Put Your Hands Behind Your Head!

Reaffirming my belief that the most interesting things happen when the Street-view car is around, today we can see a man getting arrested in Tampa, Florida, or at least having his back pockets searched in a rather heated way. The…

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Friday, 11th April 2008

The Magic Number

It's almost unbelievable (so much so that we missed it by a week), but Google Sightseeing just turned 3 years old! All the way back on the 6th of April 2005 our first post was Disney World, followed closely by…

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Thursday, 10th April 2008

Dancing in the Street

Here in New Orleans the party looks to be so good that the guests have all spilled out into the street! It looks like they're gathered around Joe's House of Blues - and yet the [giant red arrow] outside clearly…

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Tuesday, 8th April 2008

Sea Reclamation

Across the globe there are various land reclamation projects which aim to create new building sites by dredging up the seabed. However, in the small English town of Happisburgh that process is being reversed, as the waves tear apart the…

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Monday, 7th April 2008

Burning Car

While capturing Street View images in Cleveland, Ohio, the Google team drove past a car in flames. The incident that caused the car to burst into flames took place before the Google car arrived on scene, as the smoke from…

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Sunday, 6th April 2008

Doubly Mysterious Circle of People

In Osaka, Japan this group of people have gone one better than the original Mysterious Circle of People, and have created a Mysterious Double Circle of People... Maybe this is the beginning of a new form of flash mobbing for…

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Thursday, 3rd April 2008

Welcome to Google Sightseeing!

Google Sightseeing takes you on a tour of the world as seen from satellite or street views using Google Maps. Our team of authors present weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

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