The Eerie Tree Carvings of Perryville Park, in Maryland
Maryland’s Cecil County is home to many interesting parks, but none more mysterious and disturbing than the Perryville Community Park, in Perryville, where around 100 trees are marked by eerie messages left by patients from a veteran psychiatric and rehabilitation center, decades ago. Before becoming a public park, the land was owned by the nearby Perry Point VA Hospital, […]
The World’s Most Amazing Five-a-Side Football Field
This photo of a five-a-side football field surrounded by lush greenery in the jungle of Sabah, Malaysia, has been doing the rounds on the internet for the last few days. And for good reason, as it looks like a place that can only exist in someone’s fantasy. The picture was captured by a teacher at […]
The Bottle Cap Alley – A Dumping Ground Turned Tourist Attraction
Bottle Cap Alley is a unique roadside attraction located at the north edge of the Texas A&M University campus, in College Station Texas. As the name suggests, it is paved with hundreds of thousands – by some accounts, millions – of beer and soda bottle caps. No one knows exactly how the tradition of paving the 50-meter-long […]
Migingo – The Most Densely Populated Island in the World
Migingo, a tiny rock island on Lake Victoria, in Kenya, measures just 0.49 acres, but is officially home to 131 residents – although some sources put the population at around 1,000 – making it the most densely populated island in the world. The so-called “Iron Clad Island” of Migingo (after the metal shack shanty town covering […]
This International Store Chain Only Sells Rubber Ducks
From eBay to toy stores and gift shops, there are plenty of places to look for rubber ducks, but if you’re searching for a brick-and-mortar store that only caters to rubber duck enthusiasts, there’s only one place to go – The Duck Store. It all started a few years ago in Amsterdam, when the owner of a […]
Nature Turns Human Pollution into Stunning Glass Beach
For years, Ussuri Bay, on Russia’s Pacific shoreline, was a dumping ground for glass bottles and waste from a nearby porcelain factory. But nature found a way to turn lemons into lemonade, and today, all those unwanted materials have been shaped into a colorful glass beach. The story goes that many years ago, truckloads of glass […]
New Japanese Gym Lets You Work Out with a Cute Maid
Maid cafes have been a big part of Japanese pop culture for a while now, but the maid phenomenon is transitioning into other areas as well. For example, a new gym near Tokyo’s famous Akihabara district offers patrons the chance to work out while assisted by beautiful trainers wearing maid costumes. Can you imagine pumping some iron with a cute […]
San Francisco Restaurant Serves Food on iPads instead of Plates
Technology is seeping into everything, even restaurant tableware. Quince, a Michelin-starred restaurant in San Francisco has recently swapped ol’ fashioned porcelain plates with Apple iPads for a couple of its most popular dishes. Restaurants have been using tablets instead of classic menus for years now, and some have even introduced app-powered ordering and payment options, but […]
Bangkok’s Husky Cafe – A Must-See for Dog Lovers
If you’re a dog lover visiting Bangkok, you simply must stop by the True Love Café, a wonderful place where you can get a taste of Thai cuisine, or enjoy some refreshments in the company of dozens of adorable huskies. The True Love Café opened in 2013, when Chotiros Ratanabirabongse, Paw for short, a long-time husky breeder, decided to convert […]
Hong Kong’s Unique Sanctuary of Discarded Deities
In Hong Kong, when people damage their statues of deities or simply replace them with newer ones, they don’t throw them away. Instead they leave them on the side of the road for people to worship or take them home. One man has been picking them up for over 17 years, and today his colorful collection is one […]
You Need to Fail a Breathalizer Test to Enter the World’s First Hangover Bar
Provided you can find your way to it after a wild night of alcohol-fueled partying, the world’s first hangover bar, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, promises to make that nasty next-day hangover a lot easier to deal with. Only open from Friday to Sunday, between 10am and 6pm, Amsterdam’s Hangover Bar is decorated as a green oasis […]
This New Los Angeles Nightclub Will Only Admit Attractive People
Beautiful people sick of having to share the same partying space with less attractive human specimens will soon get the chance to mingle only with their own kind at a new bar that turns away ugly people. It sounds like a joke, but, sadly, it is not. The new venue is being opened by BeautifulPeople.com, an […]
The Mexican Town That Threw Out Criminals, Politicians and Police
Five years ago, the people of Cherán, a small town in Mexico’s Michoacan state, made international headlines for taking up up arms against the powerful drug gangs threatening their livelihood, driving off local politicians and police in the process. Today, the self-governed settlement is a beacon of hope for many other Mexican communities. The inspiring story […]
The Unlikely Story of How a Small Barbershop Became One of the Coolest Live Music Venues in Dublin
Abner Browns barbershop, on Rathgar Road, Dublin, is considered one of the most interesting places to visit in all of Ireland. The old-school barbershop charm plays a role in its insane popularity, but what really sets it apart from any other barbershop in the world is the fact that it doubles as a live music bar. […]
The American Town Where the Dead Outnumber the Living by a Thousand to One
Colma, a quiet Californian town of roughly two square miles is home to 1,700 living residents and over 1.5 million dead ones. Most of the town’s forever-silent population are people who lived and died in San Francisco, but, just like most of today’s living residents, couldn’t afford to spend their afterlives in the expensive metropolis. In […]