North Korea

North Korea Uncovered

North Korea Uncovered was a massive collaborative effort between 2007 and 2009 to map out the reclusive country using Google Earth imagery. The project reveals thousands of landmarks across North Korea – everything from military bases to amusement parks, restaurants to statues, agriculture to gulags. It’s impossible to cover everything in this post, but here’s just a sliver of what the project revealed.

Streetview USA gets massive update

Yesterday, Google announced that they had added some extra cities to Street View, including Memphis, Tennessee; Birmingham, Alabama; and Charleston,…

Missing Dictator Special

“He’s not dead, he’s, he’s … resting!” Apologies for the Monty Python reference, but it rings true for a couple…

North Korea’s Thunderbird Runways

As any bond villain will attest, a true megalomaniacal dictator should have a number of underground lairs from which to…

Days Out in Korea

Normally considered to be places of fun and pleasure, perhaps the last country you would expect to find the world’s…

Very Tall Flagpoles

We’ve previously featured Mexico’s giant flags but this is the world’s largest unsupported flagpole in Jordan. Narrowly beating the previous…