This is Gulliver Park in Valencia, Spain. The figure you see is an enormous fibreglass model of Lemuel Gulliver trapped by the Lilliputians, and the ropes that tie him to the ground form part of a children’s adventure playground. Children can slide down his jacket, climb up the ropes on his arms, visit the city of Liliput inside him, and do a number of other activities spread out all over the figure.

Sounds quite gross actually.

Thanks to BADI, Javier, Francisco Gioielli, Rober, brigate, JohnnyBoy9, Veli Matti Pelttari, cremaor, Trompie, Michael Zacherl, Pablo, andysamp, Ximet, Andros and Martin.

1600m up the mountain Colletto Fava in Piemonte, Italy we find a quite unusal sight – a giant 60m tall pink rabbit. But before you go “Aww, that’s cute” notice that his woolen guts are spilling out onto the mountainside.

Then giant wool bunny is the work of Gelitin, a group of artists from Vienna, who explain “It’s supposed to make you feel small, like Gulliver. You walk around it and you can’t help but smile.”. The rabbit is expected to stay there until 2025 and hikers are invited to climb atop the “belly-summit” for a view over the village of Artesina below.

Thanks: MrPumpernickel

This is Giant Rock in the Mojave desert, California, which is (wait for it)… the largest free-standing rock in the world.

Er, right.

But wait, there’s more! George Van Tassel (the dude that built the Integratron) carved a small room into the bottom of the rock, where he carried out weekly meditation sessions to communicate with space people.

Okaaay.

I wonder if the hole in it had anything to do with the rock splitting into two pieces in February 2000? You can see the gleaming white interior of the piece that fell off of it in our thumbnail, and here are before and after shots.

This must be something to do with aliens of course, because in the postcard it’s basking in a strange purple light. Case closed.

Thanks to Jeff Alu and Kirk Hayhurst.

P.S. This very strange page has this fantastic paragraph about Van Tassel which I just can’t resist quoting

He was awoken by a man in a one-piece blue suit standing beside his bed who said “My name is Sylvanon, I’d be pleased to show you my craft”. He tried to wake his wife but was unable to do so. The ship was standing about a hundred yards away, and on being taken aboard found it was very like the one in the film The Day the Earth Stood Still

The Navy Training Centre in San Diego is a closed facility that is currently being turned in to a shopping centre so there’s not much to see, except for the USS Recruit – a destroyer that seems to be a little out of place.

The nearby Naval Outlying Field (NOLF) Imperial Beach has various features for training up Navy SEALs for combat. For a start there’s a grid layout to the north, which is a fake city used for MOUT training (that’s “missions on urban terrain” for the rest of us).

South of that there’s also a disused “Elephant Cage” radio station, similar to the previously posted one at Elmendorf Air Force Base.

But what’s most interesting is that beside some white tents and an archery range further south we see that, using Alien technology first harnessed by the Australians, the US Navy has developed flying pyramids! (or perhaps covered climbing towers).

Thanks: Tom Barr & jmauro

Update: For anyone who watched the first episode, can I just say… Oh. My. God. I really do despair.

Oh blimey. Is it that time of year again already?

This year, they’ve gone and hidden 100 golden tickets in special Kit-kat bars around the UK, all of which go on sale tonight at 10.30pm. From all the people who find the tickets, one lucky winner will be selected at random to become the very latest to enter the Big Brother house.

To the north of the building you can see the audience barriers which the contestants will walk between on their way in, the stage they pose on (that’s the white splodge), and the steps up into the house itself. They change the layout of the interior and garden every year, but you can compare this to any of the last 4 floor plans if you like!

Thanks to Pete and his wife.