Family Fun

Vladimir Demikhov: The Two-Headed Dog Surgeon
On 1954, soviet surgeon Vladimir Demikhov, revealed his masterpiece to the world: a two-headed dog. The head of a puppy had been grafted onto the neck of an adult German shepherd.

The second head would lap at milk, even though it did not need nourishment — and though the milk then [...]

The main emblem of the Olympic Games is not bears with the five circles on the ab and not foxes or little dancing men, but Olympic objects, or architecture.

Russian Sochi City is now being filled with awesome structures which are designed to take away the breath of the place’s visitors. There is only five years [...]

Hunyad Castle: Where Dracula Was Held Prisoner

Now located in Hunedoara, Romania, the Hunyad Castle was part of Principality of Transylvania, and it’s believed to be the place where Vlad III of Wallachia (commonly known as Dracula) was held prisoner for 7 years after he was deposed in 1462.

The castle is a relic of the [...]

Called by locals The Door to Hell, this place in Uzbekistan is situated near the small town of Darvaz. When geologists were drilling for gas, 35 years ago, they suddenly found an underground cavern that was so big, all the drilling site with all the equipment and camps got deep deep under the ground.None dared [...]

When I was in school, I was obsessed with the Guinness Book of World Records.

Not the big glossy one they have now either; the black and white pocket encyclopedia for geeks. As part of my everlasting nerdishness, I was obliged to know the biggest and longest and oldest of as many things as I could. [...]

Johann Conrad Dippel was such a mad scientist that he was actually born in castle Frankenstein in 1673, a place near near Darmstadt, Germany. He is said to be the model for Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein”, though that idea remains controversial.

After studying theology, philosophy and alchemy, he created an animal oil made of bones, blood [...]

This car from “Rides Magazine” has been tricked out as a high-riser with spinners to celebrate the Crown Victoria, the most common taxi car model.

Need to get across town really fast? Then this is the perfect taxi for you. A Lamborghini Murcielago with a 6.5 liter engine under the hood, spewing out 633 bhp so [...]

The Sahara, with a size of 8.6 million km², is the world’s largest desert, covering large parts of North Africa. Around 4 million people live there.

Its maximum length is 4,800 km, running from west to east, and up to 1,200 km from north to south. Sahara covers most of Mauritania, Western Sahara, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, [...]

Located 100km northeast of the White desert, the Black Desert is a region of volcano-shaped mountains with large quantities of small black stones.

The stones lie out across the orange-brown ground, so that it is not quite as black as many people may hope for. Especially after visiting the White Desert, which has formations that are [...]

Australia is home to four large deserts, popularized by Mad Max: Sturt’s Stoney Desert, Tanami Desert, the Great Victoria Desert and the Simpson Desert, which is also known as ‘The Big Red’ due to the presence of dunes of red sand.

The Simpson Desert is an erg which contains the world’s longest parallel sand dunes. These [...]