Registry of
Observed Holes

BB-001

The Omphalos of Delphi

CLASS: Belly Button
RECORDED AT: Delphi, Greece

3.46 / 5.00 4 observations

BB-002

Qosqo

CLASS: Belly Button
RECORDED AT: Cusco, Peru

3.17 / 5.00 3 observations

BB-003

Te Pito o te Henua

CLASS: Belly Button
RECORDED AT: Easter Island, Chile

4.17 / 5.00 3 observations

BB-004

Jerusalem, Navel of the World

CLASS: Belly Button
RECORDED AT: Jerusalem

3.28 / 5.00 3 observations

BB-005

Pura Puser Tasik

CLASS: Belly Button
RECORDED AT: Bali, Indonesia

2.94 / 5.00 3 observations

BG-001

Everything Bagel

CLASS: Bagel Hole
RECORDED AT: Ess-a-Bagel, New York City

3.11 / 5.00 3 observations

BG-002

Montreal-Style Bagel

CLASS: Bagel Hole
RECORDED AT: St-Viateur Bagel, Montreal

3.61 / 5.00 3 observations

BG-003

Lender's Bagel

CLASS: Bagel Hole
RECORDED AT: Grocery freezer aisle

4.11 / 5.00 3 observations

BG-004

H&H Bagel

CLASS: Bagel Hole
RECORDED AT: H&H Bagels, Upper West Side, NYC

3.89 / 5.00 3 observations

BG-005

World Record Bagel

CLASS: Bagel Hole
RECORDED AT: Bruegger's Bagels bakery

3.22 / 5.00 3 observations

BH-001

Sagittarius A*

CLASS: Black Hole
RECORDED AT: Center of the Milky Way

3.33 / 5.00 3 observations

BH-002

M87*

CLASS: Black Hole
RECORDED AT: Messier 87, Virgo Cluster

3.61 / 5.00 3 observations

BH-003

Cygnus X-1

CLASS: Black Hole
RECORDED AT: Constellation Cygnus

3.28 / 5.00 3 observations

BH-004

TON 618

CLASS: Black Hole
RECORDED AT: Canes Venatici

3.28 / 5.00 3 observations

BH-005

GW150914 Remnant

CLASS: Black Hole
RECORDED AT: Roughly 1.3 billion light-years away

3.33 / 5.00 3 observations

BTH-001

Butthole Surfers

CLASS: Butthole
RECORDED AT: San Antonio, Texas — formed 1981

3.28 / 5.00 3 observations

BTH-002

External Anal Sphincter

CLASS: Butthole
RECORDED AT: Human anatomy

3.44 / 5.00 3 observations

BTH-003

Sphincter of Oddi

CLASS: Butthole
RECORDED AT: Human digestive anatomy

3.67 / 5.00 3 observations

BTH-004

The Cloaca

CLASS: Butthole
RECORDED AT: Birds, reptiles, amphibians, and monotremes

3.78 / 5.00 3 observations

BTH-005

"Ring of Fire"

CLASS: Butthole
RECORDED AT: Johnny Cash, 1963 — reappropriated by generations of spicy food enjoyers

3.28 / 5.00 3 observations

BTH-006

Internal Anal Sphincter

CLASS: Butthole
RECORDED AT: Human anatomy

3.28 / 5.00 3 observations

BTH-007

The Pearlfish Sublet

CLASS: Butthole
RECORDED AT: Inside a sea cucumber, most tropical reefs

3.67 / 5.00 3 observations

BTH-008

Tree (installation)

CLASS: Butthole
RECORDED AT: Place Vendôme, Paris — October 2014

3.39 / 5.00 3 observations

BTH-009

PuckerButt Pepper Co.

CLASS: Butthole
RECORDED AT: Smokin' Ed Currie's farm, Rock Hill, South Carolina

3.61 / 5.00 3 observations

BTH-010

The Colonoscope

CLASS: Butthole
RECORDED AT: Outpatient procedure rooms everywhere

3.28 / 5.00 3 observations

DH-001

Tim Hortons Timbit

CLASS: Donut Hole
RECORDED AT: Tim Hortons, Toronto

3.78 / 5.00 3 observations

DH-002

Krispy Kreme Original Glazed Hole

CLASS: Donut Hole
RECORDED AT: Krispy Kreme

3.78 / 5.00 3 observations

DH-003

Dunkin' Munchkin

CLASS: Donut Hole
RECORDED AT: Dunkin', Quincy, Massachusetts

4.0 / 5.00 3 observations

DH-004

Entenmann's Donut Hole

CLASS: Donut Hole
RECORDED AT: Entenmann's, grocery aisle

4.17 / 5.00 3 observations

DH-005

LaMar's Donut Hole

CLASS: Donut Hole
RECORDED AT: LaMar's Donuts, Kansas City

3.11 / 5.00 3 observations

GH-001

18th Hole, Pebble Beach

CLASS: Golf Hole
RECORDED AT: Pebble Beach Golf Links, California

3.56 / 5.00 3 observations

GH-002

12th Hole, Augusta National

CLASS: Golf Hole
RECORDED AT: Augusta National, Georgia — "Golden Bell"

3.78 / 5.00 3 observations

GH-003

17th Hole, TPC Sawgrass

CLASS: Golf Hole
RECORDED AT: TPC Sawgrass, Florida — "Island Green"

3.5 / 5.00 3 observations

GH-004

17th Hole, St Andrews

CLASS: Golf Hole
RECORDED AT: Old Course, St Andrews, Scotland — "Road Hole"

3.39 / 5.00 3 observations

GH-005

16th Hole, Cypress Point

CLASS: Golf Hole
RECORDED AT: Cypress Point Club, California

3.72 / 5.00 3 observations

LP-001

Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich

CLASS: Loophole
RECORDED AT: Ireland / Netherlands, corporate tax filings

3.78 / 5.00 3 observations

LP-002

Delaware Loophole

CLASS: Loophole
RECORDED AT: State of Delaware, USA

3.83 / 5.00 3 observations

LP-003

Carried Interest Loophole

CLASS: Loophole
RECORDED AT: U.S. federal tax code

3.61 / 5.00 3 observations

LP-004

Backdoor Roth IRA

CLASS: Loophole
RECORDED AT: U.S. retirement account rules

3.11 / 5.00 3 observations

LP-005

Buy, Borrow, Die

CLASS: Loophole
RECORDED AT: U.S. stepped-up basis rule

3.89 / 5.00 3 observations

MH-001

Naruto Whirlpool Manhole

CLASS: Manhole
RECORDED AT: Naruto, Tokushima, Japan

3.44 / 5.00 3 observations

MH-002

Squirtle Poké Lid

CLASS: Manhole
RECORDED AT: Machida, Tokyo, Japan

3.33 / 5.00 3 observations

MH-003

Pikachu Poké Lid

CLASS: Manhole
RECORDED AT: Ikeda, Osaka, Japan

3.17 / 5.00 3 observations

MH-004

Steaming Con Edison Manhole

CLASS: Manhole
RECORDED AT: Manhattan, New York City

3.72 / 5.00 3 observations

MH-005

Chicago Flag Manhole Cover

CLASS: Manhole
RECORDED AT: Citywide, Chicago, Illinois

3.17 / 5.00 3 observations

PH-001

Bachor Mosaic Pothole

CLASS: Pothole
RECORDED AT: N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago

3.56 / 5.00 3 observations

PH-002

The Moonwalk Pothole

CLASS: Pothole
RECORDED AT: Bengaluru, India

3.28 / 5.00 3 observations

PH-003

Malmesbury Crazy Golf Pothole

CLASS: Pothole
RECORDED AT: Malmesbury High Street, Wiltshire, England

3.67 / 5.00 3 observations

PH-004

Ferry Road Pothole

CLASS: Pothole
RECORDED AT: Ferry Road, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland

3.0 / 5.00 3 observations

PH-005

Britain's Biggest Pothole

CLASS: Pothole
RECORDED AT: Somerset, England

3.06 / 5.00 3 observations

PL-001

Velociraptor Scale Error

CLASS: Plot Hole
RECORDED AT: Jurassic Park (1993)

3.61 / 5.00 3 observations

PL-002

Stormtrooper Aim

CLASS: Plot Hole
RECORDED AT: Star Wars (1977–)

4.06 / 5.00 3 observations

PL-003

The Forgotten Child

CLASS: Plot Hole
RECORDED AT: Home Alone (1990)

3.39 / 5.00 3 observations

PL-004

The Unanswered Island

CLASS: Plot Hole
RECORDED AT: Lost (2004–2010)

3.06 / 5.00 3 observations

PL-005

The Starbucks Cup

CLASS: Plot Hole
RECORDED AT: Game of Thrones, S8E4 (2019)

3.78 / 5.00 3 observations

RH-001

Alice's Rabbit Hole

CLASS: Rabbit Hole
RECORDED AT: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

4.11 / 5.00 3 observations

RH-002

The YouTube Algorithm

CLASS: Rabbit Hole
RECORDED AT: youtube.com, recommended sidebar

3.67 / 5.00 3 observations

RH-003

Getting to Philosophy

CLASS: Rabbit Hole
RECORDED AT: Wikipedia, first-link chains

3.33 / 5.00 3 observations

RH-004

The QAnon Spiral

CLASS: Rabbit Hole
RECORDED AT: Assorted online forums

2.67 / 5.00 3 observations

RH-005

The 3 A.M. Wikipedia Binge

CLASS: Rabbit Hole
RECORDED AT: wikipedia.org, any article

3.56 / 5.00 3 observations

SH-001

Great Blue Hole

CLASS: Sinkhole
RECORDED AT: Lighthouse Reef, Belize

3.28 / 5.00 3 observations

SH-002

Winter Park Sinkhole

CLASS: Sinkhole
RECORDED AT: Winter Park, Florida

3.67 / 5.00 3 observations

SH-003

Guatemala City Sinkhole

CLASS: Sinkhole
RECORDED AT: Zona 2, Guatemala City

3.33 / 5.00 3 observations

SH-004

Xiaozhai Tiankeng

CLASS: Sinkhole
RECORDED AT: Chongqing, China

3.28 / 5.00 3 observations

SH-005

Berezniki Sinkhole

CLASS: Sinkhole
RECORDED AT: Berezniki, Russia

3.94 / 5.00 3 observations

WH-001

Einstein-Rosen Bridge

CLASS: Wormhole
RECORDED AT: Theoretical physics, proposed 1935

3.33 / 5.00 3 observations

WH-002

Morris-Thorne Wormhole

CLASS: Wormhole
RECORDED AT: Theoretical physics, proposed 1988

3.56 / 5.00 3 observations

WH-003

Interstellar's Wormhole

CLASS: Wormhole
RECORDED AT: Saturn, in the film Interstellar (2014)

3.56 / 5.00 3 observations

WH-004

The Stargate

CLASS: Wormhole
RECORDED AT: Fictional, Stargate franchise (1994–)

3.56 / 5.00 3 observations

WH-005

Contact's Vega Shortcut

CLASS: Wormhole
RECORDED AT: Fictional, inspired real wormhole physics research

3.56 / 5.00 3 observations