Avast Ye! Today, it be Talk Like a Pirate Day an' we've got a barrel-load of piratey-themed sights fer ye landlubbers! Las Vegas' Treasure Island be havin' a daily pirate battle, 'ere the swashbucklers by defeated by th' booty-shaking o'…

High above the Uvas Reservoir in Santa Clara County, it looks like there's hundreds of colourful balloons floating up into the sky. The possible balloons are unfortunately on the overlap of two images, but appear to be rising up from…

Look closely at the car park of BMW's headquarters and you'll see that there's a Mini parked on the wall. Even more bizarrely, this isn't even unusual: we've found gravity-defying Mini parking before! You may also remember that early last…

Rather than the usual fare of flowerbeds, ponds or garden gnomes, Lloyd "Tud" Krohn decorates his garden with handmade aircraft. The 1/16 scale models include a V-22 Osprey, B-17 Flying Fortress, P-38 Lightning, C-130 Hercules and an Apache helicopter. Mr…

For tonight's dinner we're following what might well be the world's largest recipe - as it's written in large type all over the surface of Google Earth. To start with, on the coast of Nova Scotia a vineyard uses the…

Continuing the never-ending stream of "World's largest…" we present The World's Largest Portrait, which adorns the hills of Erzincan in Turkey. The massive 7.5 square km painting is of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the first president of Turkey until his death…