The Futuro House
The Futuro House is a round, prefabricated house that was designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in 1968. About 100…
Buildings
Vatican City
This is the Vatican City, within Rome, Italy. The home of the popes, it is the smallest independent state in the world in terms of area (0.44 km²) and population (just over 900). The Vatican City is separated from Rome…
The Kremlin
This is the Moscow Kremlin, which is commonly referred to simply as The Kremlin (which in Russian means ‘citadel’). The complex is the seat of Russian power, as it serves as the official residence and principal workplace of the President…
Sagrada Familia
The Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia is Gaudi’s masterpiece which he started in 1884. It is still under construction and work is expected to be completed around 2024. Look for the shadow to make out the shape of the…
Bavarian Motor Works
The BMW world headquarters in Munich, Germany is the ‘four-cylinder’ building (which was built top-down), while the famous logo is atop the BMW museum. Over in South Carolina is BMW’s North American home. The rather-cool crescent moon shaped building is…
Venice
This is the beautiful Venice, city of canals. Venice is built on more than a hundred islands in a shallow lagoon, with the canals serving the function of roads – every form of transport is on water or on foot.…
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
This is the fantastically modern-looking Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, (which reminds me of The Flight of the Navigator!). As I’ve said before, everything on this site seems to be the tallest/biggest/highest something, and this building proves to be…
Best of Google Sightseeing
Brasília: a Modernist Masterpiece
The largest city on the planet that wasn’t in existence at the beginning of the 20th century, the city of…
Crazy SCUBA Guys Chase Street View
Google has today launched brand new Street View imagery for Norway, Finland and large parts of Canada. But it’s in…
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…
Google Maps publishes aerial images of murder scene
The continuing rollout of 45° “birds eye view” images across the globe1 has now revealed a real-life tragedy. On the…
Trollstigen (Troll’s path)
In a country renowned for its natural beauty, one of the most spectacular landscapes is found along the Trollstigen (Troll’s…
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