Alert, Nunavut
Welcome to Alert, Nunavut, the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world. Only 817 km (508 miles) from the North…
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct
This is the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, or to give it its full Welsh name, Traphont Ddŵr Pontcysyllte1, which carries the Llangollen Canal over the valley of the River Dee in north east Wales, and which has recently been recognised as one…
The Door to Hell
The Darvaza (Darweze) natural gas crater is an endlessly smoldering geological anomaly located in the isolated Karakum Desert of Turkmenistan.
Diverse Religious Architecture in the Capital of the World’s Most Populous Muslim Nation
Despite Indonesia having more Muslims than any other nation in the world, making up 87% of its total population, the government’s pseudo-religious tolerance1 is seen within several religious buildings, all standing within a few city blocks of Indonesia’s central seat…
Glastonbury
This year’s Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts drew 177,000 party people to deepest Somerset, reaffirming Glastonbury’s position as the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. Some went for the music. Some went for the mud.…
Best of Google Sightseeing
Weirdness on the Ocean Floor
There’s some odd sightings on the ocean floor, thanks to the much-improved ocean surface depth images that were added to…
Climbing in a Flat Land
You might think that living in the Netherlands would be inconvenient for aspiring rock climbers – what with much of…
Definitely a duck (maybe)
Here in the United States somewhere (we think, we haven’t checked), we’ve found this random patch of land that we…
Brayton Fire Training Field and Disaster City
In the city of College Station in Texas (part-way between Dallas and Houston) there is a scene of apparent disaster,…
Google Sightseeing 2011 Wrap-up
Happy New Year! The festive break is over, and we’re all back to work – but there’s still time to…
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