This morning, I was thinking of the zillions of places I've been all over the world. Then, I thought, "What's the WEIRDEST?"

One place stood out ... The Capuchini Bone Chapel in Roma.

Yep, amazingly weird, especially when you read the legend, "What you are now, we once were ... What we are now, you soon will be."

Cappadocia ranks right in there, too. But NOT like the Bone Chapel ... THAT'S STRANGE!!!

Let's hear from the rest of you. What's the weirdest-strangest place you've ever been?

God Bless,

Steve

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Bottom of Chesapeake Bay, in total dark, in sunken ship, recovering documents from a safe. All done by feel. Used an underwater cutting rod to burn through the side.

Where I got married the first time. Thankfully there are no pics.

Odd, WV. And it was a odd place.

raiding a turkomen satanic/devil worship house

old city
mosul iraq
early may 2003

A Whole Food store in CA. Absolutely scary what walks upright on two feet there.

Taking a pic of the "boot fence" in Imnaha Oregon while the song "Dueling Banjo's" seemed to be playing from the house across the road.....

The Corn Palace in Mitchell South Dakota.

I guess some call things weird and others call them intresting.

One place that comes to mind is the Winchester Mansion.

You mean besides Atlanta?

Elfin Cove, Alaska. Surreal, beautiful.

The Tiger Balm Gardens in Hong Kong... I understand they're gone now..

San Francisco

Been over about 1/2 of the world. It has to be San Francisco.

Lenin's Mausoleum in Moscow was pretty strange. Seeing a guy who had been dead for 80 years....

Commie

I've been a few places, but staying in House Number 13 on BLAIR STREET, across from BLAIR Bridge in New Hampshire was pretty [bleep] creepy. Place looked just like that movie...

Also went to a party in the desert out here in Grand Junction first semester..... that was wild. Saw about 80-90 people brawling as I left... girls punching girls, guys punching girls, phew...

The question instantly reminded me of the old Newlywed Game show.....

Wal-mart. Any of them.

Lol, that's a classic.

DAMN, I thought about that while doing my daily walk a few days ago. I got the giggles right there.

That simply has to be the funniest game show sequence EVER.

Still laughing ... Thank You, aalf, for the laughs

Blessings,

Steve

Little Beach near Wailea Maui, strangest bunch of people i've ever seen all gathered to watch the sunset.

A place where rocks move by themselves, is fairly wierd. Even without the rocks, it's a surreal experience standing on something that is several miles across, and completely flat.



as far as a man-made place, I'd say the Winchester Mystery House, in San Jose, CA. The lady who built it was a wealthy eccentric, and it has many, many rooms that are quite bizarre in arrangement.

Honorable mention would go to a place in San Francisco. I was walking past an unassuming storefront, glance in the window, and see a very small sign that says, "100 men in a night club". I kept walking, faster

Purgatory.

Gunner

I'm taking the 5th on this one, Brother Steve.

+1

This podunk bar deep in Juarez that apparently was a rescue center for destitute donkeys.

Inside a Skanky fat chick I picked up in Daytona at the Last Resort bar.

The NYC Subway........... at night.

A Catholic funeral.

Touring Gettysburg late on a foggy afternoon...creeepy

Yup, Elfin Cove earns the surreal...

A buddhist temple right next to Snake Alley in Taipei well after midnight is another that just had a strange feel... All of the stone in the entire temple was deeply relief carved.

Snake Alley was at least "different" also.

When visiting Cancun we went on a site seeing trip to Tulum. The drive to Tulum was very foreign to me. Seeing a cobbled together shack made out of stacked cinder blocks and a clothes line tied to the side for laundry gave new meaning to the word "poor."

The burial trenches at Shilo battle field, late in the day when all the tourist are gone. Strange feeling come over you.

Austin.

New Orleans. I'm not into voodoo, black magic, or transvestites.

The Walmart in Council Bluffs, IA. Life changing.

Mike

The underground pyramid just east of Denali in Alaska, while the MIT Boys tried to figure out how it works to produce so much power.

That place was weird, just plain weird.

For weird, it is hard to beat the red light district (Stiffe Strassee?) about two blocks off the zile, Frankfort.

That reminds me of the river in Utah that boils up from underground. It's right beside the highway and is fed from snow melt.

A small cave up on the Northern end of Okinawa in 1961. Since it had a skeleton [scattered] in it, we may have been the first humans in it since him.

Being drunk at the time, we took the skull with us. One guy was still up drinking Taikoko and talking to the skull when I went to sleep.

Next morning, he went crazy as hell and had to be hauled off in a strait jacket. I saw him thirty years later and he was still not right in the head.

After we got him in the jacket and we hauled him to the hospital, some of the guys buried the skull out in the brush near where we were camped. I never told the Doctor about the skull, since it was prob'ly against the law to take it.

I wanted to take it back to the cave, but we weren't sure we could find it in the daylight.

My Mom's family owned a farm at Little Roundtop. Interesting stories.

Really?

I see you've been to the female hairy armpit capitol of Iowa !

No offense Iowa we have em too!

It is a place called Punete de Dios in Tamasopo in San Luis de Potosi, Mexcio. We had a great road trip in the area about 10 years ago and saw lots of great places to swim and camp. I'm glad I did it when I did.

Weird place, weird idea, weird architecture, and corn siding. Lol

the Sacred Cenote at Chichen Itza was pretty memorable

they used to toss babies in there just for fun


or the 'soccer field' at the main complex. If your team won, they'd cut your whole team's heads off an carve your skull's likeness into walls of at the limestone sidelines to honor tribute to you.

[bleep] way better than any World Cup.

I think!!!!! I have been there......Was it cold dark and Wet?

Wal-Mart....u pick anyone of'em.

1976: 4am, Bourbon Street, second night of Mardi Gras
noticed a hooker leaning up against a lightpole piss herself as the heroin took hold and her muscles obviously relaxed. This other guy was passing by and just stopped dead in his tracks and watched. He looked over at me and we both just shrugged and kept walking. I suddenly felt sober and ready to leave the dirty side of life behind.

1979: Siple Station, Antarctica
under the station in a quonset, burrowing thru several decades of things that visiting scientists (who had been there) had left there.

Cabrini green housing project in chicago,.il.

Reminds me of the movie, Escape from Ny.

Concentration camps. Been to several of them. My skin crawled and I felt dirty and couldn't wait to get in the shower after leaving. Revolting. Disgusting. Despicable.

Definitely qualifies.

Saw a cobra get away at the cobra blood bar... you'd be surprised how fast the crowd split to let it through.

Concentration camps, inside the Great Pyramids, any of the catacombs under Vienna, Paris, London.

Pretty much the west coast. California/Oregon/Washington. The most phoney [bleep] I've ever been around.

surgery

When I was wakin' up from it this nurse has a'hold of my face,..shakin' it here,..shakin' it there,..sayin',..

"Mr. Bristoe,...you're just coming out of surgery."

I was like, "You've fugged up the tunnel!"

Then she put a warm blanket on me and I forgave her,..went on back to sleep.

,...woke up a few hours later stapled together like Herman fuggin' Munster,...

You forgot Alaska...

The tavern at Hungry Horse , Montana

Pretty sure I've managed to blank out the best of them, but Place de Pigalle was interesting.

Sundown at the Little Big Horn with the only other people there being a bunch of Indians looking at me like I was a roasted dog also comes to mind.

A room on the 30th floor of a hotel in down town San Francisco during the 1989 earthquake seemed like a pretty weird place to be at the time. The first thought that flashed through my mind after I figured out what was going on was that at least I will be near the top of the pile of rubble if this hotel collapses.

Downtown Asheville NC , bunch of weirdos there


Mike

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Nope

I'm fairly certain 80% of everyone I met in CA/OR/WA is either a Grand Marnier away from raping a 7 year old or killing a hooker.

I was in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for work and the Thaipusam festival at Batu Caves was going on. My coworkers convinced me that I needed to go visit. It's a Hindu festival where hundreds of thousands of people climb up these steep stairs, many of them have limes attached to their bodies with fish hooks and piercing through their cheeks.

San Francisco. I took my board exams there about 25 years ago. After the all day exam a few of us went out on the town to have a little celebration. There was some sort of parade going on that was nothing but weird SOB's everywhere. Being a born and bred midwestern boy I couldn't quite figure out what the hello was up with all the "unusual" folks. My wife, who was raised in Mountain View Ca. informed me that what I was seeing was a GAY PARADE. Needless to say that was enough of that chit right then and there.

Maybe you should have stayed out of the gay bars...

Haight Ashbury Disrict, San Francisco.

If you like people watching, it doesn't get much better.

Yeah, India anywhere, during a Hindu festival... and I've been in a LOT of weird places.

Was there in 1969 and later... Provincetown, MA blows it away for real weirdness... hard to believe I know, but true.

I was there back in July,....I saw a black man who obviously had a connection to the last blotter acid in the city,..or he was schizo.

Whatever the case, he was huggin' a trash can and laughin' his ass off.

,..also saw three barefoot midgets sitting on the sidewalk and singin'. "Knock-Knock-Knockin' on Heaven's Door".

They were trying to get some money from passersby, I think.

It might have worked during the summer of love,....but everybody who walked past had a look on their face that said, "Knock harder, short chit!".

,...singin' lil' sumbitches though,...I'll give 'em that.

Midgets can hold some kickazz harmony.

Enbalming room.

When in college one of my buddies worked in a funeral home for room and board doing light maintenance, cleaning, etc. He had a room stuck way in the bowels of the building, and it took a number of turns though various hallways to get to it.

Got into a bottle or two of MD 20/20 and a few joints, then decided it was time to tap a kidney. Took a number of wrong turns and found myself in a dark room. Thinking it was the john I searched for a light switch, finding none I struck my lighter. A few dead folks there in different stages of "preparation" loomed out of the dark in the low light. Forgot about peeing.

Glad I could help...a little giggle goes a long way...

A side note...every year when a buddy and I are shooting PD's, invariably, almost every dog that's down on all four facing away, either one of us will ask just prior to breaking the shot...."Up the butt Bob?".......

I was working in a basement in Milwaukee Wiscsonsin on Dec. 10, 1981. Shoes would move areound the basement all by themselves. Doors would open and close by themsleves and the toilet paper would get out of the holder and end up on the vanity. All ya had to do was look at the shoes, look away for a minute and they would be 2 ft away. Wait a few minutes, and they would up the stairs a few steps. I picked them up and threw them in the corner. I walked away for a few minutes to see they had moved. My brother inlaw was with me and we ran out the back door and were darn freaked out. The next day BIL had to work himself in the morning. I came that afternoon. I asked if anything moved, he said no. By afternoon doors started closing by themselves and shoes would move up the steps again. I was so scared I yelled you can't hurt me. I started saying bible verses that I knew. That put a stop to it. I never told the home owners but we finished that rec-room in a hurry. This is the truth. Never experienced it again, don't want to neither. I became a much more aware christian of super natural forces that we don't see.

GDR speed trap in the Potsdam to Helmstadt corridor August 1987.

When you come over a hill doing 100 klicks in the pitch dark and they suddenly light you up with enough candlewatts to illuminate a football stadium and a T-72 tank is facing you in the middle of the road, you realize you're not in Kansas anymore.

Wow... I didn't think it could get any weirder than the Haight.

Any Democrat caucus - sober.

The Slabs, outside of Palm Springs.

Never been to that old Capuchin convent, which Mark Twain had a few memorable words to say about after his visit there.

But that's just a local site, not a town or city. Weird? Beyond doubt. But just a bump on the butt of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, which probably isn't as weird as Mecca, Medina, or Tehran, which I'm glad that I was never "privileged" to visit.

I fervently hope that I never see any place weirder than Jeddah.

That got a laugh out of me...well done.

Standing in the center of what seemed like a glass lined room which was detonation point of and underground nuclear test, a mile from the tunnel entrance and 2000ft below ground surface, with no supplied air, a miners light, double suited up with anti contamination gear including a full face mask.

The underground salt mine in Kansas was kind of weird.

I wonder how Rosie O'Donnells girlfriend would answer this question.

Here are a few pictures of the cove.

6th Street in Austin, Tx. Nothing but steers and queers and it was hard to tell which was which.

Surreal and beautiful are far different than weird as your pictures illustrate...

I had to crawl in side of a 40' pipe to inspect the welding of the cap plate before they put the base plate on and when I got to the end someone tack welded a plate over the bottom of the pipe.
I crawled back to the end rolled up and went to sleep. We were working 12 hour shifts and I was the one they kept bouncing from days to night shift. They left me there for about 45 minutes until I heard my lead-man out side of the pipe asking were I was. they had to grind the tack welds to let me out.

Same job the boss told me to go down in the basement of the new hospital that we were working on Arrowhead Medical and inspect some anchors that they were going to install. Well the installation crew never showed up and they locked the door after I was way inside of the room no lights just black every where. again I sat down and went to sleep at the end of the shift they opened the door for me and asked me how I liked the Morgue.

Ricks' Spring, near the WY border, on Highway 89?

+1. That was going to be my submission as well.

Was there when there was some kind of "event" going on. Some extremely strange individuals. Mostly cross-dressing men.

Definitely an eye opener for this Montana kid.

Loved the Cape Cod area other than that.

Hey hey hey...

I have family from there... my great grandmother is buried there... Grandmother was from Raleigh County there...

Weirdest place I have ever been is in a Kmart, when they are announcing a Blue Light Special.. and hardly anyone speaks English... and those that do, weigh 300+ pounds....

Yeah P-Town can be pretty darn weird back in the early 70s...

been down there during College,

went to college in Metro Boston..

It got far weirder into the 80's...

In a room alone with a liberal trying to talk logically with it...

15 years ago, Navajo casino in Dulce NM.

Yep, I've been there. Except that is the Jicarilla Apache Reservatin in Dulce, NM It's Some of the best Elk Hunting in the Southwest right there, if you can afford it.... Anyhow, All the local Apaches looking at you like your about to be their next scalping victim.

The weirdest place I was ever in was the Cadaver Room at Texas A&M Medical School, at night with a hot little Vet. Student gal I was dating while going to school there.

Living on a retired Russian "cruise ship" 50 miles offshore on the Caspian Sea that, as I learned, was once a centroid for their (Russia) sub's to rise up from below to the "ballroom" (that was our conference room but still looked like a show room) swap crews and disappear. This is winter 2010, my room about midway down the top deck. Yes, it sucked, particularly when 30 below but about as bad when running 120 during the summer. Oz is a blessing...

24hr campfire.

I know where to find those people but prefer to stay the [bleep] away.
Just about any heavily populated urban center in this country is on my avoid list.

Port Of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago back in '90 while in the Navy. Sat in a pizza parlor while a hooker outside the barred up window propositioned me for a slice of pepperoni & sausage while an armed guard tried to move her along. Walking around the town, in most neighborhoods each house had 6 to 8 foot fences topped with barb wire and a huge dog patrolling inside. As my buddy and I were going down an isolated street, two men in traditional Muslim dress looked up, spotted us and turned swiftly and walked away. You could sense something just wasn't right and sure enough it wasn't. After arriving back to Norfolk and driving home to southwest VA that same day and coming into my parent's house for supper lo and behold there is Tom Brokaw talking about the place I had just left earlier in the week on the Nightly News, a coup had taken place.

Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt

I would have said southern Iraq/Kuwait during Desert Storm but considering the circumstances I thought there wasn't anything weird about it. Being in a location where an unexpected schiattstorm is about to erupt and knowing something just isn't right but not being able to put your finger on it was surreal in a sense.

Welcome to the Fire, Enjoy.

Thank you for your service.

LaMiere Vapiere,

little club downtown Chicago, it got torched, some say the cops did it as it was a giant pain for them.

had never seen anything like it, late 70's and I was a wide eyed farm boy, men with makeup, safety pins through their cheeks and other parts of their faces, wild clothes and hair,

co'ed restrooms, didn't matter which one you went into everyone just used whatever was available, funny to watch a little filly straddle a man's urinal to relieve herself.

and then the alley out back, lots of strange goings on back there, people doing drugs, sex, and some of those disgusting animals were even smoking cigarettes!

I couldn't read sign real well back then, but I was pretty certain I was a fur piece from SW MO.

my mother would have fainted if she'd seen me in that place


she'd have been mad as hell if she knew how many times I went back! lol had to, what a freakshow

Thank you as well Paul for the welcome and I do appreciate it.

I assume that was before the detonation? when you say glass lined room it makes me wonder.

I am thinking it was after.

Washington D.C.

The Tower of London. Riches beyond the realm of the imagination... Mostly ill gotten gains

USA since obummer took over...

Went to a wedding back in the mid-80's in NYC.
Couple of well known "families". Straight out of the Godfather sort of wedding.

Sierra Leone

Gay pride parade in Sydney Australia.

The Capuchini Bone Chapel in Roma
I have been there...
And to The Great Pyramid the Roman Baths in Bath�
Stonehenge, seen crop circles

But

The Weirdest place is / was NYC

Snake

walmart

Burning Man Festival, Black Rock, NV
S Dali Museum in Florence, Italy
Market Day at El Alto La Paz, Bolivia
Isla Del Sol, Lake Titticaca, Peru

Those are the weird places. This forum is the source of the weirdest ideas I have ever heard. But that is why I can't stop checking out the hunters fire for the next whacky idea.

Not as weird as many posted, but the place I recall as the most weird in the visual sense is The Blue Lagoon in Iceland.

It is a geothermal lake, and yes, the water really is that colour.

I was there before the tourist season, and that blue water was filled with absolutely gorgeous Icelandic women (most of whom were topless).

Apparently, after the tourist season starts, it is filled with hairy German women.



John

Good tale. I like.

Gotta be Wall Drug in South Dakota

Wisconsin is pretty strange as far as I'm concerned

Ekalaka, Mont.

india, as in the whole (hole) country

some great stuff on here guys

makes me even more want to sit around a real campfire and hear some of your stories of these places.

really enjoyed the pix posted too cool for school


life what a wonderful and crazy circus it can be!

I'm guessing we were together on that port call on TR. Not the weirdest place I've ever been, Baku is that but still odd.

Thats right, Apache, there was two of us and it did not take us long to figure out we were in the wrong place. It was still in a barn at that time, we were hunting closer to Chama and went over there one evening.

My buddy and I were riding atv's out on a back road and he wrecked his. He broke both both bones in his forearm so that it was bent at a wrong angle and he hit his head so hard he had a seizure. I thought he was dying. I ran to the nearest house to call 911, when they answered the door I basically ran passed them and ran for the phone. What I saw was basically every room stacked 3 feet high in newspapers, books, phonebooks, and various garbage. There were paths through the garbage that were so straight and turned on 90 degree angles to go into other rooms that the corners were square. One of the people that lived there was a severely mentally retarded man who when seeing a stranger walk into the house commenced into making some weird howler monkey racket. I was in my teens and already freaking out because I thought my friend was dying, then I walked into that nightmare and nearly lost my mind. I have never been in a hoarder's house before or since. And that is something I have no need to see again.

MM

Red China

Ain't that the truth... will say, unless you've been to India you have no idea what weird is. I do love the place though. It's maddening, frustrating, depressing and endlessly entertaining and surprising.

Stateside, nothing I've seen (and I've been most everywhere) eclipses P-Town MA for sheer wholesale weirdness.

I'll never go back...

Weirdest for me was Fort St. John, B.C., in 1969.

Scared the livin' bejabbers outta me, and I ain't never been back.

Ok, well, now... it depends on what you mean by "place", as in location, anatomic versus geographic, and what you mean by "been", as in what parts of one's body might of been there...

I gotta admit my Big Johnson has been in some places so weird I don't think nobody needs to never hear about it, no how...

But I will say, they was all female kinds of places...

Well, glad you clarified that now Doc, but, was they all human females.

(Doc, I just couldn't resist that as you rarely leave yourself so exposed )

You're one stupid muther [bleep], your kind is not welcomed here. Besides, chubby chasers like yourself have way more targets down there, oh yeah....FOAD.

The Reeperbahn in Hamburg Germany (West Germany when I was there)

Just another Euro Red-light district...

Oh yeah, The Evergreen State College in Olympia WA was pretty darn weird.
A nude beach right on campus sounds pretty cool but the hairy and smelly hippie girls who went there were downright scary.

Thank God our WalMart seems awful normal. Course we don't have that many weird folks around here.

But I've been in one about 3 hours east of here that had a few strange ones in it. Of course that wasn't the only place in that town we saw a few strange ones...

Naked hippy girls weird?

Weird is taking a jog on a beach in RI only to find yourself surrounded by nude people... but only nude men... holding hands and staring a hole in your azz... that's weird. And makes one jog faster...

Uhhhhhhh....thanks for sharing that Brad.....

Well, it was pretty uncomfortable.. and weird.

But still not as weird as India...

Note to self: Stay the [bleep] out of India!

Thanks for making my point

Bwahaahahaha!!!

Funny, I say 80% are kid diddlers and he gets pissed. He's obviously not one of the 20 percenters, not that it was ever in question.

too funny and very true

Notice how most of the snake handlers had missing digits? And virtually all the missing were pinkies? Guessing if you have to cut a finger off to earn credibility that might be the best choice...

Not really wierd, but the little seafood restaurant in Snake Alley was really cool. Like a little English teahouse once you go in, but I literally had to duck way down to get through the door and the ceiling beams were far too low for me, also. Aquaria filled with ALL kinds of live seafood out front and you picked your victims and they rought them to you per instructions...

Couldn't help but think of the intro to "The Meaning of Life".

Ignore is your friend. I got sick of him saying everybody north of some imaginary line was trash. It got a lot more peaceful when I stopped reading his drunken mumblings . Please don't quote him.

talked to the wife about this thread when we stopped off at Wally World to pick up a few things....small town, ran into about 8 people we knew in there also...

My wife said there are plenty of good things about Walmart...

I asked "what for instance?"

She said after she has been in Walmart, Good Will seems like a real high class place to shop....

Lady with a good sense of humor!

I hear ya..I've never used the ignore feature, and I'm sure not going to start with this goofy ass looking pud. He's the type that talks all tough on the puter, but he's just an insecure thumb/cock sucker.