No prizes for identifing this animal in Houston zoo, Texas - it's an elephant! Thanks to Artemis and Dave Garcia.

The Pantheon in Rome was originally built as a temple to the seven deities of the seven planets in the Roman state religion, but has been a Christian church since the 7th century. It is the best-preserved of all Roman…

This is the incredible Atomium in Brussels, Belgium. It is (if you hadn't already guessed...) a 103-metre-tall representation of "a unit cell of an iron crystal" magnified 165 billion times. This thing is huge - it's 16 metres taller than…

The Flatiron Building (actually the Fuller Building) is one of New York's most distinctive sights, and when they finished constructing it in 1902, it was one of the city's tallest buildings (although 87 metres seems pretty tiny these days). At…

This is the world famous Lombard Street in San Francisco. Known as "the crookedest (most winding) street in the United States", Lombard street was re-created in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as "Windy Windy Windy Windy Street". Its ridiculous switchback…

This came as a complete surprise to us, but apparently some widget-developers called Colorworks have built Google Sightseeing its very own widget! If you're running Tiger on your Mac then give it a whirl - it can display either the…