The BraunSammlung is a museum of Braun's industrial design in Kronberg im Taunus, up one flight in a building Atlas Obscura describes as a German strip mall. Braun's headquarters is around the corner, and a nonprofit association runs the museum in collaboration with the company. — Read the rest

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The Tower of Baa-Goat is a 31-foot brick tower in Windsor, Illinois, with a ramp spiraling up the outside of it, and goats live in it. Dave and Marcia Johnson built it in the late 1990s, Marcia told the Atlas Obscura podcast, after Dave saw a photograph of the goat tower at South Africa's Fairview winery in a British wine magazine. — Read the rest

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A Jenny Haniver is a dried ray or skate reshaped by hand until it looks like a small dragon or a demon. They go back to the sixteenth century, when sailors and collectors bought them as curiosities. The name may come from jeune d'Anvers, "youth of Antwerp" which British sailors turned into a woman's name. — Read the rest

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Inshoku Yojo Kagami, or "Mirror of the Physiology of Drinking and Eating," is a nineteenth-century Japanese woodblock print of a man eating fish and drinking sake, with his torso cut away to show the crew of tiny workers keeping him going. — Read the rest

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Pushball is a sport that uses a ball six feet three inches across. The Massachusetts inventor Moses G. Crane came up with it in the 1890s because he couldn't follow American football, a small brown ball moving across a mostly brown field. — Read the rest

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Sand men were buskers who sculpted the beach just off the Atlantic City boardwalk and worked for tips. They built in high relief out of saltwater-soaked sand, life-size and bigger: a slain soldier beside his fallen horse, Christ on the cross, lions and snakes, a mermaid. — Read the rest

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