According to submitter "Roberto" this house is owned by a local butcher who had his swimming pool built in the shape of his company's logo, a Scimitar sword. I checked our submissions database and there were no other custom-made pools…

Back in 1977, Charles and Ray Eames made a short movie entitled 'Powers of Ten', which Wikipedia describes like this: It begins with a couple picnicking in a park; the view is that of one meter across. The viewpoint then…

Here at Google Sightseeing we're big fans of structures that hold the title of "world's largest something" and at 212 feet (65 meters) The Texas Star at Fair Park is the largest ferris wheel in the Western Hemisphere. The Texas…

Telstra Stadium, formerly Stadium Australia was built to host the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. With a capacity to seat 110,000, the Sydney Olympic Stadium is the largest facility ever built for an Olympic Games. Thanks: Glenn Slaven, Richard Totaro, Greg,…

It's a very common misconception that the great wall of china is the only man made object visible from space (sometimes others say from the moon, or from a satellite). Apparently the rumour started long before anyone had even been…

Here's the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, because it's been a while since we had a bridge. Er, I mean tunnel... no, wait, two bridges! Or is that two tunnels? Frick. The Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel is a combination of two bridges and…