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The great thing about travel may be seeing the world through a different lens, but that doesn’t mean the view is always pretty. With this in mind, the travel experts at VirtualTourist.com have come up with a list of “The World’s Top 10 Ugliest Buildings and Monument.” General manager, Giampiero Ambrosi talks about the selections: “Some of these picks have all the charm of a bag of nails while others are just jaw-dropping in their complexity. Love them or hate them, the list is certainly entertaining.”

1) Boston City Hall; Boston, Massachusetts

While it was hip for it’s time, this concrete structure now gets routinely criticized for its dreary façade and incongruity with the rest of the city’s more genteel architecture. Luckily, it’s very close to more aesthetically pleasing attractions.

2) Montparnasse Tower; Paris, France (more…)

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A passenger on a French train had to be rescued by firemen after having his arm sucked down the on-board toilet.

The 26-year-old victim was trapped when he tried to fish out his mobile phone, which had fallen into the toilet bowl, and fell foul of the suction system.

The high-speed TGV train had to stop for two hours while firemen cut through the train’s pipework.

The man was carried away by emergency services, with the toilet still attached to his arm.

“He came out on a stretcher, with his hand still jammed in the toilet bowl, which they had to saw clean off,” said Benoit Gigou, a witness to the man’s plight.

The incident happened on Sunday evening, aboard a train travelling in western France between La Rochelle and Paris.

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Disaster: October 19, 2006 from the potassium mine shaft number 1 Uralkalij (Berezniki town, Perm region), after the collapse, there was a fast increase of water inflow into the face registered. The influx from the aquifer increased, which was extremely dangerous - if saturated with water, solid formation of salt could turn into a pulp, that within a large system of cavities formed in the extraction of salt water, would begin to dissolve rocks with possible effects on surface.

In this situation there was nothing to do, and Oct. 28, 2006 the mine was closed. The process of dissolution of potassium salt in the mine got stronger, and after 9 months, on July 28, 2007, a minor pit had appeared.

The pit was growing very fast, and by the summer of 2008 reached a diameter of 1150 feet and a depth of about 330 feet. Then, the process has slowed down.

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Not only the territory of the mine was hit by the pit, but also the railway Chusovskaya-Solikamsk (old track is clearly visible on the photo). Passenger trains were canceled as early as 2006, for freight trains there was built temporary bypassing (see the bottom of the picture). Now, suburban and long-distance passenger trains depart from the station Berezniki-Sortirovochnaya located south to the city, where passengers are brought to by bus.

Noteworthy that this incident was not the first. In 1986, at mine number 3 a similar case occurred - strong water inflow into the face after the collapse of the rocks. Then there a pit of similar size appeared, just more elongated. But it happened outside the city, and now residents of Berezniki are going to rest to the lake formed.

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by Scott Carmichael  
http://www.gadling.com

The bathroom often seems to be a great source of amusement.

Different signs around the world are usually poorly translated, with pretty hilarious results. Other signs are just plain weird, or have been defaced by folks with a healthy combination of humor and boredom. I have collected 10 signs that grabbed my attention.

We can not allow you to use the bathroom!

Can’t find anywhere to pee? Blame the terrorists. Photo taken at the American embassy in Tokyo.

Good old Engrish bathroom sign

It has separated! Don’t mistake!

Presented without comment…

Really, what could I possibly add to describe this fantastic Chinese bathroom sign?

Even Lego minifigs need to relieve themselves!

From the bathroom door at the Legoland Discovery Center

Wash those genitals!

Sure, it is probably (hopefully) a joke sign, but it made me chuckle.

Please use butt to flush!

Ahhhh…. Nothing says "fun" like some juvenile humor and a black marker….

Girl’s what?

Bad grammar is everywhere, but this sign is on the bathroom wall at a school!

Aliens do number 1 and 2, just like us!

This sign is found at the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle, Washington.

It took me some time to figure this one out…

This sign is from a bathroom in Turkey, and no matter how often I look at it, I can’t figure out exactly what they are trying to tell me. It appears they are just trying to say that this is the way to the male and female bathrooms.

A lesson in hand washing

No offense, but if you work at this company and need a 6 step lesson on how to wash your hands, you might want to ask yourself whether you made the right career move.

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The best futuristic airplanes, zeppelins etc. Some crazy aviation geeks spends millions of hours building these state-of-the-art planes.

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