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Australia Day Flyover

The super-high-resolution aerial images of Sydney from the recent Australia Day flyover have this morning been added to Google Maps.1 Google even did some sightseeing of their own in the email announcement when they included links to Queenscliff Bay, Shark…

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Tuesday, 27th February 2007

World’s Largest Paper Planes

Well, unfortunately the world's largest real paper planes aren't usually kept outside, so today we'll have to make do with sculptures of extremely large paper planes. in Mukilteo, Washington, Dillion Works (who specialise in creating large 3D architectural elements), claim…

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Monday, 26th February 2007

The World’s Largest Clocks (Possibly)

The 2nd largest clock in the world is supposedly the Colgate clock, atop the Colgate-Palmolive factory in Indiana. The clock was built way back in 1906 when it originally sat on Colgate's New Jersey facility, before being moved here in…

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Tuesday, 20th February 2007

World’s Largest Spermatozoa

Yes people, this pair of spermatozoon spermatozoa are each nearly half a mile long! At least, I think they're sperm cells hugely magnified - it's that or some sort of crazy elongated guitar art? Thanks to James Bonnette

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Friday, 9th February 2007

Incan Geoglyphs of Chile

Here in Chile's Atacama Desert, there are many examples of ancient Incan geoglyphs, similar to the Nazca Lines in neighbouring Peru, but spread over a much wider area. In the northern desert the Chiza geoglyphs were made by carefully arranging…

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Thursday, 8th February 2007

Fucking, Austria

Yes, there really is a place in Austria called Fucking. In fact they liked the name so much, it seems that they also have several Fucking roads. Which f**king road would you live on? Update: Welcome Boingboingers! We've had lots…

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Tuesday, 16th January 2007

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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