Street Views

The Millennium Dome was an exhibition centre built in London to celebrate the first year of the new millennium1. It has since been converted into the O2 entertainment complex. Whatever the name, we're very impressed with the shadows cast by…

Motorists taking State Route 16 through Licking County, Ohio, could be forgiven for thinking they've been at the wheel too long when they spot a giant shopping basket looming over the horizon. This is no highway-induced hallucination however: it's the…

Thanks to last week's launch of Google Street View in Canada, our Canadian correspondent Ian has been able to prepare a grand tour of Canada's Railway Hotels, in 2 parts. Continuing our journey from east to west, looking at Canada's…

Thanks to this week's launch of Google Street View in Canada, our Canadian correspondent Ian has been able to prepare a grand tour of Canada's Railway Hotels, in 2 parts. It is often said that Canada was built on the…

Google have just expanded Street View's coverage to 14 countries with the addition of 11 Canadian cities and regions1, and the Czech city of Prague. We've already found some great Street View sights, which you can see on our brand-new…

The Alameda Trench is a 16-km train route which runs 10m below ground-level through the centre of Los Angeles. Trains descend into the trench near Greenleaf Boulevard in the south and rise back to the surface at 25th Street to…