In his famous book THE HIDDEN PERSUADERS, Vance Packard wrote about people's non-rational decision making (and how American business was endeavoring to overcome, or at least manipulate it).
An example he gave was when a soup company offered purchasers a free pair of women's stockings with each box. There was a slip in the box to redeem for them, but it was not successful. Psychological depth testing found that people were subconsciously imagining having feet in their soup.

Alton Brown met the Yumion on an episode of GOOD EATS--and some say the best Cuban cigars are rolled by women...with their thighs.

Note that the couple thought it was an earthquake, and presumably went back to sleep...

It looks like Noab's Ark...

I understand the main athletic residence built for the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid became a prison--it was designed for double duty.

I just watched a documentary about the Boeing 747 and they showed the crew quarters on a Lufthansa plane...

I hope the man in #3, if needed, bakes a cake that says "I'm sorry you're NOT on your period"

Supposedly there were secret cities that were reproduced version of American ones, to train spies.

(to be fair, my sources for that are the movie THE EXPERTS and an episode of MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE where the IMF team was joined by Mr. Sulu, beamed down from the Enterprise).

Alex...I thought Oak Ridge existed before the Atomic Energy Commission came to town.

Does anyone know how people ended up thinking the picture was of a very young Humphrey Bogart?

Isn't that where they held Typhoid Mary?