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.
“We’re Not in Kansas Anymore” but we are in the much more magical Fargo, North Dakota where there’s a real-life Yellow Brick Road.
Originally laid in the 70s for Trollwood Performing Arts School’s Wizard of OZ performance the real yellow bricks have since been replaced with concrete. The road still doesn’t go anywhere though, just around in circles to spell out “OZ” when viewed from above.
Trollwood homepage and Minuscule ground level photo
Thanks: Jeremy & Derek
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A large partion of the central district in Sofia is paved with yellow stones.
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
the cloud to the left obscures a lot of the view.
this was the previous posted data which had images during the winter.
http://www.bgimages.org/bg/gradove/sofia/sofia-tsentar01.jpg
this is a view from a plane.
http://www.bgimages.org/bg/gradove/sofia/al-nevski50.jpg
and here are some ground level photos.
http://www.b-info.com/places/Bulgaria/image/parlament.gif
http://www.bgimages.org/bg/gradove/sofia/ban04.jpg
Oh - I have fond memories of that path. I grew up in Fargo and saw the 1970’s production the path was built for. It was originally yellow painted bricks but was replaced with concrete pressed into the shape of bricks about 15 years ago. I took some original bricks and put them in my garden. When I was in my teens I spent many summers working in that park on other outdoor productions. The path gets covered most summers when the river floods.
Here’s a better one, still yellow: Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth