Movie Locations

Red Rocks Ampitheater

Red Rocks Amphitheatre is considered by many as the greatest music venue in the world (including most of the people who submitted it). The naturally occurring amphitheatre is between two 320 foot monoliths, Ship Rock to the south and Creation…

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Thursday, 4th August 2005

Arecibo Radio Telescope

Well here it is, the one that literally hundreds of you have submitted over the past few months. We held off posting it because it would be so much better to see this is high-res. However here it is (finally),…

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Thursday, 4th August 2005

Hachiko Square

This is Hachiko Square, the famous "busy pedestrians" road junction in Tokyo where everyone is waiting patiently to cross the road and then surging over. On Google Maps it is the cross roads with the wide white stripes going around…

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Tuesday, 26th July 2005

Powers of Ten

Back in 1977, Charles and Ray Eames made a short movie entitled 'Powers of Ten', which Wikipedia describes like this: It begins with a couple picnicking in a park; the view is that of one meter across. The viewpoint then…

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Friday, 22nd July 2005

Venice

This is the beautiful Venice, city of canals. Venice is built on more than a hundred islands in a shallow lagoon, with the canals serving the function of roads - every form of transport is on water or on foot.…

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Thursday, 30th June 2005

Tokyo Tower

This is the Tokyo Tower in Japan, which is the world's tallest self supporting steel structure. Although it seems like everything can be classified as the world's tallest something... ( I hearby declare myself the world's third tallest Google Sightseeing…

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Friday, 24th June 2005

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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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