A group of 30 Spaniards selected by psychologists for their unusually high levels of stress and anxiety were allowed to run wild throughout a Spanish hotel, smashing whatever they wanted to with sledgehammers and pickaxes. Among the lucky winners who were selected from a pool of 200 applicants were a corporate executive, a soon-to-be-married couple and a single mother.

In the heart of central Florida a community of spiritualists with some of the world's finest psychic-mediums draws people from around the world to uncover the mysteries of their future. According to the century-old Cassadaga Hotel Web site, the town of the same name draws people who are on spiritual quests as well as those looking for self-discovery or old-fashioned romance. The town name means "stones beneath the water" and it is home to numerous psychic-mediums willing to aid people in going through the enchanted gateway to whatever it is they are looking for.

Police in a Japanese city are trying to uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of a 176-pound bathtub lined with 18-carat gold. The bathtub, which is worth nearly $1 million, went missing on Wednesday from a men's bathroom in a resort hotel. According to the police, officers went to the Kominato Hotel Mikazuki Wednesday after the hotel's staff reported the golden tub was missing. An examination of the bathroom revealed that the chain that fixed the bathtub to a door in the bathroom had been cut off.

Heterosexuals have been banned from staying at a gay hotel in Australia after the Victorian state Civil and Administrative Tribunal agreed to give the hotel the right to bar people from entering if the management considers them a threat to the safety and comfort of its patrons. The management of the Peel Hotel complained that the hotel's straight visitors created "a poisonous atmosphere" for its gay clientčle and asked that they be given the right to keep them out. According to BBC, the management said the ban would prevent straight men and women from abusing the hotel's gay customers.

The favorite dish of Britain's late Queen Mother has returned to the menu of one of her best-loved restaurants. The Queen Mother would often order Eggs Drumbiko - a dish made from chopped eggs, seafood, tomatoes and mayonnaise in a sherry-flavored jelly - when she dined at London's Goring Hotel restaurant. The royal was said to be such a fan of the treat she would even serve it at picnics at her Scottish home, Castle of Mey, in Caithness.