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This is the very lovely, but otherwise totally normal-looking Place de Terreaux in Lyon, France. Nothing strange about it at all, right? However if you turn on the “show labels” option on Google Maps, it looks a lot like Google…

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Friday, 27th February 2009

Dairy Farming

California’s San Joaquin Valley is one of the most productive agricultural regions in the US, and in recent years has seen an expansion of the importance of dairy farming. The US is the second largest dairy producer in the world,…

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Thursday, 26th February 2009

Sightseeing Help Wanted

FINAL UPDATE: We’ve now found enough writers and aren’t looking for any more submissions at this time. However we will post another post in the future if we should require any more help! Google Sightseeing has been running since April…

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Wednesday, 25th February 2009

Weird Waterways

Today we have a trio of mysterious water-based sightings. First up, these strange pools in Arizona. With all the other weirdness in Arizona, these symbols could only be alien communications, right? The reality is that they were created by Forest…

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Tuesday, 24th February 2009

Um, Is Your Porch on Fire?

Hanging around this property in Atlanta, Georgia, a group of young men appear entirely unconcerned about the fire that’s blazing away on their porch. On closer inspection we can see that this guy is on the phone – so perhaps…

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Monday, 23rd February 2009

Top 10 Rudest Place Names in Britain

For a bit of Friday fun, here’s a roundup of our top ten rudest and funniest1 UK place names on Google Maps. So with no further ado, in reverse order, the winners are… 10. Titty Ho, Northamptonshire 9. Back Passage,…

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Friday, 20th February 2009
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Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Our team of authors present weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

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Hadrian’s Wall

When the Romans invaded Britain in the 1st century AD, they never quite managed to conquer Caledonia – the area…

Sivash: The Rotten Sea

Sivash is the shallow system of lagoons that separates Crimea from mainland Ukraine. Home to large-scale salt deposits, Sivash may just contain the most colourful waters to be found in Google Maps, with ponds of blue, beige and organe readily visible.

Robben Island

Robben Island is a prison island off Capetown, South Africa, best known as the jail where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated…

Top Ten Northernmost Items on Google Maps

Here at Google Sightseeing, our obsession with superlatives knows no bounds, whether it be the largest, the smallest, the funniest, or the strangest. Join us as we literally go in another direction with our look at ten items that have the right to be called the northernmost such things on Earth!

Top 5 Worst Traffic Cities in the World

Nobody likes traffic. The frequent starts and stops just to roll another few feet can grind away at anyone’s mind.…

World’s Tallest Lighthouses

For centuries lighthouses have served as navigation aids, helping protect marine traffic from running aground on dangerous coastlines, rocks and…

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