North America

New writer: Randy Nickum Randy is a lifelong resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, in the Midwest U.S. He has travelled widely across his country as a consultant and has visited six of seven continents, missing only Australia so far. An exclave…

Thanks to last week's launch of Google Street View in Canada, our Canadian correspondent Ian has been able to prepare a grand tour of Canada's Railway Hotels, in 2 parts. Continuing our journey from east to west, looking at Canada's…

Thanks to this week's launch of Google Street View in Canada, our Canadian correspondent Ian has been able to prepare a grand tour of Canada's Railway Hotels, in 2 parts. It is often said that Canada was built on the…

Google have just expanded Street View's coverage to 14 countries with the addition of 11 Canadian cities and regions1, and the Czech city of Prague. We've already found some great Street View sights, which you can see on our brand-new…

It’s Island Week 4 here at GSS, which means we’ll mostly be posting about Islands. For about a week. On September 29, 2009, just south of the islands that make up the Independent State of Samoa in Polynesia, an earthquake…

It’s Island Week 4 here at GSS, which means we’ll mostly be posting about Islands. For about a week. North Brother Island, home to many decaying and abandoned structures, sits just off shore of New York's Manhattan borough in the…