The world's shortest commercial flight is between the airports on the islands of Papa Westray and Westray in the Orkney Islands. Part of the daily service operated by Logan Air, the journey has a scheduled duration of just 2 minutes…

The recent expansion of Street View in the UK allows us to visit sections of the Pennine Way, Britain's most well known long distance walking path, where we can admire the scenery of three national parks without the inconvenience of…

Continuing our series on street racing circuits around the world, let's take a ride in the Google Street View Car around some of Australia's most famous venues! Adelaide The home of the Australian Grand Prix until 1996, Adelaide's streets in…

These two huge L-shaped structures visible at a very low zoom level are the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) facilities in Livingston, Louisiana and Hanford, Washington. Each arm of the structures is 4km in length, making them longer than the…

Looking up at the moon, one of the most striking visible features has to be the sheer number of impact craters around its surface. These giant holes in the ground are made by asteroids and comets flying through space and…

Roughly 1 out of every 5 countries in the world are completely surrounded by land, or landlocked. In a handful of cases a country can be completely surrounded by another single country. These landlocked enclaves are such a rare geographic…