The White Sands National Monument & Missile Range

This is the utterly bizarre, and totally incredible White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, USA. The monument is the southernmost part of a 710 square kilometre (275-square mile) field of startlingly white sand dunes, which are composed of gypsum…

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Wednesday, 12th April 2006

Mysterious Floating Disc?

Is this a mysterious floating disc in Egypt? It certainly shares characteristics with the Australian Flying Car, but this time the 'shadow' looks too... dense? And maybe too sharp around the edges as well I think. Maybe this is actually…

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Monday, 10th April 2006

Richard’s Grandad

Richard found his Grandad! I just managed to get Google Earth installed on my PC, and was trying to explain to my Grandad how it works. So I found his house - and lo and behold he was standing in…

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Friday, 7th April 2006

Sails of the South

These are the Sails of the South, found beside the M275 near Portsmouth, England. Unveiled in March 2001 as part of the Gateway Project regeneration scheme, it represents a masted tri-sail in homage to Portsmouth's maritime heritage. Er, a bit…

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Thursday, 6th April 2006

World’s Largest Music Players

Unfortunately we missed posting this giant iPod sighted in Australia last week - but we don't mind as it seems that most of the rest of the net was taken in by the stupidly obvious April Fool that was doing…

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Thursday, 6th April 2006

River Tamar Bridge Shadows

Check out the awesome twin shadows of two bridges linking Devon and Cornwall over the River Tamar, England. The suspension bridge to the north is the Tamar Bridge which at the time of its opening was the longest suspension bridge…

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Wednesday, 5th April 2006

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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