Despite looking like one of M.C. Escher's impossible creations, Kubuswoning is actually just a very unusual housing block in the Netherlands. Meaning "Cube houses" in English, this Rotterdam landmark was designed by Piet Blom in the early 80s, and is…

A poster over at the keyhole forums has discovered what does look remarkably like a kilometre-wide pair of rather luscious-looking female lips. If this were the face of Mother Earth, I wonder where the rest of her features are? The…

Here at McAllen-Miller International Airport, Texas, someone has asked Thelma to marry them by writing an enormous proposal along one of the airport's access roads. However, I half hope that Thelma declined this particular offer, on the the grounds that…

I wonder if these drivers know that the road they're driving along outside Cork, Ireland isn't actually finished yet? Thanks to David Patrick.

Have you ever wondered what kind of camera takes the aerial photographs Google use? Well, at least in Anchorage, Alaska, the company taking the pictures uses a Zeiss RMK TOP 15 Aerial Survey Camera System.

After the North Sea flood of 1953 destroyed 4,500 buildings, drowned 10,000 animals and killed 1,835 people, the Netherlands began work on the world's largest flood protection project, Delta Works (Dutch: Deltawerken). Today Delta Works consists of over 16,500 kilometres…