The Futuro House
The Futuro House is a round, prefabricated house that was designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in 1968. About 100…
Africa
Google Sightseeing Safari
There have been many creatures found on Google Earth, but the most impressive ones are mostly there as part of the National Geographic African Megaflyover Project, which brought us thousands of super-high-resolution aerial photographs of Africa. So to highlight the…
The Longest Trains in the World
Despite being widely touted as the longest trains in the world, the up-to 2.5 kilometre-long freight trains which bring iron ore to Nouadhibou, Mauritania may not be particularly unique in their length. On the day these images were captured, the…
Angelina Jolie’s Geocache Tattoo
Everything “geo” is so trendy right now that you can’t turn around twice with someone geocoding this or placemarking that. In fact it’s so trendy that even Hollywood actresses are getting in on the act with Angelina Jolie’s latest tattoo…
Mystery Egyptian Desert Spiral
Update: Thanks to cowens and others who informed us that this is actually an absolutely massive piece of land art called desert breath. Click through for some images and a way better description than I gave it! What on earth…
Face of [Insert Your Own Messiah] Found in [Insert Your Own Natural Phenomenon]
Free UK daily paper The Metro published an article last week about a YouTube video1 in which someone claimed to have found the shape of Jesus in a cloud, floating over Mount Sinai in Egypt. We thought this was such…
![Face of [Insert Your Own Messiah] Found in [Insert Your Own Natural Phenomenon]](http://media.googlesightseeing.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/choosemessiah1.jpg "Face of [Insert Your Own Messiah] Found in [Insert Your Own Natural Phenomenon]")
Plane Shaped Pools
It seems that more than one person has had the idea of theming their swimming pool around aeroplanes… Here’s a small private plane-shaped pool in Miami. This is the Flying W Airport in New Jersey, where they have a cool…
Best of Google Sightseeing
Brasília: a Modernist Masterpiece
The largest city on the planet that wasn’t in existence at the beginning of the 20th century, the city of…
Crazy SCUBA Guys Chase Street View
Google has today launched brand new Street View imagery for Norway, Finland and large parts of Canada. But it’s in…
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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