Two factories of the Coca-Cola company. The first is in St. Petersburg, Russia and the other is somewhere in Germany.

Thanks: Max & Bilbo

The Fernsehturm (literally, “TV tower”) was built in 1969 and features a revolving cafe and observation deck. Aside from the obvious function of providing TV and radio signals for the city the underlying motivation for the tower was to create a powerful political symbol in East Germany that could be seen by the West.

The buildings around the tower appear to be in the shape of an aeroplane, but I couldn’t find anything saying if this was intentional or not. Also look for the tower’s large shadow extending to the North, the train station ‘Alexanderplatz’ just to the east and the orange roofed church St. Marien to the west .

Thanks: Matt Sauer, Pat Rafferty, Roland, Kristian, DJ Swammi, Henryk Plötz, Markus

Another landing strip in Iraq which, like most of them, has been made unusable by placing sandbags at regular intervals along the runways. But who’s that dead body on the runway?

Here at GSS we get a lot of submissions of clouds, but they are mostly pretty unexciting. That said, I really like this shadow formed by a cloud over Munich Airport. Can you (like me) see the footballer, facing east, about to kick the ball? Or, (like submitter Sebas) do you see a traveller, walking east, carrying a handbag in his right hand?

Thanks: Mark Huijser & Sebas

The BMW world headquarters in Munich, Germany is the ‘four-cylinder’ building (which was built top-down), while the famous logo is atop the BMW museum.

Over in South Carolina is BMW’s North American home. The rather-cool crescent moon shaped building is the BMW Zentrum, the only BMW museum in North America, and sits next to the only BMW manufacturing facility in the United States.

The factory exclusively builds the Z4 roadsters and X5 sports activity vehicles which are then distibuted worldwide via the Port of Brunswick. You can clearly see the hundreds of Beemers waiting to be shipped out.

Thanks: James, Jacob Tomaw, Carson Diltz, Paul, Jochen, Giampaolo Bellavite & Alex

Despite the title, the annual “Oktoberfest” takes place each September in Theresienwiese, Munich. You can see the large tents being constructed where Germans and tourists will sit at enormous long tables and drink beer by the litre. If things haven’t changed much from when I was there in the late ’90s then there will also be large group renditions of Alice (Who the f**k is Alice) at every opportunity.

Thanks: marcogh, Ralf, Erich Schubert, luckystarr