Weirdness

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

Gigantic B2 Stealth Bomber

Here on Tenerife there's an absolutely gigantic shape on the landscape, which looks very like a B2 Stealth Bomber. Just a coincidental arrangement of images, or the accidental discovery of a super-secret B2 Invisibility Cloak? Via haha.nu (Thanks Rob W…

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Wednesday, 29th November 2006

Dolphin Island

To add to our collection of dolphin-shaped things from last week, here's the Ile du Golfe off the south coast of Tasmania which looks astonishingly like (you guessed it), an absolutely gigantic dolphin. More on the Maatsuyker Islands, of which…

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Tuesday, 14th November 2006

The Face of Mother Earth

A poster over at the keyhole forums has discovered what does look remarkably like a kilometre-wide pair of rather luscious-looking female lips. If this were the face of Mother Earth, I wonder where the rest of her features are? The…

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Tuesday, 7th November 2006

Irish Road of Doom

I wonder if these drivers know that the road they're driving along outside Cork, Ireland isn't actually finished yet? Thanks to David Patrick.

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Friday, 3rd November 2006

Welcome to Google Sightseeing!

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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