Minnesota

Yesterday at 6:05pm local time, the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis failed catastrophically. Sadly this tragedy occurred during the evening rush hour - and at time of writing at least 6 people have died, around 60 were injured, and there are…

Inspired by the National Geographic Photo of the Day last week, I went looking for Minneapolis's Spoonbridge and Cherry sculpture. Unfortunately something got lost in translation. The story wasn't much better on Windows Live Local, or Yahoo! Maps Beta who…

Sever's Corn Maze in Shakopee (outside of Minneapolis) is an annual maze which is apparently the largest in the united states. The Google Maps photo was taken sometime in 2002-2003 when the maze depicted an upside-down map of the world,…

This is the Cirque du Soleil in Montreal. Well, it's one of them anyway.. the 'Circus of the Sun' is an entertainment company founded in 1984 by former fire-eater Guy Laliberté, and actually consists of at least 11 different troups…

If I was going to go to all the effort of writing something in a field I'd make sure it was something more interesting than the name of my country; everyone who's here knows they're here so what's the point?…

Although not very interesting to look at from space, the Mall of America is the USA's largest mall. If you switch to map mode you can see that it's so big inside the building they've named the streets. And if…