Angelina Jolie was photographed this weekend sporting version 1.1 of her geocache tattoo. The original tattoo was four co-ordinates, each pointing to the birthplace of her existing four children, which we mapped on Google Earth last year. The new additions…

Here in the deserts of Turkmenistan the satellite imagery has captured an amazing shot of a 200-metre wide churning pool that is spouting a pillar of smoke and flames. These are the Korpedje oil fields, and this is an active…

Regular readers of Google Sightseeing, and especially those who own the book, would probably enjoy last week’s James May’s Big Ideas. The program opened with May visiting Russia to see miniature Ekranoplans, a popular sight from the book, and also…

Tucked away on the lakefront of Canada’s largest city is the Toronto Music Garden. The park, which opened in 1999, was designed to represent the different elements of Bach’s Suites for Unaccompanied Cello and was a partnership between landscape designer…

In 1998, the tiny truck-stop village of Ilakaka in Madagascar was transformed into a bustling mining town, and one of the most dangerous places in the country. The reason for this dramatic change was the discovery of massive sapphire deposits…

In the city of León, Spain, you’ll find MUSAC, or rather the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León. The Castile and León Museum of Contemporary Art opened to the public in April of 2005 and showcases a wide…