Cool Chess Sets
10 09 2009 Comments : No Comments »
Categories : Bizarre
James May’s Lego House
7 09 2009Top Gear presenter, James May, built a new house in Surrey made entirely out of Lego bricks. This two-story Lego palace, which resides in the middle of a vineyard, has a working bathroom, and is covered inside and out with over 816 million Lego bricks.
Maybe the next step for him would be to buy the Lego Volvo car.
Categories : Bizarre, Life
Tree of Life, Florida Disney Park
27 08 2009The Tree of Life is sculpted by more than a dozen artists with 325 animal carvings on the outside. This 140-foot artificial tree is the centerpiece of Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.
Categories : Art, Bizarre
Snake Wine
24 08 2009Snake wine is a Vietnamese alcoholic beverage that includes a whole venomous snake in the bottle. The snakes, preferably venomous ones, are not usually preserved for their meat but to have the snake poison dissolved in the liquor. However, the snake venom is denatured by the ethanol and therefore inactivated. In many countries in the Far East, snakes are believed to possess medicinal qualities and the wine is often advertised to cure everything from hair loss to eye troubles.
There are two varieties of snake wine:
- Mixed: body fluids of snake are mixed into wine and consumed immediately in the form of a shot.
- Steeped: a large venomous snake can be placed into a glass jar of rice wine, often with many smaller snakes, turtles, insects, or birds, and left to steep for many months. The wine is drunk as a restorative in small shots or cups.
Categories : Bizarre, Food & Drink
Strange Houses
13 08 2009A house made of doors. Can you find the right one to get inside?
An airplane house
Categories : Bizarre, Life
