Sweden's original Icehotel has rebuilt its seasonal rooms from snow and river ice each winter since 1989.

Mail for Supai, Arizona, travels into the Grand Canyon by pack mule because the village has no road connection.

Kiruna, Sweden, is relocating buildings and its center because ground deformation from the nearby iron mine threatens the old town.

In 1932, Australian soldiers with Lewis guns were deployed to help farmers stop large groups of emus damaging crops in Western Australia.

Zagreb's Museum of Broken Relationships displays ordinary objects donated with the stories of relationships that ended.

In 1970, Oregon highway officials used half a ton of dynamite to dispose of a beached sperm whale.

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Using an ultra-precise laser, researchers printed a microscopic elephant -- trunk to tail, just 10 micrometers long -- inside a living cell.

George Frandsen holds the Guinness World Record for the largest collection of coprolites -- fossilized feces.

In the mountains of Morocco, scientists found blowfly larvae that have evolved a complete fake termite head -- with eyes and antennae -- on their rear ends.