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Monday, 10th September 2007 by Alex Turnbull
Here at the King Khaled Airport in Saudi Arabia, a little way away from the main terminal, there’s a mysterious and unexplained outline of a plane marked out on the desert sand. The shape is similar in size and dimensions to the four-engine Boeing 747; perhaps one was used as a fire training aircraft and since removed? If so, then where did it go, and how did they remove it…
For centuries lighthouses have served as navigation aids, helping protect marine traffic from running aground on dangerous coastlines, rocks and…
Here at the King Khaled Airport in Saudi Arabia, a little way away from the main terminal, there’s a mysterious…
Continuing this week’s semi-theme of very large things, we present the world’s largest airport near Dammam, Saudi Arabia! Although it’s…
The mosque of Al-Masjid al-HÌ£arÄm in Mecca surrounds the Kaaba, the place where all Muslims are expected to visit once…
Here in Saudi Arabia, there’s a large square with a smaller circle inside it. Um… yeah, I really don’t know…
The absolutely huge Prophet Mosque in Medina makes the city the second holiest city of Islam, after Mecca. The mosque…
Sivash is the shallow system of lagoons that separates Crimea from mainland Ukraine. Home to large-scale salt deposits, Sivash may just contain the most colourful waters to be found in Google Maps, with ponds of blue, beige and organe readily visible.
Robben Island is a prison island off Capetown, South Africa, best known as the jail where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated…
Whether it’s space aliens, light-speed travelling spaceships, or just some top-secret government testing, the world’s most famous “secret place” has…
Here at Google Sightseeing, our obsession with superlatives knows no bounds, whether it be the largest, the smallest, the funniest, or the strangest. Join us as we literally go in another direction with our look at ten items that have the right to be called the northernmost such things on Earth!
It looks as if our Crazy SCUBA Guys have made a comeback! This time the two Norwegian men have been…
Nobody likes traffic. The frequent starts and stops just to roll another few feet can grind away at anyone’s mind.…
Here at Google Sightseeing, our obsession with superlatives knows no bounds, whether it be the largest, the smallest, the funniest, or the strangest. Join us as we literally go in another direction with our look at ten items that have the right to be called the northernmost such things on Earth!
Nobody likes traffic. The frequent starts and stops just to roll another few feet can grind away at anyone’s mind.…
For centuries lighthouses have served as navigation aids, helping protect marine traffic from running aground on dangerous coastlines, rocks and…
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