Hoaxes and Pseudoscience

Where the Millerites gathered to watch the end of the world in 1844—and left disappointed.

Small sculpted heads of prominent phrenologists mark the outside of their former headquarters.

In this tiny museum, an unusually-shaped skull that some claim as evidence of extraterrestrials.

The way that light hits a stained glass window on a specific day is one of many "clues" to a mysterious treasure.

The national headquarters of the dowser’s society founded in 1961.

A museum in rural Queensland wrongly claims that dinosaur fossils possess evidence that the earth is only 10,000 years old.

Hidden in the grounds of the Fort Dodge Museum is a "real" and terrifying petrified giant.

Some believe that this ancient mural depicts technology far ahead of its time, but in reality it's nothing quite out of place.

Cherokee alphabet, proof of ancient North American Jews, or just a hoax?

According to a satirical conspiracy theory that persists today, this German city of 300,000 is a hoax invented by the CIA.

Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.

An underwater road considered a possible Atlantis location.

A small Japanese village claims to be the final resting place of the son of God (and God's other son's ear).

Nope, not Washington Irving's house.