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Top Ten World’s Tallest Statues

The roster of the world's tallest statues is dominated by Buddhist figures, with most of the top ten (actually 11 because of a tie) being representations of the Buddha or Guanyin. While we've looked at Very…

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Thursday, 24th July 2014

Burj Khalifa: The world’s tallest building, on Street View

For the very first time, Google has released Street View imagery of the Arab world, and they've started right at the very top – with the highest man-made viewpoint on the planet, Dubai's monumental Burj Khalifa.…

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Wednesday, 26th June 2013

Holy-moly, the Tokyo Skytree is ENORMOUS (pan up!) At 634m it’s the world’s tallest self supporting tower

Holy-moly, the Tokyo Skytree is ENORMOUS (pan up!) http://POSTURLHERE At 634m it's the world's tallest self supporting tower #streetview

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Friday, 21st June 2013

World’s Tallest Lighthouses

For centuries lighthouses have served as navigation aids, helping protect marine traffic from running aground on dangerous coastlines, rocks and reefs. As we're ever-so-slightly fond of superlatives here at Google Sightseeing, we'll take a tour of…

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Tuesday, 15th May 2012

Taipei 101 currently holds the title of the world’s tallest *completed* building but it won’t last much longer #streetview

Taipei 101 currently holds the title of the world's tallest completed building but it won't last much longer #streetview http://gss.st/aF

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Tuesday, 18th August 2009

World’s Tallest Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine

Here in Canada, there's a large scale windfarm known as Le Nordais, which as well as having 133 conventional wind turbines, also features one particular design of wind turbine with which you may be unfamiliar. Le…

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Friday, 14th August 2009

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