Earth is a strange and wonderful place. Even before humanity made things a little more colorful, the natural world has always been unusual, interesting, and bamboozling to behold. But guess what, the most interesting part of this silly green planet has got to be this downright strange society we call the human civilization. 

Take a look around you! Strange oddities make you do a double-take at every turn. There are street vendors cooking hotdogs on a shopping cart with an open flame and there are rickshaws filled to the gills with living ducks. One thing you know for sure when you step outside your house every morning is that you’re probably going to see something a little silly and a little bit weird today. So keep your eyes peeled for a man in a mascot costume hitchhiking on the freeway or an elderly woman with 100 crucifixes superglued to her 1998 Buick Regal. 

Perhaps, if you’re lucky, you can even be the weirdo that some other person encounters today–the choice is yours. 

And if you’re excited to see some photos that capture this same kind of oddity energy, scroll on to enjoy a collection of baffling images that make you wonder how we got here.