Hoaxes

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.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

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

For a time this small Florida town of less than 1,000 residents was the national leader in dismemberment.

Peru's (not so) mysterious carved stones.

Don't be fooled by this fake medieval facade even if it is almost 300 years old.

One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.

An elaborate shrine dedicated to the four corners of the world unfortunately misses its mark.

A fictional town that was briefly brought to life before fading once again out of existence.

The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.

Antique gaffe kept in the basement of a small Vermont natural history museum.

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

A Biblically-based Natural History Museum.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

A museum in a law office, filled with authentic and counterfeit goods.