Kyrgyzstan UFO!

Our first post from Kyrgyzstan is evidence of alien visitation to Earth! While skeptics may dismiss this as some image artifact or tape used to hold different images together, the presence of an image ghost (previously explained on Google Sightseeing)…

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Wednesday, 14th January 2009

Plane Wash

Have you ever wondered how they get planes clean? Well at Heathrow we can see the plane cleaning crews hard at work, but for some reason it's the wet outlines of absent planes that are the most interesting. Anyone who…

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Tuesday, 13th January 2009

New River Gorge Bridge

The New River Gorge Bridge in West Virginia is the highest road bridge in the Americas and (until Google updates their French imagery), is the tallest road bridge visible on Google Earth. The bridge is a spectacular steel-arch construction which…

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Monday, 12th January 2009

Impaling Cars in the Name of Art

While driving along Telephone Road in Waikato, New Zealand, you may notice that someone appears to have tried to park their car on top of a large tree stump. This doesn't seem to be an officially sanctioned public artwork, but…

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Friday, 9th January 2009

The world’s largest Russian doll

Matryoshkas, or Russian dolls, are sets of wooden figures of decreasing sizes placed one inside the other. With a Russian name and a long Russian history, you might be slightly surprised to discover that the world's largest Russian doll, is…

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Thursday, 8th January 2009

The Golden Temple, Amritsar

In the Indian state of Punjab, Harmandir Sahib (The Temple of God) - commonly known as the Golden Temple - is the most sacred place of worship for the Sikh religion. In the 1570s the fourth Sikh guru created a…

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Wednesday, 7th January 2009

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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