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Wednesday, 9th January 2008 by Rob
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 was making a speech about Immigration Control on May 18, 2006 (Yuma is on the US/Mexican border). (Incidentally, there are lots of Police closing all of the roads south of…
With Major League Baseball having recently paused for its mid-season All Star Game break, this is the first of a…
Here at Google Sightseeing we’re absolutely fascinated with the more unusual names that places have been given. There’s so much…
Today we have a trio of mysterious water-based sightings. First up, these strange pools in Arizona. With all the other…
Mallows Bay on the eastern shore of the Potomac River in Maryland is home to the largest ship graveyard in…
The Phoenix Shot Tower in Baltimore was erected in 1828 and stands at 71.3m, which at that time made it…
When viewed from above, much of the landscape of South Carolina is clearly covered in mysterious oval depressions that aren’t…
Sivash is the shallow system of lagoons that separates Crimea from mainland Ukraine. Home to large-scale salt deposits, Sivash may just contain the most colourful waters to be found in Google Maps, with ponds of blue, beige and organe readily visible.
Robben Island is a prison island off Capetown, South Africa, best known as the jail where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated…
Whether it’s space aliens, light-speed travelling spaceships, or just some top-secret government testing, the world’s most famous “secret place” has…
Here at Google Sightseeing, our obsession with superlatives knows no bounds, whether it be the largest, the smallest, the funniest, or the strangest. Join us as we literally go in another direction with our look at ten items that have the right to be called the northernmost such things on Earth!
It looks as if our Crazy SCUBA Guys have made a comeback! This time the two Norwegian men have been…
Nobody likes traffic. The frequent starts and stops just to roll another few feet can grind away at anyone’s mind.…
Here at Google Sightseeing, our obsession with superlatives knows no bounds, whether it be the largest, the smallest, the funniest, or the strangest. Join us as we literally go in another direction with our look at ten items that have the right to be called the northernmost such things on Earth!
Nobody likes traffic. The frequent starts and stops just to roll another few feet can grind away at anyone’s mind.…
For centuries lighthouses have served as navigation aids, helping protect marine traffic from running aground on dangerous coastlines, rocks and…
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