This is the incredible Atomium in Brussels, Belgium. It is (if you hadn't already guessed...) a 103-metre-tall representation of "a unit cell of an iron crystal" magnified 165 billion times. This thing is huge - it's 16 metres taller than…

The Flatiron Building (actually the Fuller Building) is one of New York's most distinctive sights, and when they finished constructing it in 1902, it was one of the city's tallest buildings (although 87 metres seems pretty tiny these days). At…

This is the world famous Lombard Street in San Francisco. Known as "the crookedest (most winding) street in the United States", Lombard street was re-created in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as "Windy Windy Windy Windy Street". Its ridiculous switchback…

This came as a complete surprise to us, but apparently some widget-developers called Colorworks have built Google Sightseeing its very own widget! If you're running Tiger on your Mac then give it a whirl - it can display either the…

Here at Google Sightseeing one of the things people most often ask us to post, are your common-or-garden alien crop circles. Never liking to disappoint our readers, GGSS is proud to present... a whole slew of possibly alien crop circles!…

Here's a sad image of a dead or dying whale on a beach in South Africa. It seems that people are having to try to save beached whales increasingly often, and sadly there's some suggestion that our marine sonar systems…