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Tuesday, 10th February 2009 by Alex Turnbull
The Futuro House is a round, prefabricated house that was designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in 1968. About 100 of the kits were erected around the world, and you’d know if you saw one – because they look exactly like perfect little flying saucers from some 50s B-movie. Royse City Fututo, one of three surviving in Texas Built from fibreglass-reinforced polyester-plastic, Futuros are around 4 metres high by 8…
As we ring in 2012 here at Google Sightseeing, we know that you, too, are celebrating the New Year. Of course, depending on where you are around the globe, you’re celebrating it at very different times – sometimes more than a day apart! With that in mind, here’s your guide to the first – and the last – places on Earth to enter 2012.
While most people dispose of old vehicle by sending them for scrap or recycling, there are endless opportunities to do…
It’s often the simplest things that get the biggest laugh around here, and when we open the GSS suggestion box…
We here at Google Sightseeing pride ourselves on bringing you all sort of fantastic sights from around the globe covering…
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.
We get so many submissions of weird and wonderful things our readers have found on Google Maps and Google Earth…
Exactly 20 years ago today, on the 11th February 1990, the anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela was released from a 27-year…
We’ve explored many castles in the past on Google Sightseeing – whether large, illegal or remote – but there are…
The Futuro House is a round, prefabricated house that was designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in 1968. About 100…
Here in the United States somewhere (we think, we haven’t checked), we’ve found this random patch of land that we…
The continuing rollout of 45° “birds eye view” images across the globe1 has now revealed a real-life tragedy. On the…
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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