Believe It Or Not

Do you like weird? Do you like macabre? Do you basically have the mind of a twelve-year-old? Then you need to take out a second mortgage and spend a few hours in a Ripley's Believe It or Not. From hand-knitted Ferraris to shrunken heads, from two-headed calves to the Lord's Prayer engraved on a grain of rice ... it's a cross between an anthropology museum and a gallery of Outsider art, with extra extra cheese.

So here's some pics from my recent trip to the London Ripley's:

Horses made of spoons!
Tibetan ritual mask made out of a real skull!Human artistry is breathtaking, and sometimes baffling:

This antique temple is carved out of solid jade. Toast art. Seriously. The Last Supper painted on a dragonfly. And why not...
Portrait composed entriely of lipstick kisses applied to paper. Freehand. Well, freemouth...
It was important I found you something naughty, so here it is - the penis bone of walrus.



It's right opposite the Feejee mermaid, who looks shocked:


To top it all they have a Mirror Maze, which I totally loved.


Look! I'm about to bump into MYSELF! Waaaaaaah!!
Okay, I may not actually be twelve inside. I might only be eight.