This is hidden brain.
I'm Shankar Vedantan.
What comes to your mind when I say the words hall of Fame?
Maybe the Rock and Roll hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, or the NASCAR hall of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Music, sports.
These make sense.
For today's show, I want to take you to an unusual hall of Fame.
It's in New York City.
It pops up only once a year, and it's the kind of attraction you might smell before you see it.
This year, what you're looking at with all the danger tape all over it is the hall of Fame.
The hall of fumes is located in the Ripley's believe it or not museum in Times Square.
To be honest, it's not really a hall.
It's a metal rack holding up dozens of tattered, stinky sneakers.
And these are the winners from all the past 42 years up until now.
This is Rachel Hearst, and I'm here.
Judging the 43rd rotten sneaker contest as the odor judge, because for the past eleven years, I have been the celebrity nose.
Who gets to smell the stinkiest feet in the country.
Contestants have to be between the ages of eight and 15.
Let's bring up our first contestants.
Come on up.