Buildings

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,…

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…

BBC News today has a spectacular video clip of Las Vegas' Stardust casino imploding as the final part of a controlled demolition. Of course, being Las Vegas, the demolition is done in an over-the-top style with a giant countdown clock,…

For once no-one can try to cover up the truth - this is no water tower, no dirt on the lens, and no weather anomaly! Nope, this time we've found a real, actual, honest-to-goodness UFO landing on a building in…

On the roof of this farm building in Indiana, someone has painted a beautiful mural of a Happy Magic Rainbow Unicorn! Well, it could be of a My Little Rainbow Pony I suppose, but I'm inclined to guess that this…

Welcome to the third in a series that has seen competitive homeowners across the globe vying to emulate the affluence of their immediate neighbours - Keeping up with the Joneses Part 3! (Also see part 1 and part 2) This…