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Sanyo made this solar-collecting building in Japan, which it calls the Solar Ark. It has over 5,000 active solar panels generating over 500,000 KWh of environment-friendly energy.

Sir Norman Foster’s Crystal Island — a volcano-like, 27 million square feet “city within a building” — is all set to be built in Moscow within the next 5 years.

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Remember those maid-themed restaurants and cafes in Japan that are so loved by otakus? There’s now one in Canada. But aside from the concept and the pleasant abundance of V-sign-flashing, maid-waitresses, the whole thing’s not actually Japanese.

Welcome to the quaint, adorable town of Fucking, Austria, where people and kids sound like they cuss all the time, but they actually don’t.

These probably-misleading-but-fun-to-spread photos of Romania are the kind of crap that make our day.

We’re not really sure about this piece of classified information, but it’s very probable that Hiroshi Hara designed the 40-story twin towers of the Umeda Sky Building in Osaka City in Japan to shoot two birds in one stone: let escalator passengers enjoy the city’s views while making them swallow their own testicles in fright.

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Deep in the heart of the California desert lies one of the natural world’s most puzzling mysteries: the moving rocks of Death Valley. These are not ordinary moving rocks that tumble down mountainsides in avalanches, are carried along riverbeds by flowing water, or are tossed aside by animals. These rocks, some as heavy as 700 [...]

Bill’s so “huge” in Sarajevo, people actually think it’s cool to hang out at a club named after him. You don’t say.

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