North America

This feels a little like ambulance chasing, so in no particular order, here are 9 (possible) traffic accidents. 1. Highway A13 just north of Rotterdam (there's a couple of vehicles on the hard shoulder, and traffic is backed up for…

This has got to be the world's largest can of 7 Up, and even better - it's actually full of 246,051 litres (65,000 gallons) of 7 Up! (OK that's not entirely true. The 19 metre can is actually a water…

Could these tiny white dots actually by the heads of 5 marines marching through the Californian desert in single file formation? Quite possible I suppose as we're near the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms (yes I realise…

Inspired by the National Geographic Photo of the Day last week, I went looking for Minneapolis's Spoonbridge and Cherry sculpture. Unfortunately something got lost in translation. The story wasn't much better on Windows Live Local, or Yahoo! Maps Beta who…

Surrounded on three sides by mountain ranges, this is the eerie and desolate Dugway Proving Grounds, a large-scale biological and chemical agent testing grounds south of Salt Lake City, Utah. The US has tested all sorts of nasty things here…

Here's a neat trick - this is a satellite photo of the great lakes, the largest fresh water lakes in the world etc, etc. Now if you click to the great lakes and them zoom in step-by-step you'll arrive here:…