Belleville, Michigan, United States--The Fastest time to climb or descend 1 Million stairs world record for the 70+ age category is 135 days and was achieved by Jim C. Wigginton (USA) in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY; the world record was set for the Punya Thyroid Cancer Endowment Fund.

Vatican City State--Pope Francis, (17 December 1936 – 21 April 2025) born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 13 March 2013 until his death in 2025, has set the world record for being the World's First Pope the Americas, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Agoura Hills, California, United States--Stretching across 10 lanes of the freeway in Agoura Hills, California, the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, will be 64 meters (210 feet) long and 52 meters (170 feet) wide, setting the world record for being the World’s Largest Wildlife Crossing, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia--A total 918 people sat down at 150 tables to play simultaneous games of Monopoly during an event in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, organized by the Little Legs Foundation, a charity that raises funds and awareness for children with brain cancer, and Sue-Ellan and Marino Vasiliou; the event broke the world record for the Most people playing Monopoly, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Bournville, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom--Chocolatiers Terry Collins and Dawn Jenks from Cadbury World in Bournville, Birmingham have crafted a 3ft-tall creme egg by hand over two-and-a-half days; the egg holds a hefty 45kg of gooey fondant filling and sets the world record for being the World's Largest Cadbury Creme Egg, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Miami, Florida, United States--Imagined by global design firm Arquitectonica and built by Fincantieri Infrastructure The new MSC Miami Cruise Terminal sets a global benchmark for cruise infrastructure; the 492,678 square foot facility is capable of processing up to 36,000 passengers daily and sets the new world record for being the World's Largest Cruise Terminal, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

New York City, New York, United States--Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), founded in 1863, an affiliate of Weill Cornell Medical College, has the lowest complication and readmission rates in the nation for orthopedics, and among the lowest infection rates and is ranked #1 in the world for Orthopedics according to Newsweek; it sets the world record for being the World's Top Orthopedic Hospital (World’s leading academic medical center focused on musculoskeletal health), according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

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.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia--The Seha Virtual Hospital currently offers its remote healthcare services to over 200 hospitals, specializing in rare and complex medical case and has a capacity of 400,000 patients annually; this enables patients to receive comprehensive medical care in their local areas, eliminating the need for long-distance travel and significantly improving access to quality healthcare across the Kingdom, while setting the world record for being the World’s Largest Virtual Hospital, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada--Heather MacDonald took 642 spin classes between Sept. 15, 2023, to Sept. 1, 2024, smashing her own goal of 600 and setting the new world record for the Most static cycling classes attended in one year, while bringing "awareness to the importance of setting goals and leaving your comfort zone", according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Shanghai, China--Edtech company Squirrel Ai Learning hosted and online mathematics lesson across China within 24 hours; the adaptive system designed 111,704 unique exercise pathways for 112,718 students, covering 99.1% of the student population and set the world record for the Most users to take an online mathematics lesson in 24 hours, world record in Shanghai, China, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Plano, Texas, United States--A total of 1,812 individuals engaged with Capital One and Khan Academy's financial literacy curriculum to learn helpful tips in budgeting & saving, buying a car and paying for college, setting the world record for the Most users to take an online financial literacy lesson in 24 hours, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Lisbon, Portugal--A total of 1,668 participants, aged between 12 and 67 gathered at the University of Lisbon's IST school of technology to set a new World Record for the largest computer programming lesson in a single venue, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Brad, Hunedoara County, Romania--Over 1,300 gold exhibits and more than 1,000 mineral samples are shown at the Gold Museum, in Brad, Hunedoara county; some exhibits are insured for sums that go over half a million dollars, and “the golden lizard” is worth more than 3 millions dollars; the museum sets the world record for the World's Most Valuable 4,5 kg of Native Gold, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Bucharest, Romania--The Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History in Bucharest, Romania, has a collection of over 2 million specimens in 132 impressive collections, some of them world-class treasures; emerging as an absolute novelty in 1907, biological dioramas were part of Antipa's innovations and have been well preserved unchanged since 1908, setting the world record for being the World's Oldest Animal Dioramas on Display, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Bucharest, Romania--The Village Museum or formally National Museum of the Village "Dimitrie Gusti", an open-air ethnographic museum located in the King Michael I Park, Bucharest, Romania, showcases traditional Romanian village life; the museum extends to over 100,000 m2, and contains 123 authentic peasant settlements, 363 monuments and over 50,000 artefacts from around Romania, setting the world record for being the World's Largest Village Museum, 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.

Middletown, Connecticut, United States--The (former) Wild Bill’s Nostalgia Store, which was home to many things, including a giant Jack-in-the-Box, a 600-pound behemoth of a head mounted on a log housed inside a giant brick silo which use to floats more than 30 feet off the ground, setting the world record for being the World’s Largest Jack-in-the-Box, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.