world record

It's official, another major world record has just been broken in the state of New York.

36 years ago, history was made in Upstate New York when nearly 40,000 people gathered to witness the making of the world’s largest pancake.

You think your house had the most Christmas lights this year? There's an Upstate New York family that has you beat, so much so, the hold the world record for it!

There’s fast and then there’s record-setting fast.

With the release of the new Superman movie just around the corner, what better way to promote the film, than with a world's record attempt.

No one gets high better than Felix Baumgartner. Austrian BASE-jumper Baumgartner, 43, broke a 52-year-old skydiving altitude record and the sound barrier by jumping out of a space capsule 128,100 feet above the Earth in Roswell, N.M. on Sunday.

Cartoonist Joe Wos is attempting the world's largest hand-drawn maze and hopes to complete it in the next few months.

In Carlton, Minnesota, the Black Bear Casino Resort just got itself into the world record books by cooking up the world's largest bacon cheeseburger!  This baby is over 10 feet in diameter and weighs over a ton! The cholesterol busting treat was served to guests of the resort while Guinness Records representative Philip Robertson verified the record for biggest burger...

This isn’t a still from the newest X-Men movie, it’s the handiwork of a man who hopes to slice a record number of veggies using only a handful of everyday playing cards.

It was only a week or so ago the folks at the Guinness Book of World Records told us about the world's most expensive hamburger coming in at $295. Now the Steveston Pizza Co., a small chain of pizzerias in British Columbia, Canada is offering a $450 pizza on their regular menu.

Meet Cameron Pilley, professional squash player, who just last week hit a squash ball at 175 miles per hour, setting a new world record. Rather than showing you the record-breaking event, however, the Aussie athlete recreated his famous serve while aiming the ball at his (willing) brother’s bare back. The resulting damage is NSFL enough that you might want to stop the video before the 1:16 mark if