Archive for October 26th, 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

Tetraeder Bottrop

Thursday, 26th October 2006 by James

To follow-up from the Copper Mining earlier in the week, we head over to the German coal mining town of Bottrop, where there’s lots of industrial stuff going on.

But if you’re more of an art person, on a nearby disused slag heap we find ‘Tetraeder Bottrop‘, a giant big Tetrahedron artwork-thingy by Wolfgang Christ. 230 tonnes of steel went to make what is basically large viewing platform, 60m tall on a 90m heap.

Thanks: Bilbo

The Langoliers

by Alex

Oh dear, it appears that some tardy time-travellers aboard these planes at Peoria Airport have been eaten by The Langoliers!

(Although the movie was actually filmed at Bangor International Airport, I understand that no airport escapes the all-consuming wrath of the Langoliers. So that must be what we’re looking at.)

Thanks to Lrae.