Incredible Cake Decorations by Karen Portaleo

These cakes are the work of Highland Bakery, based in Atlanta, Georgia. The team of bakers is headed by Karen Portaleo, who was once a clay ...

Cakes and Sweets that look like Fast Food

Cake designer Debbie Goard bakes cakes and sweet treats that look like fast foods and other savoury snacks. Her company, Debbie does Cakes,...

Creative and Unusual cakes

The Dark Legacy of Gruinard Island

Halfway between the villages of Gairloch and Ullapool in the North-West Highlands of Scotland, sits a small oval-shaped island named Gruinar...

Amazingly Realistic Cakes by Debbie Goard

Debbie Goard is a cake designer who runs “Debbie Does Cakes”, a single-woman cake company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Debbie has b...

Divorce Cakes by Fay Millar

London confectioner Fay Millar has been baking cakes since she was old enough to pick up a wooden spoon in her mother’s kitchen. She gradual...

Cake Disasters

This is what happens when there is a failure in communication …. or the cake decorators are just plain stupid. “Best wishes Suzanne” an...

The True Story Behind ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’

The story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin is well known. This dark European folktale with unsettling themes of ingratitude and terrible vengean...

Kinderkookkafe: The Restaurant Run by Kids

Kinderkookkafé is a family restaurant in Amsterdam that is run entirely by children: they cook, serve, bring the bill and wash up, all with ...

The Crooked House of Windsor

While many crooked houses are deliberately built crooked for visitor attraction, the one that stands at market square in Windsor, in England...

The Unusual Salt Industry of Teguidda-n-Tessoumt

Roughly 200 km northwest of the city of Agadez, in northern Niger, lies a tiny village of around 50 families called Teguidda-n-Tessoumt. The...

Pioneertown: A Movie Set That Became A Real Town

In 1946, a bunch of Hollywood legends including Roy Rogers, Dick Curtis, and Russell Hayden —tired of travelling to far-off locations to sho...

Cake Shaped Soaps From Yorkshire Soap Co.

Yorkshire Soap Co . builds bathing soaps that look like delicious mouth watering cakes. They even decorates their soaps with pieces of real ...

Spanish Festival of Els Enfarinats Celebrated With Flour Fight

No festival in Spain is complete without a bizarre tradition like throwing tomatoes or running in front of bulls or jumping over babies . ...

Why The Soviet Union Advertised Products That Didn’t Exist

The purpose of commercials is to advertise products and drive sales, but in Soviet Russia under communism they served an altogether differen...

Best of 2012

At Amusing Planet we cover anything that is offbeat or interesting, and that includes a wide range of topics. With over 400 articles publish...

Alberto Santos-Dumont: The Brazilian Aviation Pioneer

The Wright brothers are generally considered to be the inventors of flight, but in Brazil, it is their son of the soil Alberto Santos-Dumont...

Berlin Restaurant Serves Stone Age Food

A new restaurant has recently opened up at Berlin. You won’t find cheese, bread or sugar here. Instead, guests at the Sauvage restaurant are...

Huer's Hut And Pilchard Fishing

Cornwall, in southwest England, once had a thriving fishing industry and at the heart of this industry was the pilchard, also known as sardi...

Barbie Themed Restaurant Opens in Taiwan

Taiwan has opened a Barbie-themed restaurant in Taipei called the Barbie Cafe, after the US toy company Mattel licensed Taiwanese restaurant...