The World’s Largest Clocks (Possibly)

The 2nd largest clock in the world is supposedly the Colgate clock, atop the Colgate-Palmolive factory in Indiana. The clock was built way back in 1906 when it originally sat on Colgate’s New Jersey facility, before being moved here in…

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Tuesday, 20th February 2007

Crash Landing

Nestled within the trees of this suburban park is a crashed plane, that’s been there since 1985! The story goes that the pilot ran out of fuel over the city of Sao Jose dos Campos and was forced to land…

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Sunday, 18th February 2007

A Huge Patch of Completely Empty Ocean

Whilst passing over the Atlantic, it seems the satellite has managed to capture an image of a huge patch of completely empty ocean! Yes, this high-resolution patch right in the middle of the Atlantic contains absolutely nothing. Except a small…

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Friday, 16th February 2007

Happy Valentine’s Day!

It’s still the 14th of February for another hour in some time zones, so we’d like to wish everyone a Happy Valentine’s Day with this heart-shaped swimming pool in Belgium! Yes okay, that’s a stretch. In reality the only places…

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Thursday, 15th February 2007

Top 10 Sports on Google Earth

With high-resolution images all over the globe, Google Earth has captured many sporting events actually in-progress, so today we proudly present – The Top 10 different sports you can actually see people playing on Google Earth! As a bonus, we’ve…

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Tuesday, 13th February 2007

Extreme Parking

Parking in the Hague has got so difficult that some people are having to take extreme measures – parking on the side of buildings! This is actually the work of artist Theo van Laar, who has continued the car park…

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Monday, 12th February 2007
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Brasília: a Modernist Masterpiece

The largest city on the planet that wasn’t in existence at the beginning of the 20th century, the city of…

Crazy SCUBA Guys Chase Street View

Google has today launched brand new Street View imagery for Norway, Finland and large parts of Canada. But it’s in…

Community Bookshelf, Kansas City

The parking garage for the Kansas City Public Library may not look very special from above: … but from street…

Definitely a duck (maybe)

Here in the United States somewhere (we think, we haven’t checked), we’ve found this random patch of land that we…

Google Maps publishes aerial images of murder scene

The continuing rollout of 45° “birds eye view” images across the globe1 has now revealed a real-life tragedy. On the…

Trollstigen (Troll’s path)

In a country renowned for its natural beauty, one of the most spectacular landscapes is found along the Trollstigen (Troll’s…

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