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Top Obscura
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) 
Learn How to Speak North Korean 
Amazing Old Bollywood Poster Shops 
Beijing’s Single Most Horrific Meal 
Castration Classes at the Beijing Eunuch Culture Exhibition Hall 
Beijing’s incredible (and completely fake) Disneyland 
The 38th Reich: Korean Nazi Cosplay 
Nazi Fashion in China 
China’s all-time favorite (and all-time darkest?) comic book: Sanmao 
India’s Incredibly Cool Hand-Drawn Movie Posters 
18 Terrible Moments from a Taoist Hell 
This Hindu God has 1,000 Vaginas! 
Why Chinese People Eat Deer Penis 
Why Chinese People Eat Ants 
Beijing’s Dongyue Temple and Their 19 Incredible Taoist Gods 
About Andy Deemer & AsiaObscura 
What the Fortune Teller Told Me (Hong Kong) 
Outrageously Cute Korean Cosplay: The 21 Favorites 
The Poem I Can’t Find… 
Prosthetic Noses, Red Wigs, and Whiteface… American Characters in Chinese Films 
The Sick Collector and His 1000 Pairs of Shoes 
Small Children Feeding Live Animals to Tigers in a Chinese Zoo 
Why Chinese People Eat Snake as Medicine 
Whoring in Chiang Mai - Awesomely Steampunk Portable Corn Roaster
Another Abandoned Beijing Amusement Park - The Disastrous Fall of Sanmao
American Imperialist Bastards in a North Korean Comic Book 
One Ghostly Cambodian Ruin 
China’s first sci-fi movie: Death Ray on Coral Island (1980) 
The Taj Mahal… Murder, Incest, and Fratricide 
Medicinal Sea Horse Soup 
A Postcard from Erenhot 
Our Six Best China Stories! 
North Korea frightening customs declarations form 
Inspector Black Cat: China’s Gore-Soaked Answer to Tom & Jerry 
Deranged Clown Cream Biscuits 
Noel Wilson’s Awesome Soccer-Themed House 
Relive the Cultural Revolution (aka The Weirdest Dinner Theater in Beijing) 
The Great Chinese Chip Taste-Off 
Chisney & Koreansney: Local Disney Knockoffs 
Antilia: The Most Gratuitous House in Mumbai 
Porn, Rats, and Antique Projectors at Sri Lanka’s Classic Cinemas 
Beyond the Valley of the Dwarfs: The Strangest Theme Park Ever? 
The Insane Monkey Bar in Tokyo 
13 Amazing Indian Circus Posters 
Dr Shankar’s Wonderful Collection of Brains and Other Medical Obscura
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Holy Curiosities, Theme Parks
The Creepiest Amusement Park of All Time?
Singapore is bland. It's a high-priced row of shopping malls and fine eateries, with a few hawker markets thrown in. "It's soooooo boring," warned my hairdresser Miss P. But then you stumble on something like this. The Tiger Balm Gardens: The most disturbing theme park of all time. There's sex, violence, bear-maulings and scabies. ...
Historical Wonders
A Noble Slave and an Imperial Cannibal
Two and a half thousand years ago, Prince Zhong'er was hungry. He was in exile. His state was in turmoil. He'd lost his castle, his kitchen and surely his chef as well. So what else was there to do but start eating his followers? That's what I discovered on Mianshan Mountain in Shanxi Province, in the ...
Historical Wonders, Holy Curiosities
18 Terrible Moments from a Taoist Hell
A few weeks ago, I posted about the Incredible Taoist Gods -- cool court officers tasked with enforcing rules of life and the afterlife. Well, to further display how far traditional Taoism strays from the mystical romance of the Tao Te Ching, here are some of the darker views of the Taoist "Way." I found ...