People with a taste for the bizarre may love the traveling circus or carnival, but it's not for the main performance. They're drawn to the midway and sideshow fried foods, fun games and weird acts.

A lifelong fascination with the big top has drawn Cris Siqueira away from academia and into the colorful world of the flamboyant talkers, freaks, and fire breathers of the midway. Cris Siqueira, a ...

A 95-foot wall of banners along the east end of the Midway lures fairgoers to the World of Wonders Palace of Illusions. The illustrations promise a world of weird just inside, with sights of a woman ...

This week’s #ThrowbackThursday hearkens back to a time more than a century ago, when the Canadian National Exhibition still featured a midway sideshow. In this group photo from the 1914 CNE, ...