Even though I’ve never heard of Estonia before seeing these images, the visual effect is enough to make me want to visit this obscure location in Eastern Europe. What they’ve done is created an artificial waterfall which has subsequently frozen around a tourist attraction of sorts. If the water looks dirty, it’s because the waterfall is created by redirecting a drainage ditch.Some of these icicles are over a dozen feet long though. At that length, they’re more like javelins. Some of the water still flows, but the rest formed staggering blades jutting out in every direction. Stuff like trash cans, staircases, and even an ice cream booth have been frozen over.
Talk about a cold hazard! One ill-timed step could leave you slipping and sliding into the last winter wonderland you’ll ever see. Check out the video below if you want to hear a British guy make a joke about “Ice World Gandalf” or visit here for even more images.
It might not be a pirate’s life for you and me, but there’s plenty of pirates pillaging the high seas. If you don’t believe me, you can check out the International Chamber of Commerce’s Live Piracy Map, where you’ll see where these incidents are taking place, when they’ve taken place, what sort of ship was […]
People are very excited about the election of Barack Obama. One kid got so excited, in fact, that he got Obama’s visage shaved into the back of his head. We’re talking his name, head, shoulders, facial features… the whole nine yards! Kwame Boyce-Deacon is now an official Internet sensation.
It’s not the best likeness I’ve ever […]
Like I said last night, I’m sick of everything related to the news. Fortunately for me, artist Nick Georgiou agrees with me. That’s what inspired him to turn newspapers into works of art. As Nick said, “The piece was inspired by all that’s happening right now- the printed words decline, the economic […]
The world moves at incredible speeds. The lightning quickness of a hummingbird’s wing, the slow and stately tortoise… these are the things that make up our world. But what happens when you take something fast and capture a split second of it? You get beautiful high speed photography like the picture you see above you. […]
One of the biggest icons in film history, Paul Newman, passed away last night at age 83. You can read a great article about his life (with a lot of amazing pictures) here, or look at the press release issued by the Newman’s Own Foundation here. Either way, the world is missing a giant of […]
Since I said goodbye to the much less historic RCA Dome, I’d be remiss if I didn’t say goodbye to the big ballpark in the Bronx, Yankee Stadium. Built in 1923, Yankee Stadium has seen a ton of history. As such, there are lots of neat things that happened there. Mental Floss […]
It will only take about 45 minutes to permanently alter the skyline of Indianapolis, Indiana. Twenty-four years ago, the RCA/Hoosier Dome was opened. At 10:30 AM this morning, the giant fans keeping the stadium’s roof up were turned off starting the deflation process. By the time you read this, the home stadium of the Indianapolis […]
With the arrival of fall, that means Halloween is right around the corner. For those of us who are fascinated by all things macabre, that means haunted house tours, ghost walks, and if you’re really lucky, a visit to some awesome ghost towns like the seven scary ghost towns over at Cult Case. […]
It is the first day of fall today, and everywhere the weather is starting to cool down (finally, September had some days in the 90-degree range here!). That means Halloween is right around the corner, then Thanksgiving, then Christmas and New Year’s Day, then 2009. Time really does fly, doesn’t it? If your trees are […]
It took $20,000 worth of plastic gray bricks, but Malle Hawking of Munich, Germany, has built a LEGO replica of the USS Harry S. Truman, one of the US Navy’s nuclear aircraft carriers. As you can read in his story, he was inspired by the Discovery Channel documentary “City of Steel,” about the ship’s construction, […]
As dedicated Bigfoot blogger NewsComa could tell you, Sasquatch likes to party. Judging by the picture of Bigfoot’s recent trip to Roanoke, Virginia, he likes to party just a little bit too much. That’s why the poor man-ape is passed out face-down on the sand. Fortunately, he’s got that thick woolly coat […]
Everyone and their mother is scared about the supply of gas. Thanks to Hurricane Ike clobbering America’s major gas refining/oil producing area not long after the previous hurricane, Gustav, hit nearly the same area, fuel prices have shot up throughout the country. Where I live, gas went from $3.40 to $4.15 in two days, triggering […]
There are always signs out there that, when you look at them, you just know whoever put the sign up probably wasn’t reading it closely. As someone who wasted five years of college as an English major (plus a year of grad school, so that’s six years of wasted time and money), I see signs […]
Every cool bad guy has his own signature home base. The Legion of Doom had the cleverly-named Hall of Doom. Darth Vader has the Death Star. Donald Trump has Trump Towers. If you’re going to be a villain, you need an awesome place to live, and deputydog has six menacing towers […]