Machu Picchu, the "Lost City of the Incas", is an ancient ruined city found at the top of a mountain. It was probably built around 1440 and the most impressive thing is that it's all still there, despite being constructed…

Remember a while ago when we featured the Mega Ramp - a giant skate-ramp built by professional nutter skateboarder Danny Way? Well, here's another location of one of his crazy stunts - The Hard Rock cafe in Las Vegas. The…

The marble tomb of the Taj Mahal is supposedly the ultimate symbol of love, being built by the fifth Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan, for his second wife. I always believed the story that he planned to build a second Taj…

On the southern coast of the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine there's giant cogs! They were left over parts from the world's largest clock, which spanned 600m across the coast and was used by scientists in Mir space station to tell…

The bizarre Nazca Lines were created thousands of years ago (between 200BC and 600AD) using simple tools to scrape away the dark pebbles and reveal the light sand underneath. Although they're called the Nazca lines, the famous geoglyphs also feature…

Over a seemingly dull field in California we find an unusual sight - a mid-air refuelling of a C-5 Galaxy by a smaller KC-135! Very, very cool. The image ghosting is caused by the way satellite photographs are taken in…