As with so many other aspects of culture, what’s considered “beautiful” and “desirable” in one country is vastly different in another. There is one universal aspect that seems to bypass all geographic and cultural lines–the pressures that continue to push people to strive for sometimes completely unrealistic standards. In a recent …
So…there’s a Japanese myth about a monster called “Shirime,” a mystical ‘person’ who has an eyeball where an anus should be. According to the story, a samurai was walking down the street and heard someone call out to him to wait. Startled, the samurai turned around and saw a man …
We’re all getting a little sick and tired of winter. With the snow and cold that just won’t quit (for the less-than-lucky northern folks who have to get through it), the sand, sun and carefree days of summer seem a long way off. Not to worry–we’ve got a whole slew …
We’ve all heard some pretty crazy stories about people trying to smuggle items through security that are illegal, rare, or just plain weird, but we’ve come across a few that have really topped the charts. From pills of human flesh to “Sheriff” armadillos to terrorist masks and live animals, this …
The depths of weirdness you can find on the internet will never cease to amaze us–or make us keep scrolling for more. After stumbling upon a single gadget that made us do a double-take, the search binge began. Roughly 293 pages later, here are 14 of the most absurd, insanely impractical …
1. Path-Laying Machine 2. The Internal Mechanism of a Watch by Patek Philippe, Considered the Finest Watchmaker in the World 3. Sunset and Eclipse Happening at the Same Time 4. Algodones Sand Dunes Curvy Border Fence in Southern California 5. Perfect Cubes of Pyrite Formed by Mother Nature 6. Melted …
