Europe

Clipperton Island, a remote coral atoll, is a place of mysterious geography with a disturbing history.

This is the Quaranta, probably one of the least likely cars you'd ever expect to find on Street View - as it's the only one of its kind in existence! The "Quaranta" (Italian for "Forty"), is the latest concept from…

Today we're embarking on a brand new journey. After long negotiations with Britain's national mapping agency, we're extremely pleased to announce that from today the website previously known as Google Sightseeing is to become ORDNANCE SURVEY SIGHTSEEING. Ordnance Survey is…

The mining regions of Germany are home to five of the world's largest movable technical industrial machines - the Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60. Larger than the Eiffel Tower, these machines weigh 13,600 tons and are up to 502m long, 80m…

Tied up in Tilbury Docks, we find the MV Ross Revenge, home to Radio Caroline and one of the last surviving pirate radio ships. For many people in the UK and Western Europe in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, pirate…

Thanks to the excellent high-quality imagery in Google Earth, some "scientists"1 claim to have discovered a 1,000-year-old forgotten relic of the fishing world. Just off the coast of Wales they spotted this large v-shaped row of rocks beneath the water…