Asia

For some unknown reason somebody is carving giant letters 'HA' into a sand bar near Abu Dhabi. The 500m tall water letters are very neat but it's a lot of effort just to laugh into space. Perhaps it's just the…

We've previously featured Mexico's giant flags but this is the world's largest unsupported flagpole in Jordan. Narrowly beating the previous record holder in UAE, the flagpole is 126.8 metres tall, is illuminated at night and can apparently be seen from…

Check out this cool (and very chirpy looking) globe/man thing on a roof in Tokyo. He appears to be wearing a busboy's hat... or is it... a manhole cover? There's some characters on the roof too, but unfortunately Japanese is…

This is Todaiji Temple in Japan, which is reputedly the largest wooden building in the world and houses another very large Buddha (under a roof though - how inconsiderate). Actually, I could well believe this is indeed the biggest wooden…

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…

Here in Saudi Arabia, there's a large square with a smaller circle inside it. Um... yeah, I really don't know what this place is! It's just outside of a small town, and the square is about 500 metres across, defined…