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The Planetarium of Nagoya City Science Museum

Aug 27, 2015

The Nagoya City Science Museum, at the center of Nagoya City in central Japan, can be easily recognized by its enormous silver globe, called...

Food Art By Carl Warner

Aug 24, 2013

London-based photographer Carl Warner uses bits and pieces of food to create incredibly realistic and intricate scenes. Heaps of bread beco...

Figurative Wood Sculptures by Peter Demetz

Mar 5, 2015

Italian artist Peter Demetz carves realistic human figures out of wood scaled down to less than two-feet, although some of his bigger sculp...

Miniature Food Sculptures by Kim Burke

Nov 28, 2010

American sculptor and artist Kim Burke loves to create 1/12th scale miniatures of food from polymer clay. Her food sculptures look amazing...

Kittiwat Unarrom Creates Gruesome Human Body Parts out of Bread

Jun 10, 2012

Thai artist and baker Kittiwat Unarrom bakes disturbingly realistic bread sculpted in the shape of dismembered human body parts. Since 2006 ...

Kallima Inachus: The Butterfly That Pretends to be a Dead Leaf

Jan 30, 2023

A walk through the forests and rainforests of Southeast Asia may bring us a curious surprise. Perhaps at a certain moment while walking we n...

Hyper-realistic Paintings by Antonio Cazorla

Mar 2, 2013

Antonio Cazorla was born in Punta Umbria, Spain, in 1971. From an early age he showed an exceptional interest and aptitude for art. By the ...

The Russian Gangster Cemetery in Yekaterinburg

Feb 14, 2017

The Shirokorechenskoe Cemetery, located on the southwestern outskirts of Yekaterinburg, in Russia, is the final resting place of many famous...

Adrienne Antonson Makes Insects Out of Human Hair

Jan 19, 2011

Seattle-based artist Adrienne Antonson creates realistic looking insects using only human hair and glue. On the question of why she chose ...

The Most Kissed Girl in The World: The Mona Lisa of The Seine

Sep 1, 2018

Sometime in the late 19th century, the body of a young woman was fished out of the Seine River in Paris. Because there was no evidence of vi...

Diana Beltran Herrera’s Realistic Paper Birds

Feb 19, 2016

These stunning paper birds were created by Columbian artist Diana Beltran Herrera using nothing but a few colored papers, glue and a pair o...

Amazing Realistic Tiger Painted on Human Bodies

Feb 18, 2010

Remember Craig Tracy , the body art artist? This time he paints a tiger on the bodies of three female models at the request of British chari...

Hyper-Realistic Sculptures by Jamie Salmon

May 11, 2012

Jamie Salmon is a British born, self taught contemporary sculptor, living and working in Vancouver, Canada. He started his career working a...

Best of 2012

Dec 30, 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...

Unbelievable Paintings by Lee Price

Jul 19, 2010

Lee Price paints uncannily realistic paintings around the subject of food and her paintings always have a peculiar angle of view. Lee gradu...

Joe Simpson’s Cinematic Oil Paintings

Apr 6, 2011

London based artist Joe Simpson , by utilizing his incredible talent to paint realistically, stages fictitious scenes with a strong hint at ...

Dutch Artist Recreates His Childhood Drawings 20 Years Later

Jul 19, 2014

When Dutch artist Telmo Pieper came across a big box of his childhood drawings, which his parents had carefully put in storage, he was fasc...

Jason Kronenwald’s Chewing Gum Portraits

Dec 4, 2010

Jason Kronenwald , an MFA graduate from Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, creates fascinating portraits of celebrities out of chewed p...

Helepolis: The Failed War Machine From Which Rose a Wonder of The Ancient World

Jul 26, 2019

At the entrance to the harbor of the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name, there once stood a colossal statue made of iron, ...