One of more than 1,700 parks in New York City, Washington Square Park is probably one of the best known (after Central Park obviously). In 1889, to celebrate the centennial of George Washington's inauguracy as president, a large plaster and…

This is the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which is the replacement for the original one which famously collapsed on film in 1940 (the link is to the movie on Wikipedia in ogg format, there's loads of statistics there too). What's really…

Here at Google Sightseeing we get a lot of people asking us stuff, so we've finally put together a Frequently Asked Questions page. There you can learn how to send us maps, visit a specific latitude and longitude, and even…

Here's a cool picture of some trimarans docked in Quebec. Perhaps they were competing in the 2004 Transat Québec Saint-Malo, which is the only crewed non-stop transatlantic race to be held from west to east (Canada to France). The race…

Formely known as Chubb crater, the New Quebec Crater has a rim diameter of 3.4 kilometers and is estimated to be about 1.4 million years old. It's also filled with a 250-meter-deep lake. That's a big old hole. There's a…

Slightly unfortunate placement of the Google logo here, but you can still just about make out this large type on a building in Brooklyn, which says 'BROOKYLN [HEART] U'. Awww, isn't that sweet? We don't know what this building is,…