Weirdness

The World’s Largest Plasma TV

Google Earth satellite images have unearthed Samsung’s top secret development of the World’s largest Plasma Television. After Japanese manufacturer Matsushita topped the South Korean electronics company’s 102″ plasma with a 103″ model Samsung moved developments to the African country of…

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Monday, 29th January 2007

Thing Attacks New York

Watch out below! It looks like Thing (you know, the severed hand from the Addams Family) has grown thousands of times in size and is attacking New York City! Run for the hills! Aiiieeeeee! Hang on, turns out that the…

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Tuesday, 23rd January 2007

Fucking, Austria

Yes, there really is a place in Austria called Fucking. In fact they liked the name so much, it seems that they also have several Fucking roads. Which f**king road would you live on? Update: Welcome Boingboingers! We’ve had lots…

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Tuesday, 16th January 2007

Return of the Alien Civilization

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water… it’s the Return of the Alien Civilization! If you’ve been a reader for a while you’ll remember the original Alien Civilization post, where people were arguing about…

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Tuesday, 9th January 2007

Unidentified Flying Water Droplet

We’ve had UFOs and Water Droplets, but never before have we seen an Unidentified Flying Water Droplet! Even if this is just an area of land that Google hasn’t got the image for, then what happened? How did the satellite…

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Friday, 5th January 2007

Face of… Santa Claus?

Here in Portugal there’s a forest fire burning through the landscape (Portugal’s been hit hard by these fires in recent years), but there seems to be a little more to this particular plume of smoke… Does that not look like…

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Monday, 4th December 2006

Welcome to Google Sightseeing

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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