Artist Henk Hofstra who was inspired by his breakfast created these public art display of giant fried egg sculptures in Leeuwarden Netherlands which will remain in the city square for the next five months. His works has been a hit with the public and one commentator hoped the eggs would be picked up by Google Maps.

3 more pics of the giant fried eggs in the Netherlands after the jump.

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The Beijing Airport is one of the spectacular buildings built to cater for the Olympics and has just recently been completed. The designers, Sir Norman Foster and partners claims that it is the world’s largest and most advanced airport building.

The airport is very efficient in terms of operations, passenger comfort, sustainability and access to natural light and even have a gigantic terminal built in the shape of the traditional Chinese dragon. It is 17% bigger than London Heathrow and has a total of five floors.

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A fascinating garden found in Shanghai China with interesting sculptures that includes lion dance, jumping dolphins, abacus, hand with teapot and many others. Creative modern art installations fusing with nature that would pique the interest of garden lovers.

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An animated illustration of the Phoenix Lander arriving on Mars on May 25th. The Phoenix Lander is programmed to set down near the North Pole of Mars and over the next three months, sample alien soil and ice and look for conditions conducive for ancient microbial life.

This animation shows the arrival, deployment of parachute, jettison its heat shield, thruster fire, landing, unfurling its solar panel, deploying its instruments, scooping and analysis by the Phoenix Lander.

1 videoclip of the Mars Phoenix Lander CG animation after the jump.

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Mars is the red and fourth planet in our Solar System and was named after the Roman God of War. Mankind has always taken a great interest in Mars due to its close distance and science fiction depicts us living on Mars in the future some day. There is also a popular idea in the 19th century that Mars was populated by intelligent Martians but explorations had shown that the planet looked inhabitable.

NASA’s Phoenix Spacecraft is the latest mission to explore the planet Mars which had just landed in a Martian Arctic site just days ago. It will begin a three month site examination to see whether frozen water would exist in the cold part of the planet Mars.

Meanwhile, check out photos of the Mars with 13 more pics after the jump.

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Orel or Oryol is a Russia city approximately 360 km south-south-west of Moscow and there stands a giant eagle monument dedicated to the city. The city’s name in Russian means eagle which explains why they erect the eagle as a symbol to the city.

4 more pics of the eagle monument in Orel Russia after the jump.

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Artist Bruno Torf created this sculpture garden as a permanent attraction in the small Victorian village of Marysville near Melbourne, Australia. The luscious sub-alpine forests of the surrounding areas were ideal for Bruno’s settings which consists of over three hundred paintings and sculptures. The garden started out with just fifteen life size terracotta sculptures but slowly grew to over one hundred and fifteen pieces on display.

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London Ink, the reality show from Discovery Channel was launched using a gigantic swimmer statue which was fixed to the south bank of the Thames near the Tower Bridge as an advertisement.

Louis Molly, personal tattooist of David Beckham created the picture of a Koi Carp lying on a bed of traditional fish and chips on the statue’s back. He is also the star of London Ink and the aim is to make tattoos mainstream and change the stereotype of tattoos as only for criminals.

The swimmer statue is made out of reinforced polystyrene and is a major draw for tourists and Londoners.

10 more pics of the swimmer statue after the jump.

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Earlier on we saw the epic commercial of Sony Foam City created by advertising agency Fallon London. These are video shooting photos as well as from the public of the foam flooded Miami. The world’s largest foam machine was custom built and pumped out 500,000 gallons of foam per minute. Over 200 Miami residents were asked to frolic in the foam while capturing events on the cameras.

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Need a memorable dinner to leave a lasting impression for your guests? Dinner in the Sky is a unique experience where the breakfast, lunch, cocktails, meetings are hosted on a table suspended at a height of 50 meters. It can accommodate 22 people around the table at every session with the chef, waiter and entertainer in the middle. Although based in Belgium the restaurant can be driven to any destination in the world. There has been dining events in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Las Vegas and many others.

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Beautiful nature phenomena Aurora Borealis (also called northern polar lights) in the night sky of Murmansk, a city in the extreme northwest part of Russia.

Check out 16 more pics of the mystical light display of the Aurora Borealis in Murmansk Russia after the jump.

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The Tiger Temple or Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua is a Theravada Buddhist temple in Thailand and has been a sanctuary for many endangered animals including several tigers that walk around freely once a day and can be petted by tourists. The temple received several tiger cubs where the mothers had been killed by poachers. As of 2007, over 21 cubs have been born at the temple and the total number of tigers is about 12 adult tigers and 4 cubs.

The tigers are tamed by being fed with cooked meat to avoid giving them a taste for blood. The staff keep the tigers under control and the abbot will intervene if the tiger gets agitated. They are treated as family members in the temple and visitors are asked to give a donation if they want to take photos with the tigers.

Check out 12 more pics of visitors posing with the tigers at the Tiger Temple in Thailand after the jump.

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The polar bear is the largest land carnivore as well as one of the most ferocious. In the award winning Polar Bear Habitat and Heritage Village located the little town of Cochrane in Northern Ontario Canada, people can experience a once in a life time outdoor swim with polar bears. What separates the people from the beast are bulletproof and shatterproof glass that’s almost 9 centimetres wide, enough for protection against hostile actions from the polar bear. An experience to get up so close to these magnificent creatures would definitely entice enthusiastic adventurers.

3 more pics of swimming with the polar bears in the Cochrane Polar Bear Habitat after the jump.

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This chapel located in Sedlec, Czech Republic is decorated with human bones of over 40,000 people. They are decorated in arrangements like bells, furnitures as well as a chandelier. The history behind this chapel was that a plague struck the town of Kutna Hora during the Black Death (one of the deadliest pandemics in human history) in the mid 14th century and killed many people and the local cemetery had no more space for bodies to be buried. The Sedlec Chapel was then built as an ossuary to deposit the bones.

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Nobody would have thought that a Venice style resort could be recreated in the shimmering desert of Dubai. The Madinat Jumeirah resort was constructed by digging 3.5 kilometers of trenches around the 40 hectare resort and was filled with 600,000 gallons or 2.5 million liters of water. The result was a dreamlike Venice on what was once a beach. Madinat Jumeirah is the largest resort in Dubai and the only one with water taxis as a necessity.

23 more pics of Madinat Jumeirah the Venice in Dubai after the jump.

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