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      • Hoverboy: The Racist Superhero
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      • The Finishing Line: The Banned Public Information Film
      • Japanese Gas Attack Posters From 1938
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      • The Mechanics Of Racism: Mechanical Toy Catalog From 1882
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      • The Banned Kids Book That Never Existed: Space Oddity
      • Red Alert! Movies You May Not Know Where Based On Pulp Novels (Part 2)
      • How Things Have Changed: Ladybird's Peter & Jane Through The Years
      • Go Fuck Yourself! The Ultimate Time Travel Paradox In Science Fiction
      • The Fantastically Surreal World Of Roland Topor
      • Who Goes There? Movies You May Not Know Where Based On Pulp Novels (Part 1)
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      • Scanner: Head Exploding Punk Rock
      • WingMen: A New Hull Based Movie Production
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      • Beyond The Grave: A Supernatural Post-Apocalyptic Spaghetti Western Road Movie
      • For The Love Of B-Movies: Matt Loftus
      • Industrial Soundtrack For The Urban Decay
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      • The Mystery Of The Wold Newton Meteorite
      • One Hull Of A Story: The Kraken of Hull Museums
      • One Hull Of A Story: Priestman Oil Engine
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      • One Hull Of A Story: The History Of Chip Spice
    • Retro Gaming >
      • Will The Last Ninja Out, Please Close The Door?
      • Before GTA: The Blood, Guts & Gore Of Carmageddon
      • I Just Found It On The Hard Drive Honest! Weird Retro Porn Games
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      • Shadow Of The Comet: Spot The Famous Actors Faces
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      • Derelict Retro-Futurism In Former Yugoslavia
      • Scaling The Heights Of Outsider Art: Watts Towers
      • The Salton Sea & Slab City: Life Death & Hope In The Badlands
      • Tracking Down The Atomic Beast: Survival Town & Yucca Flats
      • Monroeville: Mall Of The Dead
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A Haven For Devil Dolls - The unassuming looking house in a leafy Kentucky suburb, that is home to the world's largest collection of creepy ventriloquists dummies.

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Derelict Retro-Futurism In Former Yugoslavia - Monolithic concrete monuments designed to celebrate the former Socialist Republic, now abandoned, and lost to history.

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Las Pozas: The Surrealist Xanadu Of Edward James - Deep in the rainforests of Mexico exists a bizarre towering surrealist sculpture garden built by an eccentric Englishman. 

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Monroeville: Mall Of The Dead - The biggest character in the cult zombie horror Dawn Of The Dead, the shopping mall, located just 10 miles east of Pittsburgh, PA.

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Scaling The Heights Of Outsider Art: Watts Towers - Built by hand, by an Italian construction worker over decades. The towers are a symbol of persistence and a single minded vision.

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The Mystery Of The Toynbee Tiles - The weird tiles with cryptic messages, that have appeared embedded in roads and pavements around the world since the 1980s.

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The Secret Nostalgic Seoul Of South Korea - The little eclectic toy museum buried away in the very heart of down-town Seoul.

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Top Ten Weird Places To Visit In The USA - A personal top ten of places past and present, that for one reason or another hold a weird fascination for me. What would you have on your list?

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Zoro Gardens Nudist Colony - Between 1935 and 1936, at an exposition in Balboa Park, San Diego, two side-show promoters created a controversial nudist colony as a visitor attraction.

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Bokor Hill Station: Holiday Resort, Torture Chamber & Movie Set - The story of the ghost town on a mountain top in Cambodia. Now lost to developers, but captured in the movie R-Point.

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From A Single Stone, A Postman Built An Ideal Palace - The visionary outsider artist and postman, Ferdinand Chavel, who spent 33 years building his ideal palace, Le Palais idéal in France.

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Love Land: The South Korean Sex Theme Park - On the island of Jeju off the peninsula of South Korea is a bizarre sculpture park, full of giant pastel coloured sculptures of people having sex.

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Santa Theme Park In California - Sat in the mountains of Southern California, Santa's Village was the first ever franchised theme park. Opened in 1955, a month before Disneyland.

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Shivering Sands Army Fort: The Pirate Radio City - In mid-60s Britain, pirate radio took to the seas. One radio station was established by eccentric shock rock singer Screaming Lord Sutch.

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The Salton Sea & Slab City: Life, Death & Hope In The Badlands - A journey through the badlands of California, in search of the lost American Dream.

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The Winchester Mystery House - Like an Escher nightmare made real, a haunted house with an architecture that boggles the mind, and defies belief.

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Tracking Down The Atomic Beast: Survival Town & Yucca Flats - Less than a 100 miles from Las Vegas is the infamous nuclear test site at Yucca Flats, home to the remnants of Survival Town.


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