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Wednesday, 16th August 2006 by James Turnbull
Could this possibly be the largest example of using a lake as art? Deliberately shaped like a handgun, the lake was excavated to use the land for building a nearby highway way back in the seventies. Why on Earth they decided to shape the lake into a 2.5km long handgun is anybody’s guess. It looks to me like the sort of gun James Bond would use, but reader Jan suggested…
While most people dispose of old vehicle by sending them for scrap or recycling, there are endless opportunities to do…
More than three years in, the folks at Google have amassed a healthy roster of countries covered by Street View. Alas, there are still those places where the Street View cars must turn around at the border. Luckily, they often get close enough to at least give us a glimpse at what lies on the other side.
Some of our writers have been known to enjoy the occasional alcoholic beverage1, and the ongoing expansion of Street View…
A tripoint is a geographical location where three borders meet – most notably those of different countries, but also (to…
Here’s a fairly long train travelling through an icy Moldova, eastern Europe. A train is hardly an uncommon sight on…
Today we’re posting a roundup of the most interesting ways Europe has employed to get canal barges up-and-over stuff. The…
The Futuro House is a round, prefabricated house that was designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in 1968. About 100…
The largest city on the planet that wasn’t in existence at the beginning of the 20th century, the city of…
Google has today launched brand new Street View imagery for Norway, Finland and large parts of Canada. But it’s in…
Here in the United States somewhere (we think, we haven’t checked), we’ve found this random patch of land that we…
The continuing rollout of 45° “birds eye view” images across the globe1 has now revealed a real-life tragedy. On the…
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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