There are 21 cities worldwide that have at sometime been nick-named "Athens of the (something)". However, two of these cities have taken the name even further and built replicas of Athens' most famous landmark, the Parthenon. Nashville, Tennessee acquired the…

Here in Toulouse, France, Google Earth finally gets its first glimpse of the largest passenger airliner in the world, the Airbus A380 "Superjumbo". The A380 is a double-decker, four-engined aircraft which provides seating for 525 people in standard three-class configuration…

Following on from a post earlier this week, where a man was confusing aeroplane passengers flying over his home, today we're in Belgium where a farming company have also been plagued by landing planes. Situated only 2Km from the main…

This double-decker bus appears to have crashed and then toppled over, actually crushing a car underneath itself! (Look carefully at the roof of the bus and you'll see part of a car protruding.) Worse still, at the same location a…

In a classic example of large type on Google Earth, here's a roof where someone has written 'Welcome to Cleveland' in 6-foot-high letters. Usually we'd assume that this was a kind message welcoming air passengers to Ohio's second largest city…

Google have just added four more cities to Google Street View, the ground-level 3d panorama addition to Google Maps. The new cities are: San Diego, California Los Angeles, California Houston, Texas Orlando, Florida which, like the original 5 cities of…