Weirdness

The best of Google Maps: Circles, Paintings, and Rude Messages

It’s often the simplest things that get the biggest laugh around here, and when we open the GSS suggestion box it’s easy to get overwhelmed with small zingers that get a nice chuckle. So that’s just what we did for…

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Thursday, 29th September 2011

Decadent Dubai on hold

Here at Google Sightseeing we’re fond of the excesses that are common in the oil-rich city of Dubai.1 Before the recent recession, money flowed so freely that even utilitarian structures were built larger than anywhere else on the planet. One…

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Friday, 23rd September 2011

Naked and Nude on Google Maps

We here at Google Sightseeing pride ourselves on bringing you all sort of fantastic sights from around the globe covering all sorts of topics, but we know where our bread is buttered. The visitor statistics and Street View submissions say…

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Friday, 2nd September 2011

Quirky Border Towns of North America

Have you ever walked through the front door of a building in one country and walked out the back door in another? How about driving along on the actual border line between two states? Check out our collection of the…

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Wednesday, 31st August 2011

The Street Art of Newtown, Sydney

Newtown is an inner suburb of Sydney, New South Wales and is one of that city’s major cultural and artistic centres. The suburb is renowned for its graffiti and street art, and since the 1980s all sorts of murals, drawings and paintings, both legal and illegal, have been popping up all over the neighbourhood.

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Thursday, 21st July 2011

World’s largest Pac-man game

A giant-size depiction of the Pac-Man game has been found! Someone has taken all of the familiar features from the classic arcade hit, and reproduced them on the streets of this quiet suburb in Massachusetts. Here’s our hero, Pac-man, eating…

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Tuesday, 28th June 2011
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Best of Google Sightseeing

The Morganza Spillway – Spring Flooding Special

The Morganza Spillway is a flood management system on the Mississippi River in Louisiana, intended to protect the cities of…

Very Large Christs

Back to his very origins, humans have chosen to worship physical representations of their deities. Currently the most popular religion…

Shipwrecks of Aden

For centuries, the port of [Aden][w] has served as Yemen’s gateway to the the world. Its distinctive double harbour lies in the crater of an extinct volcano. Over the years, a number of wrecked ships have accumulated in Aden’s harbour, many of which are visible in Google Maps imagery.

Lesotho: Kingdom in the Sky

Lesotho is one of the most unique countries on the planet. It’s the southernmost landlocked country, the largest country that’s entirely surrounded by another country, and the highest country on Earth. Yet, it doesn’t really show up on too many people’s radar. With the arrival of Google Street View imagery this month to Lesotho, it’s time to shed some light on the world’s largest enclave.

Rozenburg Wind Wall

The Netherlands is renowned for being a very flat1 and windy country. In the western town of Rozenburg the strong…

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