Plan-les-Ouates, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland--Featuring 41 'complications', 5 rare astronomical functions and an innovative Westminster minute-repeater, Les Cabinotiers Solaria Ultra Grand Complication from the Swiss watchmaker Vacheron Constantin is a unique watch with 1,521 components and 13 patent applications filed, which sets the new world record for being the World's Most Complicated Mechanical Wristwatch, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Movile Cave, Constanța County, Romania--The Movile Cave, a cave near Mangalia, Constanța County, Romania is notable for its unique groundwater ecosystem abundant in hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide, but low in oxygen; the cave is known to contain 57 animal species, among them a water scorpion (Nepa anophthalma), which sets the world record for being the World's Only Known Cave-adapted Water Scorpion, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Freedom, Oklahoma, United States--Alabaster Caverns State Park, a 200-acre (0.81 km2) state park approximately 4.5 miles (7.2 km) south of Freedom, Oklahoma, United States near Oklahoma State Highway 50, has a 3/4-mile cavern formed of alabaster, a rare form of gypsum, making it the World's Largest Natural Gypsum Cave Open to The Public, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Kootenai County, Idaho, United States--The Saint Joe River, a 140-mile (225 km) long tributary of Coeur d'Alene Lake in northern Idaho, runs 144 miles across the Idaho Panhandle, between 15 to 30 feet deep; it has an elevation of 2,129 feet at the mouth, thus setting the world record for being the World's Highest Navigable River, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Hillsboro, Oregon, United States--New York-based artist Naomi Sarna carved a 703-carat blue tanzanite known as ‘L’Heure Bleu,’ discovered in the foothills of Mt. Kilimanjaro; following an official weigh-in at the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals in Oregon, the gemstone sets the world record for being the World’s Largest Cut Tanzanite, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Key Largo, Florida, United States--Dr. Joseph Dituri, 55, also known as “Dr. Deep Sea,” a biomedical engineer who teaches at the University of South Florida, spent 100 days living underwater at a Florida Keys lodge for scuba divers; during his stay at Jules’ Undersea Lodge, submerged beneath 22 feet of water in a Key Largo lagoon, he set the new world record for the Longest time living underwater without depressurization, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Buzau, Romania--A giant black amber nugget, also known as the Rumanit amber, used as a door stop by an old woman from Colti commune, Buzau county, Romania, was classified as a treasure object and brought to the Buzău County Museum; it is between 40 and 70 million years old, weighs almost 3.5 kilograms and sets the world record for being the World's Largest Rumanit Amber Nugget, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia--The Saudi Water Authority (SWA), formerly the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC), a Saudi Arabian government authority responsible for regulating and monitoring water sector business and services, operates and monitors 33 desalination plants and over 139 purification plants in the country; it has a production capacity of 7.5 million cubic meters per day, setting the world record for being the World’s largest producer of desalinated water, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

SeaWorld Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates --SeaWorld Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, UAE, dedicated to providing the highest standard of animal welfare, spans five levels and over 1.9 million square feet, has over 100,000 other creatures, including dolphins, sea lions, walruses, sharks, rays, and puffins, setting the world record for being the World's Largest Indoor Marine-Life Theme Park, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Gârda de Sus, Alba County, Romania--The Scărișoara Glacier Cave is one of the biggest ice caves in the Apuseni Mountains of Romania, in the western part of the Romanian Carpathians; the ice within the cave has an estimated volume of 75,000 cubic meters (98,000 cubic yards) and in some places can be as thick as 20 m (66 ft), setting the world record for being the World's largest compact underground glacier, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Mount Baker, Washington, United States--The Mount Baker Ski Area (elevation: 10,775 feet / 3,285 meters) in Washington State, USA, reported 1,140 inches (95 feet) / 2,896 cm (29 meters) of snowfall for the 1998-99 season, thus setting the world record for the Most snow in one year, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Long Beach, Washington, United States--The Long Beach Peninsula stretches 28 miles along Washington's southwest coast starting close to where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean and it then extends north to the entrance to Gray's Harbor; it’s an easy and scenic drive from both Portland and Seattle as well as a classic Highway 101 destination and part of two scenic byways, which sets the world record for being the World's Longest Continuous Peninsula Beach, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States--Virginia Beach, officially the City of Virginia Beach, is a resort city with miles of beaches and hundreds of hotels, motels, and restaurants along its oceanfront; the coastline is about 35 miles, comprised of three beaches namely Virginia Beach, Chesapeake Bay beach and the most popular Sandbridge Beach; it sets the world record for being the World's Largest Pleasure Beach, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Willis Mountain, Virginia, United States--With millions of tons of reserves, tens of thousands of tons of finished product inventory, and with the capacity to mine, purify, process, and package well over a hundred thousand tons every year, the Kyanite Mining Corporation at Willis Mt. in the Piedmont Province of Virginia, sets the world record for being the World's Largest Kyanite Mine, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Danby, Vermont, United States--Vermont Quarries in Danby, Vermont, is the source of Danby marble, a stone with a devoted following among kitchen designers and homeowners and a rich history in American architecture; spanning an area of about 16 football fields and stretching for over a mile – all underground, it sets the world record for being the World's Largest Underground Marble Quarry, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Stansbury Park, Utah, United States--The Mike Clements 1.8 Meter (70 inch) telescope has a new home in Utah at the Stansbury Park Observatory Complex (SPOC) the Salt Lake Astronomical Society’s Observatory; using a 70-inch wide large military mirror from a spy satellite that he bought by chance online, Clements built the World's Largest Amateur Telescope, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States--The Bingham Canyon Mine, also known as Kennecott Copper Mine, owned by Rio Tinto Group, is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, in the Oquirrh Mountains; the mine has resulted in the creation of a pit over 0.75 miles (1,210 m) deep, 2.5 miles (4 km) wide, and covering 1,900 acres (3.0 sq mi; 770 ha; 7.7 km2), which sets the world record for being the World's Largest Man-Made Excavation, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Utah, United States--Ninemile Canyon (also Nine Mile Canyon), a canyon approximately 40 miles (64 km) long, located in Carbon and Duchesne counties in eastern Utah, United States, is known for its extensive rock art, most of it created by the Fremont culture and the Ute people; this site of over 10,000 images sets the world record for being the World’s Longest Art Gallery, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Florence, Oregon, United States--The Sea Lion Caves, a privately owned wildlife preserve and bird sanctuary centrally located just 11 miles north of Florence on the beautiful and rugged Oregon Coast, is a connected system of sea caves and caverns open to the Pacific Ocean; has a chamber 95m (310ft) long, 50m (165ft) wide and around 15m (50ft) high in a wave cut passage 400m 1315ft long, thus setting a world record for being the World's Largest Sea Cave, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.