The Mystery of the World’s Largest Wooden Ship

In 2001 the Radisson Hotels & Resorts chain built a huge ship next to one of their hotels in Kuwait, and they called it the Al-Hashemi-II. They issued a press release at the time, claiming that at 83.7 metres long,…

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Friday, 20th April 2007

Bucket-Wheel Excavators

Continuing this week's theme of mining, today we're visiting Germany's lignite mining area to find some of the largest land vehicles on Earth! Lignite (or "brown coal") is found in 3 nearby open cast mines in the Rhineland; Hambach, Bergheim…

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Thursday, 19th April 2007

Hashima (Abandoned) Island

Hashima Island, 15 kilometres from Nagasaki, Japan, was once the densest human development on Earth, and today stands completely empty and abandoned. Mitsubishi bought the island in 18901 and began using it as a coal mining facility. When space for…

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Monday, 16th April 2007

Rocket Powered Car!

Remember how excited everybody got when we thought Australians were all driving flying cars? Well here in Arkansas, blazing down the I-30 towards Little Rock, we find . . . a Rocket-Powered Car! This couldn't be anything other than some…

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Friday, 13th April 2007

Big Fish

Leaping out of the back of someone's house is a gigantic Bass fish. The record for the world's largest Bass fish ever caught was set way back in 1932, when a George W. Perry caught a 22lb, 4oz largemouth, which…

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Wednesday, 11th April 2007

Trucks pulling trucks

When we recently posted a Truck Crash, there was a lot of unexpected discussion in the comments regarding my use of the term "articulated lorry". I thought it was perfectly normal, but it seems that many of our American readers…

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Tuesday, 10th April 2007

Welcome to Google Sightseeing!

Google Sightseeing takes you on a tour of the world as seen from satellite or street views using Google Maps. Our team of authors present weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

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