‘A’ Mountain & Sun Devil Stadium

Tempe Butte is more commonly known as "A Mountain" - for obvious reasons. Each year in the run up to the Arizona State University vs. University of Arizona football game the ASU students take shifts to guard the steel and…

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Thursday, 12th May 2005

Rowing On The Charles River

Apparently one of the most popular (and picturesque) sports in Boston/Cambridge is rowing on the Charles River. This view near Harvard University captures several 8-person racing shells in mid-stroke. Very cool. Cashman Andrus says: You can clearly see the paddles…

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Thursday, 12th May 2005

San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge

Unfortunately this one was too late for entry into our 'Coolest Bridge Shadow' award, but the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge would definitely have scored highly with our judges. You can also see an odd image alignment at Yerba Buena Island,…

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Thursday, 12th May 2005

UFO

Tensuns says: I have no idea what this is. I can’t find anything similar on any google map referenced sites. It doesn’t show up on terraserver and I live nearby so I know there are no towers in that area.…

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Thursday, 12th May 2005

Tankers

Here's a tanker being tugged off the coast of Mexico, there's another one not too far off as well. Scarily, the first one (thumbnail #1) looks a little like it's leaking... Here's another off the coast of LA (captured alongside…

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Thursday, 12th May 2005

Welcome to Google Sightseeing!

Google Sightseeing takes you on a tour of the world as seen from satellite or street views using Google Maps. Our team of authors present weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

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