Europe

There are 21 cities worldwide that have at sometime been nick-named "Athens of the (something)". However, two of these cities have taken the name even further and built replicas of Athens' most famous landmark, the Parthenon. Nashville, Tennessee acquired the…

Here in Toulouse, France, Google Earth finally gets its first glimpse of the largest passenger airliner in the world, the Airbus A380 "Superjumbo". The A380 is a double-decker, four-engined aircraft which provides seating for 525 people in standard three-class configuration…

Following on from a post earlier this week, where a man was confusing aeroplane passengers flying over his home, today we're in Belgium where a farming company have also been plagued by landing planes. Situated only 2Km from the main…

This double-decker bus appears to have crashed and then toppled over, actually crushing a car underneath itself! (Look carefully at the roof of the bus and you'll see part of a car protruding.) Worse still, at the same location a…

When it was opened in 2001, Rockingham Motor Speedway was Britain's first purpose built racetrack in almost a hundred years. On the day the Google Earth photograph was taken the stands are all empty, so we can see who sponsors…

Here's a nice new crop circle we haven't seen before, south of Leeds, England, and handily for drivers who might be fans of crop art, this is right next to the M1 motorway. Funnily enough, the M1 seems to be…