Cracked Archive - Weird World
5 Post-Apocalyptic Wastelands Hiding in Busy Cities
You don't necessarily have to earn a fancy degree and apply for expedition funding in order to get your apocalyptic-bone on.
- By Natasha Saravanja
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- December 13, 2013
5 Myths About Prostitutes I Believed (Until I Was One)
I'm Ms. White, and I'll tell you everything you need to know about legal whoredom.
- By Robert Evans, Mrs. White
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- December 12, 2013
5 Ways Having a Baby Messes With Your Brain
I shouldn't be writing this.
- By Christina H
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- December 10, 2013
5 Terrifying Festivals You Won't Believe Are Legal
If you want a real party, a party so awesome, it stops being awesome and starts being more like a violent, bloody war on the concept of fun, well, friend, look no further.
- By Monte Richard, E. Reid Ross
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- December 10, 2013
The 5 Most Hilariously Insane Secret Plots from History
You've heard the phrase 'desperate times call for desperate measures.' These measures must've been drug-induced.
- By Alex Hanton
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- December 10, 2013
5 Badass Con Men Who Fooled the Experts There to Catch Them
Suddenly we wonder if we're all just waiting to be suckers.
- By Alan Boyle
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- December 09, 2013
The 3 Types of Regret That Can Destroy You
I thought maybe it would be a fun thing to pick apart the regrets that mold us into who we are and that can, if we let them, tear us apart.
- By Felix Clay
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- December 07, 2013
8 Hilariously Misleading Covers Slapped on Classic Books
When classic books fall into the hands of the rare cover artist who somehow has no idea what's going on, that's when hilarity ensues.
- By William Lime
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- December 07, 2013
The 5 Best Places to Make (Creepy) Friends
If you want to make new friends but are worried you'll creep them out, you're in luck! At the following gatherings, nobody could possibly be any stranger than the concepts themselves.
- By Mark Hill
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- December 05, 2013
5 Ways Modern Espionage Has Left James Bond Behind
Real spycraft has changed massively since the Cold War. To find out just how much, Cracked got in touch with a civilian spy who worked with the Defense Department in Afghanistan.
- By Robert Evans, Undisclosed
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- December 04, 2013
5 Ways to Make a Gang of Children Lift a Car Off the Ground
I'm not going to ask why you need to lift a car with only child power, I'm just going to tell you how.
- By Chris Bucholz
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- December 03, 2013
7 Mind-Blowing Chemical Reactions You Won't Believe Are Real
Chemistry is mind-numbingly boring to most of us. We're about to change some minds on the subject though.
- By R. Jason Benson, Daniel Nest, Ivan Farkas
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- December 02, 2013
6 Abandoned Sites That Would Make Great Supervillain Lairs
Let your minions rejoice as you reveal to them your new base of operations, completely empty and ready for mayhem.
- By Pauli Poisuo, Ivan Farkas
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- November 30, 2013
6 Holiday Traditions We Should Stop Pretending to Enjoy
There's at least one person in every Secret Santa program who clearly just gives out random crap they have laying around the house.
- By Adam Tod Brown
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- November 29, 2013
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