North America

It's tough keeping up with the Joneses... In this Californian community the latest trend is apprently having a tennis court in your back garden. It doesn't seem that this is an isolated case either, tennis court communities are springing up…

Originally built for WWI (although not completed before the war ended), the SS Palo Alto is an oil tanker unusually built using concrete. After sitting in dock for years doing nothing Palo Alto was permanently grounded at Seacliff State Beach…

This is the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. Now I think I've got this right when I say that the Opryland is the third largest non-casino hotel in the world. Regardless, it's enormous, with 5 restaurants, 6 eateries, 14 retail…

The white blob in our thumbnail is a parasail, with the speedboat doing circles just to the East. This is just off the coast of Mexico where we can see the Rui Palace hotel (again, under construction in the satellite…

Visitors to Vancouver International Airport are greeted by this large type on a Honda warehouses. JVC aren't so friendly with a simple roof logo to the West. Thanks: neosinific & Mike

This is pretty cool. It's a Marine Air Corps runway but they have the outline of an aircraft carrier painted on the runway with little planes and everything. This is obviously for carrier landing training, a wee bit safer than…