Search results
People also ask
What is the biggest thing in the world?
What is the world's largest animal?
What are the 50 biggest things?
What is the biggest insect in the world?
Size. Discover the people, places, animals and inventions that hold Guinness World Records titles for being large, tall, heavy or small. Records showcase.
Oct 3, 2019 · Just a big list of the 50 biggest things: the biggest plane, biggest train, biggest hole, biggest pole, and more. We like big things, and we cannot lie.
The Great Barrier Reef: The World’s Largest Coral Reef The Grand Canyon: The World’s Largest Canyon The Colosseum: The World’s Largest Amphitheater The Titanic: The World’s Largest Ship (at the time) The Boeing 747: The World’s Largest Passenger Aircraft The Giant Buddha of Leshan: The World’s Largest Buddha Statue
- World’S Largest Pistachio
- World’S Largest Cuckoo Clock
- World’S Largest Ball of Sisal Twine
- Casey, Illinois
- World’S Largest Miniature Circus
- World’S Largest Teapot
- World’S Largest Basket
- World’S Largest Operational Frying Pan
- World’S Largest Czech Egg
- World’S Largest Working Fire Hydrant
The World’s Largest Pistachio is not a realpistachio, but the 30-foot-tall green-and-white concrete sculpture in Alamogordo is nutty enough to attract travelers on their way through Albuquerque, Roswell, or Las Cruces, New Mexico. McGinn’s Pistachioland is an 111-acre pistachio farm, vineyard, and souvenir shop billed as “the nuttiest place in New ...
Built in 1972, and featured on the cover of The Guinness Book of World Records in 1977, Ohio’s World’s Largest Cuckoo Clockhas since been eclipsed by others (the current record holder is a clock in Germany featuring a 330-pound cuckoo bird). The working clock was commissioned for the Alpine Alpa Restaurant in Wilmot, Ohio, but when the restaurant c...
Started by Frank Stoeber in 1953, the World’s Largest Ball of Sisal Twine has a circumference of 46 feet and weighs 27,017 pounds (as of March 2022). Located 30 miles south of the (oft-disputed) geographic center of the U.S. in Cawker City, Kansas, since 1961, the ball is a constant work in progress, currently comprising more than 8.5 million feet ...
Featuring more than 30 larger-than-life objects (including 12 world-record holders), Casey, Illinois, has fully embraced its reputation as a small town full of big things. Mail a letter from the World’s Largest Mailbox, play 18 holes at the Casey Country Club—home of the World’s Largest Golf Tee—and watch the World’s Largest Barber Pole spin slowly...
The Ringlingcampus in Sarasota, Florida, includes museums dedicated to fine art and circus artifacts, a theater, education center, and Ca’ d’Zan, the Venetian Gothic former home of John Ringling, one of several famous Ringling brothers. The circus museum is home to posters, costumes, and props from the Greatest Show on Earth, but the crown jewel of...
The World’s Largest Teapotstarted its life as a wooden root beer barrel advertising Hire’s Root Beer. In 1938, the barrel was sold to William Devon, who then added a spout and handle, and covered it in tin. Reimagined as a teapot, the structure stood in front of Devon’s teapot store selling souvenirs and concessions. After it was abandoned in the 1...
Driving down State Route 16 in Newark, Ohio, it’s hard to miss the former headquarters of the Longaberger basket company. The 9,000-ton basket-shaped buildingwas dreamed up by founder Dave Longaberger and modeled after his company’s best-selling Market Basket. Longaberger died not long after its completion, and his once-billion-dollar company decla...
There are several frying pans vying for the title of World’s Largest, leading would-be competitors to add hyper-specific qualifiers or spelling quirks to their entries, such as the World’s Largest Nonstick Frying Pan and Iowa’s Largest Fryin’ Pan. Rose Hill, North Carolina, boasts its own variation, the World’s Largest Operational Frying Pan: The 2...
Located in Wilson, “The Czech Capital of Kansas,” the 20-foot-tall, 15-foot-wide World’s Largest Czech Eggsits upright under a dedicated pavilion in Ed & LaVange Shiroky Park. The fiberglass egg was built in 2012, painted in a traditional black, red, and yellow Czech pattern by local artist Christine Slechta, and erected in its current location in ...
Several fire hydrants line the square in front of Beaumont’s Fire Museum of Texas, but only one held the title of World’s Largest for 2 years after it was built. Eclipsed by subsequent hydrants in Canada and South Carolina, Beaumont’s black-and-white-spotted big thing was donated to the city in 1999 by the Walt Disney Company to celebrate the re-re...
- Son Doong Caves. Situated in Vietnam, these caves were found in 1991 by a local man named Hồ-Khanh. Inside, there’s a large subterranean river, and the layout of the system is such that it intimidates others from entering — a steep decline and the acoustics make it seem extra eerie and windy.
- The Dubai Mall. This mall is known as the largest in the world because of its total area: it’s about 13 million square feet and has about 1,200 retail shops.
- Elephants. [sstk-mosaic] Elephants are the largest living terrestrial (land) animals. They stand between 10 and 13 feet tall and weigh over 15,000 pounds.
- Jackfruit. [sstk-mosaic-2] You’ll find this strange fruit in parts of Southeast and Southern Asia, and it’s the largest tree-borne fruit that exists. It’s also the national fruit of Bangladesh, and is an excellent source of fiber.
Sep 27, 2019 · Everyday items made massive – what some of the world’s biggest records look like | Guinness World Records. By Lewis Blakeman. Published 27 September 2019. Share. When Jack next climbs up the beanstalk to reach the giant’s caste in the sky, what supersize items might he see along the way?
Jul 3, 2019 · The Blue Whale, the world's biggest marine animal. Getty Images. Not only is the blue whale the largest living animal; it may be the largest animal in the history of life on Earth, pending the unlikely discovery of any 200-ton dinosaurs or marine reptiles. Like the whale shark, the blue whale feeds on microscopic plankton, filtering countless ...
