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New Concept Car out for a spin

This is the Quaranta, probably one of the least likely cars you’d ever expect to find on Street View – as it’s the only one of its kind in existence! The “Quaranta” (Italian for “Forty”), is the latest concept from…

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Thursday, 2nd April 2009

Welcome to the brand new Ordnance Survey Sightseeing site!

Today we’re embarking on a brand new journey. After long negotiations with Britain’s national mapping agency, we’re extremely pleased to announce that from today the website previously known as Google Sightseeing is to become ORDNANCE SURVEY SIGHTSEEING. Ordnance Survey is…

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Wednesday, 1st April 2009

World’s Largest Movable Technical Industrial Machines

The mining regions of Germany are home to five of the world’s largest movable technical industrial machines – the Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60. Larger than the Eiffel Tower, these machines weigh 13,600 tons and are up to 502m long, 80m…

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Tuesday, 31st March 2009

MV Ross Revenge

Tied up in Tilbury Docks, we find the MV Ross Revenge, home to Radio Caroline and one of the last surviving pirate radio ships. For many people in the UK and Western Europe in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, pirate…

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Monday, 30th March 2009

“Scientists” Discover Ancient Relic with Google Earth

Thanks to the excellent high-quality imagery in Google Earth, some “scientists”1 claim to have discovered a 1,000-year-old forgotten relic of the fishing world. Just off the coast of Wales they spotted this large v-shaped row of rocks beneath the water…

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Thursday, 26th March 2009

Naked Street View

Warning: This post contains partial nudity and other images that you may not deem suitable for the workplace or for children. When we first posted our notorious Topless Sunbather here on Google Sightseeing back in September 2006, half the world…

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Tuesday, 24th March 2009

Welcome to Google Sightseeing

Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Our team of authors present weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

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Best of Google Sightseeing

The Futuro House

The Futuro House is a round, prefabricated house that was designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in 1968. About 100…

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…

Recent Comments

  1. Guardian Heroes: Ok, that view from the lions gate looks amazing. I’d like to visit there someday.
  2. Mark: Guessing, from this account, that it’s Kevin Barrera. The location linked isn’t exact, but the...
  3. Alex Turnbull: Given how long the body must have lain there (long enough for the aerial photography airplane to have...
  4. Alex Turnbull: Hi Stuart, are you looking at the police officer? The victim looks pretty dead to me :(
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