LOS ANGELES -- Gunther von Hagens, right, gestures towards a cadaver preserved through a process called "plastination" during a news conference as Jeffrey Rudolph, president and CEO of the California Science Center watches. Hagens' "Body Worlds: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies," opens Friday. (06/30/04 AP photo)
LENGWIED, Austria -- A house is not a home - but a car, for architect Manfred Voglreiter, whose creation is a hit in the town of Langwied, in Salzburg province. Locals and visitors often stop by to photograph the dwelling, built for a local family of four. (06/23/04 AP photo)
CHAU THANH, KIEN GIANG Vietnam -- Tran Van Hay, 67, from Chau Thanh district in the southern Kien Giang province of Vietnam poses for a photo showing his over 20-feet long hair. Hay has not had his hair cut for 31 years. (06/22/04 AP photo)
ROANOKE, Va. -- A 300-pound, male, black bear walks through the halls of Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospital around 9:10 p.m. People in the background have not seen the bear at the time of this picture. Officers planned to sedate the bear, but they were worried what might happen if the bear got loose in the hospital. So an officer shot and killed the bear. Photo taken by a hospital surveillance camera. (06/15/04 AP photo/The Roanoke Times)
NIAGRA FALLS, Canada -- A double- decker bus owned by Double Deck Tours Limited, based in Niagara Falls, Ontario, is shown on River Road after it sheared its roof off trying to pass under the Whirlpool Rapids Bridge linking Niagara Falls, Ontario, and Niagara Falls, N.Y. More than a dozen tourists from Japan were injured. None of the injuries was serious, authorities said. (06/15/04 AP photo)
LONDON -- Actress Alicia Witt models what is claimed to be the most expensive hat ever made, the $2,700,000 Champrau d'Amour, by celebrity couture hat designer Louis Mariette, at Christies in London. The hat, which is covered entirely in dazzling diamonds and inspired by entwined ivy and bluebells, is not for sale at auction. (06/14/04 AP photo)
NEW YORK -- Brooklyn-based artist Cosimo Cavallaro regards his finished work of art, a bed with more than 300 pounds of sliced ham, at a gallery in New York. Cavallaro, 41, the son of immigrants from southern Italy, said the ham is "a pure form of America: all kinds of parts, boiled and pressed together." Despite his Italian heritage and training in an Italian art school, Cavallaro said he had rejected Prosciutto because "It would have been pompous." (06/03/04 AP photo)
MENLO PARK, Calif. -- A Shell gas station owner put up this sign again as gas prices increase in the area. The owner put up the sign last year when prices climbed. (05/17/04 AP photo)
PALMERTON, Pa. -- Bandit, the world's heaviest raccoon, rests in the lap of Deborah "Pepper" Klitsch on Jan. 30, 2001. Bandit, a junk-food crazed critter billed as the world's weightiest raccoon, died Saturday, May 8, 2004. Klitsch denied the occasional charge that she overfed the rotund raccoon, whose weight ballooned to nearly 75 pounds, three times the average for his breed. He was born with a bad thyroid gland, Klitsch said. (05/12/04 AP photo)
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Police on motorscooters attempt to pull over an ostrich who escaped from a children's petting zoo. The ostrich eluded capture. (05/09/04 AP photo)
ATLANTA -- An Atlanta firefighter leans from a parking deck with a BMW protruding over the street below in downtown Atlanta. A valet trying to park a sports utility vehicle accidentally hit the parked BMW, sending the unoccupied car halfway off a deck and dangling over the street and a parked SUV below. No injuries were reported. The SUV and the front end of the BMW were intertwined in the collision. (05/05/04 AP photo)
LOS ANGELES -- Six nails embedded in the skull of construction worker Isidro Mejia, 39, after an industrial incident caused a nail gun to shoot nails into his head and brain on April 19, 2004, are seen in this X-ray image from Providence Holy Cross Hospital in Los Angeles. Five of the six nails were removed in surgery that day and the sixth was removed from his face on April 23, after the swelling went down. (05/05/04 AP photo)
WINNEMUCCA, Nev. -- A horse looks out a window of the trailer its being hauled in after a Dodge Neon collided with it. The accident occurred after high winds blew dust from a freshly plowed field across the roadway severely limiting visibility. As a result, there was a six-car pileup that ended with the vehicle in the back of the horse trailer. The horse, Crimson Agent, escaped the accident unharmed. (05/04/04 AP photo)
CROMWELL, New Zealand -- Shrek the 9- year-old merino wether is photographed before he has his fleece shorn at the Golden Gate Lodge. Shrek's fleece is believed to be 6 years old after the animal was found on the Bendigo Station hilltops during a muster on April 15. (04/28/04 AP photo)
MEXICO CITY -- A man takes a piece of the world's biggest sandwich. The cheese, ham, mayonnaise and lettuce sandwich which measures 3.50 x 3.50 meters (11.5 x 11.5 feet) holds a Guinness Record. (04/24/04 AP photo)
MILWAUKEE, Wis. -- Louis Volpe, acting regional supervisor of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's safeguarding intervention and trade compliance program, holds two Giant African Land Snails in the USDA's Milwaukee office. Federal health officials have seized several of these dangerous pests from Wisconsin classrooms and have started a national search for the creatures. Many of the snails, which are illegal to possess in the United States, were being used as teaching tools in some classrooms where school officials don't know they are dangerous, said Willie Harris, eastern regional director of the USDA's intervention and trade compliance bureau. (04/21/04 AP photo)
AHMADABAD, India -- Devotees offer flowers to Tapawsiary Bapu, 37, an Indian Hindu holy man who has buried himself neck down in the ground for meditation for 10 days at Pathapur, 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Ahmadabad. Bapu began his meditation on March 20 and will emerge from the hole on March 29. (03/26/04 AP photo)
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