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1. Batman Airport (BAL), Turkey An absurd selection of the world’s rudest, weirdest and strangest airport names. 20 Photos 2. Useless Loop (USL), Australia 3. Mafia Airport (MFA), Tanzania 4. Ogle Airport (OGL), Guyana 5. Moron Airport (OZP), Spain 6. Big Trout Airport (YTL), Canada 7. Gaylord Airport (GLR), USA 8. Phi Phi Island Airport (PHZ), Thailand 9. Asbestos Hill Airport (YAF)...

Would you be surprised if I told you this beautiful nature is not really natural? Have you immediately thought of Photoshop? Don't rush to conclusions. Some people's imagination and talent go far beyond understanding. Some of you may have seen our post about Matthew Albanese amazing works, but this one includes his best works and the making of. DIY Paradise Made of cotton, salt, cooked sugar, tin foil, feathers & canvas. ...

Mutter Museum of Medical History, Philadelphia Mutter Museum of Medical History in Philadelphia is the museum of pathologies, old medical equipment and biological exhibit items. The museum is most famous for its giant collection of skulls. Truk Lagoon, Micronesia Much of Japanese Navy forces are now lying at the bottom of shallow Truk Lagoon in Micronesia, southwest of Hawaii. These Blue depths are full with wrecks of battleships and...

WASHINGTON, Aug 12, 2010 (AFP) - President Barack Obama is to travel to Florida's Gulf Coast this weekend for a family trip intended to show solidarity with a region struggling in the wake of a massive oil spill. Obama, his wife Michelle, and their two daughters are to leave Washington Saturday for Panama City, a popular seaside tourist spot that saw its beaches fouled by tar balls from the oil spill. During the height of the spill, unl...

If you like castles, you’ll love Germany, for Germany has castles the way Venice has canals, or Norway has fjords, or the Napa Valley has wineries. There are literally scores of them, virtually in every German state and seemingly on every other hilltop, especially along the river Rhine. There are schlosses, which are essentially castles or palaces, and there are burgs, which are castles or fortresses and then there are festungs, quite sim...

The architect Armin Fisher from the studio Dreimeta created a concept of a hotel in Hamburg called Superbude where you’re staying with friends and living in a hotel. The six floor building with 74 stylish double and multi-bed rooms allow to stay up all night long without annoying neighbours. All interior of this unusual hotel was created using materials and objects which are totally different in purpose: sofas have been covered with used ...

Working and doing the same things over and over can be such a chore. Sometimes the work that we do mold us in ways that we don’t expect and at times surprise us because of the changes they seem to inculcate. When these things happen and you feel stranger and stranger as the days go on, the perfect solution is almost, always a vacation. Not all escapes are healthy though. It really depends if the place you are going to totally renews your int...

The world bodypaint artists got together under one roof in Seeboden, to celebrate the magic of paints on human body. In the world's largest bodypainting festival, artists tranform the body of models under the layers of colours. This is not just a competition but is also a riot of colours. Have a look. ...

Dallol, Danakil Desert Some have called this the “cruelest place on Earth.” Dallol is a volcano hidden beneath a kilometer-thick layer of salt in the Danakil depression in the Afar region, Ethiopia (at ~120 m below sea level). It manifests itself by an incredible variety of colorful springs and fumaroles in an alian landscape of salt, sulphur and other mineral deposits. The term Dallol was coined by the Afar people and means dissolution...