Netherlands

Here in the Netherlands we find a very unusual kind of bridge. Like many small bridges, the bright blue and yellow Slauerhoffbrug is required to retract out of the way to let boats pass by. Unfortunately the Google Earth images…

"Flocking" is the term used to describe the collective motion of a number of creatures, and is best known as something that birds do together. So much so that the collective noun for birds is of course "flock". A group…

Here's a fairly long train travelling through an icy Moldova, eastern Europe. A train is hardly an uncommon sight on Google Earth - but this particular train will travel from one side of Moldova all the way to the other…

Visitors to Dubai who suffer in the summer temperatures over 45°C can cool off at Ski Dubai. The resort offers the full winter experience, from building snowmen to taking ski lessons. There is even the 'cozy mountain lodge' where you…

Drivers on the A10 ring road in Amsterdam can be forgiven for any confusion experienced when they see this incomplete section of highway bridge. We’re not sure what happened - maybe the construction crew finished up early one Friday afternoon…

The Bolwoningen golf-ball-shaped buildings are an early-80s housing project reminicent of the previously featured "Kubuswoning" cube-housing. The stupendously-ugly (and presumably incredibly impractical) homes were designed in the late 70s by an architect going by the name of Dries Kreijkamp. Mr.…