Although this has appeared in our comments, we've never actually posted it, so here is the fabulously brightly-coloured hot-air balloon, tethered above Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. Pretty huh? I'm sure I read somewhere that you can go up in it…

Right in the middle of our thumbnail, you can just make out the shape of the Great Buddha of Kamakura. Around 13 metres tall, the bronze statue is said to have been cast all the way back in 1252, and…

These are the Flatirons, an incredible rock formation near Boulder, Colorado. Don't quite see what you're looking at? Tilt your head 90 degrees to the left... More information on the Wikipedia page. Thanks to Geoff.

This orange crescent shaped blur is ground zero of the Tunguska Event. Way out in the Tunguska region of Russia it is where the Tunguska meteor impact is said to have taken place on the morning of June 30th 1908.…

Originally due to be finished this year, it seems that all construction has come to a halt at the Arahman Mosque in Baghdad. The place is absolutely colossal, and the fittingly large cranes used in the construction can still be…

This is Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation in Marseille, France. Completed in 1952, it's a modernist residential housing complex for up to 1,600 people which features 337 apartments over 12 stories. Interestingly, every apartment is built over 2 floors and is…