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The Palace of the Parliament in Romania has a floor area of 350,000 m² which makes it one of the world's largest buildings. Previously called the "House of the People" under communism it also narrowly misses the top spot of…

JP found this little building on a seemingly un-inhabited tiny island off Macau. Written on the roof is some Chinese characters and the word "ZAO" - secret lair perhaps? A bit of investigation let me to this KML file which…

Just to the West of the Swiss town of Morges we find the biggest Swiss flag in the world (probably). It's about 80 metres square and has been painted on a roof. Out faithful reader ChrisW (who suggested this sight)…

Just in case you missed this when it did the rounds in October, here's some hills in Canada which seem to resemble... well, I'd be hard pushed not to admit that this does look an awful lot like a Native…

At the Memphis-Days Inn At Graceland there's a big blue guitar (yes, of course it's a pool - here's ground-level shots). And all the way over in Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia, there's the Big Golden Guitar, which is exactly…

First it got Dugg, and then it got Slashdotted - but the fact remains that the enormous KFC logo recently constructed in Nevada is not the first logo (or brand) visible from space. In fact, it's debatable whether or not…