2006 March 27 - Google Sightseeing

Archive for March 27th, 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.

Prison Break

Monday, 27th March 2006 by James

Could you break your brother out of here? Joliet Correctional Center was closed in 2002 and now plays the part of Fox River State Penitentiary in the compulsive watching stupidity that is Prison Break.

The prison also featured in another story of brotherly love, as it’s where Jake is released from at the beginning of The Blues Brothers.

Rate This Sight!

(2 votes, average: 2 out of 5)

Locations: Illinois / Categories: Movie Locations

With 144 pages of glossy high-quality satellite photos, the weirdest and best of Google Earth is now available in the…

Off the Map (Amazon US)

Not in the Guide Book (UK)

Recent Comments
- Tour de Street View (27 comments)
  - “this is going to provide a big boost to French tourism, imho. i’ve already found some amazingly pretty French towns already that i’ll certainly be...” jf
  - “It looks like they are ready for the Tour de France here: http://maps.google.fr/?hl=en&a mp;ie=UTF8&layer=c&ll= 46.621133,2.821555&spn=...” john
- I’m A FOOL 4U. GINA I ♥ U (9 comments)
  - “I think this is the Gina they mean http://www.veoh.com/videos/v14 185756Q46FMQBs” Morpheus
  - “I remember when this was first spotted by local news helicopters going to another story. They made it the fluff piece at the end of the newscast. At...” Winchester
- Three Sisters, Pittsburgh (6 comments)
  - “Pittsburgh doesn’t come up much on Google Sightseeing, so all I have to say, is GO STEEELERS!!! Oh, btw, living here, I can count the bridges....” HighUPinPA
  - “Here is another fantastic site about bridges in Allegheny county. http://pghbridges.com/index.ht m” Nitehawk
- Takeover Week: Bomb Island (Zack) (4 comments)
  - “I went on a sailboat to that island while at sailing summer camp. We parked our boats there and took 7 people on our teachers motorboat and played in the...” Sami
- Independence Day 2008 (2 comments)
  - “Andrew, you’re right! He’s totally looking the wrong way. Maybe he’s drunk?” James

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