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Bavarian Motor Works

Saturday, 2nd July 2005 by

The BMW world headquarters in Munich, Germany is the ‘four-cylinder’ building (which was built top-down), while the famous logo is atop the BMW museum. Over in South Carolina is BMW’s North American home. The rather-cool crescent moon shaped building is the BMW Zentrum, the only BMW museum in North America, and sits next to the only BMW manufacturing facility in the United States. The factory exclusively builds the Z4 roadsters…

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Twisted Spires

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Spreepark: An abandoned German theme park

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Today we continue our sporadic series touring the world’s most interesting abandoned places with Spreepark – an abandoned theme park…

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Abandoned Stadiums of Europe, South America, and Africa

Abandoned Stadiums of Europe, South America, and Africa

Every day around the world, millions of people gather in giant stadiums to watch their favourite sporting events and performance acts. But what happens when time inevitably catches up with these facilities? Today we begin our tour of abandoned stadiums from around the world with a look at old arenas in Europe, South America, and Africa.

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Naked and Nude on Google Maps

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…

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