Mystery Sand Formation (Desert Week 2011)
For our first post of Desert Week 2011, we’re travelling to the Grand Erg Oriental, or ‘Great Eastern Sand Sea’…
Asia
Kawasaki Man-Made Island
Updated The Kawasaki Man-Made Island is in the middle of an undersea tunnel between Kisarazu City and Kawasaki City across the Tokyo bay. Apparently they started boring the tunnel from the island towards each side. Thanks: Daryl, Callum, Benet, Alex,…
Tokyo Tower
This is the Tokyo Tower in Japan, which is the world’s tallest self supporting steel structure. Although it seems like everything can be classified as the world’s tallest something… ( I hearby declare myself the world’s third tallest Google Sightseeing…
Forbidden City
Inside Beijing, lies the Forbidden City, the location of the Imperial Palace during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is the world’s largest palace and features a six meter deep moat, a ten meter high wall, five halls, seventeen palaces…
Best of Google Sightseeing
Desert Week 2011
As is customary, the “much-more-interesting-than-it-sounds” desert week is one week late again this year! However, our writers have been touring…
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…
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…
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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