World’s Strangest

(Video Link) Construction workers rebuilding the World Trade Center in New York City often have to spend half of their lunch breaks riding elevators up and down to buy lunch. But soon, a sub shop will come to them. The Subway restaurant company built an outlet out of shipping containers. A crane will lift it high [...]

Boingboing linked to these beautiful blueprints straight from Gustave Eiffel’s pen, and I completely fell in love with them. Scanning the pics made me think back on the origins of the Eiffel Tower, and how it got to Paris. Here’s what we wrote in our book, In the Beginning: Believe it or not, the Eiffel Tower was originally [...]

This is one couple who could never be accused of clock-watching. These extraordinary pictures show two daring young lovers caught having sex in broad daylight at the top of Sydney’s historic clock tower.’ Daring: The amorous couple were photographed by onlookers having sex on a balcony below Sydney’s famous clock tower Mystery surrounds the identity of the pair, [...]

Hey, it’s hard to keep a tower on the straight and narrow! The Leaning Tower of Pisa may be the most famous, but there are towers that lean all over the world. Web Urbanist looks at thirteen of them, including the Round Tower of the Kilmacduagh Monastery in Ireland pictured. It leans 1.5 feet, but [...]

Forced perspective photography combines an unlimited focus range with an expansive landscape to create a photo that your mind interprets to be real. The effect is a Photoshop-less photo forgery. Environmental Graffiti has collected a fantastic gallery of such images, including the one above by Alexandre Duarte. The most famous subject for forced perspective imagery is [...]

A 12ft-high model of the Eiffel Tower made entirely out of chocolate gave busy commuters a glimpse but not a taste of Paris today. The mouthwatering version of the famous landmark attracted hungry-looking glances when it appeared at St Pancras railway station, from which the Eurostar departs for the French capital. But passers-by hoping for a taste [...]

(YouTube Video) This dentist no doubt inspires confidence in his patients with his tower made from 28,000 teeth from previous patients: This 8ft tower of teeth is foul, and the summit of 15 years work by Yu Qian, a Chinese dentist who is trying to raise awareness about dental hygiene by word of mouth. Or, as it [...]

Cabinet of Wonders is a blog that my Google Reader recommended to me earlier this year, and I’m grateful. Its author, Heather McDougal, describes it as a “place where things of interest are set out, in possibly bizarre, possibly fetishistic presentation, for perusal by the discerning, who understand that presentation, and scientific interest, are all [...]