Animals Photoshopped To Create Hilarious New Species

World’s Largest Bus Carries 256 Passengers – 101ft long

AutoTram® Extra Grand is developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Traffic and Infrastructure Systems. Considered as the longest bus in the world, it is nearly 31 meters long, has four steering axles and can carry 256 passengers. Combining the capacity of a small train with the maneuverability of a bus, the vehicle runs mostly on electric power.

The AutoTram Extra Grand is the longest bus in the world and is nearly 101ft long.

Child and Puppies

Male Island — Kaafu Atoll

Malé, is the capital and most populous city in the Republic of Maldives. It is located at the southern edge of North Malé Atoll (Kaafu Atoll). It is also one of the Administrative divisions of the Maldives. Traditionally it was the King's Island, from where the ancient Maldive Royal dynasties ruled and where the palace was located. The city was also called Mahal. Formerly it was a walled city surrounded by fortifications and gates (doroshi). The Royal Palace (Gan'duvaru) was destroyed along with the picturesque forts (kotte) and bastions (buruzu) when the city was remodelled under President Ibrahim Nasir's rule after the abolition of the monarchy. However, the beautifully decorated Male' Hukuru Miskiy remains. In recent years, the island has been considerably expanded through landfilling operations. Over the years there have been many coup attempts and protests centered in Male as a result of demand for greater democracy in the Maldives.

Creative Feather Cutwork — Chris Maynard

American artist Chris Maynard uses delicate eye surgery tools, miniscule scissors, forceps and sharp scalpels to slice intricate bird-shaped patterns into feathers. Chris Maynard, a resident of Olympia in Washington, USA, made his first feather artwork two years ago in 2011. Since then the 58 year old artist has created 80 pieces which can take up to several days at a time, before mounting them onto frames known as shadowboxes. These stunning works sell between $800 to $2000 a piece.

”The best way to see feathers is on birds,” says Chris Maynard. “But an image of a single feather gives a different perspective of the bird's form, beauty, and function. Nature creates here. I just provide design and the right lighting.”

“Because most birds lose (molt) and renew their feathers about once a year, single feathers are easy to use and photograph without harming the bird. Most pictures here are of molted feathers. Many of these photographed feathers were borrowed from museums, zoos, and private aviaries.

Sculptures of Toys

Australian artist Freya Dzhobbins (Freya Jobbins) creates amazing characters of the individual parts of dolls and toys. In 2006, Frey okonichla South Western Sydney Institute.

Blick Apps Mobile Covers

Print advertising has to really pop out of a magazine - especially if the product is one that's popular amongst creatives. When we stumbled upon this beautiful campaign, we had to marvel at the 3D skills, art direction, and spot-on execution that went into the project.

Switzerland-based agency Twin-Design created these fantastic iPhone case images as part of an ad for Swiss tabloid newspaper Blick's new smartphone app. The app covers news, sports, gossip, and more, and the ad campaign ingeniously communicates that message.

Inspired by Blick's services. the agency designed the virtual phonecases to showcase the variety of interests serviced by the app, including football, hockey, celebrities and movies. What a way to bring an ad to life - we just wish the cases were real ones!

Kawazu-Nanadaru Loop Bridge — Japan

How do you build a bridge on a mountainside when the grade is so steep that a linear ramp isn’t possible? Build a loop, and if one is not enough, build two. This is what engineers did when the built the Kawazu-Nanadaru Loop Bridge, also known as the Japanese Double loop spiral, in Kawazu, Japan. This double spiral brings cars up and down a full 45 meters while being seemingly suspended in a valley between two mountainsides. The spirals measure 80m in diameter and the whole ramp section is 1.1km long.

The bridge on Highway 414 between Tokyo and the Izu peninsular was finished in 1982 and has become a well known landmark since

Face Paintings by Christy Lewis

Christy Lewis is an award-winning artist based in Wellington, New Zealand who works on exquisite face and body Painting. She is a passionate artist and loves to share her enjoyment of face Painting with the rest of the world.

Shocking Lip Makeup Looks Like a Hungry Eye

You might be thinking, "Is that an eye with some sort of trippy contact lens or lips with some clever makeup?" If you guessed the latter, you'd be correct! Swedish makeup enthusiast Sandra Holmbom, aka psychosandra, created this wildly illusionary look for her lips, mimicking an eye.

From the intricately designed iris to the delicately applied eyelashes, the makeup artist has meticulously created a third eye on her face in a most creative and unexpected way. The slight part in her mouth adds to the mind-boggling effect that causes one to do double-take. While the artist has created a visually stunning effect with great attention to detail, Holmbom admits that she just wanted to do something weird and adds, "Pretty, it's not, but I had fun anyway.

The World's Largest Cigar worth 200,000 Dollars

Juan Panesso has had a lot of strange requests over the years he's managed his online cigar store-- but a 20-foot long stogie with a $200,000 price tag was easily the strangest. And the most stressful.

'We try to cater to premium high end sm0kers,' Mr Panesso tells the Daily Mail. 'But we've never had something like this. It's really odd, and stressful and exciting at the same time

Bicycle Chain Sculptures of Meditative Faces

Korean artist Young-Deok Seo never ceases to amaze us with his skilled ability to turn ordinary bicycle chains into extraordinary figurative sculptures. Through his construction the artist continues to comment on man's disintegration into a mechanical universe by using a cold, hard material. Using the human form as his template, the accomplished sculptor mimics the intricate shape and curves of the human face, deep in thought, for his Meditation series.

Each of his figurative creations for this collection depicts a unique face in a moment of serene meditation. The intricately detailed visage of each large-scale structure is both meticulously sculpted and intriguingly fragmented. The disembodied heads are visually perceived as one entity despite the spaces purposely left between each chain link. From a distance, one sees only the perfect silhouette of the faces, but upon closer inspection the viewer is able to notice the textured and fragmented imperfections. 

All Watches Oscar 2010

"Golden Arrow" In Switzerland, summed up the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Geneve. Unlike Hollywood's Oscars, his hour-long version of the award in Switzerland. Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Geneve, Geneva or Watchmaking Grand Prix, presented at the Geneva-hour festival, a panel of judges composed of journalists watch magazines. Some believe that it should not be, because these magazines publish advertisements of those who participate in the contest. Nevertheless, the competitors of this prize is still there. And every member of the jury, in addition to employment, has a name and reputation. This year the prize was awarded in eleven categories. More images after the break...

The main prize. Hours Double Tourbillon 30 ° Edition Historique of Greubel Forsey. Housing is really made of gold, but it's not the point. Collectible series of 11 copies. Completing a series of dviynyh Tourbillon Grebel and Forse. They also this double tourbillon invented. There are still other 11 copies. In cases made of platinum.

A Boat Made of Bottles

An alternative to the recycling of plastic bottles info laying along the coast and on roadsides, Tom Davis from the island of Fiji suggested using them to build boats. To create your own crockery he had the 600 bottles. Boat 4.5 meters long and 1.4 meters wide, can accommodate three men

Bahrain World Trade Center

The Bahrain World Trade Center (also called Bahrain WTC or BWTC) is a 240 m (787 ft) high twin tower complex located in Manama, Bahrain. The towers were built in 2008 by the multi-national architectural firm Atkins. It is the first skyscraper in the world to integrate wind turbines into its design. The wind turbines were developed, built and installed by Danish company Norwin A/S. This 50-floor structure is constructed in close proximity to the King Faisal Highway, near popular landmarks such as the towers of BFH, NBB and Abraj Al Lulu. It currently ranks as the second tallest building in Bahrain, after the twin towers of the Bahrain Financial Harbour. The project has received several awards for sustainability, including;

• The 2006 LEAF Award for Best Use of Technology within a Large Scheme.
• The Arab Construction World for Sustainable Design Award.

Blanket of fog hangs over the Dubai

Dubai-based German photographer Sebastian Opitz captures the surreal and mystical look of his adopted city as fog rolls in and out at sunrise. The photographer renames the cityscape as Cloud City for the brief moments when the mist takes over and fills the empty space between the towering buildings. Optiz's images offer a serene and dreamy view of a bustling city, re-imagining it as a heavenly metropolis in the sky.

The photographer says, "I've been living in Dubai for over four years now and always dreamed of taking one of those rare shots from above the fog. This only happens on 4 - 6 days per year and when it happens it will be over by 9 AM. So one has to make sure to be up on the roof of a tower before sunrise and hope for the best." Luckily, Opitz was there to catch the magical event from high above the city on the 85th floor of the Princess Tower.

Stair Stepped Villages Palangan — Iran

Palangan (meaning leopards in Persian) is a village located 47 kilometers north-west of Kamyaran in Iran's Kurdestan province. This village is spread over both sides of a valley. All of the houses are made of stone and like a staircase they are in a continuous pattern, i.e. the roof of one house is the yard of another house. This village is one of the most beautiful villages of the province not only because of its unique architecture, but also because of its beautiful nature. It is located beside a river which flows into the Sirwan River. This area was one of the important regions of Kurdistan from Saljooqi period on and Palangan Castle which is next to the village over a mountain bears witness to this claim.

Millions for a mastiff at China Tibetan Dog Expo

BAODING, China — Drooping eyes barely visible behind a mountain of glossy black fur, an enormous dog snoozes on stage in an industrial Chinese city. Its asking price: close to a million US dollars. "This is the greatest dog in China," breeder Yao Yi said, as he stroked a year-old Tibetan Mastiff, up for sale on Saturday for five million Chinese yuan ($800,000), at a dog show in Baoding, a few hours drive from Beijing. Massive and sometimes ferocious, with round manes lending them a passing resemblance to lions, Tibetan Mastiffs have become a prized status-symbol among China's wealthy, with rich buyers across the country sending prices skyrocketing. One red Mastiff named "Big Splash", reportedly sold for 10 million yuan ($1.5 million) in 2011, in the most expensive dog-sale then recorded. "Check out her paws, they're enormous," Yao said, as his dog salivated onto a wooden stage in a dilapidated sports stadium where breeders gathered from across northern China to show off their purebred canines

Amazingly Paintings on Tiny Canvases — Hasan Kale

The smaller, the better, in the eyes of Hasan Kale. The Turkey-based artist creates micro paintings on very unusual canvases, including the wings of butterflies, snail shells, lemon peels, and coffee beans. Since the 1980's, Kale has produced these tiny little masterpieces, all of which feature his hometown, the landscape of Istanbul.

Kale uses his finger as a palette to blend paints and to create his desired color palettes. With great patience and a well-trained, steady hand, the artist uses a very fine-tipped paint brush to achieve amazing details. Viewers have to look very closely in order to see and to appreciate the landscapes, which blend very naturally into his chosen, and unusual, backgrounds. You can watch the video below to see the artist in action

Aerial Shots of International Airports by Jeffrey Milstein

Inspired by a childhood spent filming planes at LAX with an 8-millimeter videocamera, New York photographer and former Berkeley architecture student Jeffrey Milstein has turned his fascination for aviation into a career. Typically known for photographing the underbellies of aircrafts, Milstein’s latest series captures the artistic composition and elaborate array of patterns formed by airports and only seen from above. He describes this series as revealing “the patterns, layering and complexity of cities, and the circulation patterns for travel, such as waterways, roads, and airports that grow organically over time much like a living organism.

10 Incredible Sea Forts

 Fort Boyard, France

Famous Tree Tunnels

A tree tunnel is a road, lane or track where the trees on each side form a more or less continuous canopy overhead, giving the effect of a tunnel. The effect may be achieved in a formal avenue lined with trees or in a more rural setting with randomly placed trees on each side of the route. It can create a beautiful setting.

1. Jacarandas Walk, South Africa