Welcome to day two of Google Sightseeing Reader Takeover Week! Every day this week, one of you has been chosen to have their very own sight posted here on GSS, while Alex and James take a well deserved holiday. Today’s sight is from Keir Clarke from the Virtual Tourism Blog!

Just off the beach in North Sydney, Australia, two unsuspecting surfers happily ride the waves, blithely unaware that just metres away, and heading straight towards them, is a deadly shark.

At least that is what The Daily Telegraph would have you believe. They are reporting that the shape towards the top right of this Google Map photo, part of the high definition addition from Google’s Austalia Day flyover, is a shark basking in the sunlight.

Unfortunately for The Telegraph, but luckily for the surfers, this is no shark but our old friend the ghost image. Look closely and you’ll see the shark is in fact quite clearly just a ghost of the bottom surfer rotated through 200 degrees.

Welcome to Google Sightseeing Reader Takeover Week! Every day this week, one of you has been chosen to have their very own sight posted here on GSS, while Alex and James take a well deserved holiday. Today’s sight is from Jerome – so have fun, play nice, and we’ll see you next week!

The name pretty much gives what it is away – Stone Mountain is the largest exposed mass of granite in the world (a mountain made of stone, haha). Formed over 300 million years ago by emerging magma from the earth’s crust, Stone Mountain is composed mainly of granite which is visible from miles around.

Apart from the geology aspect of it, Stone Mountain also boasts a bas-relief on the side depicting three figures of the short lived Confederate States of America – carved in 1909. Nowadays, a park exists encircling the mountain and the top of the mountain can be accessed by a 1.3 mile (about 2.1 km) hiking trail, or by taking a ride on the Skyride, an aerial tramway. Either way, the top provides a great view of the Atlanta skyline and surrounding suburbs. Last but not least, every week they hold the “world’s largest” 40 minute laser show near the carving.

An interesting note is that if you look at it in Google Maps, you can zoom out quite a bit and still notice the huge rock as a small whitish speck.

Find out a lot more about this huge piece of granite at Wikipedia or visit the official site.

Look closely at Barton Aerodrome and you’ll see 1940s army cars, oildrums, an anti-aircraft gun and a Nazi Fieseler Storch aeroplane. The Nazis have invaded!

Luckily, this is actually the film set for 2004 Period drama Island at War, which told the stories of fictional families living under the Nazi occupation of the Channel islands during World War II.

Thanks: JosieNorden

When it opened in 1923, Fiat’s Lingotto Building was the largest car factory in the world. It featured an entirely unique design where raw materials entered on the ground floor, and the cars were constructed on an assembly line which climbed through the building. Eventually, the finished cars emerged onto the roof – directly onto a rooftop test track!

The factory sadly closed in 1982, and has since become a multi-use complex featuring a theatre, concert halls, and a Meridien hotel.

You can read more about the wonderful Lingotto Building at Wikipedia.

Thanks to Oliver Dueck and A.

It’s been a while since we’ve seen a new something-shaped swimming pool here on Google Sightseeing.

So, just in time for the summer holidays, here’s a swimming pool in the shape of a Baseball bat with a smaller, ball shaped, jacuzzi pool alongside.

Now a golf resort, this hotel was originally built as a spring training camp for the San Francisco Giants. Other baseball related features are the diamond shaped car park (since expanded) and a tower which resembles a baseball cap.

More info on the hotel’s history.

Previous pools: Planes, Dolphins, Guitars, Hearts and Swords.

Thanks: Brett