Scientific explanations are more available than ever, yet belief in the unprovable and irrational—from Atlantis to aliens, from Flat Earth to the Loch Ness monster—is on the rise. It is because we live in a world that has been stripped of wonder, posits Colin Dickey, who supplies thoughtful commentary as he visits the wacky sites of America's wildest fringe beliefs, from the famed Mount Shasta—where extra-terrestrials are said to roam—to the museum containing the last remaining "evidence" of the great Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876.