Ripley's Believe It or Not!

This guide to Ripley's Believe It or Not! in Pattaya opens on a deadline in December 1918, when cartoonist Robert Ripley, out of sports stories to draw, emptied a scrapbook of odd feats into one cartoon that readers loved. It follows Ripley's decades chasing the strange across the globe, from a pit of live rattlesnakes to a skydiver interviewed mid free fall, and the 1933 Chicago World's Fair Odditorium where he first let people stand in front of the wonders themselves. The guide traces that obsession right up to the rooms you're standing in now.