The ultimate voyager

robert ripley  was  as beloved as the amazing oddities  featured in the Believe  it or Not cartoons he  drew  for newspapers around the world and his  radio and television shows. ripley became a celebrity whose popularity rivaled even first  Odditroium  in 1933 in chicago over two million fans flocked to the amazing human oddities  and artifacts  he collected  from every  corner of the  planet.  Ripley found ways to discover all was weird and wonderfull  in the world - including the  purchase of his own chinese junk the mon lei pictured in painting to the right (one rippley's   few color paintings) the ship was rebuilt from an 1890s cargo junk.