Sealand: a micronation
on the waters of the North Sea
Sealand is a micronation
located six miles (10 km) off the coast of Suffolk,
England.
Sealand is occupied by the family and associates of Paddy Roy Bates. The population
of the facility rarely exceeds five, and its inhabitable area is 550 m2.
Although Sealand's
claims to sovereignty and legitimacy are not recognized by any country, it is
probably the world's best-known micronation, and is sometimes cited in debates
as an interesting case study of how various principles of international law can
be applied to a territorial dispute.
Erving's Location
is situated in Coos County,
New Hampshire. In New Hampshire,
locations, grants, townships (which are different from towns), and purchases
are unincorporated portions of a county which are not part of any town and have
limited self-government (if any, as many are uninhabited).
According to the
2000 census, one person lived in Erving's Location. Some have speculated that
the census statistics for Erving's Location could have been a computer glitch.
The Mojave Lonely Phone
Booth
The Mojave Phone
Booth was a lone telephone booth in the Mojave National Preserve which
attracted an online following in 1997, due to its unusual location. The booth
was 15 miles from the nearest interstate highway, and miles from any buildings.
Fans called the
booth attempting to get a reply, and a few took trips to the booth to answer,
often camping out at the site. The story inspired the creation of a motion
picture, Mojave Phone Booth, due for release in 2006.
Thank you for Fucking,
Austria
Fucking is a small
settlement (population c. 150) in Austria. The village is known to
have existed as "Fucking" since at least 1070.
The settlement's most
famous feature is a traffic sign with its name on it beside which
English-speaking tourists often stop to have their photograph taken. The sign
is the most commonly stolen street sign in Austria. Significant amounts of public
funds are spent on replacing the stolen signs.
The smallest park in
the world: 452 in2
Mill Ends Park in
Portland, Oregon
is the smallest park in the world, according to the Guinness Book of Records. The
"park" is a 2 foot (610 mm) wide circle which in 1948 was intended to
be the site for a light pole.
The small circle
has featured many unusual items through the decades, including a swimming pool
for butterflies (complete with diving board) and a miniature ferris wheel
(which was delivered by a regular-sized crane).
A Christian Chapel
decorated by the bones of 40,000 people
The Sedlec Ossuary
is a small Christian chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints
in the Czech Republic.
The ossuary contains
approximately 40,000 human skeletons which have been artistically arranged to
form decorations and furnishings for the chapel.
Climb the World's
steepest street
The quiet suburban
street of Baldwin Street,
in New Zealand's southern
city of Dunedin,
is reputed to be the world's steepest street.
At its maximum, the
slope of Baldwin Street
is approximately 1:2.86 (20° or 38%) - that is, for every 2.86 metres travelled
horizontally, the altitude rises by 1 metre.
Welcome to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
is a village on the island of Anglesey in Wales. It is best known for having the
longest officially recognised place name in the United Kingdom, and one of the
longest in the world.
The village's long
name was contrived in the 1860s for the prestige of having the longest name of
a railway station in Great
Britain, and could not be considered an
authentic word in the Welsh language. A translation into English would yield "St
Mary's church in the hollow of the white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool and
the church of St Tysilio of the red cave".
A museum devoted to
the Penis
The Icelandic Phallological
Museum in Husavík, Iceland,
is a museum devoted to phallology. The museum currently has 154 specimens
displayed like hunting trophies, embalmed in formaldehyde, or dried in display
cases.
The museum attempts
to collect penis specimens from every mammal extant in Iceland, including several species
that are endangered or currently extinct in Icelandic waters.
Climb the Rabbit's
Hill
Colletto Fava is a 5,000
foot (1,500 m) high hill in the northern Piedmont region of Italy. In 2005,
a massive pink stuffed bunny was finished being erected on the side of the mountain.
Members of the
Viennese art group Gelatin that erected it not only expect people to observe
the art work, but also for hikers to climb it and relax on the top.
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