Continuing where 2005’s Volcano Day and 2006’s Volcano Day 2 left off, we'll be exclusively posting volcano-related sights this week as part of Volcano Week 3!1 We've got loads of great volcanoes lined up for the…

The latest imagery update has now arrived on Google Maps, and with it comes this rather sad image of a beached Sperm Whale on the island of Hjelmsøya, which is off the coast of the extreme…

Here at Google Sightseeing we love to explore abandoned, off-limits places, much as the rest of the Internet does - from a safe distance. In the past we've featured abandoned towns, cities, mines and even whole…

Last week, when we failed to post a new entry one day, we weren't just sitting around barbecuing you know! No, in fact we were writing an article for PC World, the world's largest monthly computer…

On this day, August 6, in 1945 - the first nuclear weapon to be used in war was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bomb, Little Boy, was released at 8:15 local time by…

Such is the volume of new imagery that is added to Google Earth, that by the time we got around to posting the longest cross-sea bridge in the world, it had already been superseded. Fortunately for…