As the name suggests, “Barbie Café”, which has just opened in Taiwan’s capital city, Taipei, is designed around the original Barbie doll toy. Taiwan has been chosen as the restaurant’s location since and themed restaurants have proven to be successful in this landscape. Barbie’s manufacturers, US toy company Mattel, hope to promote Barbie as a fashion brand to the Asian market and the staff uniforms and décor of the restaurant all accentuate the iconic Barbie world that is predominantly pink and girly.
When snow melted and flash froze down a mountain somewhere in Russia, a photographer captured this impressive natural phenomenon.
David Olenick combines words and simple imagery to create these entertaining pictures.
This cat didn't need to be rescued.
The largest-living arthropod in the world is the coconut crab. This crab can be found on islands across the Indian Ocean and parts of the Pacific Ocean. Their diet consists of fleshy fruits, nuts and seeds.
This abandoned building in Germany used to be the Beelitz Heilstaetten, a sanatorium for people with tuberculosis. It is now known as the “hospital of horror”.
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