Curious World

Where would you go shopping if money were no object? In Las Vegas, take a look at how big spenders risk big money! Then the winding roads of Great Britain are a perfect setting for the most luxurious automobiles! Shoppers fancy Parisian fashion houses for haute couture. We'll take you on a worldwide shopping spree to the places royalty and celebrities favor for the best of the best.

When wealthy people travel, they expect the best of the best. No simple room with a view will do. A sumptuous suite and impeccable service is the order of the day, and the rich are willing to pay a high price tag to get it. Top Ten: America's Most Expensive Hotel Rooms is the ultimate tour of the most lavish living available in hotels across the country.

Festivals are usually seen as fun-filled family events with lots of rides, music and cotton candy. But those looking for something different and more intense may want to make a trip to some of the most unusual gatherings around. The outlandish, the outrageous and, sometimes, the downright dangerous are all here for you to explore on Extreme Festivals.

It's always showtime at Showtown, U.S.A., where sideshow performers and carnival workers live! In a small town in India, the men are all charming-to snakes, that is! Meanwhile, mermaids are alive and well and living swimmingly in Weeki Wachee, Florida! And if you are looking for a few thrills, try visiting Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, the amusement capital of the midwest!

In California, visit a candy store offering crickets dipped in chocolate, and toasted grubs. Next stop: a Michigan restaurant where the menu includes muskrat. Then, in Montana, try some deep-fried bull testicles! From camel legs at an Australian outback restaurant to garlic ice cream at a fabulous food festival, World's Freakiest Foods is a gastronomical journey into the weird and wacky.

Let the unbelievable unfold before your eyes! New York's Coney Island is home to Sideshows by the Seashore, continuing the traditions of P.T. Barnum. In England, the adventurous and the outlandish set their sights on flying at the annual Bognor Birdman Contest. Meanwhile, Philadelphia's Mutter Museum holds an eye-popping, stomach-churning collection of body parts and human oddities!

The Hindu religion acknowledges reincarnation, and at the Karni Mata Temple in India, rats are revered and believed to be past priests reborn as rodents. Meanwhile, the newest drinking game in England may be one of the grossest: dung spitting. From an ugly face contest in Egremont, England, to towering sandcastles in Galveston, Texas, these truly are things you have to see to believe.