Guarachero Boots – When Long Is Simply Too Long
They’ve only been around for about a year, but these ridiculously long Mexican pointy boots have already become a major fashion trend at dance clubs and rodeo dance floors around northern Mexico. The guys at Vice heard about the unusual footwear and journeyed to the Mexican city of Matehuala, in the northern state of San […]
Company Looking to Hire Nude Female Web Designers and Programmers
Nude House, a software comapny from Buckinghamshire, England, has placed a job ad for female web programmers willing to work in the nude. Company founder, 63-year-old Chris Taylor, claims Nude House is the only business in the world whose employees don’t wear any clothes. It’s apparently every naturist’s dream work environment – warm, clean and […]
Juan Osborne’s Pictures Really Are Worth a Thousand Words
It’s said a picture is worth a thousand words and in the case of Spanish amateur artist Juan Osborne that is literally how things stand. Using several hundred thousand words he manages to recreate famous images and icons that have put their mark on the world. Osborne searches for the most popular words associated with […]
Eggshelland – A Colorful Easter Tradition Made of Eggshells
One of the world’s most impressive Easter traditions, Eggshelland features a number of colorful lawn mosaics made of Easter eggshells. Every year, Ron and Betty Manolio, from Lyndhurst, Ohio, create a set of intricate eggshell mosaics right on their front lawn. It all started back in 1957, when Ron’s mother used 750 colored eggshells to […]
The Hill of Crosses – A Man-Made Christian Miracle
Covered with over 100,000 crosses of different sizes, Lithuania’s Hill of Crosses is both a symbol of the country’s nationalism and an international pilgrimage site. Located 12 kilometers north of the small industrial city of Šiauliai, the Hill of Crosses is believed to date back to the 14th century, during the occupation of the Teutonic […]
Jane Perkins Proves One Man’s Junk Is Indeed Another’s Treasure
British artist Jane Perkins creates beautiful works of art using everyday objects like marbles, toys or buttons picked up from recycling centers, second-hand shops and junkyards. Jane Perkins worked as a nurse for 17 years, in a London hospital, before she decided to explore her artistic talents and got a degree in textiles in 2006. […]
Wacky Couple Share Their Home with 240 Love Dolls
60-year-old Bob Gibbins, and his wife Lizzie, 55, have a rather unusual collection of 240 different kinds of love dolls that they like dressing up and taking on shopping trips. Bob says he has always been interested in dolls, but his passion really started to develop when he used to buy rag dolls and other […]
Man Builds 100-Foot Replica of the Titanic in His Backyard
Scotish ship enthusiast Stan Fraser has spent eleven years of his life building a 100-foot model of the Titanic, in his own backyard. The 46-year-old former lighting engineer has always had a thing for the Titanic as well as maritime items in general, and his house in Inverness is filled with life jackets, models of […]
German Girl Trains Cow as a Show Horse
Regina Mayer, a 15-year-old girl from Laufen, Southern Germany, rides her pet cow Luna as if she were a well-trained show horse. The young girl always wanted her own horse, but her parents kept saying “no”, and since she had a stable full of cows at her disposal, Regina decided she was going to try […]
Nestinarstvo – The Fire Dancing Ritual of Bulgari
A centuries-old custom that can be traced back to the Tracians, Nestinarstvo (Fire Dancing) is a mysterious ritual in which people actually dance on smouldering embers without getting any burns. Believed to be one of the oldest pagan rituals in the Balkans, Nestinarstvo has defied persecution by both the Christian Church and communism and is […]
Retired Farmer Spends 30 Years Building Scale Model of Herod’s Temple
Alec Garrard, an 80-year-old retired farmer from Norfolk, England, has spent the last thirty years working on a 1:100 scale model of Herod’s Biblical Temple. Mr. Garrard has liked creating models all his life, but as he was getting older, he began thinking about a single big project that would see him through to the […]
Man Makes Quilt from Ladies Underwear
A man from eastern Missouri decided to show his appreciation for women’s underpants by making his very own ladies underwear quilt. Louis Garret, from Louisiana, first saw a pantie quilt in a magazine he was subscribed to, and since he already had a collection of mannequins he loved to dress in old underwear and dresses, he decided […]
Living Keychains Are the New Craze in China
Live fish and small turtles sealed in plastic keychains have become increasingly popular items sold at subway entrances and train stations across China. The living keychains containing Brazilian turtles or king fish swimming in colored water are considered good-luck charms by many Chinese, but animal protection groups are outraged and call them a perfect example […]
Cancer Survivor Makes Drug Jewelry to Pay off Medical Debt
Susan Braig, a 61-year-old cancer survivor from Altadena, California, began making jewelry from medication as a form of therapy, but now sells her creations to pay her medical bills. Susan was diagnosed with breast cancer and started chemotherapy in 2004. She remembers she bought her first round of medicine our of her own pocket; it […]