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…
Stadiums and Sport
1st Annual Google Sightseeing Volcano Day!
Today we are proud to present to you, the 1st Annual* Google Sightseeing Volcano Day! Yes that’s right, we have an entire day of posts lined up entirely devoted to volcanoes. Please note: This event may not actually occur annually…
LA Coliseum
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum hosted both the 1932 and 1984 Olympic Games and the Olympic torch, which resides at the east end, is still lit during football games. The Coliseum was also the site of the very first Super…
Henry Doorly Zoo & Rosenblatt Stadium
The Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha stakes claim to a couple of “world’s largest” titles. The dome structure houses the world’s largest indoor desert as well as “Kingdoms of the Night”, the world’s largest nocturnal exhibit. The zoo also has…
U.S. Open
This is Pinehurst, North Carolina, where the 2005 U.S. Open kicked off today. Unfortunately it’s not all in high-resolution, but in the thumbnail I think we’re looking at the 18th. Just to the west is the clubhouse. See, we can…
Augusta National Golf Course
This is Augusta National Golf Course, site of The Masters. Our image here is of ‘Amen Corner’, at the very bottom centre is the 12th green just over Rae’s Creek. There’s a map of the course over at the official…
Mellon Arena
The Mellon Arena is home to the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins and more importantly was the setting for the 1995 Van Damme “classic” – Sudden Death. The arena was even on the movie poster along with an exploding helicopter. The “radio…
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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