Tokyo has such bizarre bars that
make other countries’ watering holes
look as boring as hospitals. However,
in Tokyo’s
ER Hospital Bar waitresses
wear nurses’ uniform and serve liquor
in right ‘doses’ in oversized syringes!
Though German men have
been voted as the world’s
worst lovers, their villages
stir up a passion with names
like Kissing and Petting. But the best is Fucking,
an Austrian village, just
185 km from Kissing and
a short drive from Petting.
Talk about getting steamy
around the world!
Getting to the basics, a rare
collection of over 100 penises
and penile parts belonging to
land and sea mammals can
be found in the Phallological
Museum in Iceland. Guess
who has the biggest of ’em
all? The adult Sperm Whale,
with a penis measuring a
whopping 170 cm!
He must be the largest and
heaviest muse in the world.
Weighing 60 tonnes, the world’s
largest buffalo has been attracting
hordes of tourists, wanting to
get clicked with him. For all his
largeness (14m long and 8m tall),
he still doesn’t have a name. But
the city that hosts him, Jamestown
in North Dakota, is nicknamed ‘The Buffalo City’.
If you believe in the legend of Santa Claus,
a visit to his office at the Arctic Circle border
town of Rovaniemi in the Finnish Lapland will
leave you all red with excitement. You can meet
up with the good old roly-poly man, tug at his long,
silvery beard and still ask for gifts, though
Christmas has just gone by
Adam’s Peak in Sri Lanka
is the place where Adam is
supposed to have first set
his foot on earth. The ‘ownership’ of the footprint
here is hugely contested.
Adam, Shiva, Buddha,
St. Thomas, the list goes on
Feeling all blue? Make a
dash to Denmark. Danes are
the happiest in the world,
according to a world map
of happiness prepared by the
University of Leicester
Sweden offers a real ‘cold’ welcome at its Icehotel in
Jukkasjarvi village. Built from
scratch annually, it includes an
ice chapel, a cinema, sauna and
the famous Absolut Ice Bar
along with hotel rooms, which
can accommodate up to 100
guests. But the summer sun
pours water on all the efforts
Batcave, the secret headquarters
of Batman, is a series of subterranean
caves in LA. Billionaire
Bruce Wayne, whose alternate
identity is Batman, discovered
the caves when he fell through a
dilapidated well on his estate. Incidentally, the caves were used
by his ancestors as a storehouse
