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Here is a 3D printed doll, cloned from a real human’s head, that you can never unsee. She has a few friends that may or may not haunt you in your dreams later on… The cloning service is popular among some Japanese women looking to preserve that special moment in life such as their wedding day, [...]
In Paris, every first Wednesday of the month at noon, without fail you can hear the eerie wail of an air raid siren from wherever you are in the city. They’ve been going since pre-World War II and have these monthly tests to make sure everything is in working order– or to serve as a [...]
When I first stumbled across this picture, I assumed it was some clever photoshopping of a fairytale castle brought to life. But this is not a Disney set, this is the Neuschwanstein castle, a 19th-century Romanesque Revival palace in Bavaria, Germany– the original Disney castle. Indeed, Neuschwanstein looks so much like a fairytale castle that Walt Disney himself was [...]
Taking counterfeiting to a whole new level… Paris in China In the outskirts of Shanghai stands a fake Eiffel Tower overlooking a replica of the Champ de Mars and rows of Parisian townhouses. This is not Disneyland in China, this is the gated community of Tianducheng, built in 2007 by real estate develepors Zhejiang Guangsha [...]
Here is a 3D printed doll, cloned from a real human’s head, that you can never unsee. She has
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It was the most densely populated place on Earth for most of the 20th century, where a room cost
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Sawn in half with a chainsaw, wheeled down the streets of San Francisco, stuck on a barge at Marina
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In Paris, every first Wednesday of the month at noon, without fail you can hear the eerie wail of
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When I first stumbled across this picture, I assumed it was some clever photoshopping of a
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1. A Storybook Tower by Friedensreich Hundertwasser AFP/ Timm Schamberger This might look like it
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Before you get too excited by these images, as the title might suggest, this is not an article
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(c) Matt Green Every city has its secrets, it’s just a matter of finding them…
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Now let’s just get something straight. If you want a train in your basement, you’ll
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1. French actor, Gerard Depardieu used to look very, very different. Here he is with Robert DeNiro
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I‘ll admit, I enjoy the occasional Big Mac just as much as the next mass-consumerist, but you
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As bizarre, off-beat and kitsch as they come is the International Banana Museum, boasting the
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The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is probably one of the most fascinating places on
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Blind dates are bad enough but when your own parents take to the streets and advertise your eternal
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When a group of Australian scientists went on a a voyage to study plate tectonics (?) in the
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