The Tupolev Tu-144 is a supersonic passenger jet built by the Soviet Union as a competitor to the British/French Concorde. The Tupolev was developed around the same time as Concorde and, with a little help from a spy in France,…

Avast Ye! Today, it be Talk Like a Pirate Day an’ we’ve got a barrel-load of piratey-themed sights fer ye landlubbers! Las Vegas’ Treasure Island be havin’ a daily pirate battle, ‘ere the swashbucklers by defeated by th’ booty-shaking o’…

The Sunset Lake Floating Bridge in Brookfield, Vermont is actually a GSS first, as we’ve never featured a floating bridge before. Built on floating logs all the way back in 1820, upgraded to tarred barrels in 1884, and plastic barrels…

High above the Uvas Reservoir in Santa Clara County, it looks like there’s hundreds of colourful balloons floating up into the sky. The possible balloons are unfortunately on the overlap of two images, but appear to be rising up from…

This is God’s Ark of Safety in Frostburg, Maryland. The brainchild of Pastor Richard Greene, this is a church… that’s also a full-size replica of Noah’s Ark.1 Well it would be… if Pastor Greene had ever gotten round to finishing…

Look closely at the car park of BMW’s headquarters and you’ll see that there’s a Mini parked on the wall. Even more bizarrely, this isn’t even unusual: we’ve found gravity-defying Mini parking before! You may also remember that early last…