Street Views

So you can't actually drive into Area 51 these days1, but you can get very, very close thanks to Nevada's Extraterrestrial Highway. This desolate stretch of road in the desert northwest of Las Vegas is reportedly home to more UFO…

Question: What would a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) car be doing in Croydon, UK with a man fixed on its roof and a giant hand spanking him on the rear? Getting on Google Sightseeing of course! According to GSS…

Today we've got a special guest post by Matt Bucher, a writer living in Austin, Texas who publishes a blog of photographic images taken from Google Street View, called Apres Garde. We love Matt's choice of images, and he agreed…

Tomorrow is World Fair Trade Day, an annual global event held by by producers, retailers and supporters of this alternative trading system.1 To celebrate, we're taking a tour of the Fair Trade Google Earth layer. Full instructions on how to…

Antonio Gaudi was a Spanish architect who created a number of unique Modernist buildings in the city of Barcelona. His creations were awarded World Heritage status and many are now visible on Street View. His most famous creation is the…

We've visited many of the world's largest objects here on Google Sightseeing, but if there is one country that - more than any other - has a fondness for large roadside attractions, it is Australia. So we present Australia's Top…