Similar to the more famous Hollywood sign, the Spanish coastal town of Cullera has a large sign on the nearby hill proclaiming the town’s name.

Thanks: Eduardo, Joe Butcher, Carlos Vlc., Eduardo & Nisperin

The ‘Northampton Lighthouse‘ is not really a lighthouse and being 70 miles from the coast wouldn’t do a very good job if it was. Built in 1980 and opened by the Queen in ‘82, the 127m tower houses lift shafts designed to test lifts travelling at speeds of up to 7 metres a second.

The tower has been unused since 1997 and although a listed building is facing an uncertain future. (Wikipedia Page)

Thanks: Jonathan Rawle.

This is the Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey. Interestingly, as the Bosporus strait is the boundary between Europe and Asia, the bridge actually connects two continents. In May 2005 tennis star Venus Williams played a show game on the bridge, making it the only game of tennis to be played on two continents (Wikipedia entry).

Just beside the Bosporus Bridge is an absolutely huge tanker, has anyone seen one bigger than this?

Further north up the Bosporus strait is another bridge which joins Europe with Asia, the Fatih Sultan Mehmet bridge (Wikipedia entry).

Thanks: Martin Willey, Marc Armstrong, Jonathan Rawle, deniz erdem, Serkan Kasapbasi, Seref

The Mega Ramp is the brainchild of professional skateboarder Danny Way. It’s a nine-story monster half pipe built out in California’s desert where Danny set world records for the longest and highest air on a skateboard in 2002. It’s really, really big.

Danny Way has also built a ramp to jump over the Great Wall of China and recently took a version of the Mega Ramp to the X Games in LA where he took his second gold medal in the skateboard big air competition.

There’s some crazy videos of the Mega Ramp on the official website.

Thanks to Matthew C.

Deep in the Asian part of Turkey is this giant image of the Turkish flag. The writing (which is Turkey’s national slogan), says ‘Ne mutlu Türküm diyene’, meaning ‘How happy is he who can say “I am a Turk”‘.

Thanks to Ali Ok.