Alert, Nunavut
Welcome to Alert, Nunavut, the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world. Only 817 km (508 miles) from the North…
The World’s Most Haunted Sites
Want to see a ghost? Not scared of the dark? We’ve got a list of 5 of the most haunted destinations in the world for you to visit1. Bring a flashlight and let’s get started… Many places can claim to…
Millennium Dome / The O2
The Millennium Dome was an exhibition centre built in London to celebrate the first year of the new millennium1. It has since been converted into the O2 entertainment complex. Whatever the name, we’re very impressed with the shadows cast by…
Graveyards of the Atlantic
New writer: Keith Tyler Keith is a Software QA Engineer based near Seattle, and is originally from Boston. He’s a veteran geocacher, and a prolific submitter of Google Maps sights on VirtualGlobetrotting.com. The rocky East Coast of North America is…
Bridges over the Millennia
New writer: Cédric Cédric lives in Germany where he works for the science and education department of one of Germany’s regional public radio and TV stations. He has a life-long project to see the world, especially by train. The invention…
The World’s Biggest Shopping Basket
Motorists taking State Route 16 through Licking County, Ohio, could be forgiven for thinking they’ve been at the wheel too long when they spot a giant shopping basket looming over the horizon. This is no highway-induced hallucination however: it’s the…
Angel Falls and Jimmie Angel’s Plane
New writer: Noel Ballantyne Noel is from Sligo, NW Ireland. He is a very active member of the GE BBS forums, and loves to travel, especially to concerts when band’s tours do not visit Ireland. A common topic of conversation…
Best of Google Sightseeing
Weirdness on the Ocean Floor
There’s some odd sightings on the ocean floor, thanks to the much-improved ocean surface depth images that were added to…
Climbing in a Flat Land
You might think that living in the Netherlands would be inconvenient for aspiring rock climbers – what with much of…
Definitely a duck (maybe)
Here in the United States somewhere (we think, we haven’t checked), we’ve found this random patch of land that we…
Brayton Fire Training Field and Disaster City
In the city of College Station in Texas (part-way between Dallas and Houston) there is a scene of apparent disaster,…
Google Sightseeing 2011 Wrap-up
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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