Written on the ground beside the runway of an old World War 2 airfield is the most bizarre large type yet: "Garlic?!". This airfield used to be RAF Hibaldstow, which has been inactive since 1947. Currently the site is used…

Legend tells us that near the city of Xi'an, China, there lies a gigantic white pyramid - far larger than any Egyptian pyramid - that has remained undiscovered for millennia. The story goes that this pyramid is encased in "pure…

Along with the more modern pastime of making crop circles, etching chalk figures into the side of hills seems to be a peculiarly English obsession. The Uffington White Horse is the confirmed oldest of the many chalk figures in England,…

This is South Korea's infamous Jeju Loveland, an outdoor sculpture park on Cheju Island, which is based entirely around the theme of sex. The park's website describes it as "a place where sexually-oriented art and eroticism meet". Which means that…

There are 21 cities worldwide that have at sometime been nick-named "Athens of the (something)". However, two of these cities have taken the name even further and built replicas of Athens' most famous landmark, the Parthenon. Nashville, Tennessee acquired the…

Here in Toulouse, France, Google Earth finally gets its first glimpse of the largest passenger airliner in the world, the Airbus A380 "Superjumbo". The A380 is a double-decker, four-engined aircraft which provides seating for 525 people in standard three-class configuration…