Buckley Air Force Base is home to the 460th Space Wing Staff and features loads of these giant radar golf balls, which I guess are used for communicating with their "Defense Support Program" satellites. The base also hosts the Colorado…

Milan's Central Station is covered with giant steel canopies, 341 metres long and covering an area of 66,500 square metres, which look amazing from above. Milan's tallest building, the shiny Pirelli Tower is just in front of the station. In…

Now this is truly "Large Type" - Perscombinatie printing works in Amsterdam print a lot of newspapers, so when they were decorating the car park they opted for a neat newspaper-like 6 column layout. Brilliant! Submitter "Koos van den Hout"…

A year ago today we posted about a Giant Alien Dolphin in the Pacific Ocean. It turned out that this was actually a group of islands known as French Frigate Shoals, which has since received a small image update on…

Floating above the Parc André-Citroën in Paris, France, we find a gigantic tethered hot-air-balloon. If you look closely at the shadow you can see that the "basket" has no bottom! Have the occupants plummeted to their untimely deaths? No, rather…

In 1977 the Soviets began construction of a fleet of nuclear submarines that were to hold the title of "World's Largest Submarine" for nearly 30 years (and counting!) - the Typhoon class. The fictional "Red October" that was hunted in…