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The Creepiest Amusement Park of All Time? 
21 Amazing Bangalore Breakfast Dishes 
Why Chinese People Eat Sea Horse 
Classic Chinese Torture Methods (and their cute names) 
Amazing Old Bollywood Poster Shops 
Learn How to Speak North Korean 
Beijing’s Single Most Horrific Meal 
Castration Classes at the Beijing Eunuch Culture Exhibition Hall 
The 38th Reich: Korean Nazi Cosplay 
Beijing’s incredible (and completely fake) Disneyland 
Prosthetic Noses, Red Wigs, and Whiteface… American Characters in Chinese Films 
India’s Incredibly Cool Hand-Drawn Movie Posters 
China’s all-time favorite (and all-time darkest?) comic book: Sanmao 
This Hindu God has 1,000 Vaginas! 
About Andy Deemer & AsiaObscura 
Nazi Fashion in China 
18 Terrible Moments from a Taoist Hell 
Why Chinese People Eat Ants 
What the Fortune Teller Told Me (Hong Kong) 
Why Chinese People Eat Deer Penis 
The Poem I Can’t Find… 
Outrageously Cute Korean Cosplay: The 21 Favorites 
The Sick Collector and His 1000 Pairs of Shoes 
Small Children Feeding Live Animals to Tigers in a Chinese Zoo 
Beijing’s Dongyue Temple and Their 19 Incredible Taoist Gods 
Why Chinese People Eat Snake as Medicine 
American Imperialist Bastards in a North Korean Comic Book 
Whoring in Chiang Mai 
Another Abandoned Beijing Amusement Park 
A Postcard from Erenhot 
Dr Shankar’s Wonderful Collection of Brains and Other Medical Obscura - Awesomely Steampunk Portable Corn Roaster
China’s first sci-fi movie: Death Ray on Coral Island (1980) 
Chisney & Koreansney: Local Disney Knockoffs 
Antilia: The Most Gratuitous House in Mumbai 
Porn, Rats, and Antique Projectors at Sri Lanka’s Classic Cinemas 
Our Six Best China Stories! 
Medicinal Sea Horse Soup - The Disastrous Fall of Sanmao
North Korea frightening customs declarations form 
Relive the Cultural Revolution (aka The Weirdest Dinner Theater in Beijing) 
Noel Wilson’s Awesome Soccer-Themed House 
Pyongyang Too: A Tribute to Guy Delisle 
A Huge Pile of Gorgeous Old Thai Movie Posters 
Deranged Clown Cream Biscuits 
The Taj Mahal… Murder, Incest, and Fratricide 
One Ghostly Cambodian Ruin 
The Great Chinese Chip Taste-Off 
13 Amazing Indian Circus Posters 
The Insane Monkey Bar in Tokyo
Category Archives: Life in Miniature
Life in Miniature
Another Diana Pose at the Taj Mahal
From Beijing's miniature Taj Mahal, of course... Oh, what an unforgettable day that was...
Life in Miniature
Great Hillbilly Roadside Puppets from Sri Lanka
These Sri Lankan puppets, a tradition of the coastal village of Ambalangoda, embarrassingly look more like my Kentucky and Carolina kin than anything else. At about five bucks each, we couldn't resist walking away with a bagful. But my favorite was a gorgeous four-foot-tall devil puppet. It was too big for our bag, but ...
Life in Miniature
Monitor Lizards on the Road
The bus ahead screeches to a halt, and we swerve into a ditch. "Iguana," says our tuktuk driver with a grunt. I've never seen an iguana like this. This was more like a dinosaur or a dragon. It could probably eat a small child. (Komodo Dragons maybe used to eat pigmy elephants.) "Can you ...
Life in Miniature
A Tiny Roadside Village, Made From Quartz
In 1968, Henry L. Warren decided to do something special. He started building a tiny village on the side of the road, using white flint rock, concrete, and red brick. He called it "Shangri-La." "Wow," said Scotty, jumping out of the Dart. "Look at all this quartz!" It was amazing. Warren had ...
Historical Wonders, Life in Miniature, Offbeat Museums, Somewhat Perverted
The Sick Collector and His 1000 Pairs of Shoes
Yang Shaorong lives in a small Shanghai apartment. He collects women's shoes. Tiny shoes. Shoes for bound feet. "That's horrible," said the publisher of my magazine, when I mentioned Yang the collector to him. "It's a disturbing part of Chinese history." I was confused. I didn't really know much about them, or why he was so upset. ...
Life in Miniature, Theme Parks
Beyond the Valley of the Dwarfs: The Strangest Theme Park Ever?
"Before coming here, I was tending cattle, and feeding pigs," Xiao Cao told me. "I never even knew how to dance." "And now, she's our leading dancer!" laughed Zhang Furong. Xiao Cao is a dancer. Zhang Furong is a singer. They're both under 4'3" tall. They live in, and perform at, The ...
Historical Wonders, Life in Miniature, Modern Ruins
Modern Day Cavemen of Shanxi
Recently, Woo and I were in rural Shanxi Province, and noticed a series of caves carved into the landscape, off in the distance. They were just dark shadows, really, but they were clearly man-made. "Before, did people live there?" we asked the cab driver, like the good tourists that we were. "Yes, but they still live there ...