Google Earth Top 10: War!

Wars have raged all over the world, and often left deep scars in the conscience of people as well as in the land itself. Battlefields, memorials, cemeteries... who looks at Earth from above cannot escape the violent past (and present) of our planet.

10: Waterloo (B)

9: Lidice (CZ)

8: Theresienstadt (CZ)

7:Jewish museum, Berlin (D)

6: Verdun, ossuaire de Douaumont (F)

5: ANZAC memorial, Gallipoli (T)

4: Batteries at Logues-sur-Mer, (F)

3: Oradour-sur-Glane (F)

2: Vietnam memorial, Washington (USA)

1: Auschwitz-Birkenau (PL)

Google Earth Top 10: Squares in the Low Countries

Villages and cities often converge on squares. They serve as public salons for the people, marketplaces, festival grounds and places of execution. Nowhere in Europe will you find pretties squares than in Holland and Belgium. Here are ten of the finest squares in the Low Countries.

10: Antwerp

9: Lille

8: Den Haag

7: Gouda

6: Amsterdam

5: Mechelen

4: Delft

3: Haarlem

2: Arras

1: Brussels