North America

High above the Uvas Reservoir in Santa Clara County, it looks like there's hundreds of colourful balloons floating up into the sky. The possible balloons are unfortunately on the overlap of two images, but appear to be rising up from…

This is God's Ark of Safety in Frostburg, Maryland. The brainchild of Pastor Richard Greene, this is a church... that's also a full-size replica of Noah's Ark.1 Well it would be... if Pastor Greene had ever gotten round to finishing…

Rather than the usual fare of flowerbeds, ponds or garden gnomes, Lloyd "Tud" Krohn decorates his garden with handmade aircraft. The 1/16 scale models include a V-22 Osprey, B-17 Flying Fortress, P-38 Lightning, C-130 Hercules and an Apache helicopter. Mr…

For tonight's dinner we're following what might well be the world's largest recipe - as it's written in large type all over the surface of Google Earth. To start with, on the coast of Nova Scotia a vineyard uses the…

(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…

(It's Island Week 2 here at GSS, which means we'll mostly be posting about Islands. For about a week.) Pollepel Island is located in the Hudson River, New York. A characterless lump of rock, it would have been completely uninteresting…