All sights in Alberta

Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

The editors: James & Alex

Native American, Listening to an iPod

Tuesday, 28th November 2006 by Alex

Just in case you missed this when it did the rounds in October, here’s some hills in Canada which seem to resemble… well, I’d be hard pushed not to admit that this does look an awful lot like a Native American, listening to an iPod.

Indian iPod Native American

Thanks to all our submitters, and especially the original finder - supergranny.

Medicine Hat’s Saamis Teepee

Wednesday, 12th July 2006 by Alex

Here in Medicine Hat, Canada, you couldn’t possibly miss the Saamis Teepee. Designed for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary and moved here in 1991, it stands over 65 metres high - making Medicine Hat the proud owner of the world’s tallest teepee.

You just couldn’t make this stuff up could you?

Thanks to Allison.

The High Level Bridge

Monday, 20th March 2006 by Alex

This is the Lethbridge Viaduct, better known as the High Level Bridge in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Crossing the Oldman River valley this steel trestle bridge is up to 96 metres (314 ft) high and 1,624 metres (5,327 feet) long, making it the longest railway bridge in Canada.

Although actually, it seems that some people reckon the Lethbridge Viaduct might be “the longest railroad trestle bridge in the world” or perhaps even “the world’s longest and highest steel railroad bridge”. I couldn’t verify any of this, but its definitely got a very cool shadow ;-)

There’s more about the Lethbridge Viaduct at Wikipedia where they have an interesting photo of the bridge being built, and they link to a cool ground level photo too.

Thanks to Jackson, Quinn Kuiken, John Fleming and Rob Carlson.

Calgary Tower

Sunday, 24th April 2005 by Alex

This is Calgary Tower in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. At 190 metres, slightly taller than the Space Needle, so I’m told.

Calgary Tower

Thanks to Jordon and Jonathan Wilkins.

Pixel Fields

Tuesday, 19th April 2005 by Alex

This is an awful lot of fields… scroll around for a bit - there’s thousands! And from all the way up here, it looks like some sort of cool pixel-art.

Which might perhaps explain why the farmers chose Pac-Man as their new subject matter when they got bored of rectangles!

Square Fields

Thanks go to Seth for Pac-Man. Cheers mate, geek-tastic!

Oh, there’s also combination rectangles and circles, sent to us by Mik :-)