Harmon Leon
Visiting Seoul's Artificial Limb District
There's a street in the Garwol-dong neighborhood lined with shops selling handcrafted prosthetic arms, legs, toes, fingers, eyes, breasts, lips, and every other body part imaginable.
The Canadian Man Who Commands a Cult with His Gaze
Thousands of followers have moved from all over the world to Edmonton to sit silently for hours and stare into John de Ruiter's eyes.
I Spent Sunday in America's First Heavy Metal Church of Christ
Metalheads and rockers congregate here to worship Jesus Christ, who is reimagined on the church's pamphlets as riding a Harley.
I Tried to Lie My Way onto 'The Jerry Springer Show'
I told the guest booker that I had a meth-addicted boyfriend who was having too much anonymous sex on Grindr.
I Was a Paid Shill for the Tanning Industry
There was a time in my life when I was too broke to care about ethics.
I Infiltrated an Abortion Protest
I held a sign that looked like a bloody blender accident and hung out with a guy dressed as the Grim Reaper.
Inside the Tunnels Las Vegas's Homeless Population Calls Home
In the 1990s, the Hydro Conduit Corporation began building storm-drainage tunnels in Las Vegas to protect the tourist destination from raging flash floods. Today, the tunnels house the city's homeless population.
I Was OJ Simpson's Accomplice (on His Hidden-Camera Prank Show)
After answering a Craigslist ad looking for actors, I was hired to be OJ Simpson's sidekick on a hidden-camera prank show called Juiced. In between takes, OJ would make jokes about the double murder he had been accused of.
I Went to a Promise Ring Show and Took an Abstinence Pledge
Groups all across America are still trying to persuade teenagers to choose abstinence over safe sex. For some in the Bible Belt, it's working.
Bill Nye the Science Guy Debated Creationist Ken Ham
I've traveled to Kentucky to witness creationist Ken Ham duke it out for God's army with a home-field advantage—at the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky. Ham's opponent? Bill Nye the Science Guy. My camera's charged. I have two pens and a new...
The Best Little Hell House in Texas
I volunteered at a Hell House in Texas, where being gay results in dying of AIDS and premarital sex can lead the homecoming queen down a slippery slope of prostitution.