Strange and Unusual

To participate in a mass marriage ceremony in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh on Monday, there was just one requirement for grooms-to-be: prove they owned a toilet.

Every so often when the Moon is especially ginormous or we can see Venus or Mars from Earth, humans collectively freaks out. So cool three exclamation points, we scream. Look how big with thirty i's, we yell.

But, in short: amateur lyrics put to music for money by studio musician hacks.

Have you jammed with The Beatles, sung with Prince or taken coffee with Elliott Smith? NPR Music's Robin Hilton has (in his ever-random, inexplicable dreams).

English painter Nathan Walsh creates incredibly realistic looking paintings of urban landscapes by using photos and complex drawings as reference

As you've probably heard, there's a new Lauryn Hill song. It sounds... well, it sounds like it was recorded in a hurry to pay off a tax bill, which is apparently exactly the case (unfortunately, th...

Google Earth may not be as useful as its sibling service, Google Maps, but it’s immeasurably cooler.

While most laws are created to protect the interests of society, there are some that are just unexplainable...

Mother's Day is one of the biggest gift-buying days of the year, but too many people overthink it, spending too much on wilted flowers, melted chocolates and overpriced meals at crowded chain restaurants.

When it comes to formal dressing men feel obliged to wear a jacket and a tie, even in the summer warmth of tropical India.

Some of us are charged with ennobling ambitions; they?re called saints. The rest of us just want to be rich. It?s what keeps us at our desks long after b

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hungry? How about tempura-battered fried Tarantula for an appetizer?

A very trippy and powerful optical illusion.

In case you don't know who the late Storm Thorgerson was, just know he was the master mind behind the iconic rainbow prism on the cover of Pink Floyd's alb

The one lesson everybody should take away from this irreverent animated tale of a castaway musician from Tange Films: growing eyes on inanimate objects is easy as long as you have your trusty can of tuna fish and a sufficiently large stick.

Living off baby food and eating with kiddie cutlery are just some of the ridiculous practices women are following to get thin. Kasmin Fernandes tells you more If you think Lady Gaga's fashion...

Although it may not be good news for Bigfoot hunters, it may be good news for those who claim to have encountered aliens. According a report by the Times Free P

The world's weirdest restaurants, from amazingly beautiful to bizarre and wacky.

Nature is amazing, unpredictable, and strange. There are many things in this world that are hard to believe. Here are a few of the st...

Repeating patterns cover surreal landscapes in the digitally manipulated photo series "Patterns" by Polish photographer Dariusz Klimczak. For more of his work, check out his Behance portfolio. via ...

The history of street photography as we know it, is being rewritten. In 2007 at a local auction house in Chicago, historical hobbyist John Maloof randomly purchased a box of film negatives yet to b...

As a goose-eating monster lurks in the waters of London's Olympic Park, Neil Arnold considers a long line of beasts spotted in the capital's great river and tributaries FT290 On 14 December 2011, the Daily Mail ran the story of the “...