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We were recently contacted by David Nicol from Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, who had started writing an article (mostly for his own amusement), that used Google Street View to spotlight the few surviving remains of Elizabethan London as it would…
Unbelievably (for us at least) today is the sixth anniversary of the the first ever post on Google Sightseeing, which was an aerial view of a MIckey Mouse-shaped lake at Disney World, Florida1. We’re very glad to still be here,…
Romania has today become the 27th country to receive coverage on Google Street View. Almost 4,000 miles of road has been photographed, capturing sights such as Bran Castle, the probable inspiration for Count Dracula’s castle. In the capital of Bucharest,…
Today we feature another in a series of special guest posts from geography bloggers, this time from Tom Howder who is responsible for Twelve Mile Circle. Tom has dedicated his site to the many unusual places on the map that…
We’ve recently added a number of improvements to Google Sightseeing for those on mobile devices. Firstly, users on smaller screens such as iPhone, iPod or Android phones will automatically see our new mobile-optimised style, which breaks the site down into…
Today we’re very proud to be featuring a specially-commissed guest post from Kyle Kusch, proprietor of excellent geography blog The Basement Geographer. In his non-Internet life, Kyle works as a jack-of-all-trades geographer in rural British Columbia, Canada, where he tells…
Sivash is the shallow system of lagoons that separates Crimea from mainland Ukraine. Home to large-scale salt deposits, Sivash may just contain the most colourful waters to be found in Google Maps, with ponds of blue, beige and organe readily visible.
Robben Island is a prison island off Capetown, South Africa, best known as the jail where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated…
Whether it’s space aliens, light-speed travelling spaceships, or just some top-secret government testing, the world’s most famous “secret place” has…
Here at Google Sightseeing, our obsession with superlatives knows no bounds, whether it be the largest, the smallest, the funniest, or the strangest. Join us as we literally go in another direction with our look at ten items that have the right to be called the northernmost such things on Earth!
It looks as if our Crazy SCUBA Guys have made a comeback! This time the two Norwegian men have been…
Nobody likes traffic. The frequent starts and stops just to roll another few feet can grind away at anyone’s mind.…
Here at Google Sightseeing, our obsession with superlatives knows no bounds, whether it be the largest, the smallest, the funniest, or the strangest. Join us as we literally go in another direction with our look at ten items that have the right to be called the northernmost such things on Earth!
Nobody likes traffic. The frequent starts and stops just to roll another few feet can grind away at anyone’s mind.…
For centuries lighthouses have served as navigation aids, helping protect marine traffic from running aground on dangerous coastlines, rocks and…
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