Symbolism is hilarious.

We really wanted this guy to be our hero.

Didn’t science give us the answer to these a long time ago?

At some point, you’re trying things just because.

You have no idea how much an owl goes for these days.

Sure, times were different in the past. But logic should have come into play at some point during history’s weird panics.

Some folks go to great lengths to uncover amazing stories.

Crime is a fairly consistent aspect of society — until it goes absolutely bonkers.

The human body is but a tool, forced to do our bidding. Except when it doesn’t.

Can’t afford a train ticket? No worries; the United States Postal Service will deliver your kid for fifty cents.

Using technology for its intended purpose is lame. We’d much rather control laser guided missiles with an Xbox controller.

You think you at least have a rough idea of where common stuff comes from … but then when you look at the history books, things get weird.

Let’s just go ahead and use this as a basic rogue-type lesson on how to NOT act when practicing the ancient art of tourism.

Some of these sentences that judges handed to criminals are so unusual, they’re not actually even legal.

Hey, when you gotta pay the rent, no job is too weird. Well … most of the time.

Hey, we get it. Sometimes you just get fed up with playing nice and have a “screw this” moment. Never give these people a reason to reach that point.

Some of our most innocent games come with fairly dark backstories. Like the time Scrabble had to remove 200 offensive words from their official dictionary.

From five-star prison cells to an entire prison city, The Modern Rogue takes a look at some of the strangest prisons on the planet.

Vacations and 401K? Pfft. How about $11,000 in bacon-wrapped cash? Or a job that allows you to do literally nothing?

Most of the time, it’s pretty obvious why we started a lot of our routines and traditions. And then there are these things.