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More than a million beer bottles of Heineken and the Thai beer Chang were used to build this Buddhist temple called Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew in Thailand. The Buddhist monks swear they just solicited the beer bottles from local authorities and were not actually from booze they had been secretly consuming since 1984.

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Some hotel has a rich variety of rooms for every possible taste. This coffin room, for instance, is for vampires.

This is the Kaihalulu beach in Maui, with sand so red your black heart just couldn’t stop racing.
Just one of the “Five strangely coloured beaches” you can choose to make-out on.

In 1979, artist James Turrell purchased this 400,00-year-old, 3-km-wide Roden Crater in Flagstaff, Arizona. For the past 30 years, James has been working to transform it into a “massive naked-eye observatory, designed specifically for the viewing of celestial phenomena. He says he’s planning to open the crater for public viewing in 2011. But he had [...]

Northern Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway is made up of about 40,000 interlocking mostly hexagonal basalt columns that naturally formed from some ancient volcanic eruption. It got its name because, according to “racist” legend (that totally isn’t true but fun to repeat), a Scottish giant battled an Irish giant, and the brawl resulted to these formations. Why, [...]

This is the gigantic lagoon in the resort of San Alfonso del mar, Algarrobo City, Chile. Over a kilometer long, covering 20 acres, and containing 250,000 cubic meters of water.

The pool took five years to build, cost nearly £1 billion and consumes £2 million a year to maintain. It can harvest, filter and permanently recirculate [...]

Constructed in 1900 and originally meant as a mental ward, Beelitz hospital became a fully functioning hospital during World War 1, just in time to treat Lance Corporal Adolf Hitler’s Iron Cross-earning battlefield injuries.

Just one of the 15 most haunting ruins of war.

Sculptor Mario Philippona’s “Sexy Furniture” series are highly functional, aesthetically pleasing, boner-inspiring wooden pieces of stuff. Which is just our way of saying you can actually use them.

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Yes, there is indeed a village called “Fucking” in Upper Austria, it is indeed spelled like that and this is no joke. You might have come across Fucking before in your life, as comedians pick it up once in a while and Fucking seems to be one of the favourite things to look at online [...]

The Dinner in the Sky restaurant, one of the strangest restaurants in the world, and the video explanation. This is where they try to convince you it is so much fun dining if your balls are quivering right in your throat
{Mad: Joseph Schneider, the mothership beckons}

Sometime in 1971, somebody made a huge oil-drilling fuck-up right at the heart of the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan. That beautiful mistake is now called the Darvaza Crater (The Burning Gates), burning for 35 years now, still perfect for spontaneous barbecue parties. Or hotdogs. Yum!
The video of the Darvaza Crater in action below. While more [...]

Moscow, present day. Where millions of Urukhais live. And I mean, Moscow, present day.

A group of audacious, ballsy humans enter Chernobyl and get the surprise of their lives — it still can make you glow!

A building in Seoul, South Korea, is literally covered in grass.
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Called Restless Planet, a new $1-billion theme park in Dubai, UAE featuring over 100 animatronic dinosaurs of 40 different species is scheduled to open late in 2008.
…the park is the star attraction of a large Las Vegas-style entertainment and business development called City of Arabia. While the details are being kept pretty quiet, the creators [...]

Bar 89 in New York’s SoHo district has a row of “high-tech looking stalls” as restrooms fronted with what seem like clear transparent glass doors. But once somebody gets inside, the door fogs up and becomes opaque and the word “occupied” lights up at the top of the door.
Now you see them:

Now you don’t:

We’ve been told these only-in-Africa sightings are hilarious.