All sights in California

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

Windmills, California

Posted by James Turnbull, Wednesday, 13th April 2005

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Here’s a shot of Large windmill clusters in the Mojave desert, California. Scroll around a bit and you’ll see there’s lots of them. Also quite cool in the East of this shot there’s a collection of what I’m assuming are spare blades for the windmills.

Windmills

Thanks: Gus

Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet

Posted by James Turnbull, Monday, 11th April 2005

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The Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet is a collection of mothballed warships near Benecia, California (More info).

Warships

Thanks: Harold Check & elsamo

Office Space

Posted by James Turnbull, Monday, 11th April 2005

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Top technology headquarters around America: Google, Apple Computer & Microsoft.

Thanks: Eric, Mathew, Ahmad

49ers, Philadelphia & Olympic Stadiums

Posted by James Turnbull, Saturday, 9th April 2005

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Please note that some or all of the objects mentioned in this post are no longer visible on Google Earth or Google Maps.

The first stadium is the San Francisco 49er’s Stadium Monster Park (formerly 3com park) (thumbnail #1 below) and it seems they were playing at the moment the photo was taken.

There’s lots of stadiums in this shot of Philadelphia In the North West there’s the Veterans Stadium before it was demolished on March 21, 2004, North East is Citizen’s Bank Park still under construction (opened April 9, 2004) and South East is Lincoln Financial Field (opened August 8, 2003). In the South West is First Union Center & First Union Spectrum, each with large type on the roof.

Lastly we have the amazing Olympic Stadium complex in Montreal (thumbnail #2 below), which was built for the 1976 Summer Olympic Games.

San Fran Olympic Stadium

Thanks: sixtoe, Dean, Allen, many others.

Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant

Posted by , Friday, 8th April 2005

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Strangely beautiful.

diablo canyon

Thanks Rhett.