With Major League Baseball having recently paused for its mid-season All Star Game break, this is the first of a two-part tour of stadiums across North America, focusing on somewhat fanciful features in recently constructed ballparks. We begin with the…

Doing the rounds on the mainstream sites this week has been the story of Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Hamad bin Hamdan Al Nahyan, who has created a series of canals in the coastline of his own private island that spell out…

Newtown is an inner suburb of Sydney, New South Wales and is one of that city's major cultural and artistic centres. The suburb is renowned for its graffiti and street art, and since the 1980s all sorts of murals, drawings and paintings, both legal and illegal, have been popping up all over the neighbourhood.

It's not every day that a new country is created, but that's what happened on July 9th 2011 when The Republic of South Sudan came into existence. The nation is so new that Google Maps doesn't yet show it. However,…

You thought it was hard to find a parking spot in your town? Take a look at Google's new satellite imagery of Germany's Nurburgring… Every conceivable speck of open land has been packed with vehicles all around this legendary Grand…

We celebrate today as Monaco is finally added to the collection of countries added by Google Street View, giving us up close views of iconic sights such as the Casino Monte Carlo, the Prince's Palace and the Circuit de Monaco, plus much more.