Weirdness

Giant Dog Terrorizes Florida Suburb

Aaiieeeee! Run for the hills! There’s a Monster Dog on the loose! Apparently our submitter found this mega-pooch while she was looking at real estate listings in the area – but says that she’s no longer sure if she wants…

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Thursday, 10th January 2008

The Mysterious Abandoned Pod City of San Zhi

On the very northernmost coast of Taiwan lies the spookily bizarre San Zhi resort, which consists entirely of circular, multi-coloured pods stacked on top of one another. Furthermore, these strange habitats have been completely abandoned for a number of years,…

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Friday, 4th January 2008

Google Sightseeing 2007 Awards

As 2007 draws to a close we present our choices for the best posts of the year. Best Mystery There were numerous contenders for the most confusing or bizarre images, but our pick is the Mystery Plane Outline, as even…

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Monday, 31st December 2007

It’s a Mystery

There’s a neat question mark, about 11m tall, drawn on the ground of a construction site in the city of Rennes, France. Of course, the question about this question is: why is it there? The “?” appears to be made…

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Wednesday, 24th October 2007

Aliens Invade Romania

I think no-one can doubt that aliens have definitely landed! Both of these spacecraft are located in farmland outside the Romanian city of Timisoara. Romania is not known as a major UFO hotspot, but to our alien overlords Roswell is…

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Monday, 24th September 2007

Mystery Plane Outline

Here at the King Khaled Airport in Saudi Arabia, a little way away from the main terminal, there’s a mysterious and unexplained outline of a plane marked out on the desert sand. The shape is similar in size and dimensions…

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Monday, 10th September 2007

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Google Sightseeing takes you on a tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Our team of authors present weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

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Best of Google Sightseeing

Wow! That’s a LOT of cars!

Check out all of these white cars parked on an airfield in Green Cove Springs, Florida! GSS reader Jon who…

From the ground: the best of Google Street View

In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s Friday! Could there be a better way to celebrate the end of the week…

Only from above: the best of Google Maps

We get so many submissions of weird and wonderful things our readers have found on Google Maps and Google Earth…

Portmeirion & The Prisoner

Portmeirion is a small resort village in North Wales famous for its Italianate architecture, and for being the setting for…

St Petersburg UNESCO World Heritage Site – Part Two: Forts and Fortresses

Continuing our exploration of one of the world’s largest UNESCO World Heritage Sites, we’ll visit some of the structures built…

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