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Chicken Church: Fowl-Shaped Abandonment Found Deep in Forest

Reportedly inspired by a divine message, the architect of this poultry-shaped church initially set out to create a place of worship in the form of a giant dove, but the locals quickly dubbed his ...

Zombie-Powered Vertical Farm: Post-Apocalyptic Safe House

Strangely sustainable, this towering haven is designed to turn the energy of the undead toward a positive purpose, using zombies to turn a turbine in order to provide both power and water ...

Taken by the TSA: 13 Strange Items Confiscated at Airports

If you think you can smuggle a sword cleverly concealed inside a cane, a lipstick that's actually a taser, pigeons wrapped in newspaper or nylon bags full of snakes onto an airplane, think again. ...

No Biking in Pools: Art Inspired by America’s Weirdest Laws

In Alabama, it is illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your back pocket. But New York-based photographer Olivia Locher is a rule-breaker, and she's got the photo series to prove it. In 'I Fought ...

Camera-Shaped Cafe Offers Picture-Perfect Cups of Coffee

A giant two-story camera rises from the grass beside an ordinary suburban home in the hills of South Korea. The Dreamy Camera Cafe is housed in a re-creation of a vintage Rolleiflex, featuring ...

Live Crabs, Gold Bars & iPods: 18 Weird Vending Machines

Forget crackers and candy bars - you could be buying live lobsters, bike parts, whole heads of lettuce and even freshly baked baguettes with the push of a button from vending machines across the ...

Bizarre Burial Boxes: 20 of the World’s Weirdest Coffins

Our modern culture has made the physical process of burial little more than an afterthought, leaving us to numbly choose from a small assortment of wooden boxes in a showroom or catalog in the ...

Tall Temple: Bizarre Rooftop Palace on Chinese Skyscraper

The man who built his very own luxury mountain palace atop a condo tower in China - illegally - is hardly alone in his endeavors. A Chinese microblogger spotted what looks like another ...

Dental Nightmare: 17 Truly Terrifying Tooth-Related Objects

As if going to the dentist wasn't scary enough already, you can now augment your odontophobia with a series of nightmare-inducing dental training devices, antique drills and tooth-related ...

Secret Museum Hidden in an Abandoned Freight Elevator

Unlike all of New York City's flashy and well-known museums, this particular exhibition space is grungy, quirky and easy to miss. Located in an abandoned freight elevator on the edge of the ...

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