North Yungas Road is hands-down the most dangerous in the world for motorists. It runs in the Bolivian Andes, 70 km from La Paz to Coroico, and plunges down almost 3,600 meters in an orgy of extremely narrow hairpin curves and 800-meter abyss near-misses.
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Friday, June 17, 2011
printed on silver foil glow in the dark:
wooden stamp made from 120-year-old fir trees:
embroidered stamp
world’s first stamp made of soccer ball material (on the right: famous Lufthansa's soccer ball airplane paint scheme)
The stamp contains 0.03 grams of dust from a meteorite cloth stamps
pieces of rock from the famous landmark:
thinly sliced cork
beads on a sheet shaped
scented stamps
stamp bearing the aroma of sweet and sour pork (above, right).
stamps smell of burnt wood:
this stamp is scented with the aroma of coffee,
the stamp merely smells like chocolate
stamp with the scent of eucalyptus.
The stamp shown above right is giving off sandalwood scent; it comes from India.
Several countries have placed moving images on their stamps. This one from Austria includes forty eight images, which allow a three second “movie” to appear when the stamp is viewed from certain angles.
made of steel:
These embossed stamps, depicting famous world leaders, are printed on plastic: