The mining regions of Germany are home to five of the world's largest movable technical industrial machines - the Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60. Larger than the Eiffel Tower, these machines weigh 13,600 tons and are up…

Shanghai is the most populous city in China, and as befits a population over 20 million, the city has been blessed with the largest skatepark in the world. SMP Skatepark has an incredible 13,700 m2 of…

As a follow-up to our recent story about the largest ship graveyard in the Western hemisphere, today we're visiting Mauritania, where we find the world's largest ship graveyard! The port of Nouadhibou is the final resting…

There are a few contenders for the World's Largest Cowboy Boots. The best claim perhaps belongs to this pair, which stands 12m tall, outside the North Star Mall in San Antonio, Texas. Tall as they are,…

The world's largest weather vane can be found in Yukon, alongside the runway at Whitehorse airport, in the unusual form of a DC-3 plane. After 28 years of service, mostly among Canada's northern communities, the plane…

Matryoshkas, or Russian dolls, are sets of wooden figures of decreasing sizes placed one inside the other. With a Russian name and a long Russian history, you might be slightly surprised to discover that the world's…