Today is Groundhog Day, a North American festival which reckons that "if a groundhog emerges from its burrow on this day and fails to see its shadow because the weather is cloudy, winter will soon end. If the groundhog sees…

As we wave farewell to another successful year of Google Sightseeing, let us cast our minds back to some of the best posts of 2010, all summarised neatly into some arbitrary made-up categories!   Most comprehensive sightseeing tour We like…

Romania has today become the 27th country to receive coverage on Google Street View. Almost 4,000 miles of road has been photographed, capturing sights such as Bran Castle, the probable inspiration for Count Dracula's castle. In the capital of Bucharest,…

Today we feature another in a series of special guest posts from geography bloggers, this time from Tom Howder who is responsible for Twelve Mile Circle. Tom has dedicated his site to the many unusual places on the map that…

After years of wrangling and debate over the privacy issues, Street View images are finally available for 20 of Germany's largest cities. To secure release of the images Google had to allow Germans to opt-out of having their house on…

We've recently added a number of improvements to Google Sightseeing for those on mobile devices. Firstly, users on smaller screens such as iPhone, iPod or Android phones will automatically see our new mobile-optimised style, which breaks the site down into…