The Namib Desert is not only the oldest desert in the world, but it has its own shipwrecks, 900-year-old tree "skeletons", and some of the highest sand dunes in the world. However we covered all those things in our 2008…

The rain shadow caused by the massive bulk of the Himalayan mountains creates arid conditions for a huge distance to the east. The 1,600km (1,000 mile) long arc of the Gobi Desert spans the border between China and Mongolia; it…

This week, the always-much-more-interesting-than-it-sounds desert week returns – even later than it did last year (although here at Google Sightseeing we prefer to simply think that our years are slightly longer than yours). However, once again we've been scouring the…

Fifty-five years ago today a teenager named Paul McCartney somewhat grudgingly went to a concert by The Quarrymen at St Peter's Church in Woolton, only agreeing to go after being told by a friend that it would be a good…

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 Grand Bridge - a…

In hidden corners of the British Isles and northwestern France, you can find stone circles: mysterious and often beautiful monuments created in the distant past by Neolithic and Bronze Age peoples who arranged large boulders into circular formations. Their purposes…