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Volcano Week 3

Continuing where 2005’s Volcano Day and 2006’s Volcano Day 2 left off, we'll be exclusively posting volcano-related sights this week as part of Volcano Week 3!1 We've got loads of great volcanoes lined up for the…

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Monday, 13th October 2008

Google Sightseeing 2011 Wrap-up

Happy New Year! The festive break is over, and we're all back to work - but there's still time to pause for a look back at Google Sightseeing in 2011. Over the course of the year…

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Thursday, 5th January 2012

Cloud-shapes in the Sand

Remember lying on the grass when you were younger, staring up at the sky, allowing your imagination to twist and shape the clouds into an elephant being chased by a mouse or a dragon being slain…

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Wednesday, 8th July 2009

On this day: Look for Circles Day

Apparently the internet has declared November 2nd 'Look for Circles' day, and we take our internet seriously around here, so we decided to try to find some circles on Google maps. Guess what … we found…

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Sunday, 2nd November 2014

Street View Competitors, Part 2

Today, we continue our tour of street-level imagery in places Google Street View hasn’t reached yet! Here are more images from the numerous services that not only offer their own street-level imagery but have beaten Google to the punch in numerous cities around the globe.

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Thursday, 5th April 2012

Chinese military weirdness

There aren't many sights that puzzle us here at Google Sightseeing, but this one has us stumped. In a remote desert area of Gansu province in northern China is this mysterious maze-like pattern. The "streets" are…

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Tuesday, 18th August 2009

Welcome to Google Sightseeing!

Google Sightseeing takes you on a tour of the world as seen from satellite or street views using Google Maps. Our team of authors present weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

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