Europe

This sparse forest in Denmark bares a uncanny resemblance to a face, could it be just a coincidence? Unfortunately not, as it's man-made. But the face is the work of famous 1800s Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, who originally created…

Hidden away in the forests of western Russia, is a highly suspicious-looking collection of buildings which have never been place-marked by the Google Earth Community, and don't seem to have ever been mentioned on the web. The buildings are all…

Just outside Lisbon Airport we can see an old jet airliner. Nothing unusual about that, clearly - however you'd have to go a very long way to find another aircraft that has ever been converted into a strip bar, complete…

When we last spotted Thomas the Tank Engine he was happily entertaining children on the Isle of Wight. People said things like "Best. Sight. Ever!", and we all reminisced about the favourite anthropomorphised train from our childhood. Since those halcyon…

The web is abuzz today with news that an English animal sanctuary has applied to the Guinness Book of World Records to have one of their bullocks, "Chilli", recognised as Britain's tallest cow. The giant Friesian apparently measures a staggering…

Last Sunday saw the swearing in of Boris Johnson, conservative MP for Henley (and renowned committer of gaffes), as the new Mayor of London. This means that, not only will he have power over nearly everything in Greater London, he…