Los Angeles Zoo is located in Griffith Park and is home to more than a thousand animal species from around the world. In the centre of the shot you can make out the shadows of a pair of giraffes, which is pretty awesome. There are lots of other enclosures and cages in the shot but I can’t make out any other animals. Can you?

Thanks: Matt Waggoner

The island of Aruba is, as the locals say, “One Happy Place”. Situated just off the coast of Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea it actually forms part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

I visited Aruba with my beautiful new wife on our honeymoon in September last year and as it’s our sixth month anniversary today I thought I’d revisit Aruba and find all the sights we saw (and those we missed).

The Antilla is a German transport vessel which was intentionally sunk in the shallow waters during WWII to prevent it falling into the hands of the Dutch Navy. You can visit the wreck on catamarans (like those in the picture) and it was without a doubt the best snorkelling experience I’ve ever had.

The Pirate’s Hideout is the crumbling remains of what the tour guides claim to be a genuine hideout for Pirates of the Caribbean. Just in front of the hideout is a wee stall selling Hawaiian shirts.

All of Aruba’s water comes from the Aruba Water Plant, the world’s second largest desalinisation plant, which pumps 11 million gallons of drinking water a day to the homes and hotels around Aruba. The water is very tasty, but is pretty warm by the time it reaches the taps.

More later…

This is the Abbey Road zebra crossing, just outside Abbey Road studios, where the iconic Beatles cover for their album ‘Abbey Road’ was shot. Abbey Road was the final album recorded by the Beatles, and the cover photograph has since become one of the most famous and imitated album covers in recording history. To this day tourists can be seen posing on the crossing nearly every day (although unfortunately, there was nobody there when his shot was taken).

Here in the UK as well as Zebra crossings, we have all sorts of other animal-themed pedestrian crossings too – Pelican, Puffin, Toucan and Pegasus! I don’t think it would be that easy to spot the differences via satellite though…

Thanks to Liam, David Rowcliffe, Tom and moskito.

More about Abbey Road, Abbey Road Studios, Abbey Road (the album) and the ridiculous conspiracy theory surrounding the cover over at Wikipedia.

UK readers might recall this floating weather map in Liverpool’s Albert Dock, which was used for many years to present the weather for ITV’s “This Morning” program.

The presenter, Fred Talbot, would run about the miniature UK informing viewers of the weather in their area and as you can see he was joined by model versions of various landmarks such as the Forth Bridges, Blackpool Tower and Tower Bridge.

For Northern Ireland’s weather Fred would have to leap across the water and everyone would hope he missed and fell in, although sadly he always made the jump.

Thanks: Pete & Andy Kelly

Not as popular here in the UK as it is in the US, we still know all about Hershey’s chocolate – we’ve even had S’mores! Damn they were good… I see you don’t even have to bother making them yourself anymore though.

However, we didn’t know that Hershey’s had a chocolate-themed amusment park! Actually, Hersheypark has some pretty cool-looking wooden coasters as well as around 60 other rides and attractions.

More about Hershey’s, Hersheypark and other chocolate-related stuff over at Wikipedia.

Thanks to GoatJuggler.