World’s Strangest

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Artists in Detroit have encased an abandoned house in ice in order to bring attention to the startling number of foreclosures in the region. The Ice House blog chronicles the project and provides stunning pictures of the ice house. Link

Snow is just a bunch of ice crystals getting together, hanging out and having fun. So why is snow white when ice has no color? First things first, why are different things different colors in the first pla­ce? Visible light is made up of different wavelengths of light—from the shorter, violet ones to the longer, red [...]

Hair ice, also called silk frost, is a type of ice formation that looks like silk and seems to only appear on woody, barkless materials on the ground. The ice structures tend to grow out of a small pore in the wood, sort of like hairs on the human head. Dr. James Carter has more [...]

Lee at Serious Eats spotted three different vendors in Thailand who sold ice cream sundaes served in hot dog buns. The dessert was delicious: the bananas were chewy, the pineapple sweet and tart, the coconut ice cream rich, cold, and creamy, and the peanuts added the perfect amount of crunch and toasted flavor and the drop [...]

The Big Picture has a bunch of beautiful pictures of this year’s International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival in Harbin, China. Buildings made of ice blocks are illuminated both inside and outside, creating a magical effect. Link (image credit: REUTERS/Aly Song) From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by tsevenut.

Editor’s Note: We’ve been counting down this year’s most popular quizzes, and we’ve finally reached the top spot! Let’s see if you can distinguish paint colors from ice cream flavors. When you’re done, you can check out the Top 10 Quizzes of 2009. While trying to decide what color to paint our bedroom, I realized something [...]

Under the vast ice sheets of Antarctica there exists an extensive mountain range entirely encompassed in the ice. Now an international team of sci…

A selection of ice caves from around the world, from the largest in Germany to arguably the weirdest in California (well, it would be, wouldn’t it?).  One of the strange facts about some of these caves is that the ice does not melt in the summer, but it does in the winter.  Size, of course, is [...]

Neatorama Shop’s selection of Offbeat Drinks Neatorama Christmas Special: Our last shipment for Christmas is here. If you’ve procrastinated and haven’t bought your gifts, you’re in luck! We’ve just added some of the shop’s most popular items to the Neatorama Christmas Special, and re-stocked some that ran out. Every purchase will get you a free Mystery [...]