Buildings
The Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew
While I don't admit to possess a particularly green thumb, I do have a penchant for anything which either looks good from the air, or lays claim to unnecessary, ambiguous World Records. Just like here at the Royal Botanic Gardens,…
House Fire
Disaster has struck at a house in the small town of Gibson, Arkansas, as a home is engulfed in flames. There are several fire engines on the scene, but it's probably too late to save the building since the flames…
Independence Day 2008
If you've been wondering why half of the Internet had gone quiet, then (like us) you might not have realised that today is the 4th of July, and that means it’s America’s Independence Day. The holiday marks the signing of…
The (Current) Largest Restaurant in the World
Syria's Damascus Gate restaurant has recently been certified by Guinness as the "World's largest restaurant", stealing the crown from Thailand's (previously featured) Mang Gorn Luang. Seating up to 6014 diners at one time, it easily tops the previous holder's 5000…
Landform
The skeptics amongst you might initially think that this bizarre twisted lake isn't natural real, but rather that the Google engineers have just discovered Photoshop's Twirl feature. However I assure you that it is real, as it's only a few…
The Atacama Desert (Desert Week)
We’re continuing the first annual GSS Desert Week! We’re mostly posting about deserts and it’s lasting about a week! The Atacama Desert is a virtually rainless plateau in Chile, South America. Made up of salt basins, sand and lava flows,…
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