While we have looked at a number of very long bridges here on Google Sightseeing in the past1 generally they have all carried roads. Today, the longest bridge in the world, by far, is the Danyang-Kunshan…

Faced with the challenge of building a year-round road to connect Norway's two largest cities (Bergen and Oslo), through a mountainous region of central Norway, engineers decided to create the world's longest road tunnel. Named after…

A list of the best and worst airport terminals in the world has recently been published on frommer.com, and despite some cities making the list more than once, the results span the whole globe. However rather…

We all know Antarctica as the home of extreme cold and ice, but not everythingthere is cold, for the Ice Continent is also home to the world’s southernmost volcano. Rising out of the Southern Ocean at the centre of Ross Island, Mount Erebus sits just over 12 degrees north of the South Pole and has been in a state of eruption since 1972.

The term "blue hole" is given to sinkholes filled with water where the entrance is below the surface; but they are perhaps more accurately described as "vertical caves". These caves were formed through normal erosion until…

In the early Summer of 2009, England's annual crop art season got underway in spectacular fashion with one of the most impressive creations ever to grace a Barley field - a gargantuan 250m long, 60m wide…