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Friday, 21st January 2011 by Chris Hannigan
Here at Google Sightseeing we’re absolutely fascinated with the more unusual names that places have been given. There’s so much choice in this field that today we’re able to bring you another post about creative place names – but this time themed entirely around things you’d find in the kitchen. You have to imagine that quite a bit of work goes into naming a new place. I wonder what early…
In the city of College Station in Texas (part-way between Dallas and Houston) there is a scene of apparent disaster,…
While most people dispose of old vehicle by sending them for scrap or recycling, there are endless opportunities to do…
Today, it’s the second part of Google Sightseeing’s tour of abandoned stadiums and arenas around the world. No country on Earth has more large arenas and stadiums than the United States, so it only fits that no country has more abandoned venues. There are so many abandoned stadiums in the US that they could fill countless pages; here are just a few of the many.
It’s often the simplest things that get the biggest laugh around here, and when we open the GSS suggestion box…
Spend any time browsing Google Maps or Earth and you’ll soon spot an airport – they’re usually easy to spot…
With the regular season winding down and the postseason approaching, it is time to conclude our look at some of…
The largest city on the planet that wasn’t in existence at the beginning of the 20th century, the city of…
Google has today launched brand new Street View imagery for Norway, Finland and large parts of Canada. But it’s in…
The parking garage for the Kansas City Public Library may not look very special from above: … but from street…
Here in the United States somewhere (we think, we haven’t checked), we’ve found this random patch of land that we…
The continuing rollout of 45° “birds eye view” images across the globe1 has now revealed a real-life tragedy. On the…
In a country renowned for its natural beauty, one of the most spectacular landscapes is found along the Trollstigen (Troll’s…
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