This collection of beach photos dates back to 1900-1920s. Modern beach is nothing like the beach on these black and white pictures.

Money does grow on the trees. Australian RaboDirect bank has proved it by setting up a hilarious experiment. Bank workers chose a tree in one of the Sydney’s city parks and planted real five-dollar bills on it. They also used a hidden video camera to record people’s reaction to the abnormal dollar tree.

A collection of interesting and great propaganda posters from different countries. Most of them were used during the war times. Others were meant to procure men, money and resources to sustain the military, election campaigns and build a new society.

This is Khan Shatyr Entertainment Center located in Astana. It is the biggest tent on our planet that became a sensation in the architecture world since the capital of Kazakhstan has a difficult environment to build such a brave project. The new center is 150 meters tall with 100,000 square meters of striking beauty.

Alexander is only 14 years old, but he is a real fighter. He continues to enjoy his favorite sports even though many people don’t understand or support his desires.

Beautiful caves with giant crystals were found by cavers in Mexico. Two amazing chambers of crystals known as The Cave of Crystals and The Cave of Swords are about 1000 feet down in the limestone host rock of the Naica Mine. This is a real world wonder that reminds of a dreamlike crystal palace.

All these photographs are real even though many of them look like photo manipulations.

Police always creates composite sketches to catch criminals. But do these drawings really look like the people they depict? Compare police sketches and real mugshots after the jump.

Submarines are often used by drug traffickers to smuggle cocaine to Central and North America. They are mostly reported to be used by Colombian drug cartel members who export drugs from Colombia to Mexico. Such narco subs are usually small, capable to hold 5-6 people and about 10 tons of cargo. The first time U.S. Coast Guard uncovered such a submarine was in 2006.

CF-18 crashed during airshow training in Lethbridge, Canada. The jet pilot was lucky to eject moments before the plane exploded. Reportedly he was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. Even though such accident happened and investigators still don’t know what caused this plane to crash, fleet of CF-18 jets will continue to fly.

It is surprising that many well-known impressionist painters used still raw photos to create their artworks. They added colors and their vision to the original raw photograph, changed proportions and saved money because they didn’t have to pay art models any more. The results were amazing. For example, Edgar Degas used 3 raw photos to create his famous Ballet Dancers. Other artists followed Degas’ idea and also started to use photographs while painting their masterpieces.

Star Wars characters are now popular among bank robbers. Darth Vader recently walked into the Chase Bank in New York with a hand gun for crowd control. Of course, people at first thought it was a joke. They didn’t think that a 6 foot 2 inches tall man in a helmet and cloak was a real robber. Good, the teller handed over all the cash in her drawer to Vader. The robber took away on his “Star Destroyer” bicycle. Some people now joke that the famous fiction character was just looking for money to fix his Death Star.

Everybody knows the City of New York, the most popular and populous city in the USA. It is one of the most important global cities in the world with many great museums, art galleries, stock exchanges and huge corporations. This collection contains amazing historic photos of NYC that date back to the first half of the 20th century.

This comic story reminds me of a trailer to the new cartoon called Tangled. Imagine that you are going on a date, but your girlfriend isn’t exactly happy to see you. Go inside the post to see what happens after the long-haired princess meets her prince. It’s hilarious.

These are awesome ideas for office workers who dream about playing hilarious jokes on their colleagues who went on vacation.

These are the most frightening and weird looking dolls I have ever seen. I would not like to have one of these toys at home, because every time I look at these pictures I have chills running down my spine.

The horrible flood in China brought tons of garbage to the country. It takes several cleaning boats to get rid of all the mess.

In case you missed it, see also Oil Spill in China: Man Nearly Drowned.

Beautiful shots of lightning and thunder.

An interesting post for those who love big numbers…

These guys went fishing like they always did. They took their car with them, but unexpectedly their vehicle became their “fishing rod”…

This lonely paid phone booth was once working. It spent decades in the middle of nowhere, being left in the desert for some unknown reasons. It had its own number: (760) 733-9969. Campers who happened to find this phone located 8 miles from the nearest paved road used to answer the incoming calls from everywhere or make calls themselves.

Don’t try to call its number today though, because the National Park Service decided to rip the lonely phone booth out, that was reportedly set up in the 1960s to provide phone service to miners and other people. An independent film appeared in 2000 devoted to this phone booth. But the year 2000 was also its end, as this was the year it was finally removed.

It’s like a Kinder surprise… except the fact that a normal egg is not supposed to have a surprise in it!

This is an interesting collection of photos of American children from the beginning of the 20th century. They don’t look like modern kids, do they?

British Defense Secretary Liam Fox called Afghanistan “a broken 13th-century country” when he visited it. His words drew fire on him. This happened not because he was wrong, but because he was way too blunt. Actually, Liam Fox wasn’t the first person to call Afghanistan a medieval country. There were people who labeled local inhabitants “barbarians with a 1200 A.D. mentality”. Many people really think that Afghanistan is an ungovernable land with chaos that would never make it out of the Middle Ages.

Still there were times when Afghanistan was a nice country where women could pursue careers in medicine, where people could go to the movies and work on the factories. This country used to produce many goods. It had a government that was able to undertake national infrastructure projects. People believed they had a future, but all their hopes were destroyed by 30 years of war.