Since 1925, the Goodyear Blimp has been an integral part of American sports culture, probably more famous than the tyre company whose logo is along the side. Goodyear have built more than 300 blimps over the years and today there…

At the beginning of the 20th Century, San Diego needed a fast and reliable rail connection with the east to maintain growth and prosperity. Due to the hostile desert mountains it needed to negotiate on its way to Los Angeles…

In 1997, due to vast overcrowding of the UK's prisons, the HMP Weare was moored at a disused Royal Navy dockyard in Dorest and converted into a prison ship. The ship had started life as a troop ship during the…

It looks like there's a massive toxic bug in Yorkshire! Run for the hills! On closer inspection I'd say that a massive toxic bug has been squashed on Yorkshire. Come back from the hills and help clean this mess up.…

Near the top of Italy's heel, there's a mysterious-looking structure - an absolutely huge circle, 4 kilometres across! You might guess that this is a particle accelerator, but in fact it's a perfectly circular high-speed test track - The Nardò…

Here in sunny Cornwall, England, is an absolutely fanastic-looking environmental complex - The Eden Project. Built inside an old china clay quarry, the complex includes two sets of giant interconnected transparent domes made of ETFE cushions1 (each emulating a natural…