Garbage House

The MapOfStrange website is a way of recording strange, wacky, weird and wonderful anomalies, sights and oddities from Google Maps and Google Earth.

Seems a bit low on content but hopefully this site keeps chugging along. Some interesting very high resolution satellite images in Africa of wildlife on this page.

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The tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world. Frequently heard phrases from the millions of people who have been on these terrible rides include: “Ohhhh noooo”, “S&%t!” and the classic “We’re gonna die!”.

Watching the videos is a must.

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A 65-year-old armless woman in China has been named the best embroiderer in her village. And while this seems like an unimaginable achievement, given her disability, it is not.

Ren Jiemei, of Haiyang, Shandong province, is a modern-day armless wonder who, like many before her, demonstrates skills that are seemingly impossible.

Ren is said to be able to thread a needle without fail and works quicker and better than all her fully limbed peers. She holds the needle with her right foot and threads it with her left.

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A slide show of extreme cheek piercings present at the annual Vegetarian Festival in Phuket, Thailand.

From Wikipedia: The festivities in Phuket include a procession of mah song wearing elaborate costumes who pierce their cheeks and tongues with all manner of things, including swords, banners, machine guns, table lamps, and flowers. While the face is the most common area pierced, some also pierce their arms with pins and fishhooks. Teams of people accompany the mah song to keep their wounds clean and to help support the heavier piercings. It is believed that while they are possessed the mah song will not feel any pain. They can also be seen shaking their heads back and forth continually, and usually do not seem to “see” their surroundings. At the temple during the festival there is also firewalking and blade-ladder climbing.

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For most of his life, Tom Every was a professional destroyer. Tom worked in Wisconsin as an industrial wrecker, thrashing old factories, breweries and any other building that stood in the way. But when he retired in 1983, he decided he would dedicate the rest of his life to being a creator: Dr. Evermore, to be exact.

Dr. Evermore is imagined by Every as a Victorian inventor from Eggington, England, with a back story involving a Presbyterian minister father and a traumatizing lightning storm. Dr. Evermore manifests his creativity in the Forevertron, a massive sprawling sculpture park in rural Wisconsin, one that Every or “Dr. Evermore” says will send him “into the heavens on a magnetic lightning force beam.” Every also has put his sculptural skills to use at the nearby wonder the House on the Rock.

Made from industrial scrap, the sculpture park includes a decontamination chamber from NASA’s Apollo project, dynamos built by Thomas Edison and scrap metal salvaged from an Army Ammunition Plant.

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Order a drink and don’t bother looking interested in anything particular. Chat with a friend if you brought one. Girls will come up sooner or later and start conversations. Then it will be time to choose which one to set your sights on. I recommend you follow these guidelines.

If she looks twenty-two, she’s fifteen.
If she looks fifteen, she’s twenty-eight.
If she looks twenty-eight, she’s over forty.

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