This double-decker bus appears to have crashed and then toppled over, actually crushing a car underneath itself! (Look carefully at the roof of the bus and you’ll see part of a car protruding.) Worse still, at the same location a…

Your average portrait painting isn’t very large or, in the case of the Mona Lisa, it’s surprisingly tiny. That said, we have found one or two giant portraits which are viewable from above. To start, Anne Frank can be seen…

A small German church has laid a bold claim to the title of “World’s most squinty building“. Located in the town of Bad Frankenhausen, the bell tower of a 14th century church has been measured at an angle of 4.5…

This is the Badeschiff or “bathing ship” in Berlin, Germany – an old barge which has been converted into an outdoor swimming pool, actually in the River Spree. Opened in the summer of 2004, the facilities have proved highly popular…

This is the small island formerly known as Cayo Blanco de Sur, Cuba. The island is around 15 km long, about 500 metres wide, and is uninhabited save for the indigenous birds and iguanas. In 1972 while on a state…

Synchrotrons are just a fancy type of particle accelerator. I’m not the world’s greatest physicist but, as far as I understand it, they are circular accelerators that use an electricity field to speed up sub atomic particles to something near…