Spotting such vehicles in our usual boring stream of traffic can be as rewarding as catching a smile of a beautiful woman - or on the contrary, may only produce a yelp of disbelief "what in the name of Motoring Mother Mary was THAT?"

Odyssey in the Arctic with Russian Icebreaker Fleet - The nuclear-powered icebreakers served as a symbol of Soviet technological power for many decades. Today this fleet is used to aid ship navigation in the seas north of Siberia - and for elite touris

Look closely. This is what the world's first Time Machine may look like!Never heard of "traversable wormholes?" As the world's most powerful particle accelerator becomes functional this spring, it will unleash forces capable of distorting space - and time

How much fun can you have with a gas mask on your face? None whatsoever.And yet multitudes of people of various age and occupation donned these rubber/plastic stifling contraptions, some just for the heck of it!

We can only guess how some of them happened (the truth is often stranger than fiction)

This thing might even conquer the Moon, with little modification.... Huge Road Train, led by two locomotives, described on this site is the ultra-powerful, gas-gobbling reality.

A Fresh Crop of Fallen Cranes - They just can't keep standing straight, it seems, no matter what technology we come up with. They still get blown this way and that by the wind, careless blunders and sheer negligence of operators.

Situated in the remote north east of Laos, are hundreds of huge stone jars scattered across several square miles - Jars of a deeply mysterious and spooky nature.

The beauty of these sculptures will melt your heart;the sculptures themselves will melt soon after... Ice and Snow Sculpture competitions are becoming quite popular, with the most famous being held in Harbin, China and Lake Louise, Canada.

French city of Nantes recently became host to extremely strange and fascinating sculptural display: "Les Machines de l'Ile Nantes", designed by François Delarozière and Pierre Orefice. Steampunk Vehicles, Mechanical Squids & Elephants, etc