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You can see the Watts Towers in the centre of our thumbnail with shadows extending to the north. Compared to some of the towers we've previously featured, they look a bit, well, crap. However, those other towers are all constructed…

I'm not sure what it's like where you are... but here in Edinburgh, Christmas seems to be well underway, despite the fact that at time of writing we're still 19 days away... Presumably the U.S. National Christmas Tree (a 40-foot…

You might remember the communities where to be part of the "in" crowd is to have your own tennis court. That's all very well but in Cielo Dorado Estates you need your own plane! There's a private runway running right…

Salvation Mountain is an ongoing project of Leonard Knight, who has built and hand decorated the 3-storey "mountain" (I think it's really just a hill) for nearly two decades. The hill is created out of adobe, straw and many gallons…

These two giant inter-locking circles encapsulating diamonds apparently signify the 'secret' location of a huge Scientology vault which has been constructed to protect the writings of L. Ron Hubbard, etched onto stainless steel and stored in titanium cases. According to…

These are the Flatirons, an incredible rock formation near Boulder, Colorado. Don't quite see what you're looking at? Tilt your head 90 degrees to the left... More information on the Wikipedia page. Thanks to Geoff.