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Caution arachnophobes, many parts of the world appear to be home to giant spiders, thankfully all in the name of art. First up, a giant bug on top of a building in Reno, Nevada. This spider sculpture was created by…

This huge pavilion and dance hall is the only remaining structure from Boblo Island Amusement Park in Ontario. The Amusement Park was open to the public from 1898 until 1993 and through the years it was home to a number…

Mowed into this field in Canada is a large equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles, of a design that has been shown to arise independently in any basket-weaving society. In other words, a 30 metre-wide Swastika. Despite…

Tucked away on the lakefront of Canada's largest city is the Toronto Music Garden. The park, which opened in 1999, was designed to represent the different elements of Bach's Suites for Unaccompanied Cello and was a partnership between landscape designer…

(It's the last day of Island Week 2 here at GSS, which means we're almost done with posting about islands. And it's lasted about a week.) Manitoulin Island in Ontario, Canada is officially the world's largest island that is located…

There's a nice story on Vanity Fair about how the author, Nick Tosches, spent more than a year attempting to track down the shot location of a desktop picture called Autumn that came with his copy of WIndows. Eventually Nick…