by Maledicta | Nov 12, 2018 | Oddities and Curiosities
The nauseating odor of rotting flesh isn’t something we usually associate with flowers… Until now! Ever heard of the Corpse Flower? It’s a very large, very smelly, and very rare plant that’s native to Western Indonesia. In the middle of the jungle,...
by Maledicta | Oct 29, 2018 | Interesting People, Oddities and Curiosities
Elvira Mondragón Garcia’s cranial creations range from the size of a gumball to the size of an actual human head! In the atrium of the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, behind a row of stanchions, is an array of skulls made of compressed sugar....
by Maledicta | Oct 29, 2018 | Oddities and Curiosities, Weird Tourism
If you ever happen to visit central Mexico, don’t forget to plan an outing to the small mining town of Guanajuato, home to one of Mexico’s most popular tourist attractions – a museum that displays the mummified corpses of over 100 of its deceased...
by Maledicta | Oct 7, 2018 | Interesting People, Oddities and Curiosities
Take a peek inside his morbid museum of rare occult and paranormal history, human remains, and grotesque freaks of nature. Calvin Von Crush, a full-time tattoo artist, has spent years scouring dark nooks and crannies for rare pieces of occult and paranormal...
by Maledicta | Oct 7, 2018 | In the News, Oddities and Curiosities
Fatal Selfies in 2015 accounted for more deaths worldwide than shark attacks… (though in this guy’s case, they may have occurred simultaneously) The never-ending pursuit of the ultimate shot for social media sharing has reached a startling...
by Maledicta | Sep 23, 2018 | Oddities and Curiosities
Yes, this is another story about those wacky Victorians and the bizarre things they did for fun. If they weren’t picnicking with the dead, they were taking photos of their dead loved ones and making jewelry out of their hair… or maybe playing potentially fatal...
