At 6:45am this morning local time, fire fighters were called to a massive blaze taking place at the Weston-super-Mare Grand Pier. Ironically, the fire service were having difficulty getting enough water to put out the blaze. As you can see…

Rounding off our totally unplanned week of obscure towers is... Alton Towers, which is very obscure, being that it's actually a theme park. Located in the grounds of a former stately home in Staffordshire, England, Alton Towers opened as a…

This is supposedly the Hokkaidō Centennial Memorial Tower in Nopporo Forest Park, Hokkaidō, Japan. The official site claims it's 100m tall, and was completed in 1970 to honour the 100th anniversary of Hokkaidō's official colonisation1. Of course dear geeky-reader, you…

Within the Sonoran Desert National Monument, Arizona, is one of the largest stockpiles of discarded vehicle tyres1 in the US - perhaps as many as 10 million individual tyres. Despite being just south of a town called Goodyear, this is…

Giants have a hard time getting clean. I mean, baths aren't usually built big enough to fit your average giant, right? Which is the only sensible explanation as to why there's a giant sitting in the Guadalquivir river in Córdoba,…

Another month, another image update! Frank at gearthblog.com seems to have been first to spot that there's new imagery in Google Earth, which has now been confirmed on the Latlong Blog. Currently unavailable in Google Maps1, the new imagery includes:…