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As we’ve covered before with the 2009 passing of Michael Jackson and our look back at ‘The Day the Music Died’, the world has a certain reverential (or just morbid) fascination with the death sites of famous musicians. The pantheon of dead music legends is far too great (and ... Read More

Not content with covering almost every road in the world, Google have partnered with the University of Queensland to produce underwater Street View, and have announced plans to cover Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in September of this year. The images will come from a specially-developed SVII camera, that takes 360-degree images ... Read More

A list of the best and worst airport terminals in the world has recently been published on frommer.com, and despite some cities making the list more than once, the results span the whole globe. However rather than tell you all the great airports you’ll never be lucky enough to set ... Read More

When Napoleon was defeated in 1814 by the Sixth Coalition, it was decided to remove him from France permanently to prevent him from ever taking power again. It would take two separate exiles and another war to finally remove Napoleon from the world stage. The two islands he ... Read More

This is the English county of Wiltshire – legendary home of crop circles, but they don’t only cut down the local flora to make pretty shapes here, as shown by this lovely heart-shaped wood. Overlooking the village of Oare, the small wood wasn’t created by aliens (or by people pretending to ... Read More

Back in the early 1960s, Japanese developers had an idea to hold American stock car-style races in the shadow of Mount Fuji. While the initial vision of a banked oval never panned out, the racing circuit that became Fuji Speedway has played host to the Japanese Grand Prix 13 ... Read More

Today is Groundhog Day, a North American festival which reckons that “if a groundhog emerges from its burrow on this day and fails to see its shadow because the weather is cloudy, winter will soon end. If the groundhog sees its shadow because the weather is bright and clear, it ... Read More

The continuing rollout of 45° “birds eye view” images across the globe1 has now revealed a real-life tragedy. On the railroad track near Sanford Avenue in the city of Richmond, California, we can clearly see a corpse lying on the rails. Camera facing north The ever increasing resolution of Google’s imagery has ... Read More

In a country renowned for its natural beauty, one of the most spectacular landscapes is found along the Trollstigen (Troll’s path) – a vertiginous road which affords remarkable views of the mountainous scenery. Lucky for us that a Street View car made the journey1 , allowing us to experience some ... Read More

In the city of College Station in Texas (part-way between Dallas and Houston) there is a scene of apparent disaster, with many burnt-out industrial facilities, collapsed buildings and train cars strewn asunder. However, they are all just simulations found in a pair of the world’s biggest facilities for fire and ... Read More