This is the striking (and huge) Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea. It's a 330-metre-tall pyramid-shaped building with 3,000 rooms, and was supposed to have 7 revolving restaurants, except they never actually finished it. Wikipedia says: newspapers estimated the cost…

In our never-ending quest to catalogue everything that stakes its claim to being the "world's largest something" I present to you the world's largest dry dock. Located in Belfast's Docklands (where the ill-fated RMS Titanic was built) the dry dock…

G J Oliver's Industrial Steel factory has a collection of unusual pets in the back garden; giant Steel Dinosaurs. Under the order of Mr Oliver himself the prehistoric creatures are created in spare moments by company employee Woody Hauser, who…

Someone has written Beef it up using hay bales in this field near Newport, Wales. Promotion for their other product perhaps? Thanks to matt.

As a follow up to yesterday's fabulous elephant shadow, here's an equally cool giraffe shadow in Oakland zoo! I think these are ace 😀 Thanks to Paul LaVigne and Vladimir Vysotsky.

More crop-circles have been found! This time half-way between Leeds and Sheffield, person or beings unknown have decided to create a rather complex star-shaped impression in these crops. Why here? Well, it's right next to the M1 motorway of course!…