Bizarre, Popular Stories

From a game of deadly hot potato to a stroll through London's heart of darkness (with some nice stuff in between, honest!)...

Pigeons fitted with camera to provide aerial photography at the dawn of the 20th century? Sounds like our kind of story! Nine other cool links too...

The amazing tales of people who went in flames with no apparent explanation as to what sparked their fiery demise.

An incredible festival that pits man against beast, as villagers in Spain crop the manes of wild horses, wrestling the beasts to the ground with their bare hands!

This amazing series of photos shows a female praying mantis consuming her partner during the sexual act.

A bizarre stone house built between two enormous boulders

Watch the man who could take a cannonball being shot into his stomach!

Amazing and surreal images of anatomical wax works and pathological preparations from museums around the world. Warning, graphic.

People aren't the only ones to take to the waves, as our images of dogs surfing prove.

Hilarious photographs of soldiers getting up to all sorts of playfulness and pranks while in war zones or training...

The deadliest volcanic eruption of the 20th century was survived by a violent prisoner named Sylbaris. Thirty thousand people lost their lives that day, but he survived.

Buildings, rocks, landscapes, plants and even smaller items like clocks and electric meters seem like they've been designed with our image in mind...

Found in former Transylvania, a cemetery full of hand-carved, painted crosses and sometimes joyous epitaphs to commemorate the deceased...

Beards mean different things to different people at different times! Here are 10 wacky and amusing photos of facial growth, and a history of beards to boot!

With Friday the 13th having just passed, we take a look at the world's unluckiest day and some specific superstitions associated with it.

Beer served in roadkill? Perhaps it's a sign of the times! Raise your glasses to Brewdog Brewery!

Most unusual,bizarre and strange phobias.Do you have an extreme fear of something?Are you suffering from a phobia of some kind?Find out which one is it?

Infamous serial killer, H.H. Holmes, rivals Gacy, Dahmer, and the Jack Ripper. Here we explore his chamber of horrors, fittingly called 'Murder Castle'.

The bat brained scheme to arm millions of bats with napalm bombs and release them over Japan.

One photographer was using people as pixels for patriotic US photographs over 90 years ago, long before computers. Arthur Mole was a true visionary!