Europe

Opened in 1936, renovated in 2004, 68 metres high, with 113 VIP stands, 2 underground garages and 76,000 seats, this is the fantastic looking Olympiastadion in Berlin. None of it matters tonight of course - not if you're a French…

This is the small city of Madurodam in the Netherlands. They have an airport, canals, stadiums, boats, gardens, windmills and bridges with... giant people on them? And there's some giant cars too! Waaaait a minute... Madurodam is actually a truly…

On the southern coast of the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine there's giant cogs! They were left over parts from the world's largest clock, which spanned 600m across the coast and was used by scientists in Mir space station to tell…

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…

Inspired by some posters I've seen recently advertising a rival mapping service, here's the Rio-Antirio bridge which spans the Gulf of Corinth in Greece, which has the world's longest cable-stayed suspended deck. It was completed in 2004 but is still…

Thanks to the brand new image update, Google maps' satellite imagery now covers the Spanish island of Lanzarote in glorious high-resolution imagery - just in time to make this year's volcano day! Lanzarote is a volcanic island which consists of…