At 58 feet long and 928 times the size of an actual termite, Nibbles Woodaway (as he was named in a radio competition) is the world's largest bug. The giant creepy crawly is attached to the…

The 7,560 tonne world's largest gantry crane at Kockums AB shipyard in Malmö, Sweden also has the world's largest lifting capacity of 1,500 tonnes. If you're in Sweden don't bother trying to go and see it…

Reader Tim Gregory found the 80 foot tall world's largest tyre in Michigan. It apparently started life as a giant tyre-shaped ferris wheel at the 1964-65 New York World's Fair, and was moved to Allen Park,…

Frank over at the Google Earth Blog pointed us to a Giant Football (Soccer Ball for you yanks) in Dortmund, which will be hosting some of the 2006 FIFA World Football semi-finals next month. He suggested…

The roster of the world's tallest statues is dominated by Buddhist figures, with most of the top ten (actually 11 because of a tie) being representations of the Buddha or Guanyin. While we've looked at Very…

For the very first time, Google has released Street View imagery of the Arab world, and they've started right at the very top – with the highest man-made viewpoint on the planet, Dubai's monumental Burj Khalifa.…