Movie Locations

Unbelievable, but today is the 4th anniversary of the launch of Google Sightseeing! We shan't bore you with a potted history - instead we're revisiting a couple of sights from this day in 2005 to see how things have changed.…

As one of Google Street View cars drove past the Laguna Seca Raceway, it happened to capture a photograph of a race in action. Aware of its own existence as a fuel-efficient-but-not-exactly-a-racecar Toyota Prius, the anthropomorphized car obviously dreamed of…

March 17th is St. Patrick's Day, which was originally the annual feast of the best known of Ireland's patron saints1, and today a worldwide celebration devoted to all things Irish. Over here in Ireland and the UK, we have been…

Today we'll explore some of the world's most famous recording studios, starting with Sun Studio in Memphis. I love this Street View with the neon signs glowing! Perhaps best known as the location of Elvis Presley's early recordings, the studio…

Sprawled across the Plains of San Augustin in New Mexico is the Very Large Array - a Y-shaped radio astronomy observatory made up of 27 independent dish antennas. The scale of the VLA operation is quite remarkable- each dish is…

This is the first in an occasional series where we'll be looking at some of the world's most interesting abandoned places. In 1908, diamonds were discovered in the Namib Desert, and one of the towns that sprang up to provide…