It’s that time of year again when the team at Google Sightseeing take a well deserved bit of time off! For the next two weeks we only have a couple of posts planned, but we may still update our twitter…

Well we’ve thought we’ve seen people relieving themselves in front of the Street View car before, but we’ve never had such definitive evidence. No, it’s not what you’re thinking – quite the opposite in fact. This time, while working in…

Despite Google’s oh-so-clever “face-blurring” technology, sometimes people’s faces don’t get recognised by the system, and make it onto the Street View imagery unaltered. Here at the Colosseum in Rome, a couple found a perfect way to fool the camera… by…

We all know that Santa lives at the North Pole, and the World’s Largest Santa can be found there too… that is, in the city of North Pole, Alaska. This 12m tall Santa can be found on St Nicholas Drive,…

The Singapore Flyer is a 150 metre-tall observation wheel located on Marina Bay, overlooking Singapore’s city centre – and for the moment, it holds the title of the world’s largest observation wheel. The next tallest observation wheel is the Star…

Recently opened in Doha, Qatar, is the spectacular Museum of Islamic Arts. Designed by renowned architect I.M. Pei, this museum cost $300million to construct and is home to a large collection of priceless artifacts funded by the Qatar royal family.…