Climbing in a Flat Land
You might think that living in the Netherlands would be inconvenient for aspiring rock climbers – what with much of…
MLB Stadium Tour – American League
With Major League Baseball having recently paused for its mid-season All Star Game break, this is the first of a two-part tour of stadiums across North America, focusing on somewhat fanciful features in recently constructed ballparks. We begin with the…
World’s Largest Graffiti? Not even close.
Doing the rounds on the mainstream sites this week has been the story of Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Hamad bin Hamdan Al Nahyan, who has created a series of canals in the coastline of his own private island that spell out…
The Street Art of Newtown, Sydney
Newtown is an inner suburb of Sydney, New South Wales and is one of that city’s major cultural and artistic centres. The suburb is renowned for its graffiti and street art, and since the 1980s all sorts of murals, drawings and paintings, both legal and illegal, have been popping up all over the neighbourhood.
South Sudan
It’s not every day that a new country is created, but that’s what happened on July 9th 2011 when The Republic of South Sudan came into existence. The nation is so new that Google Maps doesn’t yet show it. However,…
Rock am Ring
You thought it was hard to find a parking spot in your town? Take a look at Google’s new satellite imagery of Germany’s Nurburgring… Every conceivable speck of open land has been packed with vehicles all around this legendary Grand…
The Principality of Monaco
We celebrate today as Monaco is finally added to the collection of countries added by Google Street View, giving us up close views of iconic sights such as the Casino Monte Carlo, the Prince’s Palace and the Circuit de Monaco, plus much more.
Best of Google Sightseeing
The Best Job in the World
Yesterday1 was Australia Day, when each January 26th, Australians crack open some beers and toss another shrimp on the barbie…
Scenic Street View
The most recent additions to Google’s Street View service made us wonder if it might be in danger of having…
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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