While this particular factory is hardly a place for children to play in, you can easily get confused. This is one of the many amusement-park-looking cement factories belonging to Zapa Company, in the Czech Republic. Thanks to the unusual ornamentation... 

What people wouldn’t do accomplish something remotely extraordinary… I mean who would go out of their way to build the world’s largest teapot or the world’s biggest boot? Probably someone who wants to get noticed and acknowledged... 

This is apparently the latest fashion for body modifiers and thrill seekers. I recently saw a documentary, on the Discovery Channel I think, with a couple who were into adrenalin-rush activities and were trying skin hanging for the first time. According... 

A great architectural wonder built on the edge of a cliff. Swallow’s Nest is an ornamental castle built in Yalta, Crimea peninsula, Ukraine, built between 1911-1912 by Russian architect Leonid Sherwood. It lies on the 130foot-high Aurora Cliff,... 

I know, it looks like something that came out of an ostrich-impregnated turkey, but it’s actually very dangerous. According to the Guinness Book of Records, the Cassowaries are the world’s most dangerous birds, capable of dealing fatal blows.... 

Does being completely white make them less cute? On the contrary, unlike albino humans I think these critters are even cuter than their “custom” colored kin. It’s clear that animals aren’t protected from genetic anomalies any more... 

Shilin is a wonderful place that you must visit if you ever have the chance… Because as an old Chinese saying goes ” If you have visited Kunming without seeing the Stone Forest, you have wasted your time” and I couldn’t agree more.... 

Turning in to a tree must be a horrifying experience… Dede is a 35 year old Indonesian fisherman who until recently thought he would be killed by the tree-like worts covering most of his body. It all started after he accidentally cut his knee as... 

Welcome to the Deep South, where the Klan still thrives… Ms. Ruth is a 58 year old seamstress living in the Deep South, who is specialized in making costumes for members of the Ku Klux Klan. She comes from a family who has been making these outfits... 

That’s right, as in a festival for worshiping the phallus… This year the unusual festival took place in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo and it gathered more than 30,000 worshipers who praised the sexuality gods and asked for protection from sexually...