Wikipedia Articles

I decided to make a seperate page for curated Wikipedia articles due to the sheer length, enjoy! You can always return to the bookmarks page here.

Wikipedia/Places

Action Park - CW: Injuries, death/child death - Infamous amusement park known for extremely dangerous, poorly maintained rides and multiple lawsuits. Defunctland has a good video on this.

Bodie, California - Beautifully preserved mining ghost town in central California.

Forbidden City - A massive palace complex, not a "city" in the middle of Beijing with a long, interesting history, including the life of the last emperor of China.

Hashima Island CW: Racism, slavery, war - A former mining facility with a tragic history, where Korean prisoners of war were forced to work during WWII. Now a museum, but the Japanese government denies the forced labor that took place here.

Himeji Castle - A dream location, the largest and best preserved Japanese castle.

Kowloon Walled City -Extremely densely populated community in Hong Kong, demolished in 1994 but there's a museum now. There are many youtube videos about the place. The video game Stray's setting was inspired by Kowloon!

Lynnewood Hall - A beautiful Gilded-Age mansion and the largest surviving one in Philadelphia. Currently under restoration by the Lynnewood Hall Preservation Foundation!

Miramare Castle - An Italian castle on the gulf of Trieste, once owned by the Emperor of Mexico. I went here :)

Predjama Castle - A castle in Slovenia, built within a large cave system. I've been here :)

Seneca Village - CW: Racism - A wealthy New York African-American settlement from 1825 that was razed down and replaced with the Central Park, forgotten until the 1990s.

Winchester Mystery House - Another dream location I want to visit, a strange house in California built by one woman up until her death. Source of much misinformation and legend, but the house itself is beautiful in my opinion.

Wikipedia/People

General content warning for abuse, bigotry, drug use, illness, and death, since people and history are messy.

Ada Lovelace - Daughter of famed poet Lord Byron, considered the first true computer programmer--in the 19th century!

Annie Jump Cannon - One of the earliest female pioneers of astronomy, who was hard-of-hearing. Really cool name too.

Elmer McCurdy - A Wild West outlaw whose mummified body was put on display at a traveling circus.

Huguette Clark - A wealthy, eccentric recluse who owned mansions but never lived in them. I visited her Bellosguardo estate :)

Jeanne Calment - Currently recorded as the oldest person to ever live, at 120.

Onfim - A little boy from medieval Russia who is known for the doodles he made on his homework.

Phineas Gage - Famous for survivng a railroad spike through his head, but grossly misunderstood--he was not as violent or crass as the legends made him out to be.

Philo Farnsworth - Arguably the inventor of modern television. Professor Farnsworth in Futurama is named after him.

Public Universal Friend - 18th century Quaker American who died and came back to life as an Evangelist and identifying as genderless.

Puyi - The last emperor of China, with a controversial life and retirement as a community worker.

Susan La Flesche Picotte - The first indigenous, female medical doctor in America.

Tarrare - Possibly apochrypal man in France known for eating literally everything and anything.

Yasuke - An African man who eventually became a retainer of Japanese lord Oda Nobunaga.

Wikipedia/Legendary Creatures

Includes cryptozoology.

Bake-Danuki - Japanese raccoon dogs with magical testicles. Studio Ghibli made a movie about them. It's really good.

Baku - Japanese dream-eating creature that has been associated with tapirs in modern times.

Fenghuang - The chinese Phoenix, who reigned over all the birds. Called Hōō in Japanese. The Pokemon Ho-Oh is this.

Gashadokuro - Legendary giant skeleton in Japanese paranormal folklore.

Ichthyocentaurs - Because centaurs alone weren't cool enough, the Greeks made them half-fish too.

Kaibyō - Supernatural cats in Japanese folklore. My favorite is the Maneki-Neko.

Leshy - Slavic god of the forest. Also seen in the video game Inscryption.

Monkey King - Legendary Chinese trickster figure that is also a murder monkey born from a stone egg.

Nine-Tailed Fox - A spirit fox that's a common legend in East Asian mythology. Also Ninetales from Pokemon.

Ophiotaurus - Another Greek invention, a bull with the body of a serpent, because why not?

Selkie - Creatures (Mostly feminine) from Celtic myths that shapeshift between seal and human form.

Sobek - Egyptian deity with a crocodile head and human body. Also a League of Legends character...kind of?

Tarasque - A French chimera that could make a good pokemon (opportunity wasted with Pokemon France...but we got a luchador hawk.) Wikipedia has a link to Bowser in there, even though he's more inspired by Gamera.

Tsukumogami - In Japan, objects (traditionally tools, but can be other objects like sandals) that become animate/develop a soul after reaching 100 years of age.

Ushi-Oni - Japan saw the Greeks invent Ophiotaurus (see above) and went, "what about a bull with a spider body?" (That's not the only form it takes, but...look at the pictures.)

World Turtle - A turtle that carries the world upon its back. Great A'Tuin from Discworld!