Stadiums and Sport

FC Barcelona's home stadium is called Camp Nou. It is apparently the largest capacity stadium in Europe with over 98,000 seats, although our many submitters couldn't seem to agree on the actual capacity (I could look it up myself, but…

The Barcelona Olympic Stadium was originally built in 1927 to host the 1929 Barcelona World's Fair and 1936 Olympics (or so they hoped, the Olympics went to Berlin that year). The stadium was then re-built in 1986 to host the…

This is the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, a few kilometres east of my last post, in Arizona. The monument consists of the ruins of multiple structures constructed by the Hohokam, farmers who lived here from the early 1200s. In…

The Olympiaturm (Olympic Tower) and the Olympic Park with its stadium were built for the 1972 Summer Olympics. The building's transparent design was apprently inspired by soap-bubbles and dew-covered cobwebs, I don't see cobwebs but the building is quite reflective,…

At a capacity of 91,665 FedEx Field is the largest stadium in the NFL. This explains the VAST amounts of parking around the stadium, there's even helicopter parking. Thanks: Tony Scida, Peter, Duncan McKenzie, Steve & Charlie

There's absolutely loads of sightseeing to be done in Rome, but today we're just going to be visiting the Circus Maximus... actually, there's so much history in Rome that it's nearly impossible to see just one thing. Close to the…