One of the main attractions of Strange, Strange World had always been its presentation of archaeological anomalies and strangenesses.
Many questions remain unanswered in the vast domain of things past.
Many keys have been thrown away, and pieces of the puzzle have been scattered over millenia. And so Strange, Strange World tried to take a fresh look at ancient civilizations, their beliefs and achievements, their knowledge and wisdom, their engineering and magic. It simply didn't exist. Smaller models of equal interest were Stonehenge, the BigHorn Medecine Wheel, Serpent Mound in Ohio, Teotihuacan, an Omphalos from an Oracle Center in the ancient world which had functioned for thousands of years, the provocative remains of a statue of a fish-man called Oannes by the Babylonians and known to the Dogon in Africa today, and North American petroglyphs that mark the beginnings of astronomy on this continent. Several models transported visitors into the theme of the Earth Spirit as it was elegantly developed by researcher John Michell in a book of his titled, The Earth Spirit .