Hoaxes and Pseudoscience

This Austrian museum celebrates the work of famous forgers and their inimitable imitations.

This amended headstone marks the grave of a participant in one of the most successful military deceptions of all time.

This grave marks the final resting place of a legendary frontiersman... unless it doesn't.

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.

This ancient octopus-like tree was saved from destruction thanks to shady reporting.

This small museum holds a treasure trove of ceramic figures that are either a hoax or proof of dragons, aliens, and dinosaur riders.

Opulence and fantasy collide in this royal chair which is supposedly made with unicorn horns.

Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

For more than 40 years this Barnum-inspired half-fox, half-woman has been telling fortunes from her cage in a Pakistani zoo.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

Some people believe that this makeshift space monitoring station received transmissions from clandestine cosmonauts.

These mysterious religious carvings were once thought to be thousands of years old but are actually the work of modern eccentric.