The 505 Weirdest Online Stores

Want to locate the Internet's strangest stores? Jut turn to Dan Crowley's 505 Weirdest Online Stores: 505 Things You Never Knew You Could Buy Online. From a DVD of teddy bear violence to a Kilt Store and an International Banana Club and Museum, here are some of the zaniest sites you'll ever see, online or off. Web addresses and a synopsis of offerings and oddities make for lively leisure browsing even for avid computer browsers.

This is a wonderful book for those who like laughing at the excesses of the Internet. Many of the sites in this book are designed to be laughed at ("Naked Dancing Llama"), but, disturbingly, many are not ("Villisca Axe Murderers"). The scope of the book is quite comprehensive and everyone I have shared the book with has been simultaneously mortified and amused. Some of my favorite sites from the book are "Bob Barker Prison Supplies," "Ornithopter Zone," "Texas Bigfoot Research Center," "Pole Vault World," and of course "Air Sickness Bags," a site for collectors of (what else?) airsickness bags (www.airsicknessbags.com.) Really. While many of these stores ("The British Lawn Mower Museum") are not designed primarily as stores, all of these sites have something to sell, from designer diapers from Montana, to wooden computer peripherals. This book is eye opening, hilarious, and just a little bit frightening.