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Friday, 29th August 2008 by James Turnbull
On display outside a French High School, there’s what is claimed to be the world’s largest key. The key measures around 10.5 metres long, although may have lost its title earlier this year when Bethlehem claimed the crown1. It’s still impressive, especially in the fact that it’s completely useless. Not as large, but much more mysterious, is a 8.5m key lying around a carpark in Denver. This key doesn’t appear…
In the early days of mass automotive travel, fuel stations often resorted to some wacky gimmicks to differentiate themselves from the pack and lure in customers, such as novelty architecture that made the station building even more of a roadside attraction than the fuel they were selling. Today, many of these wacky 1930s-era stations are icons to thousands of visitors every year.
A few years ago we took a detailed look at Canada’s Grand Railway Hotels (parts 1, 2, 3). To look…
To mark Halloween this year, we’re visiting some unusual burial places. While it is common for cemeteries to have parking…
Architects are forever pushing the boundaries of design to create spectacular, astonishing, or just plain weird-looking buildings to catch your eye. We’ve found a plethora of these deranged designs across Europe on Google Street View and on Yandex Maps Panorama; below are a dozen of our favourites!
A significant number of churches around Europe have twisted or crooked spires. While various legends account for the deformations, the…
The Namib Desert is not only the oldest desert in the world, but it has its own shipwrecks, 900-year-old tree…
Recently the town of Burford, Wyoming made the headlines when it was sold for $900,000, which isn’t a bad price…
The Morganza Spillway is a flood management system on the Mississippi River in Louisiana, intended to protect the cities of…
Back to his very origins, humans have chosen to worship physical representations of their deities. Currently the most popular religion…
Lesotho is one of the most unique countries on the planet. It’s the southernmost landlocked country, the largest country that’s entirely surrounded by another country, and the highest country on Earth. Yet, it doesn’t really show up on too many people’s radar. With the arrival of Google Street View imagery this month to Lesotho, it’s time to shed some light on the world’s largest enclave.
The Netherlands is renowned for being a very flat1 and windy country. In the western town of Rozenburg the strong…
Portmeirion is a small resort village in North Wales famous for its Italianate architecture, and for being the setting for…
Lesotho is one of the most unique countries on the planet. It’s the southernmost landlocked country, the largest country that’s entirely surrounded by another country, and the highest country on Earth. Yet, it doesn’t really show up on too many people’s radar. With the arrival of Google Street View imagery this month to Lesotho, it’s time to shed some light on the world’s largest enclave.
The Netherlands is renowned for being a very flat1 and windy country. In the western town of Rozenburg the strong…
Portmeirion is a small resort village in North Wales famous for its Italianate architecture, and for being the setting for…
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