokee Sewer Site	Archaic period archaeological site in Iowa.
Chicago rat hole	Viral Chicago sidewalk impression of a perfectly flattened rat.
Chicken Bristle, Illinois	A small community in Illinois with a memorable name.
Chicken hypnotism	Technique for inducing a trance-like state in chickens.
Chorioactis	DOODOOFART
Chris Stoll	NFL long snapper for the Seattle Seahawks, won Super Bowl LX.
Christmas pickle	Tradition of hiding a glass pickle ornament on the Christmas tree.
Chrysolina cerealis	Brilliantly rainbow-iridescent leaf beetle.
Chumbox	Grid of lurid clickbait advertisements at the bottom of web pages.
Cladoxylopsid	DOODOOFART
Clement Vallandigham	Now I'm returning to work without washing my hands, but it doesn't matter, because I'm Tom My-
~~Cloud Gate~~ The Bean	Reflective bean-shaped sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park.
Clovis culture	Earliest well-documented Paleo-Indian culture in the Americas.
Clovis First hypothesis	Once-dominant theory that Clovis people were the first Americans.
Codex Seraphinianus	Surreal illustrated encyclopedia written entirely in an invented script.
Colon (beetle)	Genus of tiny carrion beetles with an unfortunate name.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously	Noam Chomsky's example of a sentence that's grammatically correct but meaningless.
Comfort behaviour in animals	Grooming, stretching, and other self-maintenance behaviors in animals.
Comfort noise	Artificial background hiss added to silent phone calls so they don't seem dead.
Conidiosporomyces	DOODOOFART
Confused flour beetle	Common grain pest beetle with an endearingly confused name.
Cookie (cockatoo)	Major Mitchell's cockatoo at Brookfield Zoo who lived to at least 83 years.
Cooksonia	DOODOOFART
Cooper's Ferry site	Idaho site with evidence of humans around 16,000 years ago.
Coprophilous fungi	DOODOOFART
Corn Belt	Midwestern US region dominated by corn and soybean agriculture.
Corn ethanol	Ethanol fuel produced from corn, widely used as a gasoline additive.
Corn smut	Fungal disease that disfigures corn; prized as a delicacy in Mexico.
Corn wet-milling	Industrial process separating corn into starch, oil, and other components.
Coronal rain	Plasma falling back to the sun's surface along magnetic field lines.
Corpus callosotomy	Brain surgery severing the corpus callosum to reduce severe epilepsy.
Cosmic latte	The official average color of the universe, a beige-white hue.
Cotylorhynchus	DOODOOFART
Crash at Crush	1896 Texas promotional staged train collision spectacle that turned deadly.
Creamed corn	Corn kernels cooked in a thick, creamy sauce.
Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary	DOODOOFART
Crowned woodnymph	Dazzling iridescent hummingbird from Central and South America.
Cruller	Twisted fried dough pastry, a doughnut-shop classic.
Cuckoo wasp	Brilliantly iridescent parasitic wasp that lays eggs in other wasps' nests.
Cumming Township, Michigan	Michigan township whose name consistently raises eyebrows.
Cumming, Georgia	Georgia city whose name is a perennial source of amusement.
Cumming, Iowa	Small Iowa town with an eyebrow-raising name.
Curculionidae	Weevils; the largest family of beetles on Earth, with 80,000+ species.
Cuyahoga River	Ohio river that famously caught fire multiple times due to industrial pollution.
Cyanobacteria	DOODOOFART
Cycloidal marks	Grooves on cave walls possibly made by Neanderthals.
Cyclida	DOODOOFART
Dagwood sandwich	Enormous multi-layered sandwich named after Blondie comic strip character Dagwood Bumstead.
Dallol (hydrothermal system)	Otherworldly hydrothermal field in Ethiopia; one of the hottest inhabited places on Earth.
Danger Cave	Utah cave with nearly 11,000 years of continuous human occupation.
Darwin's bark spider	DOODOOFART
Dean scream	Howard Dean's 2004 Iowa caucus scream that derailed his presidential campaign.
Dear enemy effect	Animals are less aggressive toward familiar rivals than toward strangers.
Deep-fried butter	Exactly what it sounds like; a staple of US state fair cuisine.
Deep-fried Oreo	Oreos coated in batter and deep fried; a beloved American fair food.
Demon core	Plutonium sphere that was involved in two separate fatal criticality accidents.
Dendropsophus phlebodes	DOODOOFART
Dent Site	Colorado site where Clovis points were found with mammoth remains.
Depression cake	Eggless, butterless cake invented during the Great Depression out of necessity.
Desert of Maine	Small sandy desert in Maine created by agricultural overuse of topsoil.
Digesting Duck	18th-century automaton that convincingly appeared to eat and digest food.
Dikerogammarus villosus	DOODOOFART
Dildo, Newfoundland and Labrador	Canadian town that has stubbornly and proudly kept its name.
Djungelskog (bacteriophage)	A bacteriophage named after the famous IKEA stuffed bear.
Dreamachine	Stroboscopic light device by Brion Gysin designed to induce closed-eye hallucinations.
Driftless Area	Unglaciated region of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois with unusual terrain.
Duck test	If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck.
Dusky seaside sparrow	Florida sparrow that went extinct in 1987; the last individual was male.
Dust Cave	Alabama cave with roughly 10,500 years of continuous human habitation.
Ecnomiohyla rabborum	DOODOOFART
Edith Rosenbaum	Titanic survivor who used her musical toy to calm children in a lifeboat.
Eggcorn	A misheard word that has been replaced with something that still makes sense.
Eggnog riot	A drunken brawl among West Point cadets on Christmas Eve 1826.
Eisenhower Tree	The pine tree at Augusta National that famously bedeviled Eisenhower's golf game.
Elmer McCurdy	Outlaw whose mummified corpse toured carnivals for decades after his death.
Emily (cow)	Cow who escaped a slaughterhouse and became a local celebrity in Massachusetts.
Empire (1965 film)	Andy Warhol film of the Empire State Building, unedited, for eight hours.
Enchanted Rock	Massive pink granite dome in the Texas Hill Country.
Entoloma austroprunicolor	DOODOOFART
Epicuticular wax	DOODOOFART
Equisetidae	DOODOOFART
Erotic art in Pompeii and Herculaneum	DOODOOFART
Erotic target location error	DOODOOFART
Erotylidae	Colorful pleasing fungus beetles; many are vividly patterned.
Etowah Indian Mounds	Major Mississippian mound complex in northern Georgia.
Eucalyptus deglupta	Rainbow eucalyptus with extraordinarily vivid multicolored bark.
Euprenolepis procera	DOODOOFART
Extremes on Earth	Records for the hottest, coldest, wettest, and driest places on Earth.
Face inversion effect	Upside-down faces are dramatically harder to recognize than upright ones.
Fairy shrimp	DOODOOFART
Fecalith	Hardened stool that can block the bowel or cause appendicitis.
Fermi paradox	If alien life is probable, why have we found absolutely no evidence of it?
Fiery-throated hummingbird	Costa Rican hummingbird with a spectacularly iridescent throat.
Finger of God Globule	Dense dark nebula in Carina shaped uncannily like a pointing finger.
Fingerville, South Carolina	Small South Carolina town with a name that makes people look twice.
Fish Head Nebula	Emission nebula in Auriga that resembles a fish head.
Flag of Missoula, Montana	Missoula's city flag, changed to protest the ban of pride flags at government buildings.
Flatidae	Family of planthoppers, some of which produce decorative waxy white filaments.
Folsom site	New Mexico site that proved humans coexisted with now-extinct giant bison.
Folsom tradition	Paleo-Indian culture known for its distinctive fluted Folsom projectile points.
Fool's Gold Loaf	Elvis's favorite sandwich: a hollowed loaf filled with peanut butter, jam, and bacon.
Fordite	Layered automotive paint deposits collected from old car factory floors; now jewelry.
Fort Laramie Three-Mile Hog Ranch	DOODOOFART
Fort Rock Cave	Oregon cave with 9,000-year-old sandals and other early human evidence.
A Free Ride	DOODOOFART
Friendly Floatees spill	28,000 rubber bath toys spilled in 1992 and tracked ocean currents for decades.
Frozen Dead Guy Days	Annual Colorado festival celebrating a Norwegian man whose body is kept in a backyard shed.
Fujita scale	Scale for classifying tornado intensity from F0 to F5.
Funeral potatoes	Cheesy potato casserole traditional at Mormon post-funeral gatherings.
Funerary art in Puritan New England	The skull-and-crossbones gravestone imagery of early American Puritans.
Galerina sulciceps	DOODOOFART
Gall wasp	Small wasp whose larvae induce abnormal plant growths called galls.
Garden-path sentence	A sentence that initially leads the reader toward a false grammatical interpretation.
Gastrotheca cornuta	DOODOOFART
Geastrales	DOODOOFART
Gene Cernan	The last human to walk on the Moon, during Apollo 17 in December 1972.
Geograpsus severnsi	DOODOOFART
Gertie the Duck	A Milwaukee duck who nested on a busy bridge and became a beloved city mascot.
Ghoti	George Bernard Shaw's joke that 'ghoti' could logically be pronounced 'fish.'
Giraffe weevil	Madagascan weevil whose males have a comically elongated neck.
Glass frog	Transparent-bellied frog through whose skin you can see its organs.
Glaucus atlanticus	Blue sea slug that floats upside-down on the ocean surface, eating man o' wars.
Globster	An unidentified decomposing organic mass that washes up on a shoreline.
Goat tower	A tower built specifically for goats to climb, popular in South Africa.
Goniobranchus reticulatus	DOODOOFART
Graham Cave	Missouri cave with around 10,000 years of human occupation.
Grain entrapment	A deadly hazard where people become buried and suffocate inside grain bins.
Gravity hill	A road that creates an optical illusion of objects rolling uphill.
Great auk	Large flightless North Atlantic seabird; hunted to extinction by 1844.
Great Michigan Pizza Funeral	A 1989 Michigan stunt 'burying' a Chicago deep-dish pizza.
Great Molasses Flood	A 1919 Boston disaster where a tank burst and flooded streets with hot molasses.
Greeble (psychology)	Fictional alien creatures used to study how humans recognize novel faces.
Grey go-away-bird	African bird named for its distinctive, nagging 'go away' call.
Guadalupe caracara	Bird of prey from Mexico's Guadalupe Island, wiped out in the early 1900s.
Gurdon Light	An unexplained floating light seen near Gurdon, Arkansas for generations.
Hadean zircon	The oldest known mineral on Earth, approximately 4.4 billion years old.
Haikouichthys	DOODOOFART
Hallucinogenic fish	Certain fish species that cause vivid hallucinations if eaten.
Hamburgevons	Sum bullshit.
Hawaiian crow	Highly intelligent Hawaiian crow; extinct in the wild but being reintroduced.
He-Man as a gay icon	How He-Man's exaggerated aesthetic was embraced by gay culture.
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump	Alberta cliff used for thousands of years to drive bison to their deaths.
Heath hen	Eastern US grouse subspecies, extinct since 1932 on Martha's Vineyard.
Hell Gap complex	Paleo-Indian culture that followed the Folsom tradition on the Great Plains.
Hell, Michigan	Small Michigan town that enthusiastically leans into its infernal name.
Henrietta Lacks	Woman whose cancer cells were taken without consent and became the immortal HeLa line.
Himalayan monal	Brilliantly iridescent pheasant and the national bird of Nepal.
Hirundo Site	Paleo-Indian and Archaic period archaeological site in Maine.
History of cheesemaking in Wisconsin	How Wisconsin became America's premier cheese-producing state.
History of the hamburger in the United States	The disputed and contentious origins of the American hamburger.
Hoba meteorite	The largest known meteorite on Earth, still lying where it landed in Namibia.
Hog maw	Pig stomach, a traditional dish in Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine.
Hogup Cave	Utah cave with over 8,000 years of human occupation evidence.
Hohokam	Ancient farming culture of the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona.
Holcombe Site	Late Paleo-Indian archaeological site in Michigan.
Hooded pitohui	First documented poisonous bird; its feathers contain a powerful neurotoxin.
Horner site	Paleo-Indian bison kill and butchering site in Wyoming.
Horneytown, North Carolina	A North Carolina community innocently named after an early settler named Horney.
Horsehead Nebula	Famous dark nebula in Orion shaped unmistakably like a horse's head.
Horsey Horseless	Early automobile accessory: a fake horse head to avoid spooking real horses.
Hot mic	An open microphone accidentally broadcasting what was meant to be private.
Hot, dust-obscured galaxy	An extremely luminous galaxy shrouded in thick dust.
Hudson-Meng Bison Kill	Nebraska site where roughly 600 ancient bison were killed by Paleo-Indians.
Human bonding	The process of developing close emotional connections between people.
Human mail	Historical instances of people successfully mailing themselves.
Hundeprutterutchebane	Dog fart, the ride.
Hyalella azteca	DOODOOFART
Hydnellum peckii	Fungus that oozes blood-red droplets; known as the bleeding tooth fungus.
Hydriomena? protrita	DOODOOFART
Hygrophorus agathosmus	DOODOOFART
Hypomeces pulviger	A metallic gold-green weevil from Southeast Asia.
Hypomyces chrysospermus	DOODOOFART
Idioms in American Sign Language	Fixed ASL expressions that don't translate word-for-word.
Imperial woodpecker	The world's largest woodpecker; almost certainly extinct since the 1950s.
Indian Knoll	Kentucky Archaic period shell mound with hundreds of burials.
Indicator species	DOODOOFART
Information asymmetry	Situation where one party in a transaction has more information than the other.
Intercourse, Pennsylvania	Pennsylvania Dutch community whose name has caused amusement for centuries.
Island Field Site	Delaware Woodland period burial site.
Ivory-billed woodpecker	Possibly extinct large US woodpecker; contested sightings continue to this day.
Jacaranda	DOODOOFART
Jan Smit (paleontologist)	Dutch geologist who helped confirm the asteroid impact caused the mass extinction.
Jeep ducking	Tradition of Jeep owners leaving rubber ducks on strangers' Jeeps.
Jimmy (raven)	A famous pet raven kept at the Tower of London.
Jimmy Carter Peanut Statue	Giant fiberglass peanut statue in Plains, Georgia, honoring President Carter.
Katherine McHale Slaughterback	1925 Kansas woman who killed a rattlesnake with a hammer and became locally famous.
Kaua'i 'akialoa	Extinct Hawaiian honeycreeper with a very long curved bill.
Kaua'i 'ō'ō	Extinct Hawaiian bird; the last recording of its song dates to 1987.
Kennewick Man	9,000-year-old human remains found in Washington State, subject of legal battles.
Kentucky meat shower	An 1876 Kentucky event where chunks of raw meat fell from a clear sky.
Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum	DOODOOFART
Kindlifresserbrunnen	16th-century Bern fountain featuring a figure casually eating a basket of children.
Koster Site	Illinois site revealing 7,000 years of continuous Native American habitation.
La Brea Tar Pits	Los Angeles tar seeps that preserved thousands of Ice Age animal remains.
Labia minora	The inner folds of skin of the vulva.
Labor Inducer (hamburger)	A spicy New Mexico hamburger said to induce labor in pregnant women.
Labrador duck	North American diving duck; extinct around 1878, reasons still unclear.
Lactarius indigo	DOODOOFART
Laetiporus sulphureus	DOODOOFART
Late Pleistocene extinctions	DOODOOFART
Lavarand	DOODOOFART
Laser Kiwi flag	Humorous New Zealand flag proposal featuring a kiwi firing lasers from its eyes.
Laws of holes	The first rule of holes: if you're in one, stop digging.
Laysan duck	Critically endangered Hawaiian duck reduced to under 100 individuals.
Laysan rail	Extinct flightless Hawaiian rail that died out around 1944.
Lazarus taxon	DOODOOFART
Lehmann's poison frog	DOODOOFART
Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site	Arizona site where Clovis hunters killed and butchered mammoths.
Lepidodendron	DOODOOFART
Leptocleidus	DOODOOFART
Lesser violetear	Small South American hummingbird with a violet ear patch.
LGBTQ slogans	DOODOOFART
LGBTQ symbols	DOODOOFART
Ligia exotica	A common isopod (sea slater) found on rocky shorelines worldwide.
Lilac-breasted roller	Brilliantly multicolored African bird and the national symbol of Kenya.
Lindenmeier site	Rich Colorado Folsom culture site with a large assemblage of artifacts.
List of Alaska tornadoes	Documented tornadoes in Alaska, which has had a surprising number of them.
List of bioluminescent fungi	DOODOOFART
List of birds of Illinois	A comprehensive list of all bird species recorded in Illinois.
List of cognitive biases	A comprehensive catalog of systematic errors in human thinking.
List of colors (alphabetical)	Alphabetical listing of named colors, each with hex codes.
List of computer term etymologies	Origins of terms like 'bug,' 'spam,' 'byte,' and 'mouse.'
List of English-language placeholder names for people	Names like 'John Doe' and 'Jane Smith' used as generic stand-ins.
List of extinct dog breeds	DOODOOFART
List of extraterrestrial volcanoes	DOODOOFART
List of F5, EF5, and IF5 tornadoes	All documented tornadoes that reached the highest intensity rating.
List of fish named after animals	Fish named after other animals, like lionfish, catfish, and cowfish.
List of fungi by conservation status	DOODOOFART
List of Hubble Space Telescope anniversary images	Special images released each year to mark Hubble's launch anniversary.
List of LGBTQ-related observances	DOODOOFART
List of LGBTQ acronyms	DOODOOFART
List of natural satellites	All known moons orbiting planets and dwarf planets in the solar system.
List of optical illusions	A comprehensive catalog of visual perception tricks and illusions.
List of people who descended to Challenger Deep	DOODOOFART
List of pigeon breeds	All domestic and fancy pigeon breeds developed by humans.
List of pizza varieties by country	How different countries have adapted and invented their own styles of pizza.
List of poisonous mushroom species	DOODOOFART
List of psilocybin mushroom species	All known species of psychedelic mushrooms worldwide.
List of reported UFO sightings	Documented UFO sightings throughout recorded history.
List of U.S. state dinosaurs	The official dinosaur designated by each US state.
List of U.S. state mushrooms	The official fungi designated by individual US states.
List of U.S. state soils	The official soil type designated by each US state.
List of volcanoes in the United States	DOODOOFART
Little penguin	The world's smallest penguin species, found in Australia and New Zealand.
Long Dick Creek	A creek in the United States that has retained a memorable name.
Los Angeles fetus disposal scandal	DOODOOFART
Loving County, Texas	The least populated county in the entire United States.
Lubbock Lake Landmark	Texas site with 12,000 years of continuous human occupation evidence.
Lunar pareidolia	The human tendency to see faces and figures in the Moon's surface.
Lunar regolith	The loose layer of rock and dust blanketing the Moon's surface.
Luther Burger	A hamburger served inside a Krispy Kreme doughnut bun.
Lycoperdon echinatum	DOODOOFART
Lycophyte	DOODOOFART
Lyrebird	Australian bird that can flawlessly mimic chainsaws, camera shutters, and more.
Macquarium	An aquarium built inside the shell of a gutted vintage Macintosh computer.
Manis Mastodon Site	Washington State site with a bone point embedded in a mastodon rib.
Mantis shrimp	Crustacean that can see 16 color receptors and punch with bullet-like force.
Maratus volans	Peacock spider with a vivid iridescent abdomen used in elaborate courtship displays.
Marfa lights	Mysterious unexplained lights that have been observed near Marfa, Texas.
Martha (passenger pigeon)	The last known passenger pigeon; she died at Cincinnati Zoo in 1914.
Marzipan pig	Marzipan candy shaped like a pig, traditional in Germany for New Year's.
Matilda (chicken)	A hen who became the first chicken ever to appear on the cover of Time magazine.
Maui 'alauahio	A critically endangered Hawaiian honeycreeper.
Maui nukupu'u	A likely extinct Hawaiian honeycreeper with a distinctively curved bill.
Meadowcroft Rockshelter	Pennsylvania site with possible human presence around 16,000 years ago.
Medusa Nebula	A planetary nebula with wispy filaments resembling Medusa's serpentine hair.
Mercedes-Benz Bionic	A 2005 concept car designed around the hydrodynamic shape of a boxfish.
Mescaline	A psychedelic compound found in peyote and other cacti.
Methuselah (pine tree)	DOODOOFART
Micronecta scholtzi	DOODOOFART
Military chocolate (United States)	The famously terrible D ration bar, designed specifically not to taste too good.
Mississippian culture	Major pre-Columbian civilization known for building large earthen mounds.
Modoc Rock Shelter	Illinois rockshelter with roughly 10,000 years of Archaic period occupation.
Monte Verde	Chilean site with evidence of human presence around 14,500 years ago.
Monty and Rose	A pair of endangered plovers who famously nested in Chicago's Millennium Park.
Mooning of Amtrak	An annual California tradition of mooning a passing Amtrak train.
Moons of Saturn	Saturn has at least 146 known moons, more than any other planet.
Moundville Archaeological Site	Alabama Mississippian mound city, second in size only to Cahokia.
Mount Edgecumbe (Alaska)	Dormant Alaskan volcano; pranksters once filled the summit crater with burning tires.
Mountain, West Virginia	A small West Virginia community with a straightforwardly geographical name.
Moustached tinkerbird	Small African barbet named for its distinctive moustache-like facial marking.
Murray Springs Clovis Site	Arizona site with Clovis tools found alongside mammoth and horse remains.
Museum of Bad Art	Massachusetts museum dedicated to celebrating spectacularly bad artwork.
Mushroom dye	DOODOOFART
Mycena haematopus	DOODOOFART
Naco Mammoth Kill Site	Arizona site where Clovis people killed a mammoth.
Naia (skeleton)	A 12,000-year-old teenage girl's skeleton found in a submerged Mexican cave.
National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation	The annual White House ceremony where the president pardons a turkey.
Neoglyphea	DOODOOFART
New England vampire panic	19th-century belief in New England that tuberculosis was caused by the undead.
Nicobar pigeon	Brilliantly iridescent pigeon and the closest living relative of the dodo.
Nikigator	An alligator that lived in a New York City pet store for many decades.
None Pizza with Left Beef	An internet-famous pizza ordered with deliberately absurd instructions.
Norfolk Southern–Gregson Street Overpass	Durham, NC overpass that has destroyed dozens of trucks that were too tall.
Normal, Illinois	A perfectly normal city in central Illinois.
Nothing, Arizona	A tiny Arizona community whose residents eventually voted to dissolve the town.
Nuclear reactor accidents in the United States	History of US nuclear incidents from SL-1 to Three Mile Island.
Nucular	A common mispronunciation of 'nuclear,' used by several US presidents.
O'ahu 'akialoa	Extinct Hawaiian honeycreeper last recorded in the 19th century.
Oilbird	South American cave bird that navigates entirely by echolocation like a bat.
Old Man of the Lake	A large tree stump that has been floating upright in Crater Lake for over a century.
Omphalotus olearius	Bioluminescent jack-o'-lantern mushroom that glows faintly in the dark.
Operation Auca	1956 missionary trip to Ecuador where five men were killed by the Huaorani.
Operators and Things	A 1958 memoir written by a schizophrenia patient about her own psychosis.
Overview effect	The cognitive and emotional shift astronauts report upon seeing Earth from space.
Owl limpet	DOODOOFART
Pacu	South American fish with teeth that are disturbingly similar to human molars.
Page-Ladson site	Florida underwater site with mastodon bones and tools dating to ~14,500 years ago.
Paisley Caves	Oregon caves containing human coprolites dating to around 14,300 years ago.
Paleobotany	DOODOOFART
Pando (tree)	DOODOOFART
Pancho Claus	Houston's beloved Mexican-American Santa Claus tradition, active since the 1980s.
Paradise tanager	A spectacularly multicolored South American tanager.
Paragyromitra infula	DOODOOFART
Pareidolia	The tendency to perceive meaningful images — especially faces — in random patterns.
Passenger pigeon	Once the most numerous bird in North America; extinct since 1914.
Passive rewilding	Allowing land to naturally revert to wilderness with minimal human intervention.
Pee Pee Township, Ohio	Ohio township named after a settler whose initials happened to be P.P.
Peopling of the Americas	The ongoing debate over when and how humans first arrived in the Americas.
Permian–Triassic extinction event	DOODOOFART
Photonic crystal	A nanostructure that controls light via periodic variations in refractive index.
Pig War (1859)	A US-British diplomatic standoff triggered entirely by the shooting of one pig.
Pillars of Creation	Iconic Hubble image of towering gas and dust columns in the Eagle Nebula.
Pinson Mounds	Tennessee complex of about 30 Native American burial mounds.
Piss Christ	Andres Serrano's 1987 photograph of a crucifix submerged in the artist's urine.
Plains Indian Sign Language	A gestural communication system used across many Great Plains cultures.
Plop art	Derogatory term for large public sculptures installed without community input.
Po'ouli	An extremely rare Hawaiian honeycreeper; effectively extinct since 2004.
Poison Book Project	A project to identify Victorian-era books bound with arsenic-laced green dye.
Poll (parrot)	First known avian shitposter.
Polytolypa	DOODOOFART
Poozeum	An online museum dedicated entirely to fossilized animal feces.
Poverty Point	A 3,500-year-old Louisiana earthwork complex and UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Prawn Nebula	A large emission nebula in the Scorpius-Centaurus region.
Pre-Columbian era	All of American history before Columbus arrived in 1492.
Prohibition in the United States	The constitutional ban on alcohol that lasted from 1920 to 1933.
Prometheus (tree)	DOODOOFART
Prototaxites	DOODOOFART
Pseudocolus fusiformis	DOODOOFART
Pseudophilautus hypomelas	DOODOOFART
Psychedelic replication	Attempts to recreate or simulate the visual effects of psychedelics.
Purple-throated carib	A large Caribbean hummingbird with a vivid iridescent purple throat.
Quad site	A Paleo-Indian archaeological site in Alabama.
Rachischisis	A severe birth defect in which the spinal canal is left open and exposed.
Radiotrophic fungus	Fungi discovered in Chernobyl that use ionizing radiation as an energy source.
Rainbow bee-eater	A brilliantly colored Australian bird that catches insects in mid-flight.
Republic of Molossia	A tiny micronation in the Nevada desert, run by a self-declared president.
Richard Proenneke	A man who hand-built a cabin and lived alone in the Alaskan wilderness for 30 years.
Ring of Fire	DOODOOFART
Risk of astronomical suffering	DOODOOFART
Roanoke Colony	The early English settlement in Virginia that completely and mysteriously vanished.
RoboCop statue	The grassroots campaign to erect a statue of the fictional RoboCop in Detroit.
Rock Eagle	A large Georgia effigy mound shaped like a bird of prey.
Roopkund	A Himalayan glacial lake containing hundreds of ancient human skeletons.
Roy Sullivan	A US park ranger who was struck by lightning seven separate times and survived.
Rubber duck debugging	The programming practice of explaining your code aloud to an inanimate rubber duck.
Russula albidula	DOODOOFART
Russula fellea	DOODOOFART
Russula fragilis	DOODOOFART
Sailing stones	Rocks in Death Valley that mysteriously move across the desert floor on their own.
Salmacisia	DOODOOFART
Salton Sea	California's largest lake, created by an accident, and slowly evaporating.
Scary, West Virginia	A community in West Virginia with a wonderfully spooky name.
Scientific wild-ass guess	An informal term (SWAG) for a rough but somewhat educated estimate.
Scrimshaw	The art of carving or engraving intricate designs onto whale bone or ivory.
Scutelleridae	DOODOOFART
Semantic satiation	Repeating a word until it temporarily loses all meaning.
Sessility (motility)	DOODOOFART
Sh 2-113	An emission nebula in the Sharpless catalog of HII regions.
Simpulopsis rufovirens	DOODOOFART
Skeleton panda sea squirt	A sea squirt that looks remarkably like a tiny panda skeleton.
Slender-billed curlew	A critically endangered or extinct Eurasian shorebird.
Small sausage in large sausage	The culinary technique of stuffing one sausage inside another.
Smell rights	The legal and philosophical concept of protecting people from offensive odors.
Snow in Florida	A documentation of the surprisingly numerous occasions it has snowed in Florida.
Socorro dove	An extinct wild dove from Mexico's Socorro Island.
Socotra	Yemeni island with surreal dragon blood trees and extraordinarily unique wildlife.
Socratea exorrhiza	DOODOOFART
Solomon's paradox	People reason far more wisely about others' problems than about their own.
Solutrean hypothesis	Fringe theory that prehistoric Europeans reached North America before Asians.
Sonofabitch stew	A traditional cowboy stew made from freshly slaughtered animal offal.
Sorry Everybody	A post-2004 election website where Americans apologized to the rest of the world.
Sour cream doughnut	A denser, tangier doughnut made with sour cream in the batter.
Southern toad	DOODOOFART
Southwest Florida Eagle Cam – Harriet and Ozzie	A popular live webcam following a nesting bald eagle pair in Florida.
Spaghetti sandwich	A sandwich filled with spaghetti; a carb-on-carb regional staple.
Spaghettification	The process by which a black hole stretches an object into a thin strand of matter.
Spam musubi	A beloved Hawaiian snack of Spam on rice, wrapped in nori.
Spangled cotinga	A dazzlingly vivid blue and purple bird from the Amazon.
Sphaerocoris annulus	A colorful African stink bug with bold geometric patterning.
Spirit Cave mummy	The mummified human remains found in Nevada's Spirit Cave.
Splendid fairywren	A small, intensely blue Australian wren.
Spongiforma	DOODOOFART
Stallings Island	Georgia Archaic site associated with some of the earliest pottery in North America.
Starving Time	The brutal winter of 1609–1610 during which most Jamestown colonists starved.
Stoned ape theory	Terence McKenna's theory that psilocybin mushrooms catalyzed human brain evolution.
Stromatolite	DOODOOFART
Stupid Lake	A lake in Canada that has been named, very aptly, Stupid Lake.
Suillus tomentosus	DOODOOFART
SunWatch Indian Village	A reconstructed Fort Ancient culture village in Dayton, Ohio.
Swan Point Archaeological Site	An Alaskan site with evidence of some of the earliest humans in the region.
Swatch Internet Time	A 1998 Swatch proposal to replace all time zones with 1,000 '.beats' per day.
Take Me Home Huey	The story of a WWII helicopter that wandered for decades before coming home.
Talheim Death Pit	A Neolithic German mass grave of 34 people, evidence of prehistoric massacre.
Telmatobius culeus	A huge aquatic Andean frog that breathes entirely through its wrinkled skin.
Teratoma	A tumor that can contain fully formed tissues including teeth, hair, and muscle.
Teratornis	An extinct giant condor-like bird of prey from Pleistocene North America.
Testicle Festival	An annual Montana festival where attendees eat deep-fried bull testicles.
The Anacreontic Song	The old British drinking song whose melody became the US national anthem.
Theloderma corticale	A Vietnamese mossy frog with remarkable bark-like camouflage.
Thick-billed parrot	Mexico's only wild parrot; endangered and formerly present in the US.
Tim Sullivan (writer)	American science fiction and horror author.
Timeline of first images of Earth from space	A history of the first photographs taken of Earth from outside the atmosphere.
Timeline of the George W. Bush presidency (2002)	A year-by-year record of the Bush administration's events in 2002.
Tit (bird)	A family of small insectivorous birds whose name reliably causes giggling.
Tlapacoya	Mexican archaeological site with disputed evidence of very early human presence.
Toadsuck, Texas	A Texas community with a name that absolutely cannot be forgotten.
Tom Cruise Purple	A shade of purple that emerged from a Jeopardy! answer involving Tom Cruise.
Tomato effect	The rejection of an effective treatment because it contradicts prevailing beliefs.
Topper (archaeological site)	South Carolina site with possible pre-Clovis human occupation.
Tremella mesenterica	DOODOOFART
Treulose Tomate	A German idiom meaning an untrustworthy person; literally 'faithless tomato.'
Trinity (nuclear test)	The world's first nuclear weapon detonation, in New Mexico, July 1945.
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico	New Mexico city that renamed itself after a TV game show in 1950.
Turaco	African bird with unique pigments found nowhere else in the animal kingdom.
2006 O'Hare International Airport UFO sighting	DOODOOFART
Underwater panthers	Powerful supernatural water creatures in Native American mythology.
United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins	Federal case over illegally imported shark fins, with a wonderfully specific title.
United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola	A 1911 federal case challenging the caffeine content in Coca-Cola.
United States v. One Book Called Ulysses	The 1933 ruling that James Joyce's Ulysses was not legally obscene.
United States v. One Tyrannosaurus Bataar Skeleton	Federal case to recover a smuggled Tyrannosaurus skeleton.
User: Nevit/Digital workshop	A Wikimedia user page showcasing digital art and 3D renders.
-ussy	French place name suffix that looks very rude in English.
Vail site	A Paleo-Indian camp and kill site in Maine.
Velma Wallis	Athabascan author of the traditional Alaskan survival story Two Old Women.
Ventana Cave	Arizona cave with over 11,000 years of continuous human occupation.
Violet cuckoo	A small, shimmering iridescent cuckoo from Southeast Asia.
Violet-backed starling	A brilliantly iridescent African starling.
Violet-green swallow	A small North American swallow with vivid violet and green plumage.
Violet-tailed sylph	A South American hummingbird with an extraordinarily long violet tail.
Waffle House Index	FEMA informally gauges disaster severity by whether Waffle Houses are open.
Wahoo	A large, fast-swimming predatory fish with an excellent name.
Waptia	DOODOOFART
Warren Cup	DOODOOFART
Water memory	DOODOOFART
Watson Brake	A Louisiana mound complex roughly 5,400 years old; among the oldest in North America.
Wenis	The informal term for the loose skin on the outside of the elbow.
Westerhout 51	A large and luminous HII region in the constellation Aquila.
White House horseshoe pit	The White House backyard horseshoe pit used by presidents since George H.W. Bush.
White Sands footprints	Human footprints in New Mexico dating to roughly 21,000–23,000 years ago.
White-tipped sicklebill	A hummingbird with an extremely curved bill adapted for heliconias.
Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan	J.G. Ballard's 1968 satirical pamphlet on politics and mass media sexuality.
Why, Arizona	A small Arizona town named 'Why' because it sits at a Y-shaped road junction.
Wikipedia talk: Thoric diff	A Wikipedia talk page edit that apparently became notable enough to link.
Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing	Wikipedia's guide to identifying and flagging AI-generated text.
Wilson Butte Cave	Idaho cave with possible human occupation around 15,000 years ago.
Winchester Mystery House	A San Jose mansion built continuously for 38 years, filled with architectural oddities.
Windover Archaeological Site	Florida site preserving 168 human brains from roughly 8,000 years ago.
Window film	Adhesive film applied to glass for privacy, UV blocking, or decoration.
Wisconsin butter fire	A 1991 fire at a Wisconsin facility storing over four million pounds of butter.
Wisdom (albatross)	A Laysan albatross who is the world's oldest known wild bird, over 70 years old.
Xylaria polymorpha	Fungus called dead man's fingers that looks exactly like decomposing human hands.
Zone of Death (Yellowstone)	A 14-square-mile Yellowstone zone where legal loopholes may make prosecution impossible.
Ängelholm UFO memorial	A Swedish memorial marking the claimed site of a 1946 UFO landing.