Round the Sphere Again: Saturday Lite Edition

Tall and Strange
Fourteen of the weirdest skyscrapers. (Web Urbanist)

There’s the inside-out skyscraper, the horizontal skyscraper and the wooden skyscraper. There’s a bizarre three-towered structure made to vaguely resemble an elephant, tusks and all. And then there’s the giant pickle.

Our own log skyscraper here in town pales in comparison to Russia’s wooden skyscraper.

Not Really McCoy
At least not originally. (World Wide Words) There’s new evidence on the origin of the term “the real McCoy.”