Here at Yarm School Teesside, England, the pupils are performing better than most in the schools league tables. They’ve also impressively managed to get themselves featured on GSS, by drawing a picture on the roof of one of their school’s buildings…

Congratulations kids, you’ve very likely created the only visible penis on Google Earth.

Update: Reader Evan found this awesome (and much larger and therefore better) penis drawn on the surface of a frozen pond in Connecticut!

Thanks to Matt and Evan.

Continuing this week’s semi-theme of very large things, we present the world’s largest airport near Dammam, Saudi Arabia!

Although it’s nowhere near what I’d expect from such a grand title. Compare its tiny, empty terminal to the bustling Heathrow airport and you’d be forgiven for thinking I was making it all up.

You see, King Fahd International is the world’s largest airport by area, and at 780 km² it is bigger than the nearby country of Bahrain. There’s 698,585 people in Bahrain and they’ve still got three airports!

Wikipedia for King Fahd.

Updated: The competition has now closed! Good luck if you entered, and sorry if you missed it.

We’re giving five lucky readers an early Christmas present by giving away five free copies of the new GoogleSightseeing.com book! Signed by the authors of course

All you have to do is visit the Book Page and fill out the form to be in with a chance of winning a copy. The five winners will be chosen at random, and the competition closes on Wednesday December 13th. Good luck!

We’ll ship the prizes anywhere in the world for free, but entering more than once won’t increase your chances of winning a book, duplicate entries will all be weeded out! You know who you are…

Is that a mountainous Trimaxion Drone Ship¹ hovering above Buckinghamshire, England? Sadly not – this is actually the Milton Keynes Xscape, one of three leisure centres in the UK which contain, well – mountains.

Xscapes are centered around a real-snow indoor ski slope, and this particular one is also designed to look like a snow-covered hill. It’s also the location of a 16 screen cinema, shops, a climbing wall, bowling lanes, bars, a fitness center, and somewhere round here’s there’s also an indoor skydiving centre! Very, very cool.

1) Whaddya mean you’ve never heard of a Trimaxion Drone Ship? Sheesh! It’s the spaceship from The Flight of the Navigator!

The Palace of the Parliament in Romania has a floor area of 350,000 m² which makes it one of the world’s largest buildings. Previously called the “House of the People” under communism it also narrowly misses the top spot of “largest government building in the world” behind The Pentagon.

It has taken the top spot in one category though – it’s the world’s heaviest building! Hang on, how on earth do you measure the world’s heaviest building?

South Korea’s Lotte World is not hard to spot, and is officially the world’s largest indoor theme park. So big in fact that a large part of it is outdoors on Magic Island to the South.

Thanks: Kjerstin & The Bobs