64 Extremely Strange Websites

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The internet is arguably one of the greatest inventions in human history. It’s full of all the world’s knowledge, history, and information, and you use it to do anything from diagnosing obscure personality disorders to learning how to speak fictional languages . But the internet is also full of some not-so-useful stuff (in the most delightful way possible). In this article, we’ll break down 64 of the weirdest, strangest, and most useless websites on the internet. If you’ve got some time to kill, you’re in the right place!

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Section 1 of 2:

The Most Interesting Strange Websites

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    The Useless Web The Useless Web is a mandatory inclusion on any strange website list because it fetches random strange websites. It used to contain a lot more websites (it turns out that weird, useless websites don’t tend to stay around forever), but it is still worth checking out once you’ve exhausted our list.
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    Pointer Pointer Pointer Pointer is a “strange website” classic. It only works on desktop, though. Open the site, move your mouse, and wherever the mouse ends up resting, a photograph will appear pointing at your mouse. A lot of the photos are really funny too, which helps.
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    Le Du Champ Marcel Du Champ was an artist famous for pioneering “found” and “readymade” art. Le Du Champ seems to pay homage to his weird art objects. There’s something haunting, fascinating, and refreshing about this website. Knowing stuff like this exists makes us feel better.
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    Ouais Mais Bon "Ouais Mais Bon" is French for “Yeah, but okay.” Create your own weird little songs with these three floating heads who seem to mumble, “yeah,” “but,” and “okay.” If only we all could be so whimsical in the face of uselessness!
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    This Person Doesn’t Exist Feel like creeping yourself out a bit? Check out This Person Doesn’t Exist . The person you’re looking at isn’t real. Refresh the page to get a new person who doesn’t exist. Keep refreshing. This website is an infinite snapshot of fake people. Kind of weird, right?
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    Pug in a Rug All hail the pug in the rug ! Honor him with your eyes! Become a master honorer of the pug!
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    Paper Toilet You know that feeling when you accidentally pull too much toilet paper off the roll and it spins down and then you have to re-roll it, but deep in your heart you’re kind of like “It would actually be fun to undo the whole roll, but I don’t want to be wasteful and toilet paper is expensive” so you stop? Paper Toilet lets you live that very specific fantasy out.
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    What Football Looks Like in the Future What Football Looks Like in the Future is making our list because it’s a super strange website, but underneath it all is a piece of literary genius. If you like science fiction and/or you’re into weird, avant-garde literature, we strongly recommend sticking with this website regardless of where you think it may or may not be taking you. It’s really a next-level experience.
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    The Infinite Conversation The Infinite Conversation is an AI-generated audio conversation between filmmaker Werner Herzog and philosopher Slavoj Zizek, and it goes on forever. It’s infinite. It dips between making sense and not making sense, and the accents of these two great thinkers really add the cherry on top.
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    Zombo Turn the audio on. Then, enjoy being welcomed to Zombo dot com . You can do anything on Zombo dot com. The only limit is yourself. Welcome to Zombo com. This. Is. Zombo. Com.
    • Zombo is supposedly a running gag about bad websites from the '90s that would announce how awesome they are when you opened them.
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    Sad for Japan Japan’s flag depicts a red circle in a white rectangle, which is exactly what the website Sad for Japan shows. However, you can touch the red circle here to make it feel better. It’s so lonely being a red circle on a white background.
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    Cursor Effects Curious about what the mouse pointer is capable of? Head to Cursor Effects and drag the mouse around. Click on the screen to change the effect.
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    Cat Bounce At Cat Bounce , there are cats. They bounce. You can throw them, but why would you do that?! Let the cats bounce.
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    One Square Minesweeper You know the game Minesweeper , right? Give One Square Minesweeper a shot to see how you fare playing Minesweeper with one square.
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    Draw a Perfect Circle Use your cursor to try and draw a perfect circle . The site will tell you how close you are with each attempt. It’s fun to see how close you can get!
    • This is a Neal.Fun project. Neal is an indy website developer who likes making stuff like this. We’ve pulled out a few of our favorites for this list, but his entire site is worth checking out.
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    OMG DOGS There’s nothing for you to do on OMG DOGS except turn up the volume and stare at these beautiful little critters running their hearts out.
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    Mouchette If you really want the strange dial turned up as high as it goes, Mouchette is the website you’re looking for. It seems like the site is a sandbox where you can roleplay as a French teenage artist’s fever dream? We’re not really sure. Try messing around with the dropdown menu at the bottom of the page. It’ll take you to some very odd sites.
    • If you stay on the same page for more than 30–60 seconds anywhere on Mouchette, weird poems and images will appear.
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    Eht Namuh 973 Eht Namuh is “a maze in abracadabra.” The letters all line up in an upside down pyramid running to the bottom right. Brown letters on a black backdrop. Strange. But click on the text at the top of the page, and watch everything get even stranger.
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    Paint Toys Calligram Paint Toys Calligram lets you tell a story with your mouse cursor. Drag and move the mouse to generate random sentences and phrases. It may seem pointless at first, but you can actually craft some really odd and interesting art with this site.
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    Binary Piano Based on this weird video , Binary Piano imagines each key on the keyboard as a binary value. The loop you hear is what binary sounds like! You can even customize the notes to create your own weird automated sounds and songs.
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    Spend Bill Gates’ Money Ever wonder how many flip-flops or DVD players Bill Gates could buy with all of his money? Spend Bill Gates’ Money is a fun little calculator that lets you test the math.
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    Quick Draw Quick Draw is a Google AI experiment. Basically, you get 20 seconds to draw a random item. The AI guesses out loud to see if it can figure out what you’re trying to draw. It’s a fun little time waster.
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    Cornify Do you love unicorns? Then Cornify is for you. Open this website and hit the “Cornify” button in the middle. Then, hit it again. Once more! Keep going…
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    Chris McKenzie At Chris McKenzie , the cube will follow your cursor, but take the cursor off the screen and this poor little box guy will turn into a child lost in a grocery store. He loves your cursor so much.
    • No, we don’t know who Chris McKenzie is.
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    Superbad We’re really not sure what’s going on at Superbad . Click on a star and you’re sent to a miniature directory of weird projects. There’s lots of strange stuff on this site, and it’s fun to sort of poke around.
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    OOO Playables Head to OOO Playables and solve the first puzzle. Then, solve the next puzzle. Then, solve the…the loop seems to go on forever, but the puzzles are really intricate and interesting.
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    Nyan Cat An old internet classic. Nyan Cat is one of the original internet memes. It’s also the source of one of the original “useless websites.” Pay homage to the Nyan Cat!
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    Man in the Dark Don't just go to the Man in the Dark website, try clicking on him too. It doesn’t seem like he likes that. But honestly, if I were a man trapped in a black abyss struggling to move my limbs and following the whims of a mouse cursor, I’d kind of take whatever company I could get.
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    The Nicest Place The internet can be a kind of nasty place sometimes. Take a break and visit The Nicest Place on the Internet to get a little mood boost. At bare minimum, you’ll crack a smile. We promise!
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    Long Doge Doge is a fun internet meme about a silly little serendipitous Shiba Inu dog. Long Doge lets you scroll as far as your heart desires to extend the doge and make it taller. If you really hate ink and paper, you can even print out your work!
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    Akinator Press the “Play” button and then follow the prompts. Akinator will magically predict whatever item you’re thinking of! It’s actually pretty hard to trip him up, so give it a shot. Just make sure you answer the questions honestly.
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    Don’t You Lecture Me With Your $30 Website We have zero idea what the title of this website has to do with the content of this website. It’s a fun soundboard with wacky sound effects, memes, and noises. You can just click around, or build an entire song from scratch by arranging the sounds in a composition. It even has a loop function if you want to drive your neighbors or roommates insane.
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    HEEEEEEEY! Heyyyyyyyy, hooooooooooo, HEEEEEYYYYYYY, HOOOOOOOO.
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    Corndog on Corndog The corndogs are beautiful, the plate is pristine, and the mustard provides the “je ne sais quoi” for the whole composition. The soundtrack is a bop, too. 10/10. Corndog on Corndog is a modern masterpiece.
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    Scream Into the Void Having a rough day? Open up this site , type whatever you want, and hurl the text into the deep abyss. Watch it get swallowed by the maw of the void as the screams hollow out the place in your soul where that frustration used to be. In other words, this is a pretty neat website.
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    William Hoza Text Type with your keyboard, destroy the letters with your mouse. This fun little stim site is a great time waster.
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    Unicode Snowman for You Everybody deserves a little unicode snow guy! Just look at him. He’s so peaceful and serene. Check it out.
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    Bees Bees! Bees! Bees! Bees! Bees! Bees! Bees! Bees! Bees! Bees! Bees! Bees! Bees! Bees! Bees! Bees! Bees! Bees! Bees! Bees! Bees! Bees! Bees! Bees!
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    Face Guesser Face Guesser is sort of like Wordle , but with celebrities. The image starts out blurry and you get 5 guesses to try and guess whose face it is. With each incorrect guess, the pixels get a little smaller and the face gets a little easier to make out. Come back each day for a new challenge!
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    Please Like If you have Facebook, Please Like will look familiar. It’s the Like button! You can click the button to Like the website. 18,000 other people have as of the most recent count. It doesn’t do anything, and you’re not actually liking anything, but you can click it!
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    Is It Christmas? Check in on this website every single day to find out if it’s Christmas or not.
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    Age Geek Age Geek is a really fun website. You enter your birthday and the website will generate a bunch of timelines for famous achievements. Maybe not the best website if you’re feeling down about your career in the middle of a midlife crisis, but we prefer to look at the results as aspirational. Just check it out! It’s neat.
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    World’s Dumbest Game We know that “world’s dumbest game” is a pretty big title to fill, but it really might be true on this website . Just try it yourself.
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    What Beats Rock This should make up for the World’s Dumbest Game. What Beats Rock is Rock, Paper, Scissors but with one big change. You can choose anything to play. Literally. It starts off with “What beats rock?” You enter a solution, then have to think of something that beats that thing. It’s surprisingly fun and it really gets your juices flowing.
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    Make My Drive Fun Enter two destinations in the box in the top right, and this website will not find the fastest route. It will, however, provide the funnest route.
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    Tane Tane is just a cool dude who wants his glasses. Give him his glasses!
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    Fidget If you thought fidget spinners were fun, check out this digital version . We like to try “spinning it” really hard by flicking the mouse. It’s kind of therapeutic.
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    Yvette’s Bridal Formal Blog Yvette’s Bridal Formal Blog is either a phenomenal interactive art piece about a woman in the 1990s sharing her life online, or a neglected Geocities page depicting the interior thoughts of a troubled person. We don’t know.
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    Bury Me With My Money Periodically, a man falls from the sky and screams out, “Bury Me With My Money.” It’s just as mesmerizing, moving, powerful, and narratively interesting as you’d imagine.
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    Psychic High School Psychic High School is a website for a school that doesn’t exist. Yes, in case you were wondering, the school is exclusively for psychic students. Poke around for a while! It’s a fun, quirky little website.
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    Color Associations Color Associations is a simple website. Every day, the website asks, “What color is [insert a random emotion].” You click on your answer, the results of the poll are displayed, and the website resets every day to ask a new question. Check back each day to help humanity figure out what emotion is what color!
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    EarthCam EarthCam is a hosting site that shares live video feeds from CCTVs all over the world. In other words, you can pop in and see what’s randomly going on in some random surveillance camera at any time. We find it equal parts silly, strange, and creepy.
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    Space Elevator Space Elevator is another Neal.Fun project. This site really drives home just how high space actually goes. You start on the ground and use your mouse’s scroll wheel to take the “elevator” up. It’s a really well-designed website and it’s fun putting the height of our sky into real context.
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    Stimulation Clicker Do you enjoy being stimulated? Do you struggle with boredom when you don’t have at least two screens relaying information at all time? If so, Stimulation Clicker will feel like home to you. You click a button and add more stimulation. See just how stimulated you can get!
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    Info.Cern Info.Cern is the oldest website on the internet. Actually, it was also the very first website to ever be published. That’s right. This was the very first website ever. It’s also extremely strange from today’s perspective. Check it out! We really like the option to browse the first website using the line-mode browser simulator .
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    Symbolics So, Info.Cern is the oldest website, but Symbolics is the oldest registered website. In other words, this is the first website crafted by someone other than the people working on the original Internet. It’s also very cool, strange, and contains a lot of fun and interesting info.
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    Geo Kitten On Geo Kitten , you will be shown two cats. Click on your favorite. Two new cats will appear. Click on your favorite. Repeat this process until the website guesses where you live.
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    Click the Red Button We’re not totally sure what’s going on at Click the Red Button , but there is a red button; you can click it, and you’re shown stuff. Some of the stuff looks like art, some of it looks like randomly generated stuff, some of it looks like interactive games. Either way, it’s neat!
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    Ever Dream This Man? This odd and creepy website takes a look at a weird phenomenon. For decades, people would fall asleep and dream of the same man. This website is a psychologist’s attempt to document and monitor this odd phenomenon.
    • We’re not going to spoil things here, but there’s more to this story than meets the eye. Do a little digging here if you enjoy a good mystery!
    • And be sure to check out the 2023 A24 film Dream Scenario , starring Nic Cage as the man people around the world just can't stop dreaming about for some reason...
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    Project Random Project Random contains buttons for popular platforms, including Twitch, YouTube, Snapchat, and others. When you click a button, the site will take you to a random video from that platform. It’s pretty fun to poke around and see what kind of weird stuff people upload.
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    SCP The Secure, Contain, Protect (SCP) Foundation is a secret global organization tasked with keeping supernatural phenomena from ending the world. Each “SCP” entry describes containment protocol for various entities, and reading these logs can range from hilarious to spine-tingling. There are time-traveling plague doctors , slot machines that clone whatever object you insert into them , and even magical sheep that explode when they’re upset .
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    Time Cube It only exists via Wayback Machine now, but Time Cube is notoriously strange enough that we’re compelled to include it. It’s a “theory of everything” manifesto developed by a mentally unwell man named Ray who was convinced every day was actually four days happening at the same time and that the planet is a cube, not a globe. There is some very weird stuff in here, but it’s a rollercoaster of a ride.
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    Texas Last Words The Texas Department of Criminal Justice maintains this page . It’s a list of every executed inmate’s last words. It’s very macabre, and some of the entries can be upsetting, so explore at your own risk.
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    Active Theory Active Theory is actually a company. They make websites, art installations, and a few other web-based things. That’s not the point. The point is that their website is very cool. It’s often cited by developers as one of the most impressive websites ever made. Take a gander.
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Section 2 of 2:

Staying Safe When Looking for Weird Websites

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    Do not open websites with expired HTTP tags. If a website fails to load fully and you get a message about there being no HTTP or HTTPS certificate, do not select the option to continue on to the webpage. These missing security tags indicate that the site is likely unsafe, as it has not been updated to protect against modern intrusions. [1]
    • A lot of these strange websites are jokes, personal projects, or weird art ideas. As a result, a lot of these niche websites are abandoned when it comes to security updates.
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    Hover over links to ensure they go to normal URLs. If you take your mouse cursor and hover over a button or link, the address will pop up. Confirm anything you’re going to click on is actually a normal URL. If you see odd strings of letters, “.exe” files, or websites that aren’t related to the one you’re on, skip it.
    • On mobile, tap and hold a link to get the full URL to pop up. Then, you can read it and determine if the link looks suspicious or not.
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    Do not enter your personal information anywhere. None of the websites we’ve linked to above require you to enter any information. You don’t need to sign up for anything or enter a credit card. If you’re browsing weird sites and you get asked to enter a bunch of personal information, do not do it. You could be getting scammed.
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