Archive for May 13th, 2005

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.

The editors: James & Alex

Mall of America

Friday, 13th May 2005 by James

Although not very interesting to look at from space, the Mall of America is the USA’s largest mall. If you switch to map mode you can see that it’s so big inside the building they’ve named the streets.

And if that’s still too boring you can scroll north to Minneapolis / St. Paul Airport where a whole manner of planes are parked, landing and taking off.

mall of america

Thanks: Brandon, PikaPikaChick & a million others.

Cadillac Ranch

by Alex

This is Cadillac Ranch on old Route 66 outside Amarillo Texas. The “white” dots in the center of the image at the bottom of the dirt road are 10 Cadillacs, ranging from a 1949 Club Coupe to a 1963 Sedan. They’re all stuck bonnet first into the ground, and over time the ten cars have been ravaged by the elements and covered over with years of ever-changing graffiti.

Originally the cars were put there after an eccentric millionaire invited an artists’ collective to help in the creation of a unique work of art for his ranch. Full story is here.

Cadillac Ranch

Thanks to Bradley Rex, Joshua Harrison, Ike, Vincent Kargatis, Peguinista and Richard.

Mars

by Alex

Steve Rot sent us this cool link to somewhere that looks very like Mars (although it’s actually in North Wyoming), thanks Steve!

Mars