Outside a ranch home in Creston, CA there’s a private racetrack, with a familiar looking symbol. Haven’t I seen this before? Ah, yes! That’s the super-secret symbol indicating hidden vaults that contain the complete works of late science fiction author…

As part of the December 07 image update Google have updated their own headquarters in Mountain View, California. Compared to the older imagery1 the most obvious difference is that the Googeplex has been absolutely covered in solar panels. Installed in…

The Searles Lake basin, deep within California’s desert conservation area, is a dry lake bed featuring more than 500 rock spires known as the Trona Pinnacles. The pinnacles are formed from a rock-like substance known as “tufa”, a calcium carbonate…

Crossing the Sacramento River in Redding, California is the sundial bridge which (as you might have guessed) serves the dual purpose of being both a bridge and a sundial! I previously tried to use North America’s largest sundial to tell…

Thanks to the power of Google Earth and the internet the US Navy have decided to spend as much as $600,000 on major alterations to a perfectly good barracks. The reason for the spend is that, when viewed on Google…

High above the Uvas Reservoir in Santa Clara County, it looks like there’s hundreds of colourful balloons floating up into the sky. The possible balloons are unfortunately on the overlap of two images, but appear to be rising up from…