Time for a break from the World's Largest trivia, lets take a look at the World's Fastest ... the location of the land speed record1 is the Holloman High Speed Test Track in New Mexico. South End: North End: The…

These buildings are what make up Molodyozhnaya, one of the original Soviet research stations in Antarctica, and the site of an unusually large number of plane crashes. The research station was established way back in 1962 to study meteorology, and…

Standing majestically atop a rock outcropping in Granada is the Alhambra, a Moorish fort and palace complex now protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The name Alhambra means red fortress - after the red clay from which it was…

Last week marked the one-year anniversary of the launch of our first foreign language translations of Google Sightseeing, when we launched Google Sightseeing Français translated by Julien Gremillot, and Google Sightseeing Italiano translated by Alexei Popov. Many congratulations to Julien…

Over the weekend Google rolled out another major image update to Google Earth. Frank at the GEarth Blog is tracking the updates, and has so far spotted changes all over the place! Scotland, China, Africa, South Korea, Mongolia, Iceland, Sweden,…

This is the very lovely, but otherwise totally normal-looking Place de Terreaux in Lyon, France. Nothing strange about it at all, right? However if you turn on the "show labels" option on Google Maps, it looks a lot like Google…