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Friday, 11th November 2005 by James Turnbull
The white blob in our thumbnail is a parasail, with the speedboat doing circles just to the East. This is just off the coast of Mexico where we can see the Rui Palace hotel (again, under construction in the satellite photo) where submitter “DJ Swammi” is going on honeymoon next month.
In the early days of mass automotive travel, fuel stations often resorted to some wacky gimmicks to differentiate themselves from the pack and lure in customers, such as novelty architecture that made the station building even more of a roadside attraction than the fuel they were selling. Today, many of these wacky 1930s-era stations are icons to thousands of visitors every year.
Colima is an active volcano in Mexico — one of the most active in North America. With an elevation of…
Nobody likes traffic. The frequent starts and stops just to roll another few feet can grind away at anyone’s mind.…
It’s often the simplest things that get the biggest laugh around here, and when we open the GSS suggestion box…
Have you ever walked through the front door of a building in one country and walked out the back door…
Nothing says summer like a trip down the midway at the local fairground when the carnival comes to town. Games, rides, food, creepy carnies missing various portions of their extremities – all of them a ritual for millions of fair-goers each year. Join us as we travel the world in search of amusement…
Check out all of these white cars parked on an airfield in Green Cove Springs, Florida! GSS reader Jon who…
In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s Friday! Could there be a better way to celebrate the end of the week…
We get so many submissions of weird and wonderful things our readers have found on Google Maps and Google Earth…
Portmeirion is a small resort village in North Wales famous for its Italianate architecture, and for being the setting for…
Continuing our exploration of one of the world’s largest UNESCO World Heritage Sites, we’ll visit some of the structures built…
Portmeirion is a small resort village in North Wales famous for its Italianate architecture, and for being the setting for…
Continuing our exploration of one of the world’s largest UNESCO World Heritage Sites, we’ll visit some of the structures built…
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