Today sees the finals of the first ever Olympic Bicycle Moto Cross competition which takes place here at the Laoshan Bicycle Motocros Venue in Beijing. BMX racing is brand new to these Olympics, and races take just over 30 seconds…

As the Google Street View car drives down this small Parisian side street, we can see an approaching Rollerblader, glancing down the street at the oncoming car. However the sight of the massive camera mounted to the roof must have…

This bizarre tower is the Perfect Liberty Peace Tower in Tondabayashi, Japan, and from up here it looks like it might be constructed entirely from cotton-wool. Completed in 1970 this incredibly oddly-shaped tower stands at 180 m, and was actually…

In an utterly shocking turn of events, a very-probably homeless/alcoholic/drug addicted1 man has quite clearly passed-out in a doorway here in Philadelphia! This piece of shocking privacy-invasion follows the discovery of a similar image last week in which a young…

When Google recently added street view for vast stretches of empty road across the middle of Australia, most people didn't expect to find much of interest out there. To be fair, those people were mostly right. However, every now and…

This incredibly shiny building is the Shwedagon Pagoda, also known as the "Golden Pagoda" (for obvious reasons) and it is the most frequented religious site in Burma (officially the Union of Myanmar), as Buddhists believe it contains relics of the…