Today is Groundhog Day, a North American festival which reckons that "if a groundhog emerges from its burrow on this day and fails to see its shadow because the weather is cloudy, winter will soon end. If the groundhog sees…

Street view cars have had to travel untold numbers of uneventful urban highways and side streets, but sometimes the drivers get lucky. These select few get the chance to drive along roads that most of us will only ever dream…

You might think that living in the Netherlands would be inconvenient for aspiring rock climbers – what with much of the country being at or below sea-level. However, this challenging situation has resulted in the creation of a variety of…

Few places have taken to heart the concept of the 'roadside attraction' like the Canadian province of Manitoba, where dozens of quirky and wacky monuments to local icons dot the prairie landscape.

Here at Google Sightseeing we're absolutely fascinated with the more unusual names that places have been given. There's so much choice in this field that today we're able to bring you another post about creative place names – but this…

Some of our writers have been known to enjoy the occasional alcoholic beverage1, and the ongoing expansion of Street View means that we can (virtually) visit some of the world's best breweries without having to worry about driving home. So…