This weekend brings the world's Largest Yard Sale, which now stretches from Michigan to Alabama! If you're anywhere near Route 127, I highly recommend finding your way there sometime this weekend. Not only are there treasures among the junk, there's also entertainment and homemade food and all sorts of surreal fun.

Also starting this weekend, Cincinnati begins the "Play Me, I'm Yours" art exhibit, where decorated pianos are strewn about the city and people are encouraged to play them. (They say that the pianos will be protected from the elements; as this is August in a river valley, that should be interesting to watch.)

Meanwhile, Chicago is offering fitness classes geared toward surviving the zombie apocalypse. Perhaps they know something we don't.

Virtual travelers, take note of the amazing Travelers in the Middle East historical photo archive!

Otherworldly travelers, take note (and try not to take offense) at the Periodic Table of Irrational Nonsense, covering all sorts of extrasensory and extraterrestial and extrastrange phenomena.