This is the world famous Lombard Street in San Francisco. Known as “the crookedest (most winding) street in the United States”, Lombard street was re-created in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as “Windy Windy Windy Windy Street”.

Its ridiculous switchback design was instituted 1922 in order to reduce the hill’s natural 27° slope, which was too steep for most vehicles.

There’s some good ground-level shots at Wikipedia.

Thanks to James Boorman-Padgett and Nathaniel Hansen.

This came as a complete surprise to us, but apparently some widget-developers called Colorworks have built Google Sightseeing its very own widget! If you’re running Tiger on your Mac then give it a whirl – it can display either the 20 latest posts or comments (although you could of course have one widget for each if you like).

Loads of thanks to the guys at Colorworks – we love it!

Desperate to get people through the doors, The San Diego Museum of Man in Babloa Park proclaims that there’s “Wonderful Things Inside” to those on approach to Lindbergh Field Airport. Can anyone verify the claim?

Thanks: js

I’m sorry that we missed this post yesterday, but for all you day-late romantics out there here’s a (slightly patchy) large heart-shaped forest near Kansas City airport. Aww.

We’ve also previously posted various other heart shaped things.

Thanks: Glenn

Portsmouth’s Spinnaker Tower is like a giant sail on the dock. It was supposed to be a millennium project but only opened last year and as you can see it is still under construction in the Google Maps photo. There’s loads of photos and a live webcam on BBC Hampshire.

Just to the north is the Portsmouth docklands where Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar, the HMS Victory, is docked. Although built in the 1760s it is still manned by the Royal Navy and is the world’s oldest commissioned warship.

There’s also the HMS Warrior (”The pride of Queen Victoria“) and the HMS Ark Royal, one of the only 2 UK Aircraft Carriers still in commission.

Thanks: Tom Lithgow, Jonathan Rawle, redstar1, paul d