World’s longest necks
Now this is what I call stretching it! The women of the Padaung tribe in northern Thailand hold the record for the longest necks in the world. According to tribal custom, even before they reach puberty, girls must start wearing iron coils around their necks and more and more are added through the years. The […]
Fooling gravity
That’s what I’d say this man is doing through his performances. Johan Lorbeer is a German performing artist that became famous in his home country through his Still Life street shows. Through a very ingenious optical illusion, Lorbeer makes it seem like he is defying gravity just by leaning off buildings. Try to guess how […]
Pizza-tossing championship
That’s right folks there’s such a thing as a World Pizza Championship. It’s hosted in Salsomaggiore Terme, Italy and it gathers tens of professional pizza makers from allover the world. The most impressive challenge of the entire contest is the pizza tossing, an acrobatic event involving the pizza dough. As you can see from the […]
Dambe – Traditional Nigerian Boxing
I never knew traditional Nigerian Boxing is one of the deadliest sports in the world. Practiced by traveling young African men, Dambe is one of the few ways they can become famous in a country like Nigeria. The winner of a Dambe tournament gets around $100, a TV-set and the honor of being a champion, […]
Naked in Barcelona
Well this guy has a pair of undershorts tattooed on his body so technically he isn’t naked. If you’re ever in Barcelona, you might get “lucky” and run into “the old naked guy“. No one knows his name but everybody knows him, he’s kind of a local mascot, walking around in the nude with his […]
Dinner in the sky
And I don’t mean in heaven, just 50 meters above the ground. If you really want to surprise your friends or business partners and want to throw a dinner that they’ll never forget, you might consider a Dinner in the Sky. All you have to do is contact the guys at Diner in the Sky.com,tell […]
Shooting fish in a barrel
That’s one big barrel but the saying applies perfectly. And I don’t mean it in a figurative sense, that dumb-ass is literally shooting tuna-fish with a kind of shotgun. Now I’m not in the fishing business, but I’m pretty sure that’s not the standard way of putting fish to sleep. And by the looks of […]
Street barbers in India
It seams most things in India are done on the streets. Although they’re not quite as interesting as India’s famous street dentists, the street barbers are one of the country’s trade-marks. Sure the street is not the cleanest place to get a shave or a haircut but in a country where most can’t afford to […]
World’s biggest tree
It may not be the tallest tree in the world, but it’s is definitely the largest by volume. General Sherman is a 2300-2700 year old sequoia tree located in the Giant Forest of the Sequoia National Park, near Visalia, California. In 2002 the volume of its trunk measured about 1487 cubic meters and it was […]
Children’s cement factory
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 of its equipment and transportation vehicles. Zapa has managed to become not only one of […]
Wacky World’s biggest things
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 as a person who made something remarkable, and because they can’t be the person who comes up with […]
Swallow’s Nest Castle
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, overlooking the Black Sea. Over time it has been a restaurant, a reading club headquarters and, lately, […]
Albinos of the animal kingdom
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 than people are, but at least most of them are not discriminating. If you’re interested, read more about […]
Shilin-The Stone Forest
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. Shilin is an intricate krafts formation in the south-west of China, one […]
The tree-man
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 a teenager. Small warts started appearing on his hands and […]