Saudi Arabia

For centuries lighthouses have served as navigation aids, helping protect marine traffic from running aground on dangerous coastlines, rocks and reefs. As we're ever-so-slightly fond of superlatives here at Google Sightseeing, we'll take a tour of the tallest lighthouses around…

Here at the King Khaled Airport in Saudi Arabia, a little way away from the main terminal, there's a mysterious and unexplained outline of a plane marked out on the desert sand. The shape is similar in size and dimensions…

Continuing this week's semi-theme of very large things, we present the world's largest airport near Dammam, Saudi Arabia! Although it's nowhere near what I'd expect from such a grand title. Compare its tiny, empty terminal to the bustling Heathrow airport…

The mosque of Al-Masjid al-HÌ£arām in Mecca surrounds the Kaaba, the place where all Muslims are expected to visit once in their lives (the Hajj) and where they turn towards when praying. In this picture you can see masses of…

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…

The absolutely huge Prophet Mosque in Medina makes the city the second holiest city of Islam, after Mecca. The mosque has the Shrine of the Prophet Muhammad in the middle, also known as the Dome of the Prophet, and ten…