Archive for March 22nd, 2006

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

World’s Largest Bug

Wednesday, 22nd March 2006 by James

At 58 feet long and 928 times the size of an actual termite, Nibbles Woodaway (as he was named in a radio competition) is the world’s largest bug.

The giant creepy crawly is attached to the roof of New England Pest Control and is dressed up in seasonal gear for July 4th, Halloween and Christmas.

Ground-level photos, and more information than you could ever care to read, on Quahog.org.

Thanks: Ron Vogel

The Milton Maize Maze

Wednesday, 22nd March 2006 by

This is the “Milton Maize Maze” just north of Cambridge in England. The maze is created differently every year in a field of maize and visitors can pay entry to attempt to navigate it. From the photos on their website it looks pretty tricky as the maize grows quite high!

As one reader put it:

Now we can cheat by looking from above

Except that this is no doubt the maze from a few years ago :)

maize maze

Thanks: Dave Holland, Simon Hamilton-Roberts & Donald Allwright