Heart Forest

I'm sorry that we missed this post yesterday, but for all you day-late romantics out there here's a (slightly patchy) large heart-shaped forest near Kansas City airport. Aww. We've also previously posted various other heart shaped things. Thanks: Glenn

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Wednesday, 15th February 2006

Spinnaker Tower

Portsmouth's Spinnaker Tower is like a giant sail on the dock. It was supposed to be a millennium project but only opened last year and as you can see it is still under construction in the Google Maps photo. There's…

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Tuesday, 14th February 2006

Alien Crop Circles!

Here at Google Sightseeing one of the things people most often ask us to post, are your common-or-garden alien crop circles. Never liking to disappoint our readers, GGSS is proud to present... a whole slew of possibly alien crop circles!…

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Tuesday, 14th February 2006

Beached Whale

Here's a sad image of a dead or dying whale on a beach in South Africa. It seems that people are having to try to save beached whales increasingly often, and sadly there's some suggestion that our marine sonar systems…

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Monday, 13th February 2006

Winter Olympics 2006

The 2006 Winter Olympics kicked off the day before yesterday in Torino, Italy and the over-the-top ceremony was held in the Olympic Stadium. Some of the other places available for satellite spotting include the Palaghiaccio Arena (next to the Olympic…

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Sunday, 12th February 2006

Parafield

In the suburb of Parafield, just north of the city of Adelaide (the capital of the state of South Australia), there's an airport imaginatively named Parafield, where they've written 'Parafield' in 12-foot-high trees. We reckon the type is roughly 141,732…

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Sunday, 12th February 2006

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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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