Shanghai’s space aged Oriental Pearl Tower
[youtube dxE-zW1d4X4] Located in Shanghai the Oriental Pearl Tower is a TV tower that is the 3rd tallest tower in the world and at 468m it’s the tallest in Asia. Looking like a building...
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30 million visitors love it
It is estimated that 30 million people visit Paris every year making it the world’s tourist hot spot. Tourists will stand in long queues for hours to get a glimpse of the Mona Lisa...
Airbus A380 woos Hong Kong
[youtube Jh4LyaNUY3Q] The Airbus A380 made a rare low flyover across Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour yesterday. The sight of a passenger jet flying this low over the city was reminiscent of the days when...
Prague’s Charles Bridge
For over 600 years the Charles Bridge spanning the Vltava River has been one of the main focal points of Prague has held battles, processions and even executions and since the fall of the...
Driving and crashing in Russia
[youtube 5P5Az7AKD4Y] In some countries driving can be a bit more hectic than others. Check out this video of an intersection in St Petersburg, Russia as cars play chicken and then get tossed around...
‘Diana’s Flame’ – The Flame of Liberty Paris
The Flame of Liberty or Flamme de la Liberte is an actual full size replica of the flame held by New York’s Statue of Liberty. This beautiful gold leafed statue was erected in 1987...
Want to buy a wild animal or some cheese?
You can dream up just about anything and Harrods Department Store in Knightsbridge London will be able to source it, gift wrap it and even deliver it. The store is one of the worlds...
B52 – It’s as big as a whale
The Boeing B52 bomber is one of the biggest planes on in the US military fleet with a massive wing span of over 56 metres and a payload of nearly 30 tons this plan...
The Paddlesteamer Emmylou
The Murray River bordering Victoria and New South Wales in Australia was once the country’s busiest highway with paddlesteamers shipping cargo up and down the mighty river system. Today the legacy continues with several...
88 Floors and nothing below
The Eureka tower is a 92 story residential skyscraper which has just opened in Melbourne Australia. It now offer’s one of the worlds most scary experiences a walk in a glass cube 88 floors...
