Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Mountain Venues
The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games start today and Google has treated us to excellent new imagery of many of…
Monuments
Voortrekker Monument
The Voortrekker Monument was built in honour of the Voortrekkers (Pioneers), who left the Cape Colony in their thousands between 1835 and 1854. The monument was inaugurated on 16 December 1949, the anniversary of the “Battle of Blood River“, and…
The Brandenburg Gate
This is Berlin’s world famous triumphal arch, The Brandenburg Gate, which these days symbolises the freedom and unity of the city. Built in 1771, it is the only remaining one of a series of eighteen gates through which people originally…
Siegessäule (Victory Column), Berlin
Update: I’m a numpty. After 556 unique entries, I finally managed to post a sight which James had already posted. I guess it had to happen sooner or later… This is Berlin’s Siegessäule, or in English ‘The Victory Column’. The…
Soviet War Memorial, Tiergarten, Berlin
This is the Soviet War Memorial in Tiergarten, Berlin. The inscription on the side of the memorial reads: Eternal glory to heroes who fell in the struggle against the German fascist invaders for the freedom and independence of the Soviet…
The Berlin Wall
Today, the 9th of November, is the 16th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Not much of the wall still stands, but the largest reamining section is now maintained as the world’s largest open air gallery, the East…
Spitfire Island
The metal structure in the middle of the traffic island is a memorial to the factory and industrial area of Castle Bromwich near Birmingham which produced the famous WWII fighter plane the mighty Supermarine Spitfire. The Supermarine Spitfire was a…
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Saturday, 5th November 2005
Saturday, 5th November 2005
Best of Google Sightseeing
US Space & Rocket Center
NASA’s first visitor centre, and one of the world’s largest public collections of space bits is the U.S. Space and…
20 Years of a Free Nelson Mandela
Exactly 20 years ago today, on the 11th February 1990, the anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela was released from a 27-year…
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…
Google Maps publishes aerial images of murder scene
The continuing rollout of 45° “birds eye view” images across the globe1 has now revealed a real-life tragedy. On the…
Trollstigen (Troll’s path)
In a country renowned for its natural beauty, one of the most spectacular landscapes is found along the Trollstigen (Troll’s…
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