Structures

Here in Saudi Arabia, there's a large square with a smaller circle inside it. Um... yeah, I really don't know what this place is! It's just outside of a small town, and the square is about 500 metres across, defined…

Following on from yesterday's Rio-Antirio Bridge, right at the very end of the Gulf of Corinth is the Corinth Canal, a 6.3 kilometre long canal which technically turned the Peloponnesian peninsula into an island upon its completion in 1893. Although…

Google Earth Blog reports that Google Earth has had a huge imagery update with satellite and aerial pics across the globe. The images haven't made their way into Maps yet, so if you click the image below you'll just get…

Despite my attempt in August last year to claim that England wins this competition, judging by these images of the Effelsberg 100 metre radio telescope... I'd say it was pretty safe to assume that Germany wins the largest radio telescope…

Invasion of the fat planes! There's a really fat green plane at Heathrow (which looks a little like Thunderbird 2)... And at Hong Kong International, there's some sort of fat pink alien spacecraft! (Or these might be fire training aircraft…

Staring up from what looks like a neon sign graveyard in Las Vegas is this giant Pirate Skull. Aaaar! I'm guessing this is a disused prop from Treasure Island Casino, where they have a regular pirate show out the front.…