Written on the ground beside the runway of an old World War 2 airfield is the most bizarre large type yet: "Garlic?!". This airfield used to be RAF Hibaldstow, which has been inactive since 1947. Currently the site is used…

Along with the more modern pastime of making crop circles, etching chalk figures into the side of hills seems to be a peculiarly English obsession. The Uffington White Horse is the confirmed oldest of the many chalk figures in England,…

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…

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…

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…

When it was opened in 2001, Rockingham Motor Speedway was Britain's first purpose built racetrack in almost a hundred years. On the day the Google Earth photograph was taken the stands are all empty, so we can see who sponsors…