This famous Japanese festival is held every 6 years in the Lake Suwa. Onbashira means “the honored pillars” and consists of two parts: Yamadashi that takes place in April and Satobiki that is celebrated in May. Men prepare for the first part by cutting down huge trees that will be used as logs later on. During Yamadashi, participants have to drag these logs down the mountain. Young guys show how brave they are in “Ki-otoshi” ceremony by riding the tree poles on the slope. It’s rather spectacular.

I don’t know who did these comparisons but some of them are really funny.

There have been numerous trends that have come and gone over the years. As these photos show, some of these trends were way more embarrassing than others. All of us adopted one or another of these trends at some time during our lives. Kind of makes you wish you were an outsider doesn’t it?

Fanny Packs

Wu Xiaoyan, a 22-year-old woman from China, has a serious deformity of her face. She was called an Avatar girl...

TV is often a refuge for those coming home after a stressful day at work. If we are lucky, there are times when some things happen on TV that make us laugh out loud. Thank goodness someone has captured the most hilarious screenshots that have ever been shown on TV.

Russian parents went on vacation and left their 16-year-old son at home alone. When they came back home, they saw their apartment just like this :)

This is a usual child’s room. But it has a hidden door that leads into a secret room :)

The owner of this workstation restored the Victorian Organ built in the 19th century and created a modern Steampunk computer out of it. This handу all-in-one workstation has an iPhone dock, three monitors, scanner, webcam, printer, keyboard and many other useful things that many Steampunk fans would second! Amazing, isn’t it?

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Some restaurant signs are so hilarious, you keep wondering who would name his/her establishment like this.

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Hilarious Neon Signs (18 pics)

Hilarious Menus and Restaurants’ Names (55 pics)

These unconventional sculptures were made by French artist Bruno Catalano. You agree that his style is very unique, don’t you?

These amazing photos of “land of Angles” were made two decades ago. Because these pictures were made in 1890s, they might look like usual images due to the short exposure time. Others think these are colorized postcards. Anyway, these colorful pics of old England are still very beautiful!

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Vexel is a neologism for an entirely pixel-based form of raster art that imitates the visual appearance of vector graphics technique, but is distinguished from normal vector graphics or raster images. The word itself is a portmanteau derived from a combination of "vector" and "pixel. Vexel pictures are composed by using multiple layered shapes and can be done using Photoshop, Illustrator, or other graphics editing programs…

Well-known American sideshow performer and actor, best known as Schlitzie Surtees for his role in the movie Freaks, was possibly born under the name of Simon Metz in the New York’s community Bronx in 1901. According to other rather “mystical” sources, he was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Maybe that’s why many of the circus posters billed Schlitze under the title “The Last of the Aztecs”.

It’s not a secret that many paparazzi in the USA are always breathing down celebrity necks. To make one snapshot, Paps can spend a whole day lying in their cars like “snipers” and waiting for their famous “victim” to appear. If celebrity photographs are big news, they can be sold to popular publishers for really big bucks.

Some people happen to see natural hazards through the window. Inside this post, you can take a look at a tsunami as if you were in a hotel room.

Sometimes you can meet another person who feels and thinks the way you do. It’s all possible on Chatroulette!

Very often Russians park their cars in garage blocks that are sometimes located far from their houses and are built in lines. Well, this tradition has lead to a real spring “car” flood in Moscow. Some unknown company was installing a heating system not far from a block of garages, and afterwards two water wells “mysteriously” disappeared. Guess what? Over 150 car garages were flooded!

How long could you stay in this crazy house?

Every vacation has one important thing - you should take the time to enjoy yourself! We hope that this compilation of beautiful vacation photos will remind you that soon you will renew your strength and get rest, for example, at Maldives.

Some people who love cats express their emotions in a unique way. Enjoy!

This pink colored lake located in Senegal is called Lake Retba or Lac Rose. Its glamour color is due to many minerals and microorganisms in the water. Women in Senegal spend up to 14 hours a day on the banks of this lake to harvest salt. Each liter of water has about 380 grams  of salt.

When the Moon moves between the Sun and the Earth partially covering the Sun you can view a solar eclipse. This is a beautiful rare scene worth seeing. Wonderful pictures of a solar eclipse over Asia and Africa can be found after the jump.

The evolution of the classical guitar has changed its shape a lot. Look at the crazy and awesome guitars after the jump. Which one would you like to play?