Strange Monuments in American Cities | Odd sculptures to strange statues

From odd sculptures to strange statues, cities love to erect unusual structures to show some local color. Here are a handful of our favorites from around the country.

Top 5 Bicycle Friendly Cities In The World

Bicycle has to be the best eco friendly, healthy and cheap vehicle till now. There are number of cities which are recognized as bicycle friendly cities, here are few of them.

5. Beijing, China

Beijing is the capital of the People’s Republic of China. The city is recognized as the political, educational, and cultural centre of China. Cycling is very popular in the city that hosted the summer Olympics in 2008. During the 2008 Olympic Games cycling was ideal way to get around in Beijing. New cycle paths were constructed before the Games to accommodate cyclists and it became popular thereafter.

4. Barcelona, Spain

Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain. It is recognized as a Global City due to its importance in finance, commerce, media, entertainment, arts, international trade, education and tourism. On 22 March 2007, Barcelona’s City Council started the Bicing (a community bicycle program) service. Once the user has their user card, they can take a bicycle from any of the 100 stations spread around the city and use it anywhere the urban area of the city, and then leave it at another station.

3. Bogota, Colombia

Bogota is the capital city of Colombia. In terms of land area, Bogota is the largest city in Colombia. Despite the city’s chronic congestion, the city is regarded as one if the most bicycle-friendly cities in the world. The ciclorruta (Bogota’s bike paths network) is one of the most extensive dedicated bike path networks of any city in the world. Since its construction, bicycle use has quintupled in the city, and it is estimated that there are between 300,000 and 400,000 trips made daily in the city.

2. Copenhagen, Denmark

Copenhagen is the capital of Denmark. It is a bicycle-friendly city and 36% of all citizens commute to work, school or university by bicycle. The city’s bicycle paths are extensive and well used. Bicycle paths are often separated from the main traffic lanes and sometimes have their own signal systems. The municipality is also developing a system of interconnected green bicycle routes, greenways, the aim being to facilitate fast, safe, and pleasant bicycle transport from one end of the city to the other.

1. Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Amsterdam is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands. The city is considered one of the most bicycle-friendly cities in the world and is a centre of bicycle culture with good facilities for cyclists such as bike paths and bike racks. Bicycles are used by all socio-economic groups because of their convenience, Amsterdam’s small size, the large number of bike paths, the flat terrain, and the arguable inconvenience of driving an automobile. In the city centre, driving a car is discouraged.

20th Century Extraordinary Phone Booth all around the world

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14 Strange Candles Designs | Candles smell like flowers

The don't all have to smell like flowers and come in a jar, or in tube form; some candles can look pretty cool. Here are 14 examples:

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Young Russian politicians to play football to win cow

Leaders of Russian political youth organizations will play football to try to win a cow, ruling United Russia party supporters said Thursday.

"We decided to support the initiative of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to hold a football world cup in Russia, and we are arranging a tournament with the participation of leaders of Russia's largest youth organizations," Dmitry Nosov, head of United Russia's commission on youth affairs, said.

Participants include young teams from the ruling party and other parties, including Liberal Democrats, Yabloko, A Just Russia, the movements Nashi (Ours), Mestniye (Locals) and Young Russia, and students.

"The final match will take place on June 26 and will be opened by State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov. The winner will receive a cow," organizers said by RIA Novosti

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12 Strange Pizzas | Cooking Pizzas caviar

Here is a $1000 pizza with caviar, chives, lobster, and creme fraiche. What? No black truffles? Take this back, I'm no peasant!

A choco pizza with all sorts of strange dessert like items.

A fried egg on a microwave pizza.

A pickle, port and grape pizza.

Meow.

A gigantic hamburger with two pizzas as the bun.

A taco pizza, as previously shown on NTN.

A pizza with quail eggs.

For some reason, a pizza with a rubber chicken, candy and bananas, among other things.

This pizza from Korea has a golden sweet potato baked crust, topped with potato wedges, bacon, corn, sour cream, herbs, cheese, marinara sauce, and crushed nacho chips.

This one started as a frozen chicken pizza from California Pizza Kitchen, then it was topped with chopped turkey sandwich meat, green onions, salad peppers and bacon, then topped with three eggs.

From Taiwan, topped with mayo, ham, cheese, and hot dogs.

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