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The Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kitty Hawk commemorates the first successful powered flight, which was achieved by the two brothers here on December 17th 1903. The straight dirt path going from the main memorial to the NNW leads directly…
Male and female Acid Smileys in Long Beach Harbour. Uh, yeah, I haven’t got much else to say. Thanks: Jesse Allmyer
Crazy, but there appears to be a biplane, complete with runway, on the roof of 77 Water Street, NY. So what’s it doing there? NYC Architecture says that it’s a a full-size model of a WWI Sopwith Camel, designed by…
This is a rather cool glider flying over Over, near Cambridge in England. Presumably it’s part of the Cambridge Gliding Club, so here’s some photos taken from what could well be the same glider. Thanks to Mathieu.
Mexico City is the capital city of Mexico and the second largest “Megacity” in the world after the Tokyo area. After centuries of pre-Columbian civilization, Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés first arrived in the area of Mexico City in 1519. He…
During my childhood years I was convinced that the excellent Thomas & Friends, a cartoon about a locomotive who liked being really useful but wasn’t too keen on plowing snow, was a work of fiction. However, as proved by this…
Sivash is the shallow system of lagoons that separates Crimea from mainland Ukraine. Home to large-scale salt deposits, Sivash may just contain the most colourful waters to be found in Google Maps, with ponds of blue, beige and organe readily visible.
Robben Island is a prison island off Capetown, South Africa, best known as the jail where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated…
Whether it’s space aliens, light-speed travelling spaceships, or just some top-secret government testing, the world’s most famous “secret place” has…
Here at Google Sightseeing, our obsession with superlatives knows no bounds, whether it be the largest, the smallest, the funniest, or the strangest. Join us as we literally go in another direction with our look at ten items that have the right to be called the northernmost such things on Earth!
It looks as if our Crazy SCUBA Guys have made a comeback! This time the two Norwegian men have been…
Nobody likes traffic. The frequent starts and stops just to roll another few feet can grind away at anyone’s mind.…
Here at Google Sightseeing, our obsession with superlatives knows no bounds, whether it be the largest, the smallest, the funniest, or the strangest. Join us as we literally go in another direction with our look at ten items that have the right to be called the northernmost such things on Earth!
Nobody likes traffic. The frequent starts and stops just to roll another few feet can grind away at anyone’s mind.…
For centuries lighthouses have served as navigation aids, helping protect marine traffic from running aground on dangerous coastlines, rocks and…
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