The Burren is a distinctive limestone landscape and national park in County Clare on Ireland's Atlantic coast. The recent release of Street View images from Ireland allow us to get a close-up look at the beauty of this barren scenery1.…

In Post Alley, Seattle, there is a brick wall that has become one of the most bizarre tourist destinations we've ever encountered - and here on Google Sightseeing we've encountered some really bizarre ones. Post Alley happens to be where…

Gammelstad, in northern Sweden, is the best preserved example of a Scandinavian Church Town - a type of community that developed solely to house members of a Church congregation who lived too far away to be able to get there…

Originally two separate lakes, Upper Arrow Lake and Lower Arrow Lake were joined together in 1968 as part of a programme of construction that has seen 14 dams built on the Columbia River since 1937, converting almost the entire 2,000…

Today we’re very proud to be featuring a specially-commissed guest post from Kyle Kusch, proprietor of excellent geography blog The Basement Geographer. In his non-Internet life, Kyle works as a jack-of-all-trades geographer in rural British Columbia, Canada, where he tells…

Take a look at the Queen Kaahumanu Hwy on the western coast of Hawaii's Big Island, and for miles and miles you'll see white graffiti laid out over the hardened, black lava fields! Not to worry however, the messages aren't…