You want cute, cuddly animals? Competitive eaters stuffing their faces? Nude protesters? And wacky flying machines that just barely get off the ground? We've got 'em!
Hot Shots: The Best of the Best
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Here's a smattering of the latest photos. Among the beauties: A camel beauty pageant, a duck fashion show, and shrubs sculpted to look like the Beatles.
Mermaid Parade Highlights
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Sexy performance artists, burly firefighters and all sorts of New Yorkers dress up as sea creatures for Coney Island's 25th annual Mermaid Parade. This year, King and Queen Neptune led the protests to stop developers from changing this Brooklyn treasure.
Bow-wow! World's Ugliest Dog Contest
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Meet Gus, a pedigree Chinese Crested, who's got one eye, three legs, and a trophy that proclaims he's "World's Ugliest Dog". You'd think his owner must have hated him to enter him in an anti-beauty pageant for pooches. Actually, it's quite the opposite.
Heroes of Competitive Eating in Action
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Take a look at Patrick Bertoletti (left), the man who can inhale 47 cream-filled doughnuts in five minutes, along with Joey Chestnut, Takeru Kobayashi, and the other top "athletes" of competitive eating.
Outrageous Protests
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How better to express your outrage than to dress outrageously -- or not dress at all? Here's a look at protesters who dress as orangutans, superheroes, and deep sea divers -- and some who protest in the raw.
Sideshow Stars Open Ripley's Odditorium
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Ripley's Believe It or Not! reopened its San Antonio Odditorium, just a stone's throw from the Alamo, with one of the greatest gatherings of sideshow stars you'll ever see.
Coney Island Sideshow School
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Looking for a new career? At Coney Island's Sideshow School, you'll learn how to hammer nails into your skull, ear fire, swallow swords, an other necessary skills you'll need to run off and join a circus.
World Naked Bike Ride
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Want to let people know the harm their gas-burning motor vehicles do to Mother Earth? Why not strip down to the bare essentials, throw on some body paint and jump on your bike?
Toilet Seat Art
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Want to see some of the most unusual toilet seats on earth? Stagecrafters, a not-for-profit community theater in Royal Oaks, MI, built potties to honor Britney Spears, the Wizard of Oz and other unusual creations, all in the name of charity.
The Man Who Paid $1,350 for a Frosted Flake
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Jon Wolf of Trivimania.com has big plans for the Illinois-shaped Frosted Flake auctioned on eBay for $1,350. He's got Jack Ruby's hat Marylin Monroe's date book, and he intends to build a one-of-a-kind traveling museum of Americana -- a later-day Ripley's Believe It Or Not.
Celebrity Mug Shots
A picture is worth a thousand words. But when a police officer is taking a mug shot of someone famous, that figure expands exponentially.
