Lake Vostok - Antarctica on Feb 9, 2012 in Antarctica View Interesting Maps in a larger mapLake Vostok (Russian: озеро Восток, lit. "Lake East") is the largest of more than 140 subglacial lakes found under the surface of Antarctica. The overlying ice provides a continuous paleoclimatic record...
Mole Antonelliana on Feb 8, 2012 in Europe - Italy View Interesting Maps in a larger mapThe Mole Antonelliana is a major landmark of the Italian city of Turin. It is named for the architect who built it, Alessandro Antonelli. In Italian "Mole" (literally, "size") indicates a building of monumental pr...
Alhambra on Jan 29, 2012 in Europe - Spain View Interesting Maps in a larger mapThe Alhambra ( /ælˈhæmbrə/; Spanish: [aˈlambɾa]; Arabic: الْحَمْرَاء, trans. al-Ḥamrā; literally "the red one"), the complete form of which was Calat Alhambra (Arabic: الْقَلْعَةُ...
Saint-Paul de Vence on Dec 4, 2011 in Europe - France View Interesting Maps in a larger mapSaint-Paul or Saint-Paul-de-Vence is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France. One of the oldest medieval towns on the French Riviera, it is well-known for its modern and contemporary art...
York Castle Museum on Nov 13, 2011 in Europe - UK View Interesting Maps in a larger mapYork Castle Museum is a museum located in York, North Yorkshire, England, on the site of York Castle, originally built by William the Conqueror in 1068. The museum itself was founded by Dr John L Kirk in 1938, and...
York Castle on Nov 1, 2011 in Europe - UK View Interesting Maps in a larger mapYork Castle in the city of York, England, is a fortified complex comprising, over the last nine centuries, a sequence of castles, prisons, law courts and other buildings on the south side of the River Foss. The no...
Bratislava on Oct 29, 2011 in Europe - Slovakia View Interesting Maps in a larger mapBratislava ([ˈbracɪslava] ( listen); German: Pressburg formerly Preßburg, Hungarian: Pozsony) is the capital of Slovakia and, with a population of about 431,000, also the country's largest city. Bratislava is i...
Tower of Hercules on Oct 20, 2011 in Europe - Spain View Interesting Maps in a larger mapThe Tower of Hercules (Galician and Spanish: Torre de Hércules) is an ancient Roman lighthouse on a peninsula about 2.4 kilometers (1.5 mi) from the centre of A Coruña, Galicia, in north-western Spain. Until the...
Spaceport America (Southwest Regional Spaceport) on Oct 18, 2011 in North America - US View Interesting Maps in a larger mapSpaceport America (formerly the Southwest Regional Spaceport) is a spaceport located in the Jornada del Muerto desert basin in New Mexico, United States. It lies 90 miles (140 km) north of El Paso, 45 miles (72 km...
Legoland Florida on Oct 16, 2011 in North America - US View Interesting Maps in a larger mapLegoland Florida is a theme park in Winter Haven, Florida, scheduled to open on Saturday October 15, 2011. Merlin Entertainments Group will operate the park which will encompass 145 acres (0.59 km2) of the former...
