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This has got to be the saddest statistic I've heard in a long time.

Yak butter, purple corn, orchid root, and ginger. What do these ingredients have in common? They are all key flavors in some of our world’s 20 most iconic and unusual hot drinks.

People do strange things, therefore weird laws are written to help straighten them out. Some of these bizarre laws almost seem like urban myths or too ridiculous to be real, yet odd as they are, they were created for a reason.

I’m always looking for unique travel ideas. In fact, when asked what I would do if I won the lottery, usually its a tie between: (1) book an exotic vacation and (2) purchase all the camera equipment I’ve ever wanted. But then I heard about some of Spain’s wackiest festivals. Hands down, I’m hopping on the next airplane….

It is many travellers' desire to reach out a tiny aeroplane porthole and touch the clouds. It could soon become a reality with a giant, kite-shaped airship that may herald a new era of luxury transport. On the Aircruise - a towering airship packing 330,000 cubic metres of hydrogen gas, capable of lifting 396 tonnes - travellers will be able to float through the clouds, literally.

Just when you thought air travel couldn't get any worse, maggots falling from an overhead bin on a US Airways flight out of Atlanta this week forced the plane to return to the gate.

Russian model Irene Ferrari is having the worst possible year - in June of 2009, she suffered from an exploding boob upon landing in Los Angeles, and now she is suing Swiss International airlines for another boob related incident.

Cooking animelles (you know) is taken so seriously that there’s a yearly World Testicle Cooking Championship held each year in Serbia. There’s even a cookbook available for scrotum enthusiasts.
Here are five places where you're guaranteed to get what you came for.

A couple of weeks ago, as the Enneagram – a personality typing system – seemed to be popping up everywhere in my life, I was astounded to find out there was nothing around the web about travel and personality. After two weeks of comments, we’ve (kind of) determined how different personality types travel best.

In the strictly geologic use of the word, a sinkhole happens when water erodes solid bedrock, carving an underground cavity that can then collapse. Many parts of the United States are at risk for that type of event.