Somebody must have committed a major crime, as it would appear the Brighton and Hove arm of the Sussex constabulary have been dusting for prints around Hove Park, and uncovered what is clearly the the world’s largest fingerprint!

This fingerprint measures around 38 metres, which suggests that this criminal’s size would make it slightly difficult for them to hide very effectively, right?

More information on the fingerprint.

Thanks to the eagle-eyed Anthony Houghton.

The Crystal Palace was a huge iron and glass building originally erected in Hyde Park to house the Great Exhibition of 1851 (photo tour). After the exhibition the building was moved to Upper Norwood where it stood from 1854 until 1936, when it was sadly destroyed by fire.

Today the park where it stood is still known as Crystal Palace Park, but where the building originally was, now stands the 222 metre Crystal Palace Transmitter, which is surprisingly, London’s 2nd tallest structure (second only to Canary Wharf!).

There are remnants of the exhibition still here however, including this awesome collection of wholly anatomically inaccurate dinosaur sculptures!

Another relic of the Victorian era is this fantastic circular maze, which dates all the way back to 1872!

Obligatory Wikipedia links: The Crystal Palace, the Great Exhibition, Crystal Palace Park, the Crystal Palace Transmitter, Crystal Palace Victorian Dinosaurs.

Thanks: Alain Trembleau and Simon Cope.

This is a crop maze in Dingle, Ireland which celebrates the local hero, Fungi the Dolphin (it’s supposed to be a picture of a dolphin, and the text reads “Fungi 20 years in Dingle”). Apparently, Fungi is a bottlenose dolphin who took up residence in Dingle Harbour in 1984 and has been entertaining locals and tourists ever since. The Do Dingle Website says:

He is a curious and friendly animal, and has been photographed bringing gifts to divers of still living fish, clasped gently within his jaws

Make of this story what you will

Thanks to Tom.

Another great farm maze here, this one is west of Toronto in Canada. I’ve rotated the image in thumbnail so you can make it out. It shows a farm, with barn and silo and wee tractor pulling a trailer at the bottom. Cheekily, there is also a URL which I worked out to be www.downeysfarm.on.ca.

Thanks: Shaun Hill

This is the “Milton Maize Maze” just north of Cambridge in England. The maze is created differently every year in a field of maize and visitors can pay entry to attempt to navigate it. From the photos on their website it looks pretty tricky as the maize grows quite high!

As one reader put it:

Now we can cheat by looking from above

Except that this is no doubt the maze from a few years ago

Thanks: Dave Holland, Simon Hamilton-Roberts & Donald Allwright