Posts in category Astonishing Humans

Butch Baker began the chain more than 40 years ago and even had to reinforce his floor to support its weight! Now, the behemoth has a new home at Ripley’s!

A lifetime of zoological collecting evaporated under the pressures of blackmail.

Often referred to back then as “the sky boys,” workers finished building the skyscraper in just 410 days — that‘s more than four stories a week!

On April 19, 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann took the first intentional dose of LSD. Decades later, Mark McCloud decorates his home with blotter art.

Jasper Maskelyne used plywood and canvases to make trucks look like tanks and tanks look like trucks.

From his aversion to socks to the curious fate of his brain after his death, take a look at some of the more obscure and fascinating details of Albert Einstein’s life.

A once sleepy fishing hamlet turned surfer magnet, Nazaré, Portugal, has garnered a reputation for attracting the planet’s most dauntless big wave surfers.

Held in 1967, the first Super Bowl did not feature a star-studded musical concert, but it DID have two men flying around in jet packs.

A stolen bicycle inspired this 12-year-old from Louisville, Kentucky to take up boxing.

Ivan Djuric of Uzice, Serbia, joins the ranks of unbelievable artists with his hyper-realistic portraits using a technique known as pyrography!