Structures

To follow-up from the Copper Mining earlier in the week, we head over to the German coal mining town of Bottrop, where there's lots of industrial stuff going on. But if you're more of an art person, on a nearby…

This is the Lavender Pit, part of the Copper Queen Mine in Bisbee, Arizona. The Phelps Dodge Corporation began work on this huge hole in 1951, but they had to move 46 million tons of material before they reached the…

The ostentatious Istana Nurul Iman palace is the official residence of the one-time richest man on the planet, the Sultan of Brunei. Arguably this is the largest residential palace in the world, and possibly even the largest residence of any…

Continuing our journey along Germany's "Walk of Ideas" we arrive at a giant pill entitled "Milestones of Medicine". Then there's "Milestones in Music" - a collection of giant musical notes in front of the Konzerthaus. Which leads us to "Modern…

As visitors to Melbourne travel along the city's new CityLink motorway, they're confronted by 39 giant red poles lining the road, and an enormous yellow pillar tilted precariously over the traffic below. Officially named the 'Melbourne International Gateway', the locals…

In 1947 a guy named Art Lacey decided he wanted to buy a surplus B-17G "Flying Fortress" WWII bomber, and with little prior experience, fly the plane from Kansas back to Milwaukie, Oregon. After an incredible (and highly improbable) sounding…