This portable instrument of torture was popular in England and Scotland during the 1500′s, but was seen as late as the nineteenth century. The scold’s bridle (also known as branks) was a cage that was locked around a woman’s head as punishment for nagging and gossiping too often. Attached to this iron muzzle was a curb-plate inserted into a woman’s mouth to, literally, subdue her treacherous tongue. Most of these metal curb-plates were spiked, averaging in length of about half an inch to an inch. The smaller spikes were a mild discomfort while the longer ones pierced the tongue and caused the victim to bleed continuously.

The former Soviet Union had a plenty of military towns across the country that were abandoned later. Here’s one of them.

Creating one face out of two different celebrity faces.

Why coffin should be a boring box, where you can order to be made in the form of a lobster, red pepper, poultry or shoe? Indigenous inhabitants of a small African nation of Ghana believes that the funeral – it’s not a sad farewell to the deceased, it is a celebration of a man crossing the road to a better world. It is here that there was a tradition of putting the corpse in the coffin of a special bright intricate shapes.

We all have get used to X-rays of people, but what about other objects? Here you will see some of the greatest and funniest X-Ray photos of regular objects. Enjoy

This is how abandon retro car museum looks like. Only in Japan.

Lasers are all around us – in every CD and DVD player on Earth – but most are weedy little beams very far removed from science fiction’s visions of terrible space weaponry. Wicked Laser’s Spider 3 Krypton is another matter. It has a range of 85 miles, can set fire to paper from across a room, and is capable of pinpointing objects outside Earth’s atmosphere.

Looking directly into a Spider 3 Krypton – currently under review by the Guinness Book of Records as the brightest handheld laser on Earth – would be 8,000 times brighter than looking directly at the sun.

‘Safety goggles are advised,’ say the Krypton’s American manufacturers. A pair of protective glasses are included in the laser’s $299 (£185) price.

Looking at the photo, you know – people were very, very hungry:)

Von Hagens uses to manufacture their items purchased as corpses, and charged him with grateful admirers of his talent from around the world. There are among his sculptures and sent him to the body of executed prisoners.

The sea contains untold numbers of strange and bizarre creatures. It is said that we know more about our own solar system than we know about our oceans.Indeed, some creatures of the sea can seem more alien than anything you can imagine.But even worse, some of them can seem more frightening than your worst nightmare.