Regarded as one of the weirdest museums in the world, the Hair Museum of Avanos, in Cappadocia, is definitely a must-see if you’re into bizarre tourist spots.

Ever since 3000 BC, Avanos has been known for its high quality earthenware, made from the mineral-rich mud of the Red River, but in recent years, the town has mostly been mentioned in relation to a unique hair museum created by skilled Turkish potter Chez Galip.

The unusual establishment, located under Galip’s pottery shop, is filled with hair samples from over 16,000 women. The walls, ceiling, and all other surfaces, except the floor, are covered with locks of hair from the different women who have visited this place, and pieces of paper with addresses on them.

The story goes that the museum was started over 30 years ago, when one of Galip’s friends had to leave Avanos, and he was very sad. To leave him something to remember her by, the woman cut a piece of her hair and gave it to the potter. Since then, the women who visited his place and heard the story gave him a piece of their hair and their complete address. Throughout the years, he has amassed an impressive collection of over 16,000 differently colored locks of hair, from women all around the world.

Twice a year, in June and December, the first customer who comes in Chez Galip’s shop is invited down into the Hair Museum to choose ten winners off the walls. These lucky ten will receive an all-expenses-paid week-long vacation in beautiful Cappadocia, where they will get to participate in his pottery workshops, for free. This is the artist’s way to give back to the women that helped him create the unique museum which bring in new customers every day.

The Hair Museum doesn’t have an entry charge, and women don’t have to donate their hair, but if they wish to do so, scissors, sellotape, pens, paper and drawing pins are provided.

Long-suffering Kelly Coxhead, 32, got engaged to fiance Paul Mappelthorpe ten years ago but is still waiting for him to commit to a wedding date.

He eventually agreed to her dream date of 11/11/11 – but only if one million people joined a Facebook group to convince him.

So Kelly set up a page called ‘I NEED 1 MILLION PEOPLE TO JOIN FOR PAUL TO MARRY ME C’MON GUYS HELP ME lol’, which has gained just 2,863 fans so far.

The desperate dinner lady is now appealing for members of the public to join the group so she can finally walk down the aisle.

Paul, 38, who lives with Kelly in Swindon, Wilts, believes the challenge should be easy for his bride-to-be.

He said: ”It just came out of nowhere. I thought ‘a million’ that sounds good.

”When you think there’s 67 billion people in the world it’s less than 0.1 per cent. I just like a challenge and I like the idea of setting a challenge for her.

”It’ll give her something to look at on Facebook.

”She wants 11/11/11 that’s the deadline she has in mind, but it will depend on how many people she’s got in her group.

”Even her dad hasn’t joined yet. He must be on my side.”

The description to Kelly’s group – launched a week ago – reads: ”we been together 10 years and i think its about time he got off his stubborn arse and married me…..lol he just informed me that i need to get 1 million people to join…..lol so come on join prove to him that i can do it….hahaha.”

The mum-of-four said: ”I talked about setting up a group on Facebook to get people to join to support me and said to Paul how many people do I need to get?

”He said a million. We’ve been engaged for 10 years and I think it’s time he walked me down the aisle.

”We did have a date set for last year but Paul lost his dad and it had to be cancelled.

”I’d love Paul to come home and say he’s booked a date but I doubt it very much.”

She added that she has pleaded with Paul to reduce the figure but to no avail.

If she gets her wish, her four children Nicole, 15, Jack, 13, Ellie-Mai, eight, and Madison-Leigh, five, will be bridesmaids and a pageboy at the wedding.

Miami Beach resident Nikki Moustaki plans to eat dog food at least once a day every day until an Ohio animal cruelty law known as Nitro’s Law is passed. The law was spurred after 12 starving and 7 dead dogs were discovered in High Caliber K-9, a boarding kennel in Youngstown, OH.

The law is named after Nitro, a pet Rottwieler who died at the facility while his family had to attend to a sick relative out of state, and would increase animal cruelty to a fifth degree felony in Ohio punishable by up to a year in jail. Ohio is only one of nine states that doesn’t count the first count of animal cruelty as a felony. The law was passed in the state’s House of Representatives, but died in the Senate. Moustaki won’t stop until it’s law.

“This isn’t just a local issue, it’s a national issue,” Moustaki said in a release. “This didn’t happen in my home state, but as someone who speaks up for animals, I consider them all in my backyard. Animals don’t vote, but their owners do. If this can happen in Ohio, it can happen anywhere, and it’s important for people to be aware of the laws in their state.”

On the first day of her campaign Moustaki ate dog food straight up out of the container, although she’s since started included dog food in other recipes like “Malemute Mac and Cheeze,” and “Bocker’s Bruchetta.” You can follow Moustaki’s culinary adventures and learn more about her campaign on her YouTube page.

The masked crusader, who likes to call himself the Guardian of Seattle, got into a little local difficulty and had his nose broken while trying to protect his beloved city.

And the incident has prompted police to urge him and other self-styled saviours to hang up their capes before anyone gets seriously hurt.

‘Does Superman get his ass kicked?’ one detective – quite fairly – asked. ‘These people should not be called superheroes.’

Mr Jones – who parades around wearing tights, a mask and a skin-tight rubber suit with a bulletproof vest – was hurt while bravely (or stupidly) trying to break up a fight with a man who was armed with a gun.

But he insisted his injury won’t put him off fighting crime.

‘If police aren’t here, criminals feel free to run wild in my city,’ the father of two said. ‘And I’m not going to stand for it.’

Mr Jones insisted he endangered his life ‘with a reason and a purpose’ and claimed he and other caped crusaders all had a military or martial arts background and knew what they were facing.

His eight other colleagues revel in the monikers Thorn, Buster Doe, Green Reaper, Gemini, No Name, Catastrophe, Thunder 88 and Penelope.

He is often driven around the city by a mystery woman; she doesn’t bother with superhero garb.

The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra makes unique organic music, using instruments made from vegetables.

Pepper trumpets, leek violins, celery bongos, cucumberphones, pumpkin drums – these are just a handful of instruments used by the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra to entertain audiences everywhere, with their organic music. This one-of-a-kind music group was born when its current members were students. At first they started playing vegetable instruments, as a joke, but quickly realized they might be on to something, and took their work more seriously.

The dozen members of the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra carve their instruments themselves, using whatever vegetables are available, at the location of their performance. After 12 years of making vegetable music, the group has learned what type of vegetables sound better in every country, judging by a range of factors, such as temperature and water content.

The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra needs 70 kilograms of fresh vegetables for every concert, and three hours to carve the instruments they use. But their music wouldn’t exist without modern technological equipment, like amplifiers or sophisticated microphones. Combined with the squeaking of cucumbers, crackling of cabbage leaves and banging of aubergines, they create a hypnotic type of music, described as something between techno music and whale songs.

A 58-year-old Chinese man has had to undergo surgery to remove 85cm of skipping rope from his bladder.

The rope became lodged after migrant worker Zhao Chenglin, 58, from Chongqing, inserted the skipping rope into his penis as part of a bizarre sex act.

Admitting it was the “stupidest thing in the world”, Chenglin brought the skipping rope from a local store before “locking myself into my three square metre shelter to enjoy it.”

Zhao inserted the whole 85cm plastic hollow rope into his urethra but when he tried to pull it out he found that it had become stuck.

He comments: “It was so painful that I tossed and turned on the ground.”

Zhao borrowed money in order to go to hospital where a scan revealed that the rope had become twisted into a ball and was now stuck in his bladder.

He was told that the only way to remove it was by surgery, which was something he couldn’t afford.

So Chenglin lived with the problem for the next two months, with the pain it caused making it difficult for him to work.

“For every step I walked the rope was poking my insides. It was very painful,” he said.

According to Chenglin he never dared drink water or other liquids because: “Each time urinating would kill me. Sometimes blood would come out.”

His secret soon spread amongst his porter friends, who tried their best to help him.

“If we had an easy errand we would give it to him, and since he has no income we often invited him for a meal,” said Liu Changfa, another porter.

Chenglin’s situation did not change until several months later when kind-hearted Liu called Chongqing Honglou Hospital, a professional bladder disease hospital, begging for help.

The hospital dispatched an ambulance and Chenglin was admitted the same day.

“We can cure his problem. We have the responsibility of helping each one, no matter how humble their life is,” said Xu Changzheng, general manager of the hospital.

The hospital successfully operated on Chenglin and removed the skipping rope from his bladder.