Another home-made rollercoaster
People seem to love having a rolercoaster in their own backyards. This guy must have seen Jeremy Reid‘s wooden rollercoster and said he simply must top that. And he did, in the way that he built an iron rollercoster in his own backyard. John Ivers from Indiana is the man who built The Blue Flash, […]
The black balls of Ivanhoe
Thousands of black plastic balls cover the Ivanhoe reservoir in Los Angeles. It might not look like serious business, but The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power dropped 400,000 black plastic balls into one of the city’s reservoirs for a reason. The sunlight mixes with the chlorine and bromide in the water creating a […]
The real-life Beast Master
Interacting with some animals seems impossible but this man makes the impossible, possible. Kevin Richardson is an animal behaviourist that has bonded so much with wild big cats that he isn’t even afraid to sleep with them in the wild. He’s great friends with lions, cheetahs, leopards or hyenas and they all treat him like […]
The Floating Swimming Pool
A swimming pool on water, there’s something you don’t see every day. Called the Badeschiff (that’s German for “bathing ship”) this floating swimming pool is really just an old barge transformed into a public pool last year in Berlin, on the Spree river. Unfortunately, the river itself is much too polluted for people to swim […]
Now that’s good eating!
Eating sushi off a beautiful naked body, now that’s what I call a meal. Hadaka Sushi is a restaurant set on the Sunset Strip, Los Angeles, where rich people can serve delicious sushi right off human platters. The art of arranging pieces raw fish on naked human bodies is known as Nyotaimori (which translates as […]
Angel – highest wterfall on Earth
Angel waterfall in South America is the highest waterfall on Earth Set in Canaima National Park, Venezuela, Angel is also one of the most beautiful falls on the planet. It’s a clear 802 meter drop right into the Kerep River flowing at the base of the falls. The water falls from so high an altitude […]
World’s largest poker table
Now this is what I call poker for the big boys. Built in 2007 for the promotion of a movie called Wise Guys On Texas Hold’Em, this giant poker table is 30 feet long and 12 feet wide making it the largest poker table ever built. I don’t know what happened to it after the […]
World’s largest casino
Oh my God, the Chinese have stolen Venice. Well, not literally stolen, but they copied it on a smaller scale. I’m talking about the Venetian Macao in China, the world’s largest casino and the third largest building in the world. It has more than 1000 slot machines and over 600 gaming tables open 24/7. So […]
Perito Moreno Glacier
This is one of the most beautiful glaciers in the world. Named after explorer Francisco Moreno, Perito Moreno glacier is one of only three Patagonian glaciers that are not retreating. The 30 km-long ice formation sometimes advances into the L-shaped”Lago Argentino” acting as a natural dam and separating its two halves. The water on one […]
Indian Asceticism
Sure we all know it means abstinence from things like sex or alcohol, but Indians take it to a whole other level. Indians that practice asceticism do all sort of strange things, never bathing or washing their hair and bears to vowing not to use one or more of their limbs for a determined period. […]
The monkey acrobats
These guys have many tricks up their sleeves. As everyone knows monkeys are great acrobats, to them it comes naturally, swinging through trees and all, but these guys do tricks that are actually meant for humans, so I have to say I’m pretty amazed to see them pull such things off.
Ice Flowers
One of the most beautiful frozen wonders on Earth, ice flowers are still a mystery to many people. Ice flowers are formed on new layers of sea ice, from saturated water vapors that come up from under the ice through cracks. In contact with the cold air, the vapors start to freeze and the salt […]
Saint Michel Chapel
One of the oldest chapels in all of France. But age is not what makes it special, but it’s placement, on an 85 meters-high volcanic spire. Christians have to walk up 268 steps carved in the small mountain, to reach the place where Joan of Arc’s mother Isabelle Romee supposedly came to pray once. Saint […]
World’s first solar speedboat
Finally something solar-powered that’s got some speed. The Czeerz MK1 is a Dutch-made speedboat that relies only on solar energy, which makes it the first solar speedboat. The 10 meters-long boat reaches the speed of 30 knots which isn’t bad at all for this kind of vehicles. It has a light, carbon fiber shell covered […]
The Sky Bridge of Malaysia
One of the most unusual, yet beautiful bridges I’ve ever seen. Built on a an island in the Langkawi archipelago in Malaysia, the Sky Bridge rises 700 meters above sea level and spans over 125 meters in length and 1,8 meters in width to offer visitors a spectacular view of the surroundings. The bridge was […]