Truly

FOR three straight days every year, residents in a village in Thailand don elaborate masks and wear costumes that show off the male appendage in a tradition centuries old

EXPERIENCE the daily reality of sulphur miners who hike into a treacherous volcano to earn a meagre living

FORMER basketball Olympic medallist Ekaterina Lisina has a new target in her sights - being named the world’s tallest model

FROM a monkey balancing on a goat to a team of Shih Tzus playing football - North Korea is keen to show tourists their wide range of entertainment

An Indian man has become a local celebrity – because he’s 50 years old and only 29 inches tall

IMMERSE yourself in the isolated culture of the Bajau people - who live in stilt houses and houseboats on the edges of civilisation

TRANS couple who stopped transitioning to have a baby celebrate their daughter’s first birthday

THE DARK reason why Apatani women where large nose plugs and have face tattoos

A SKATEBOARD enthusiast believes he has amassed the world’s largest collection - worth over half a million dollars

A FORMER hangout of some of America’s most notorious gangsters is still standing despite being constructed over a century ago

A HOARDER who hadn’t seen her floor in four years has called in Britain’s most extreme cleaners

A 26-YEAR-OLD woman with a rare condition that makes her look decades older is challenging beauty standards by becoming a model

A LUCKY photographer obtained unplanned access to the Dalai Lama

A SMALL village that dates back to the 1500s is on the verge of becoming a ghost town after years of abandonment and neglect

WHETHER you’re a vampire, zombie, werewolf or mummy, Hoxton Street Monster Supplies has everything you need

SPANNING across 400 acres in West Sussex are some of the oldest living things in Britain

FASHIONISTA Michaela Davert has a rare condition that means she can break a bone as easily as a piece of chalk

A GIANT schoolboy is towering over his classmates and teachers – measuring a whopping 6ft 6in at the age of EIGHT

WHILST some people have art on the walls of their house, Steffen Modrach’s entire house is a work of art

MORBIDLY obese Monica Riley once wanted to be the fattest woman in the world and would eat over 10,000 calories a day in an attempt to become immobile

Every year, hundreds of migrant workers from all parts of India travel to the capital city, New Delhi to find work

HUNDREDS of human skulls and bones are piled on top of each other in the unlikeliest of locations - a small church in Kent

A MECHANIC is offering a 20 percent discount to customers that agree to see the doctor about their prostate

BABE Ruth and Hank Aaron are just two of the baseball stars that once graced this abandoned stadium in Texas

WITH green pastures, calming lakes and not a skyscraper in sight, this is the lesser-known side of North Korea

WHEN fetish model Lea met tarot-reader Tim, it was love at first BITE

UNACCOMPANIED children are fleeing violent attacks in South Sudan, travelling by themselves to refugee camps in Uganda

CHILDREN as young as nine have been found working shifts up to 18 hours long at a fabric workshop in Dhaka, Bangladesh for just £1 a day

TAKE A look inside the world’s oldest cigar merchant - and one of the last remaining public places in the United Kingdom where people can still smoke inside

DELHI is home to around a million rickshaw pullers who transport people and heavy loads from one place to another

AN eight-year-old boy is being worshipped in an Indian village after growing a long hairy tail

AZADPUR Mandi in Delhi is Asia’s largest wholesale market for fruits and vegetables

THE first model with Down Syndrome to front a beauty campaign is hoping to shake up the industry and prove that “beauty belongs to everybody”

A THREE-YEAR-OLD boy remains upbeat despite battling an extremely rare condition that has made the right side of his face heavily swollen

A 11-YEAR-OLD boy weighing 30 stone and named the heaviest child in the world has had life-saving surgery after eating himself to near-death

THE HIDDEN domain of Britain’s blacksmithing community is about to be uncovered as five of the country’s finest show the world their ultimate creations

CHILDREN as young as seven are forced to work in at an aluminium pot making factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh

OVER 30 years after the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl, the city of Pripyat is exactly as it was the day it was evacuated

A FITNESS fanatic and slender Youtuber proves that he is a food challenge machine - by devouring gigantic 15,000 calorie meals in minutes

A MAN walking his dogs, a girl sat in a retro hairdressers and farmers shearing their sheep; photographer Billie Charity’s set of candid portraits capture people in everyday moments