Amazing snow church in Germany

The church at Mitterfirmiansreut, nearly the Czech borderline, makes up more than twenty meters long and boasts an tower. It is built of about 1,400 cubic meters from ice and snow. The construction was bathed in blue light when it opened in the evening with a blessing from Dean Kajetan Steinbeisser. Constructors process the building [...]

Religion does not always correlate with ethics

The Sedlec Ossuary

The Sedlec Ossuary (Czech: kostnice Sedlec) is a small Roman Catholic chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic. The Sedlec Ossuary is artistically decorated between 40,000 and 70,000 human skeletons. Thus it is also known as the Church of Bones or as [...]

Bizarre Tarim mummies

The Tarim mummies are a series of mummies discovered in the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China, which date from 1900 BCE to 200 CE. Some of the mummies are frequently associated with the presence of the Indo-European Tocharian languages in the Tarim Basin, although the evidence is not totally conclusive. Research into the subject [...]

Creepy trees of the spider web

Millions of spiders have crawled into trees in Pakistan to escape flood waters, shrouding them with their silky webs. The eye-catching phenomenon is an unexpected side-effect of last year’s flooding which claimed the lives of almost 2,000 people. However, since the monsoon weather devastated the nation last July, much of the water has still not [...]

Bizarre dentist tools from the past

Thеsе things lооk scаrу and еvеn mоrе painful thаn thе actual оnеs. These are some very scary looking dental tools from long ago. They were very crudely made and not something I would want stuck into my mouth. But again,  in those days they didn’t have much choice. That’s really scary.

Temples of arms

American sculptor Al Farrow over 30 years creating models of temples of different religions of the bullets and firearms. Al Farrow was born in New York, lives and works in California. His work is in many important public and private collections around the world, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the di Rosa [...]

Bizarre Rat Temple

Karni Mata was a female Hindu sage born in the Charan caste and is worshiped as the incarnation of the goddess Durga by her followers. She is an official deity of the royal family of Jodhpur and Bikaner. During her lifetime, she laid the foundation stone of two of the important forts in Rajputana. She [...]

World’s oldest human remains

Israeli archaeologists have discovered human remains dating from 400,000 years ago, challenging conventional wisdom that Homo sapiens originated in Africa, the leader of excavations in Israel said. Avi Gopher, of Tel Aviv University’s Institute of Archaeology, said testing of stalagmites, stalactites and other material found in a cave east of Tel Aviv indicates that eight [...]

Bizarre Underground Hair Museum

The world of collections, and “party ” collectors are wide and varied. Thus, in the world, probably not such a subject, which would not object to collecting in one form or another. And in Turkey, in Avanos, in Cappadocia, lived a potter named Chez Galip (Chez Galip), whose studio is located in the basement of [...]

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