Looking at outlandish inventions; a full-body gas mask for babies; Smell-o-Vision; a robot powered by eating slugs; inflatable airplanes; hidden cameras in contact lenses; coffin security systems.

Human bones as a "miracle cure" for gout; living mummies buried alive; a truly bizarre Victorian way to lose weight -- with tapeworms; from daily rites to once-in-a-lifetime rituals, the stranger side of human nature is revealed in these rituals.