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Avast Ye! Today, it be Talk Like a Pirate Day an' we've got a barrel-load of piratey-themed sights fer ye landlubbers! Las Vegas' Treasure Island be havin' a daily pirate battle, 'ere the swashbucklers by defeated by th' booty-shaking o'…

The Sunset Lake Floating Bridge in Brookfield, Vermont is actually a GSS first, as we've never featured a floating bridge before. Built on floating logs all the way back in 1820, upgraded to tarred barrels in 1884, and plastic barrels…

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…