Still in Beijing, this is the Central TV Tower, which (including its antennae) is 405 metres tall, and easily the tallest structure in the city. A race to the top of the tower is held annually, with two laps of the base followed by a climb of the 1484 steps leading up to the 238 metre-high observation deck. The Central TV Tower is also part of the World Federation of Great Towers, of which several have already featured on GgSs.

Check out all these brilliantly brightly-coloured cars on this highway in Beijing.

I’m not sure though why these cars seem quite so colourful, and perhaps it’s simply down to the combination of an over-saturated image and a very sunny day, but it sure looks cool However, there could be a clue further down the road, where it appears that the image’s colour channels aren’t properly aligned.

Actually, if you scroll north and south along the road, as well as hundreds of other similarly luminous cars, there’s also several quite cool looking intersections.

Thanks to Philip Ng.

Docked in the middle of Aberdeen Harbour in Hong Kong, in the style of a sumptuous Chinese palace, is the gigantic floating restaurant Jumbo Kingdom. Opened in 1976, this mammoth eatery can accommodate up to 2,300 people, and the facilities include a ’six-star’ gourmet restaurant, shopping, exhibitions, cafes and a ton of other stuff. However, I read that Jumbo Kingdom no longer actually floats, and is now supported by concrete. Can anyone verify this?

There’s a free ferry which takes you out there, and you can see some of them docked by the side of the restaurant itself (see this photo for comparison).

Some people claim that this is the world’s largest floating restaurant, but the Jumbo Kingdom site makes no such claim, which makes me wonder… What is the world’s largest floating restaurant? And (more importantly) is it in hi-res?

Many thanks to Leonard Wan for being the only person to submit this!

As several people helpfully pointed out (we usually write this site on the Mac), the Google Earth links have been malfunctioning recently.

Anyway, I’ve deleted some cached ones and, after a little testing, they now seem to be working again. Sorry guys, will try to make sure it doesn’t happen again. However, and if any of you should have any further problems… let us know in this thread and we’ll get right on the case

Has an extremely drunk captain parked his ship in-between these buildings? Nope, this is actually The Whampoa, a ship-shaped (haha!) shopping arcade in Hong Kong.

According to their website, the Jusco Whampoa Store offers:

one-stop-shopping facilities to customers, including fashion, footwear, handbags, household items, electrical appliances, cosmetics and food.

No boats then? Huh.

Thanks to Fabien Cornu and Kam Tsang.