This has got to be the world's largest can of 7 Up, and even better - it's actually full of 246,051 litres (65,000 gallons) of 7 Up! (OK that's not entirely true. The 19 metre can is actually a water…

Damming the Paraná River on the border between Brazil and Paraguay sits an incredible engineering achievement - the largest hydroelectric power plant in the world, Itaipú. Itaipú is 196 metres high and contains enough iron and steel to build 380…

Could these tiny white dots actually by the heads of 5 marines marching through the Californian desert in single file formation? Quite possible I suppose as we're near the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms (yes I realise…

Check out this cool (and very chirpy looking) globe/man thing on a roof in Tokyo. He appears to be wearing a busboy's hat... or is it... a manhole cover? There's some characters on the roof too, but unfortunately Japanese is…

Inspired by the National Geographic Photo of the Day last week, I went looking for Minneapolis's Spoonbridge and Cherry sculpture. Unfortunately something got lost in translation. The story wasn't much better on Windows Live Local, or Yahoo! Maps Beta who…

Surrounded on three sides by mountain ranges, this is the eerie and desolate Dugway Proving Grounds, a large-scale biological and chemical agent testing grounds south of Salt Lake City, Utah. The US has tested all sorts of nasty things here…