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,…

Continuing this week's theme of mining, today we're visiting Germany's lignite mining area to find some of the largest land vehicles on Earth! Lignite (or "brown coal") is found in 3 nearby open cast mines in the Rhineland; Hambach, Bergheim…

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…

Remember how excited everybody got when we thought Australians were all driving flying cars? Well here in Arkansas, blazing down the I-30 towards Little Rock, we find . . . a Rocket-Powered Car! This couldn't be anything other than some…

Leaping out of the back of someone's house is a gigantic Bass fish. The record for the world's largest Bass fish ever caught was set way back in 1932, when a George W. Perry caught a 22lb, 4oz largemouth, which…

When we recently posted a Truck Crash, there was a lot of unexpected discussion in the comments regarding my use of the term "articulated lorry". I thought it was perfectly normal, but it seems that many of our American readers…