Ballpark Estimate: $400 to $500/person If you’re planning to vacation in East Africa, there’s one excursion that, without question, must be placed on your itinerary – witnessing the annual migration of the Wildebeest from a hot-air balloon. Usually, the best time for viewing this spectacle in the Serengeti of Tanzania is between June and August. In…
Ballpark Estimate: $1,000 to $15,000 for all of the related costs If you want to get married but have given up on discovering the woman of your dreams through some of the traditional methods like being introduced by friends or meeting at a singles bar, you may want to broaden the parameters of your search to…
Ballpark Estimate: $40,000 Most people know the tragic story of the RMS Titanic. This extravagant cruise liner, which spanned almost one-sixth of a mile long, was the largest ship ever built and also the most opulent. But despite its magnificent presence, it crashed into an iceberg on April 14, 1912 during its first transatlantic journey, and…
Ballpark Estimate: $100,000 On the evening of January 1, 1863, following a busy day of greeting White House visitors in the Blue Room, President Abraham Lincoln retired to a second-floor room and before less than a dozen witnesses, signed a five-page document that forever changed the course of U.S. history. From that day forward, the Emancipation…
Ballpark Estimate: $90,000 and Up. Immortality on planet Earth is impossible. In five billion years or so, the sun is going to turn into a red giant star about 100 times bigger than it is today. The Earth will be vaporized as the oceans boil away. So we can’t live forever on Earth, but what if…
Ballpark Estimate: $1,500 per year. Are you afraid of commitment, at least when it comes to adopting a pet? Then you may be glad to know about a new concept that lets you “borrow” a dog — whether you want to enjoy it for two hours or for two days, the choice is yours. For some…
Ballpark Estimate: $20 to $250 for DIY; $100 to $200 for visit with medium Do you think it’s possible to communicate with the dead? Some people find comfort and solace in “speaking” to loved ones even after they are gone. But for others, this form of communication goes another step, as they use different methods to try…
Ballpark Estimate: $200 + airfare to Bucharest, Romania Yes, there really was a Dracula. And, yes, there really is a Dracula’s Castle located in the Transylvanian region of central Romania. One of the country’s most popular tourist attractions, today this castle remains much as Bram Stoker described it over one hundred years ago, making it the…
Ballpark Estimate: $500 to $100,000 When it comes to planning a children’s birthday party, it used to be enough to invite the neighborhood children over for homemade cup cakes and a plan game of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey to commemorate the passing of another year. But over the past decade, the traditions have been changing, fueled by some particularly…
Ballpark Estimate: $2 billon to $2.5 billion Silently cruising the black depths of the global oceans, the U.S. nuclear attack submarines are a constant reminder of the precarious world we live in as they continue to maintain their vigilant surveillance. Able to stay submerged for months at a time, (only limited by the quantity of food…
Ballpark Estimate: 25 Years to Life For the love of God, do NOT attempt to hire a hit man. If you are reading this web page for actual information on finding a person willing to kill someone for money, you have no chance of success. For you, real hit men only exist in movies. The only…
Ballpark Estimate: $30,000 to $16 million. Have you ever fantasized about owning your own island? Perhaps a remote place where you can run away to escape from the pressures of work and your other responsibilities? Well, even if you aren’t rich, the possibility may not be all that far-fetched. Some private islands start at about the…
Ballpark Estimate: Up to $600 per hour. WARNING: Graphic descriptions of murder scenes follow. Not for the faint of heart or those about to eat lunch. Recognizing the need for this service, as well as the potential for a lucrative business, crime-scene cleaning has now developed into a fast-growing industry. Called “Crime and Trauma Scene Decontamination”…
Ballpark Estimate: $6,000 If you can do a cartwheel, a chin-up, and are really good at sneaking around, odds are, you can become a Ninja. Before trivializing the above admissions criteria, consider who it excludes: the overweight, the uncoordinated, the weak, and the loud. To become a Ninja, there are two categories of expenses- training and…
Ballpark Estimate: $300 to $1,000 Just a decade ago, walking into a bathroom on a commercial airline with another person to join the “Mile High Club” only took a little bit of discretion and a flight attendant’s blind eye. However, in the post-9/11 world, two people entering an airplane bathroom together raise suspicions of bad intentions…