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Top 10 Unseen Street View Sights

Tuesday, 3rd June 2008 by

It’s been a whole year since Google first launched their controversial Street View service, and we posted our first Street View sight. Since then we’ve seen the rate of discovery of the most bizarre and unusual finds increase as Google has added more and more US cities to the roster. With the service due to launch soon in Canada, Italy, Spain, Australia and Japan, we thought we’d mark the one…

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