Curious cartoonist Robert Ripley inspired a century of oddities. His drawings, titled “Believe It or Not,” had a huge following, and his collection turned into attractions around the world.

Robert Ripley in January 1943; an "Odditorium" at the World's Fair in May 1933; a man poses outside the Ripley's Believe It or Not museum at Fisherman's Wharf in 1985.

Cartoonist and entrepreneur Robert Ripley poses with a giant cigar during a trip to South America in 1925. Castano doesn’t have a favorite panel among the ones he’s created, he said.

Before ‘Believe It or Not!’ fame, Robert Ripley was just an awkward kid in Santa Rosa. Santa Rosa honored native son Robert Ripley with a museum over 50 years ago.

Robert Ripley made a name for himself by asserting truth in the unbelievable. An icon for all things bizarre, Ripley aroused curiosity in American audiences by providing them with strange facts ...

LeRoy Robert Ripley, subject of "Ripley: Believe It or Not: American Experience" airing at 8 p.m. Tuesday (Jan. 6) on WYES, would've been a candidate for his own olden-days "Believe ...

The first Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum opened in St. Augustine in 1950. Today, it still offers a glimpse of the weird and wondrous. ... Robert Wadlow, who lived in St. Augustine at one time.

Cartoonist Robert Ripley (1890-1949) started the feature in the New York Globe in 1918. At the peak of its popularity in syndication, it reached 80 million readers. Believe it or not, it’s still ...

Robert Ripley made a name for himself by asserting truth in the unbelievable. An icon for all things bizarre, Ripley aroused curiosity in American audiences by providing them with strange facts ...