A comprehensive alphabetical collection of almost 500 unusual, weird, wonderful and interesting Wikipedia articles, adapted from a list by Ray Castader on Reddit. Wikipedia also has its own list of usual entries.
- “Resolute” desk
- 1973 National Archives Fire
- 1982 Chicago Tylenol Murders
- Acoustic Mirror
- Action Park
- Adolf Lu Hitler Marak
- Air New Zealand Flight 901
- Alber Fish
- Albert Pierrepoint
- Alexamenos Graffito
- Alien Hand Syndrome
- Almighty Gaylords
- American Old West Gunfights
- Anaconda Smelter Stack
- Anchorite
- And you are lynching Negros
- Anscombe’s Quartet
- Anthropodermic bibliopegy
- Aokigahara
- Ararat Anomaly
- Arbre du Ténéré
- Arecibo Reply
- Armstrong Limit
- Aron Ralston
- Art intervention
- Art Theft
- As Slow as Possible
- Ashley’s Hundred
- Atacama Desert
- Atari Vieo Game Burial
- Atomic Bomb Go Game
- Automated Vacuum Collection
- Axe Murder Incident
- BACH Motif
- Back to the Future Timeline
- Baghdad Battery
- Baldwin Street, Dunedin
- Bata LoBagola
- Battle cry
- Battle of Los Angeles
- Bear Camp Road
- Bear JJ1
- Berlin Gold Hat
- Bible Errata
- Bicycle Infantry
- Bigfoot Trap
- Blood Chit
- Blood n the Water Match
- Blood-Vomiting Game
- Bloody Island (Mississippi River)
- Blue Peacock
- Boiling Lake
- Boot Monument
- Bouvet Island
- Boyd Massacre
- Brevity Code
- Brfxxccxxmnpcccc….
- Brian Douglas Wells
- Bridge of No Return
- Bubbly Creek
- Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
- Bummer and Lazarus
- Bunny Man
- Burst of Joy
- Byford Dolphin diving bell accident
- Cadaver Synod
- Canadian Arctic Archipelago
- Candace Newmaker
- Capgras Delusion
- Carthago Delenda Est
- Casu Marzu
- Category: Bulgarian sumo wrestlers
- Category: Fads
- Category: Filmed deaths
- Category: Medical Signs
- Category: Model Organisms
- Category: Named Interchanges
- Category: Nonexistent people
- Category: Race riots in the United States
- Category: Road Junction Types
- Category: Stock Characters
- Category: Submarine Telecommunications Cables
- Category: Valley of the Kings
- Category:Delusional disorder
- Category:Design for X
- Category:Engineering Failures
- Category:Mountaineering deaths
- Category:Race Riots in the United States
- Category:Road Junction Types
- Category:Satellites
- Category:Scales
- Category:Self-immolations
- Category:Shipwrecks of the United States
- Category:Water Towers
- Centralia, Pennsylvania
- Champawat Tiger
- Charles Bonnet Syndrome
- Cheating at the Paralympic Games
- Cherubina de Gabriak
- Chocolate Hills
- Chord Progressions
- Christopher McCandless
- CIA Cryptonyms
- Cincinnati Subway
- Cité Soleil
- Clause IV
- Cliff Young
- Clock of the Long Now
- Coffin Ship
- Colonial Street
- Color of the Bikeshed
- Comparison of Heavy Lift Launch Systems
- Concrete-Encased High School Girl Murder Case
- Controversies
- Copper Peak
- Corinthian Leather
- Cormorant Fishing
- Cowboy
- Craig D. Button
- Crawfordsville Monster
- Crush, Texas
- Cryptomnesia
- CubeSat
- Cymothoa exigua
- Dagen H
- Dalton Highway
- Dancing Plague Of 1518
- Darien Gap
- Darvaza
- David A. Johnston
- David Hempleman-Adams
- Dead Cat Bounce
- Dead Hand (nuclear war)
- Dean’s Blue Hole
- Defeat in Detail
- Degree Confluence Project
- Demon Core
- Dempster Highway
- Descent From Antiquity
- Devil’s Footprints
- Digit Ratio
- Dioxippus
- Discoveries of human feet on British Columbia beaches
- Diverging Diamond Interchange
- Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs
- Doomsday Argument
- Drake’s Plate of Brass
- Draupner Wave
- Dugway Sheep Incident
- Dunning-Kruger effect
- Dyatlov Pass Accident
- E Number
- Egg of Columbus
- Elm Farm Ollie
- English as She is Spoke
- English Words With Uncommon Properties
- Eric Moussambani
- ETAOIN SHRDLU
- Eternal Flame
- EURion constellation
- Exploding Head Syndrome
- Exploration
- Extreme Points of the World
- Fabergé egg
- Fairy Chess Piece
- Fan Death
- Feynman Point
- Fire balloon
- First Flying machine
- Flag of Bikini Atoll
- Fleet in Being
- Forest Swastika
- Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight
- Friendly Floatees
- Frontier Thesis
- Fugu Plan
- Gaëtan Dugas
- Gainclone
- Gallup’s List of Widely Admired People
- Garry Hoy
- Gaslighting
- Gef the Talking Mongoose
- Generations of Chinese Leadership
- George P. Burdell
- Germany Must Perish!
- Gestures
- Girl A
- Glienicke Bridge
- Globster
- Gloria Ramirez
- Gömböc
- Graham’s Number
- GRB 971214
- Green Boots
- Grimes Sisters
- Guided Rat
- Gurdon Light
- Gustave (Crocodile)
- Hamster Zona-Free Ovum Test
- Hannah Twynnoy
- Hans Island
- Hansa Carrier
- Hapax Legomenon
- Happy Valley set
- Harrowing of Hell
- Harry K. Daghlian Jr.
- Hart Island,New York
- Head Transplant
- Height of Land Portage
- Hello Kitty Murder
- Herschel Island
- HH Holmes
- High Artic Relocation
- Highest Unclimbed Mountain
- High-water mark of the Confederacy
- Hinterkaifeck
- Hiroo Onoda
- Hoa Ky
- Hoba Meteorite
- Honorary whites
- Houston Riot (1917)
- Human-baiting
- Humanzee
- Iceland Spar
- Ideal German Campaign
- If by Whisky
- Impostor
- Indian Castes
- Iron Pillar of Delhi
- Issei Sagawa
- Ivy League Nude Posture Photos
- James Joseph Dresnok
- James Kim
- Japanese War Tuba
- Jerimoth Hill
- Jim Corbett (Hunter)
- John Frum
- John Murray Spear
- John Titor
- Joseph Jagger
- Joshua A. Norton
- Joshua Milton Blahyi
- Just-World Phenomenon
- K Foundation Burn a Million Quid
- Kardashev Scale
- Karl Bushby
- Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter
- Kenton Joel Carnegie Wolf Attack
- Kinetic Bombardment
- Kola Superdeep Borehole
- Kowloon Walled City
- Kuleshov Effect
- KVLY-TV mast
- Lace Card
- Laconia Incident
- Lady Be Good (aircraft)
- Lake Woebegon Effect
- Language Deprivation Experiments
- Larry Mattlage
- Larry Walters
- Lead Masks Case
- Leatherman (vagabond)
- Leck Mich Im Arsch
- Leopard of Rudraprayag
- Lichtenberg’s Avertissement
- Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den
- List of American Defectors in the Korean War
- List of American Old West Outlaws
- List of Amtrak routes
- List of Areas disputed by Canada and the United States
- List of Artificial Radiation Belts
- List of Belief systems
- List of Camouflage Patterns
- List of Cattle Breeds
- List of Chicken Breeds
- List of Cities in the Americas with Alternative Names
- List of Cognitive Biases
- List of College Fight Songs
- List of Common Misconceptions
- List of Deaths on Eight Thousanders
- List of Demons
- List of Discredited Substances
- List of Explorers
- List of Extremely Hazardous Substances
- List of Famous Trees
- List of Fatal Bear Attacks in North America by Decade
- List of Fatal Wol Attacks
- List of Frivolous Political Parties
- List of Giant Sequoia Groves
- List of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks
- List of Hoaxes
- List of Indian castes
- List of Individual Stradivari Instruments
- List of Leaning towers
- List of Logical Fallacies
- List of Lost artworks
- List of Lost films
- List of Lost works
- List of Massacres
- List of Memory Biases
- List of Merritt Island Launch Sites
- List of Micronations
- List of Military Nuclear Accidents
- List of Military Tactics
- List of Modern pretenders to the throne
- List of Most Expensive Photographs
- List of Most Massive Stars
- List of Musical Works in Unusual Time Signatures
- List of Numbered Highways in the United States
- List of Paradoxes
- List of People Pardoned by a U.S. President
- List of People Who Have Disappeared
- List of Persons Known as the Father or Mother of a Field
- List of Places Blurred Out On Google Maps
- List of Poisonings
- List of Rainbow Codes
- List of Roman Gladiator Types
- List of Rowing blades
- List of Self-Contradicting Words in English
- List of Statues of Lenin
- List of System Quality Attributes
- List of Tallest buildings and structures in the world by country
- List of Tallest Chimneys in the World
- List of the Largest Artificial Non-Nuclear Explosions
- List of the last monarchs in the Americas
- List of the World’s Most Expensive Single Objects
- List of Tomato Cultivars
- List of Unused Highways in the United States
- List of World’s Fairs
- Lists of Most Common Surnames
- Lloyds Bank Coprolite
- Locus Amoenus
- London Stone
- Longevity myths
- Louis Slotin
- Lp0 on Fire
- Lunokhod 1
- Lynne Harper
- Magic Roundabout
- Man Singh (dacoit)
- Map-Territory Relation
- Margaret Hogg
- Märket
- Markovian Parallax Denigrate
- Marree Man
- Martha Mitchell Effect
- Martial Races Theory
- Marvin Heemeyer
- Mary Celeste
- Mary’s Room
- Max Headroom Broadcast Signal Intrusion Incident
- MC
- Mel’s Hole
- Michael Fagan Incident
- Military Strategy
- Minor Scale
- Miraculin
- Mise En Abyme
- Mobile Bay jubilee
- Modern Street Gangs
- Mojave Phone Booth
- Money Illusion
- Motif of Harmful Sensation
- Mount Yamantaw
- Mummy Brown
- Murder of Julie Ward
- Narco submarine
- Narratology
- Net cutter
- NFPA704
- Nicholas Bourbaki
- Niihau Incident
- Nine Worthies
- North Sentinel Island
- Norwegian Rocket Incident
- Nuclear Football
- Nuclear Tests
- Nuclear Warfare
- Numbers Stations
- Oak Island
- Oakeshott Typology
- Oakland County Child Killer
- Oath of Vengeance
- Octopus Wrestling
- ODESSA
- Old Man of the Lake
- Oliver Sipple
- Onion Futures Act
- Operation Auca
- Orbiting Frog Otolith Satellite
- Original Spanish Kitchen
- Out of Place Artifacts
- Outlawries Bill
- Out-of-place Artefacts
- Oxford Electric Bell
- P = NP Problem
- Palomares Hydrogen Bomb Incident
- Paradoxes
- Paris 1968
- Park Young Seok
- Parsley Massacre
- Paternoster
- Patron Saints of Ailments, Illness and Dangers
- Patron Saints of Occupations and Activities
- Paul Felix Armand-Delille
- Peaceful Nuclear Explosions
- People who have declined a British honour
- Peoples Temple
- Peppered moth evolution
- Perfidious Albion
- Person From Porlock
- Phaistos Disc
- Phantom Islands
- Phrases
- Pintupi Nine
- Piracy in the Strait of Malacca
- Pit of Despair
- Pitch drop experiment
- Plimsoll Line
- Plot Devices
- Pneumatic Refuse Collection
- Polar Bear Expedition
- Pole of inaccessibility
- Polywater
- Posthumous Name
- Predictions of Soviet Collapse
- Prince Philip Movement
- Prometheus (tree)
- Pruitt-Igoe
- Pykrete
- Quickfire
- Rashawn Brazell
- Raymond Robinson (Green Man)
- Repugnant market
- Resource holding potential
- Rhetorical Techniques
- Rhyme Structure
- Ribbon Creek Incident
- Richard C. Weaver
- Richard Chase
- Richard Honeck
- Richard Parker
- RKO Forty Acres
- Roanoke Colony
- Robert J. White
- Rochom P’ngieng
- Royal FishRules of Thumb
- Russell’s Teapot
- Ryugyong Hotel
- S. A. Andrée’s Arctic balloon expedition of
- Sable Island
- Saddam Hussein’s Novels
- Sailing Stones
- Saint Dismas
- Sam Kee Building
- Sarajevo Rose
- Sawney Beane
- Scoville Scale
- Seacoast Defense in the United States
- Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic
- Sedlec Ossuary
- Self-immolation
- Semantic satiation
- Semantics
- Sentinelese
- Shades of Death Road
- Sheela na Gig
- Ship Type
- Singular They
- Skeleton Coast
- SL-1
- Slab City
- Smith Chart
- Sokal Affair
- Sokushinbutsu
- Spaghetti Junction
- Special Atomic Demolition Munition
- St Scholastica riot
- St. Pierre et Miquelon
- Stagger Lee
- Stanislav Petrov
- Starfish Prime
- Stevens’ Power Law
- Stone Spheres of Costa Rica
- Sunken Battleships
- Sylvestre Matuschka
- Taman Shud Case
- Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic
- Target girl
- Technical Tap
- Tehachapi Loop
- Thalidomide
- The Black Book
- The Bloop
- The Greenbriar
- The Grinning Man
- The Kafka Machine
- The Mad Gasser of Mattoon
- The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
- The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations
- The Wedge (Border)
- Thornton Road Poltergeist
- Three Whom God Should Not Have Created
- Tom and Eileen Lonergan
- Toynbee Tiles
- Traumatic Insemination
- Tree That Owns Itself
- Tsutomu Miyazaki
- Tube Bar Prank Calls
- Tupper’s Self-Referential Formula
- Two Cunts in a Kitchen
- Tybee Bomb
- U.S. Color-Coded War Plans
- U.S. Islands by Area
- Ukusa
- Ultimate Boeing 747 Gambit
- Uncontacted Peoples
- Unit 731
- United States Numbered Highways
- Universal Nut ShellerUnsolved Problems
- Unused Highway
- USA 193
- USS S-51
- Valery Sablin
- Vasili Arkhipov
- Veerappan
- Vela Incident
- Vendée Globe
- Vladimir Demikhov
- Voynich Manuscript
- Wanda Tinasky
- War of the Golden Stool
- War Plan Red
- Weather Station Kurt
- Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?
- Whole-Body Transplant
- Wild Bill Hickok-Davis Tutt shootout
- Wineville Chicken Coop Murders
- Wire recording
- Word Play
- Wow! Signal
- Yanomamö
- Year Without a Summer
- Yukio Mishima
- Zone of Alienation