Miniature parks and model villages are sort of like a pre-internet 3D Google Earth, allowing you to view a representation of a village or city sights from above. So it's no surprise that on visiting my local park, Bekonscot Model…

There's a neat question mark, about 11m tall, drawn on the ground of a construction site in the city of Rennes, France. Of course, the question about this question is: why is it there? The "?" appears to be made…

Crossing the Sacramento River in Redding, California is the sundial bridge which (as you might have guessed) serves the dual purpose of being both a bridge and a sundial! I previously tried to use North America's largest sundial to tell…

This is the USS Ohio, an Ohio class submarine cruising along the US/Canada border in the Straight of Juan de Fuca. Flanked to the north and south, it looks like it has its missile tubes open, as seen in this…

On a frozen Alaskan lake... it appears that someone's been messing around on snowmobiles... and here's the culprits! Thanks: XF

If you happened to own an airfield, and you just happened to have some spare runways lying around - what would you do with them? RAF Thurleigh was built during WWII and after the war became a development site known…