The Futuro House
The Futuro House is a round, prefabricated house that was designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in 1968. About 100…
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Talk Like a Pirate Day 2008
Avast Ye! ‘Tis only turned ou’ t’ be International Talk Like a Pirate Day again! Arr! We got a bucketload o’ Street View sights for you scurvy dogs, gar! This pirate’s ship gone an been turned int’ a landlubber’s restaurant…
Mysterious Circle of People
Well it’s been a while since we had a real Friday mystery! So, who can tell us why this group of people seems to have randomly formed a circle in the middle of the road in downtown Las Vegas? Thanks…
World’s Largest KFC Logo
This gigantic image of the KFC Colonel was constructed from 65,000 1-foot-square tiles laid out in the Mojave desert. The advert took six days to construct, and was announced to the public almost exactly a year ago. However the images…
Talk Like a Pirate Day
Avast Ye! Today, it be Talk Like a Pirate Day an’ we’ve got a barrel-load of piratey-themed sights fer ye landlubbers! Las Vegas’ Treasure Island be havin’ a daily pirate battle, ‘ere the swashbucklers by defeated by th’ booty-shaking o’…
Inappropriate Images In Street View
In the comments on our last post one of our readers posted a link to this, er, revealing billboard advert parked in front of the Bellagio, Las Vegas. Which of course raises a question about the suitability of these images…
Face of [Insert Your Own Messiah] Found in [Insert Your Own Natural Phenomenon]
Free UK daily paper The Metro published an article last week about a YouTube video1 in which someone claimed to have found the shape of Jesus in a cloud, floating over Mount Sinai in Egypt. We thought this was such…
![Face of [Insert Your Own Messiah] Found in [Insert Your Own Natural Phenomenon]](http://media.googlesightseeing.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/choosemessiah1.jpg "Face of [Insert Your Own Messiah] Found in [Insert Your Own Natural Phenomenon]")
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