Apparently officially recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records, here in San Alfonso del Mar in Chile you can hardly miss the world’s largest swimming pool! This absolutely immense pool is 1 kilometre long and covers eight hectares -…

The Google Latlong Blog has posted an announcement of new and updated 60cm satellite imagery in Google Earth and Google Maps. As with the last update the list of what's new is formatted as a set of clues which you…

Zanesville in Ohio claims that their Y-bridge is "the only Y-shaped bridge in the world!" Now in its fifth incarnation, the bridge spans the Licking river to the West and the Muskingum river to the East. Allegedly this makes the…

This is the gargantuan Bingham Canyon Mine - an open-pit copper, gold, silver and molybdenum mine near Salt Lake City, Utah. In full-scale production since 1906, the pit is over 0.75 miles (1.2 km) deep, 2.5 miles (4 km) wide,…

Woohoo! It's Friday! A fact which doesn't appear to have escaped this guy etched onto a mountainside in Mongolia - he's clearly doing a Friday dance of joy! Thanks to Kerry and anarster

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…