Scotland

Featured Post

Glasgow Science Centre and the Glasgow Tower

Thursday, 6th December 2007 by

Built on the site of the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival, the Glasgow Science Centre is a purpose-built facility featuring three floors dedicated to hands-on science in action. Taking the form of a huge, gleaming, titanium crescent overlooking the Clyde, the building is also home to the best-equipped planetarium in the UK. As if that wasn’t enough, just to the south we can see the silver dome of Scotland’s only IMAX…

• • •

Most popular posts in “Scotland”

Forth Bridges

Forth Bridges Posted by
Wednesday, 22nd June 2005

More Shipwrecks

More Shipwrecks Posted by
Monday, 18th July 2005

Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece Posted by
Wednesday, 3rd August 2005

Edinburgh Zoo

Edinburgh Zoo Posted by
Friday, 12th August 2005

The Bonnie, Bonnie Banks

The Bonnie, Bonnie Banks Posted by
Monday, 19th September 2005

Location, Location, Location

Location, Location, Location Posted by
Thursday, 22nd September 2005

Recent posts in the “Scotland” category

Ontario’s namesakes

Ontario’s namesakes

As Canada is a relatively young country, many of its towns and cities were named by immigrants wanting to retain…

• • •

Fetlar: The Garden of Shetland

Fetlar: The Garden of Shetland

One of the most remote places in all of Great Britain is the isle of Fetlar, known as the ‘Garden of Shetland’. The fourth-largest island of Shetland and surrounded by cliffs and beaches, sparsely-populated Fetlar has a population of just 70 residents.

• • • • •

6 Years of Google Sightseeing

6 Years of Google Sightseeing

Unbelievably (for us at least) today is the sixth anniversary of the the first ever post on Google Sightseeing, which…

Distilleries of Islay

Distilleries of Islay

Fans of single-malt scotch whisky associate single malts from the Isle of Islay in Scotland with bold and peaty flavors.…

• •

Airport Emergency Training Locations

Airport Emergency Training Locations

As a moderately frequent flyer, I enjoy looking out for fire and emergency training locations at airports. It’s fascinating because,…

•

New GSS design launched!

New GSS design launched!

After what feels like months of work1, we’ve finally launched our brand new design for Google Sightseeing (14 weeks after…

Page 1 of 812345678

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.

Could you be one of our authors? We're looking for more freelance writers - please get in touch for more information.

Best of Google Sightseeing

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…

Community Bookshelf, Kansas City

The parking garage for the Kansas City Public Library may not look very special from above: … but from street…

•

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 :(
  5. Doug: I love the joke you guys play — posting the EXACT same thing every February 2, now for the sixth year in...

Advertisement