This lighthouse braving the storm in France looks very impressive and gorgeous. See more spectacular photos are after the jump.

Sometimes they want to escape into real life…

Designer Viktor Hertz who is based in Sweden uses everything from his favorite movies to some very clever phrases for his inspiration for simple, smart and clever designs that makes you stop and think. He often uses everyday shapes and symbols in his work and gives them new meaning.

In the Gippsland Lakes in Australia bioluminescence is a very unique, beautiful, and rare phenomenon that results from a chain of events such as flash floods, storms, and bushfires that triggers a population explosion of one particular type of algae. It is very strange to observe and might make the observer think that were being invaded by another extraterrestrial species.

Devotion is like potato chips, once you eat one you want them all. Enjoy even more eye candy that won’t rot your teeth, but will addict you even more.

These are striking aerial photos taken before and after the Brisbane floods that caused devastation to thousands of houses and offices last week.

Milton (Lang Park)

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Barry Ogletree a retired man from Texas flies a kite as often as possible. He even makes money at it!

This is one way to increase you profits. It is ingenious but I doubt that it’s legal.

A couple that enjoys playing World of Warcraft game decided to bring their habit into the real world. Paul, who is known as Orc Shaman Ragnaroc (Level 85) among other players of WoW, and his wife Gloria remodeled their bathroom with a Horde theme. They did everything themselves creating a World of Warcraft bathroom with dragon heads, herbs and different weapons on the walls. Inside this post, you can see pictures of the entire job.

This is a pretty old maze built out of chipped wood outdoor. It has an interesting story behind.

With the scanning electron microscope you can magnify household items a million times greater than their actual size. It provides beautifully detailed 3D photographs and is the most expensive microscopes in the world.

Sugar crystals: a refined sugar crystal and a raw sugar crystal

Well, apparently a Chinese guy wanted to break the Guinness Book of World records. So his idea was to wear 100 pair of underpants at the same time. How he accomplished this feat is amazing.

Meet Ignacio Cubilla Banos who is from Cuba. He is 111 years old and has 11 children, 40 grandchildren, and 15 great grandchildren. He didn’t give away secrets for his long life other than smoking a cigar. He is indeed a very old man.

There are certainly some hair styles that are more ridiculous than others. However, no hairstyle is more ridiculous or funnier than the comb over. It’s as if the people who wear them don’t think anyone will notice.

Everyone loves comfort foods esp. during the winter time. Here is a collection of favorites with a few twists thrown in.

Pancakes

These are the world’s most amazing and unusual hotels. Each hotel has an exclusive design and is built for particular groups of guests.

Dog Bark Park Inn

This hotel is built in the shape of a beagle. The interior is also decorated with dogs.

The water isn’t the pricy object it is those wild surfers that are riding the curls. This shot shows one surfer taking a tumble during a surfing contest that pays out 50 grand. The waves held him under the water for 30 seconds. That is the biggest wipeout this photographer has said he has seen in 30 years.

Sometimes our enthusiasm for doing something oversteps the thought process of our brains. These are pictures of pre-fail brain farts ready to fail at any given moment.

The set pictures with different fails, funny or embarrassing situations during the parties.

P.S. Don’t fall asleep while others are still up, you may have some surprises when you wake up ;)

These are some of the most extreme facial tattoos I’ve ever seen. All these people look like clowns.

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This small town was designated as the smallest incorporated town in America in 1976. As of the 2000 census Lost Springs has a population of 1.

Have you ever noticed that the pizza truck: Pizza Planet from the movie “Toy Story” is present in every one of Pixar films. The Incredibles makes an exception though.

While some are easy to see, others are more difficult. Take a look.

Seeing these luxurious pictures, I can understand now why first class is the most expensive class of accommodation on an airplane. This part of the plane looks more like a hotel. It should be comfortable flying this way.

This is a new compilation of beautiful and impressive space photos taken by Colonel Douglas H. Wheelock and posted on his Twitter account. This time he shows us pictures from his space mission up to November 25, 2010, when his crew safely landed their Soyuz spacecraft in Kazakhstan, and many wonderful photographs of Earth taken from space.