Stadiums and Sport

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 is the brilliantly bizarre-looking National Aquatics Centre, which is better known as The Water Cube. The building is perhaps best described as resembling some sort of "bubble cake", and when it's lit up, it looks pretty incredible. During the…

Unless you’ve been hiding under a very large rock, you're probably aware that today sees the start of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. Held in Beijing, China, the celebrations begin at precisely 8pm local time, 8/8/08. This is a date…

Last night in the UK saw the start of the eleventh series of popular BBC2 car show Top Gear - so it's time to finally visit the Top Gear studio and track! Based at Dunsfold Park in Surrey, the two…

Normally considered to be places of fun and pleasure, perhaps the last country you would expect to find the world's largest stadium is in North Korea, one of the most isolated nations on the planet. However with the capacity to…

Although it appears to be one of the scariest sports in the modern world, land sailing (or land yachting) has apparently caught on in a big way on this beach in Malo Les Bains, near Dunkirk, France. The premise is…