Buildings

What's so interesting about a small street in Manchester? Well if you click through to the full view you'll see that this little cobbled street is slap bang in the middle of television studios. Yup, it's Britain's most famous fictional…

If you've ever picked up a joystick, then you're probably aware that this is the week of the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E³), which takes place at the Los Angeles Convention Center each year. Here you can see the building's…

Jiuquan Atomic Energy Complex is purportedly used for the manufacture of China's Nuclear weapons. The plant is centred in a small patch of high-resolution satellite photography, but I'm sure those readers who understand Nuclear power plants can tell all sorts…

It's great when you realise we haven't posted classic sites like this. These are the UK Houses of Parliament or technically the Palace of Westminster. Most people will recognise Big Ben which is actually the name of the largest bell…

Milan's Central Station is covered with giant steel canopies, 341 metres long and covering an area of 66,500 square metres, which look amazing from above. Milan's tallest building, the shiny Pirelli Tower is just in front of the station. In…

Yesterday was the 20 year anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, and Google has marked the occasion by providing high-resolution imagery of the whole area. In our thumbnail you can see the concrete sarcophagus which was built to attempt to contain…