This cave under The Chihuahua Desert in Mexico is actually a working mine that is known for its amazing crystals. The name of the cave is Naica Mine, is located 1000ft under ground, and it was discovered by two miners that was also brothers when they were drilling into the Naica lead. The chamber of the crystals is known as Crystal Cave of Giants.

The biggest crystals weigh 55 tons and are measuring up to 36 feet long. Imagine what an incredible experience it would be to stand in the cave and experience the beauty of the crystals. One other attraction in Mexico is the Island of the Dolls, a rather dark and scary attraction.

They are blade-sharp and dangerous but awesome to look at. From the pictures you would suppose that it is icing cold in the cave, but to be honest it is about 112F, and the cavers need to bring cooled air in backpacks and be protected by special suits for the conditions.

New York City – the city of skyscrapers and never-ending possibilities., one of the most important and most popular cities in the world. Here are some old historic pictures of New York from the first half of the 20^th century. The photos are really beautiful and you will almost feel that you are a part of them just by looking at them.They are capturing great and random moments like sellers in the street, camel advertisement, Grand Central terminal, Washington Market and other different markets, and of course Central Park.

Some of the photos are from the Great Depression that hit the U.S. stock market in 1929. At last it caused economic growth that is also to be shown in these black and white photographs. If you want to enjoy more photographs of New York, you should check out these vintage photos of the city taken between 1920 and 1960.

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We have all seen glowing stars on the sky at night, but what about seeing stars under the ground? You get the chance to do that in the Waitomo Glowworm Cave on the North Island of New Zealand. Of course the “stars” are not real; they are glowing worms that is hanging from the ceilings in the cave.

The worms are only to be found in New Zealand, and they are as tiny as an average mosquito. The lightning from the worms are the only remedy boats with tourist are having when they cruise around on the Waitomo River underground to see the mysterious glowworms.

A group of specialists are monitoring the quality of the air and the temperature to know how to manage the cave and how many tourists are allowed to visit the cave each time, so don’t worry, if you want to visit the cave and enjoy the sight of “glowing stars”, you are definitely in good hands.

Before Nintendo, Playstation and X-box existed, children, especially boys, were playing with construction toys. Some of them that were the most popular are The Erector Set (change the name to Meccano) that was first produced in 1913. The toy had a whole collection of screws, bolts, metal beams, nuts, gears, and even electric motors. Other famous construction toys were Girder and Panel building sets of Kenner Products and were introduced in 1957. They were one of the first to advertise their product on television.

Other famous building sets were the Bridge and Turnpike Building Set from 1958, Skyrail from 1963, Hydro-Dynamic from 1964 and Bayko from 1967. Maybe you’ll recognize some of the toys, maybe you won’t, but it’s still a shame that they no longer exist today. Something that is still popular as it was in the 40’s are Lego, and to honor these genius toy building bricks, Legoland has been built in California.

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Most people have heard about the legend and genius Nikola Tesla. Some of the things he invented were X-ray, the radio, microwave oven, electron microscope, neon lights, speedometer, and he was the first to design the hydro-electric power plant in Niagara Falls. A lot of his inventions were unfortunately credited by others, and his biggest competitor Thomas Edison did everything to erase him from the history books. The ideas that Tesla came up with became to a point so extreme that people laughed at his theories and called him a lunatic. Thanks to this “crazy scientist” people are doing weird stuff with electricity because of his inventions.

These pictures represent some of these works where people have literally played with electricity. It looks dangerous and it surely is, you don’t want to stand in the middle of the purple electric lightning. Tesla most amazing theory was that he predicted that Internet would be invented someday where voice and images are transported through the air. He was so obsessed with his work that it’s claimed he only slept for 2-3 hours at night. If you find science interesting you should check out the top 10 mad scientists in history.

Most lovable robot from Star Wars series, a R2-D2 (Artoo or R2 for short) can be turned into a awesome PC mod case. This PC case mod is made for “Science Fiction Case Mod Contest” by Frenki Janse . Best part about it was that the budget for this was low and Frenki spent only $120 in making this case. He said he got inspiration when he saw a R2-D2 Pepsi coolers on the gas station, he was not amazed how they were made, so he decided to make a great PC case mod. R2-D2 PC doesn’t make noises, and contains web cams, fan control and blue lighted feet. R2-D2 was played by actor Kenny Baker in 5 of the 6 Star Wars movies, (but he was credited with appearing in “Revenge of the Sith”, even if he never filmed any scene of that movie) with many scenes recorded using mechanical and CGI techniques.

For all hardware “geeks” out there, these are the components of this PC case: P4 3.2Ghz w/HT @ 3.71Ghz , 2GB (4 x 512MB) of DDR400, 120GB Hard drive, Radeon 9800XT 256MB, Creative 7.1 surround sound, Asetek Vapochill Phase Change cooling @ -38C.

Aquariums have always been a popular item, whether it’s for decoration or just for “pet purposes”. They are to be found in apartments, restaurants, hotels, malls and several other places, they are joyful and pretty to the eye, and come mostly in a square shape, but there are exceptions. This guy who owns a café has made a pipeline fish tank through the whole location connecting two big aquariums. Imagine yourself coming in there to take a coffee or maybe sit down and read the news paper, and a fish swims above your head, almost like they are flying. It’s unusual but really creative and interesting interior.

The fishes are swimming through the pipes to change their location if they get bored of the same aquarium.  Either way they need to get to one of the aquariums to get some food. Speaking of fishes, this is the most dangerous fish to eat, the Fugu fish from Japan.

Hyungkoo Lee has come up with the idea to represent famous cartoon characters as skeletons. He wanted to figure out how the anatomy of the cartoons would look like if they were alive, and the materials used to manage to create this are some synthetic materials and surprisingly enough real animal bones. He called his project “Animatus” and the cartoon characters used are Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck, Tom & Jerry, Road Runner, etc.

The skeletons are photographed with a black background to express the white in the bones even more, and the models look like they are in motion so that the skeleton cartoons will appear more alive. Some will say that they look kind of creepy while others will think they are kind of cute, especially the models representing Huey, Dewey and Louie. Something that reminds of this work is the pin-up calendar that features x-ray photos of women bodies, so it looks like skeletons are posing

This interesting work of art is actually old photos superimposed on present day scenes. It shows how it was back in the days and how it is now. The brains behind the project are several photographers from a flickr group who have managed to cooperate and create an amusing art piece by only using photography as the main tool. There are some very cool transformations and you will be surprised how different it looked before. A transformation that is especially fun to check out is the one on Dubai. If you want to do the same as these members of the group did, you need lots of time, a bunch of old photographs of buildings, structures and locations,  a photo camera, and last but not least creativity. It can make an interesting hobby.

The flickr group contains several hundreds of photos, but here are the best 25. Something that can remind of this project is these amazing drawings combined with photography.

This artwork is based on the world known 2009 Tarantino movie Inglourious Basterds with actors such as Brad Pitt and Christoph Waltz. The movie’s production team came up with the idea to cooperate with Upper Playground and create these different illustrations that’s representing the movie. Inglourious Basterds has won several prices including the Golden Globe, BAFTA award and Best Actor Award. The film was planned in 1998, but Tarantino couldn’t find the perfect ending so he worked with other projects while getting inspiration and finishing it in 2008.

It was filmed in Germany with a production budget of $70 million, but still it earned a lot more, over $320 million. The images are all made by illustrators like Alex Pardee, David Choe and Sam Flores among others. They are really giving that raw impression and mood that the movie gives, because of the blood and the grotesque scenes. Illustrations have also been the work of an Italian cartoonist who has illustrated how superheroes would look like when they get old.

Words like Stalin, Cold War, Communism and KGB reminds of The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR, also known as the Soviet Union. This higly centralized state was the former Russian Empire in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991. With a lot of power, the USSR was an empire with growth and opportunities. These pictures are a collection that shows how the situation in USSR was for the past 30 years. You will notice that the pictures in the beginning are full of joy and brightness; children playing, people dancing and working with smiles on their faces, school children singing, etc.

The further down you come, the more depressing and tragic they get, showing soldiers, hungry people and poverty. Maybe the tragic ending is a result of the dissolution or maybe the vodka is to blame. A similar situation to this is the story of Afghanistan, showing how 30 years of war destroyed their welfare and hope of the 60’s.

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Being an avid Star Wars fan, Travis S. has build an electric guitar that looks like Han Solo’s starship from the movies. With a huge passion for both guitars and Star Wars, Travis used a month to create his little piece of art by using a vintage Millennium Falcon toy. He claimed that he would have get done in a week since he only was building in the weekends. This was a piece of cake for Travis because he had built guitars with his father in high school. The Star Wars guitar is created to play as the plastic body does not affect the sound.

To give the piece and extra touch Travis has decorated it with LED lights containing their own batteries. He also had to install a maple block through the whole ship so the tension from the strings wouldn’t break it. Speaking of Star Wars starship, this Star Wars fan created a bed that looks like Millennium Falcon.

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We have all heard about origami – the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding. It’s super popular in Japan and it has spread around the whole world, and evolved into a modern art form. The folds in origami are basic and there are not many, but there are several forms of origami and several things you can make out of this small number of folds. One of them is origami architecture that involves using cut-out and folded paper, as thin paperboard. The three-dimensional are the hardest ones, and require skills of an architect.

These pictures are showing some of the great works of origami architecture where some of the papers are opened 360^o that involves the hardest folding. Just imagine how many prototypes had to be made before they managed to create the perfect origami building.

Sleeping Beauty Castle is beautiful fairy-tale building which original version can be seen in Disneyland park in Hong Kong. Originally, the design is based on Neuschwanstein Castle which can be found in Bavaria, in Germany. Some versions of Sleeping Beauty Castle can be also seen in Disneyland in USA, Disneyland Paris and Disneyland Tokyo.

This LEGO replica of Sleeping Beauty Castle is pretty magnificent creation. Here you can see some photos of thit beautiful replica made completely from LEGO bricks. It was posted by Brickshelf user Grrandram.

We do not own information about the number of LEGO bricks which were used for construction of this colorful replica but we are pretty sure that it wasn’t easy at all to create this.

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I had some pretty ambitious childhood fantasies and some of them still remain somewhere in my pretty childish mind but I have to admit that Bruce Murno’s childhood fantasy was way more ambitious and crazier than mines. He had a dream to create a huge sea of bunch of CDs and, finally he managed to realize his dream.

Here you can see something what reminds me on one of those happy Teletubies landscapes with plenty of different colors. It is a ’sea’ made from more than a half of million of old compact discs.

Bruce managed to create this amazing artistic installation with the help of his 140 friends and colleagues.

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Most of us heard about natural disaster which caused leakage of crude oil in Gulf of Mexico. Despite the fact that media have tried to cover complete story and to bring us enough information about it, we still cannot imagine how horrible this actually was and will be in future. Probably millions of animals will die because of this oil leakage and some scientist are predicting that this is only beginning since the season of birds migration is yet to come.

Jane Fulton is photographer who got an excellent idea to create a few of photos which could eventually help people to imagine the disastrous consequences of this leakage. She has created a few of photos where a few of models dared to swim and dive in oil.

Well there are few useful things when we talk about swimming in oil, you will definitely get a ‘chocolate tan’ for just a few seconds and also, you can be happy because you are theoretically swimming in a pool full of dollars (because crude oil means dollars, right?). Maybe BP’s CEO should try this, just in case he wants to see what his company did to thousands of poor animals.

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If your town doesn’t have some awesome river or some lake, maybe some historical monument or similar thing which could attract tourists then, maybe you should try some cheaper but not less effective method of getting tourists from all over the world to visit your town.

Bavarian town of Gunzburg is ordinary place in Germany but, since 2002 they have something what attracts thousands of tourists every year. They have built huge LEGO park called Legoland Deustchland which covers the surface of 43.5 hectares. This amazing LEGO park contains many replicas of famous building from Germany and world.

If you are used to see those calendars with nude photos then this one will be huge surprise for you. This calendar features women bodies, indeed, but some wouldn’t be so happy when they see that all photos on this calendar are actually x-ray photos. This calendar was made by EIZO company which is manufacturing equipment related to medical examination. That is pretty unique way to advertise the company for sure and it seems that they found models with perfect bones and skeleton structure for this calendar.

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The World War II has left deep scars on the face of Germany. After the end of the war, the most of the rest of the world has not been so optimistic in predictions about the fast recovery of Germany which has been buried with ruins and debris.

When you see all those photos of ruined Berlin, the capital city of Germany, you would probably think what everyone was thinking in that time: They’ll need at least hundred of years to rebuild and repair all that ruined buildings. However, Germany surprised the whole world with its extremely fast recovery. In less than thirty years, Germany has completely recovered from war and became again one of the world’s most influential and economically strongest countries.

Image credits by Life.