Five of the Most Bizarre and Fun Towns in the World

Molossia is an expression of personal sovereignty creativity imagination and maybe a little bit of - of satire like to poke a little bit of fun it's got easy to do that we have a tiny country inside a gigantic country I am President Kevin Baugh there were President of the Republic of Molossia this is my nation welcome the Republic of Molossia right over there is the United States and right over here is our country my nation is a micro nation which means a tiny self-declared nation and usually located within another country as is Molossia inside the United States the United States does not recognize Molossia although we did get a very nice Christmas card from President Obama I would say that the u.s. considers a sort of an extension of free speech for the record we do pay taxes however we call it foreign aid you've seen their roads the US needs all the help they can get so we're there for them we like to do things that are different and unique and unusual Molossia we are actually very proud of our space program yes Malati does have a currency it's called the Valora which means valuable in Esperanto which is our second language that we also have our measurement system our total population right now is 32 and we have our own time zone many of our civil servants and Molossia are mannequins because they don't complain and they don't charge a whole lot never go on strike that kind of thing there are hundreds of micro nations around the world in just about every country you can imagine the conch republic which is Key West Florida a seal and a very famous micro nation located off the coast of Britain it's really an amazingly creative group of people that decide they want to have their own country I originally founded the Republic of Molossia back in 1977 when I was 15 and I just stayed with it through the years it is a lot of work running Molossia because I want Molossia to be a functioning nation I want it to be as much like a larger nation as it possibly can be I love being the president of Malaysia I really do the second only to my family is one of my great loves in life [Music] the more passengers for climb up a linguist go get it through introverts landihilio-- go go go anybody know anybody for fun note plans clung llanfair sudden veils between gifts go get it we little foursome Cecilia Coco golf bright it's a small town in northern Wales around 76% of the population here speaks Welsh it's also the longest town name in Europe with 58 letters there are literally four LS next to each other right there what is with this name Chandler put Quinn give coke Eric we're in trouble Santa Silvio go go go is not the original name of the village he's got to be kidding in the 1860s the name was contrived by the local cobbler and it was meant to bring in people and tourists Alan help us break this name down the name means places within the village you've got this church Mary in the hollow of the white hazel near to the rapid whirlpools at the Church of Cecilia and the red caves okay so let's say you want to mail a letter do you have to write the whole name postmaster Jim Evans you could but your doctor writes very small or you could use a short version which is the first 20 letters if you play for the local football league does the name fit on your jersey team manager Steve Smith it does and it's the longest name of any football team in the world and it's just about fits can you say it after a pint pub owner Kevin Bryant I'm sure I can let's see clever pork we get ok if we drop this at the city oh go go go but can you put it in a song club for fanfare poodle son let put gringa coke addict friend of weeks and cecilia go google it might be the greatest PR son of the mid-1800s i don't know even of today after all we're here here in sanford put Quinn get go get it wind Robo Santa silly oh go go go that's pretty good in spring during Wisconsin there is a house on a rock but it is so much more than that inside it is home to many bizarre and incredible collections there's a room of self playing instruments an infinity room a giant squid attacking a whale and some nightmare-inducing dolls it seems like a really strange museum and that's because no it appears to be Museum because it is housing antiques it's housing all kinds of memorabilia and things from a different era it's more of a place to just enjoy so what is house on the rock the house on the rock to me is a magical complex it's an all-around sensory explosion it was made by Alex Jordan who was an architect not at all not at all he is not a trained man he's just a man of great vision maybe not an architect but an evident hoarder Alex Jordan with the help of his friends built the house on the rock in the 40s and opened it to the public in the 60s his collections of antiques and junk new items and old real and quite obviously fake have north central theme or apparent reason for being that and maybe that's part of its charm there are some pretty incredible things including a huge unraidable carousel 269 different animals not one of them is a horse really yes the horses are drawing the walls of course they do you know every time you turn the corner here it's a different thing and it's a different Wow and you don't know what to expect one man's trash is another man's roadside tourist attraction today's journey takes us to the Dutch town of guitar G Thorne is just like any normal town with one exception roads they don't have them the immense of the sine alpha is open boat someone's going down violently the feature of the platform a semi-coma and all this much local severe egg burns by deaden a local burger minister from Quito now I design fear and rent a home that Imams over here and I love homeless Persians and boats lots of boats now who adduction no fear zone for faithfulness s all the board is available either heat or that's young one of the town's residents he's known for punters a flat bottom boat that originated in detour hey fellow Stanek 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Length: 11min 44sec (704 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 16 2017