Arizona

Millions and millions of tyres

Within the Sonoran Desert National Monument, Arizona, is one of the largest stockpiles of discarded vehicle tyres1 in the US – perhaps as many as 10 million individual tyres. Despite being just south of a town called Goodyear, this is…

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Wednesday, 16th July 2008

Air Force One

Air Force One is the callsign for any aircraft that has the President of the United States on board, most commonly one of two specially adapted Boeing 747s. One of them is seen here in Yuma, Arizona, where the President…

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Wednesday, 9th January 2008

Multi-Vehicle Car Accident Captured on Google Street View

Last week Google updated their Street View coverage to include Chicago, Pittsburgh, Portland, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and Tucson – bringing the total number of Street View cities up to 15. So far the most dramatic discovery in these new images has…

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Monday, 15th October 2007

Baseball Pool

It’s been a while since we’ve seen a new something-shaped swimming pool here on Google Sightseeing. So, just in time for the summer holidays, here’s a swimming pool in the shape of a Baseball bat with a smaller, ball shaped,…

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Wednesday, 4th July 2007

Telling the time on Google Earth

The KT Palmer Sundial is the largest in North America, described well at The Big Waste of Space. As sundials were primarily designed for telling the time it should be easy to find out when this satellite photograph was taken.…

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Wednesday, 22nd November 2006

London Bridge

The other day I caught the end of the video for the awful London Bridge by Fergie and I noticed that Fergie and her crew were dancing around in front of London’s most famous bridge and the image of a…

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Saturday, 4th November 2006
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The Futuro House

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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...
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