North America

The City Hall of Toronto has two towers of different heights, each a semicircle that from above looks a lot like a boomerang. You may also recognise the building as the headquarters of the Umbrella corporation in the film Resident…

The largest wine producer in the world, E&J Gallo Winery in Modesto, CA. The building is huge but it's the tanks that are worth looking at -there must be a lot of wine in there! Thanks: MattBrown

With it's 217 foot tower the Liberty Memorial is the United States's only major World War I monument. Built in 1921 the monument incorporates two Sphinx sculptures, two museums and the tower, which is topped by four large stone figures…

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum hosted both the 1932 and 1984 Olympic Games and the Olympic torch, which resides at the east end, is still lit during football games. The Coliseum was also the site of the very first Super…

The Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha stakes claim to a couple of "world's largest" titles. The dome structure houses the world's largest indoor desert as well as "Kingdoms of the Night", the world's largest nocturnal exhibit. The zoo also has…

Here's an absolutely fantastic image of what can only be described as swirly sands on Core Sound at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. It seems that we're looking at sand ridges under the water and the channels running through them. Wonderful…