World’s Largest Movable Technical Industrial Machines

The mining regions of Germany are home to five of the world's largest movable technical industrial machines - the Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60. Larger than the Eiffel Tower, these machines weigh 13,600 tons and are up to 502m long, 80m…

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Tuesday, 31st March 2009

MV Ross Revenge

Tied up in Tilbury Docks, we find the MV Ross Revenge, home to Radio Caroline and one of the last surviving pirate radio ships. For many people in the UK and Western Europe in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, pirate…

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Monday, 30th March 2009

Street View Car Dreams of the Laguna Seca Raceway

As one of Google Street View cars drove past the Laguna Seca Raceway, it happened to capture a photograph of a race in action. Aware of its own existence as a fuel-efficient-but-not-exactly-a-racecar Toyota Prius, the anthropomorphized car obviously dreamed of…

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Friday, 27th March 2009

Red River Floodway

To the east of Winnipeg lies the Red River Floodway, a 47km long channel intended to prevent disastrous flooding in Canada's 8th largest city. The arrival of spring in the northern hemisphere leads to flood alerts in many areas as…

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Thursday, 26th March 2009

“Scientists” Discover Ancient Relic with Google Earth

Thanks to the excellent high-quality imagery in Google Earth, some "scientists"1 claim to have discovered a 1,000-year-old forgotten relic of the fishing world. Just off the coast of Wales they spotted this large v-shaped row of rocks beneath the water…

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Thursday, 26th March 2009

Naked Street View

Warning: This post contains partial nudity and other images that you may not deem suitable for the workplace or for children. When we first posted our notorious Topless Sunbather here on Google Sightseeing back in September 2006, half the world…

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Tuesday, 24th March 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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