Ever wondered where famous items are stored? The unbelievably big, bulky, sensitive and expensive items still need removal and storage services, most requiring exceptionally specialist handling. Where do top level sensitive documents get stored? How about materials that could prove to be gold dust to terrorists? Who keeps Nureyev's ballet shoes?

Take, for instance, fine art. Not something you'd want to sling on the back of a lorry, or stack in the loft or garage and risk potentially losing your investment to the ravages of mice or heavy handed removal men.

Cadogan Tate are a removal and storage company of the highest calibre. One area of their expertise is within the fine art arena. Not only can they pack and transport your works of art for you but they also have in-house specialists to restore any paintings to as near original condition as possible. If necessary, they can then store these items in a secure, mouse free, temperature controlled environment.

If wine collection is your thing, look no further than Octavian Vaults. One hundred feet below the surface of the Wiltshire hills, they will store wine for private collectors, investors and wine merchants in a perfectly consistent temperature where natural light and vibration is non-existent. Humidity is set and controlled to keep wine sat at its optimum level.

Cambridge Pianola Company are the people to contact when looking for removal and transportation of musical instruments. They can even supply a removal and storage service for overseas commissions.

For important documentation that needs storage but when you don't have the space, Sargents are the company that will transport all your documentation into 100% fire proof, environmentally controlled surroundings. A shredding service is also provided when your documents come to the end of their needed lifespan.

Have you ever wondered on the type of facilities that are needed for car manufacturers? Do they take up vast swathes of countryside with new car storage? Not if you look at the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg, Germany.

They have built an ingenious storage facility that takes up a mere 20% of the space previously needed but containing the same amount of cars. They have done this by building a 20 storey automated tower where cars are housed in a veritable rabbit warren of compartments and are retrieved by machines.

Staying with removal and storage facilities overseas, a university for nuclear studies in Prague have recently been able to get rid of the last vestiges of nuclear equipment left over from the break-up of the Soviet union. Uranium rods of a size suitable for nuclear warheads that made them a terrorist target were being unsuitable stored at the university facility.

They may have been behind bars but there was no armed security. The university have, at long last, had the rods removed and transported in the dead of night to a more secure storage facility in Russia where they will be reduced to lower enrichment levels and therefore unsuitable for nuclear bombs and no longer a terrorist target.

On a much lighter note, Girls On The Move, a removal and storage company based in Johannesburg are a company that do exactly what they say on the van. Run by women, for women, these people understand the difficulties of single females in a male dominated world and can pack, wrap, store, clean, unpack, hang curtains and pictures, connect electrical equipment and even make your bed if you so wish.

It would seem that whatever removal and storage problem you face, there is a company out there, anywhere in the world, to deal with it for you.