Next up is the Amboy Crater, an extinct cinder cone in California's Mojave Desert. It lies within a 70 square kilometre lava field, and it looks pretty impressive from up here! Thanks to Art Jones.

Today we are proud to present to you, the 1st Annual* Google Sightseeing Volcano Day! Yes that's right, we have an entire day of posts lined up entirely devoted to volcanoes. Please note: This event may not actually occur annually…

Here's an absolutely fantastic image of what can only be described as swirly sands on Core Sound at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. It seems that we're looking at sand ridges under the water and the channels running through them. Wonderful…

This is Pinehurst, North Carolina, where the 2005 U.S. Open kicked off today. Unfortunately it's not all in high-resolution, but in the thumbnail I think we're looking at the 18th. Just to the west is the clubhouse. See, we can…

Here at Camp Gagetown, home to the Combat Training Centre (CTC) (which trains professional combat soldiers for service in units across the Canadian Army), they have some super-cool large type and a giant maple leaf cut from a massive swath…

This is the Sunsphere in the 1982 World's Fair Park, Knoxville, Tennessee. It's a 266 foot high structure, topped with a 74 foot sphere made of bronze-coated reflective glass. The Sunsphere was featured in the Simpson's once (Nelson accidentally toppled…