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.

Greenwich, Connecticut, United States--Visitors to the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, can now encounter a nearly 5,000-pound, 23-foot-long and 8.5-foot-tall reclining gorilla. “King Nyani” (Swahili for gorilla), by public artists Gillie and Marc Schattner which offers visitors a unique interactive experience and raises awareness of the endangered species, while setting the world record for the World’s Largest Bronze Gorilla Sculpture, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Fargo, North Dakota, United States--The combined USMC Junior and 16U Nationals, national championship tournament hosted in the FargoDome in Fargo, N.D., blitzed the overall record with 8,062 total participants, breaking through the 8,000-athlete barrier and topping the 2023 record of 7,134 athletes by 918 athletes, an impressive increase of 12.8% and setting the world record for the World’s Largest Wrestling Tournament, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

West Haven, Connecticut, United States--Family-owned and operated for generations, Sabatino N.A. LCC offers a premium selection of the finest truffle species and high-quality truffle products; with world-class facilities in Umbria, Italy, and a newly expanded 125,000-square-foot facility in West Haven, Sabatino sets the world record for the World’s Largest Truffle Manufacturing Plant, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Stamford, Connecticut, United States--United Rentals, Inc. has an integrated network of 1,520 rental locations in North America, 38 in Europe, 23 in Australia and 19 in New Zealand; the company offers approximately 4,800 classes of equipment for rent with a total original cost of $20.59 billion, setting the world record for being the World's Largest Equipment Rental Company, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Cerro Pachon, Elqui Province, Chile--The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, formerly known as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), located on the El Peñón peak of Cerro Pachón, in northern Chile, house the Simonyi Survey Telescope, a wide-field reflecting telescope with an 8.4-meter primary mirror that will photograph the entire available sky every few nights; images will be recorded by a 3.2-gigapixel charge-coupled device imaging (CCD) camera, which sets the world record for being the World’s Largest Digital Camera, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Miami, Florida, United States--After completing dives in North America, Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, and South America over the course of the last 2 years, Miami-Dade Middle School 6th Grader Archer Lamp’l officially logged his seventh continent dive in Antarctica at the age of 11 years and 341 days old, setting the new world record for being the Youngest Person to Scuba Dive all Seven Continents, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Hollywood, Florida, United States--A team from Symbiosis Ambulance and Axene Continuing Education drove a 1972 Cadillac ambulance for 5,203 km (3,233 miles), from Hollywood, Calif., to Hollywood, Fla., to raise awareness of the importance of emergency medical services education, and set the new world record for the Longest journey by ambulance, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Vienna, Austria--The Vegetable Orchestra (also known as Das erste Wiener Gemüseorchester, The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra) founded in February 1998 in Vienna, consists of ten musicians, one cook, and one sound technician who use instruments made entirely from fresh vegetables; they set the world record for being the World’s First Vegetable Orchestra, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Monongahela, Pennsylvania, United States--The wedding cookie table set up by the Monongahela Area Historical Society as part of its celebration of the 250th anniversary of Monongahela's founding held 88,425 cookies, which were served at three weddings and three vow renewal ceremonies, setting the new world record for the World's Largest Wedding Cookie Table, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Washington, DC, United States--With 268 steppers at the National Building Museum in Northwest, D.C., Step Afrika! set the world record for the World's Largest Stepping Dance, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Dasmariñas, Philippines--De La Salle University-Dasmarinas students, parents, alumni, faculty, and staff participated in the Animosaic event; 5,459 Lasallians assembled a giant umbrella mosaic, setting the new world record for the Largest umbrella mosaic formed by people, while raising funds for the One La Salle Scholarship Fund, the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY says.

Marrakech, Morocco--During the Marrakech International Storytelling Festival, which took place at the famous Jemaa el-Fna square, a UNESCO World Heritage site, the longest storytelling show bringing together over 100 storytellers from around the world, was 80 hours 32 minutes 58 seconds, setting the world record for the World's Longest Story Telling Show (multiple story tellers), according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Singapore, Singapore--Rising 149 meters above sea level on the 33rd floor of Marina Bay Financial Centre Tower 1, Level33 has brewed since 2010 over a million liters of beer, from fruity blonde lagers and a house porter to banana-scented wheat beer, setting the world record for the World's Highest Urban Microbrewery, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.