Climbing in a Flat Land
You might think that living in the Netherlands would be inconvenient for aspiring rock climbers – what with much of…
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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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
You might think that living in the Netherlands would be inconvenient for aspiring rock climbers – what with much of…
Yesterday1 was Australia Day, when each January 26th, Australians crack open some beers and toss another shrimp on the barbie…
The most recent additions to Google’s Street View service made us wonder if it might be in danger of having…
Here in the United States somewhere (we think, we haven’t checked), we’ve found this random patch of land that we…
In the city of College Station in Texas (part-way between Dallas and Houston) there is a scene of apparent disaster,…
Happy New Year! The festive break is over, and we’re all back to work – but there’s still time to…
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