North America

It seems that more than one person has had the idea of theming their swimming pool around aeroplanes... Here's a small private plane-shaped pool in Miami. This is the Flying W Airport in New Jersey, where they have a cool…

This is the 30-metre wide satellite dish of the Jamesburg Earth Station. Originally built in 1968 to support the Apollo 11 moon landing, the Earth Station was shut down in 2002 and put up for sale. It was subsequently bought…

Remember how excited everybody got when we thought Australians were all driving flying cars? Well here in Arkansas, blazing down the I-30 towards Little Rock, we find . . . a Rocket-Powered Car! This couldn't be anything other than some…

Leaping out of the back of someone's house is a gigantic Bass fish. The record for the world's largest Bass fish ever caught was set way back in 1932, when a George W. Perry caught a 22lb, 4oz largemouth, which…

When we recently posted a Truck Crash, there was a lot of unexpected discussion in the comments regarding my use of the term "articulated lorry". I thought it was perfectly normal, but it seems that many of our American readers…

A farmer has written a giant message to the landing pilots of the nearby 549th Strategic Missile Squadron. The field says "You! America Make Proud!". I'm not sure of the exact meaning of this cryptic message, I guess the most…