Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.
Alcatraz Island located in the middle of San Francisco Bay in California. It was formerly used as a military stockade and later as a maximum security prison (just like in the A-Team). Today, the island is a historic site supervised by the National Park Service as part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and is open to tours.
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Is that Sean Connery helping Nicholas Cage stop terrorists from distributing nerve agent on an unsuspecting nation!!??
Year. Amaizing. Now let me show you why bother to see the world for real:
Alcatraz Virtual Tour: http://www.virtuar.com/alcatraz/
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Alcatraz Virtual Tour