Rue The Day!

Esther Verschoor is one of many talented artists working in the underrated field of taxidermy art. Her specialty? Creating disturbingly detailed human women from the carcasses of dead birds and rodents. Be sure to check out the rest of the gallery for more extraordinary art pieces.

This awesome R2D2 replica not only looks great, but it’s also functional. It has eleven integrated game consoles, a projector and an eight-way speaker system.

From Rio to Detroit, the recession has resulted in a lot of fabulous skyscrapers being left as scraps. Many of these buildings are gorgeous, sterling examples of architecture from long ago now inhabited by nothing but ghosts.

Nothing says class like a tombstone showing you with your pimped out car and listing your mafia name. The Yekaterinburg cemetery isn’t limited to just one or two of these trashy graves though, it’s filled with multiple deceased mafiosos:

In the 1990s, Yekaterinburg was known as ‘The crime capital of Russia.’ Many of the leaders of the Russian Mafia lived there and Shirokorechenskoe Cemetery was the final resting place for many of them. Very expensive tombs, black marble, precious stones, laser-engraved images and life-size granite gravestones are common here. The nicknames of the deceased mobsters are engraved along with some of the things they were known for: He was an expert in using knifes.

For more strange and hilarious graveyards, check out the rest of the list here.

How would you like to live on Pac Man Avenue or Donkey Kong Lane? If you live in this small Spanish neighborhood, you might just get to live in similarly awesomely named streets.

Because we can all use more adorable kitties in our lives.

And seeing drinks under glass…Then you’re certain to love these amazing images of booze under a microscope. This is one of my all time favorite drinks, the delicious, and apparently gorgeous, pina colada.

Another year older, another year closer to senility.

Have you ever wondered what it might like to work inside the delightful and wonderful geek megastore, ThinkGeek? Wired has an entertaining and enlightening article on just that.

Forced perspective imagery is one of many awesome tricks your camera can play on you. In this case, it involves manipulating the foreground and background of a picture to make things disproportionately large or small. Check out some awesome examples here.