These red-gold buildings in Bangkok, Thailand, make up the Mang Gorn Luang (the Royal Dragon), the largest restaurant in the world. The restaurant covers 8.3 acres, has over 1,000 staff, and accomodates 5000 guests. The servers wear roller skates, use speedboats to cross the large decorative ponds and fly on ziplines from upper levels to lower ones, while the kitchen is capable of turning out 3,000 dishes an hour!

And despite all these huge numbers, apparently the restaurant fills up completely by mid-morning. Typical!

Thanks Matthew Sz (Seriously, I don’t mean to do this… sometimes people are just good at finding cool stuff!)

This is Marseille Skatepark in Marseille, France. Just like the previously posted Kona Skatepark, the Marseille park featured in one of the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater games, THPS 2. You can clearly see the large multi-bowl and the side-by-side pools. As I remember it, version 2 was the one where they introduced manuals; which changed the face of THPS forever!

More information available at the offical site (in French, naturally).

Thanks to Laurent Thevenet and Matthew Sz (who actually submitted Kona too!)