Miss Atom Bom: 

This is explosive material! Ekaterina Bulgakova, Russia's Miss Atom, is not a professional model but works for a nuclear power plant.

Russia’s nuclear power industry encourages female employees to compete for the title, where the women — dubbed ‘Russia’s nuclear bombshells’ — compete for an all-expenses-paid holiday in Cuba.

Miss Landmine: This competition inspired by the courageous tales of women who were injured by landmines in Angola during the bloody civil war began last April.

Augusta Hurica who became an international ambassador for landmine survivors won this competition.

Miss Alternative Ireland: This competition is surely not for the faint-hearted.

In this pageant held in Dublin, men, women and animals do the wackiest things to raise money for Irish HIV/AIDS organisations.

Miss Exotic World: This competition is for the bold and the beautiful. This pageant in Las Vegas judges the best of burlesque and striptease across the world.

Miss Jumbo Queen: This wobbly event is held in Bangkok as part of the Jumbo Banquet elephant feast.

Miss Gothic: This scary show is held in Ohio, US. The hopefuls compete in 4 eyeliner-clad rounds — casual, clubwear, lingerie and formal attire — all to win the Miss Gothic Ohio black veil.

Miss Prison: If looks could kill! Inmates at Selo Gornoye prison in Russia vie for the Lady Spring pageant.

Miss Brazil Transex: This contest might look like a standard beauty pageant but those baco-foil dressing gowns once hid a rather large surprise. The contestants of Miss Brazil Transex 2008 in Sao Paulo were all once male.

Miss Beautiful Bottom Contest: Round and firm, that’s got to be the bottomline of this pageant.  Finalists at this competition held in Munich vie for a modelling contract and prize money of 10,000 euros.

Miss Artificial Beauty Contest: This Chinese pageant is where fakers and cheaters walk away with the cake. All competitors have to provide a doctor’s certificate to prove they’d been under the knife.