Pictures of Maho Beach on the Dutch Antilles island of St Maarten have been cropping up on the net for years - usually with people claiming them to be the result of a photoshopping competition. You…

Check out this fantastic curly bridge, which connects mainland HonshÅ« to one of the tiny islands of the Seto Inland Sea, Japan. It looks a bit like a tiny Lotus Bridge, but instead of allowing traffic…

Following on from yesterday's Rio-Antirio Bridge, right at the very end of the Gulf of Corinth is the Corinth Canal, a 6.3 kilometre long canal which technically turned the Peloponnesian peninsula into an island upon its…

Thanks to the brand new image update, Google maps' satellite imagery now covers the Spanish island of Lanzarote in glorious high-resolution imagery - just in time to make this year's volcano day! Lanzarote is a volcanic…

Update: Since posting this 4 hours ago, Mount Oyama has been updated to some jaw-dropping high-resolution imagery. Timing huh!? This is Mount Oyama on the Japanese island of Miyakejima, which is seen here spouting a rather…

Google Earth Blog reports that Google Earth has had a huge imagery update with satellite and aerial pics across the globe. The images haven't made their way into Maps yet, so if you click the image…