Newspaper Carpark

Now this is truly "Large Type" - Perscombinatie printing works in Amsterdam print a lot of newspapers, so when they were decorating the car park they opted for a neat newspaper-like 6 column layout. Brilliant! Submitter "Koos van den Hout"…

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Friday, 28th April 2006

French Frigate Shoals Update

A year ago today we posted about a Giant Alien Dolphin in the Pacific Ocean. It turned out that this was actually a group of islands known as French Frigate Shoals, which has since received a small image update on…

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Friday, 28th April 2006

Bottomless Hot Air Balloon

Floating above the Parc André-Citroën in Paris, France, we find a gigantic tethered hot-air-balloon. If you look closely at the shadow you can see that the "basket" has no bottom! Have the occupants plummeted to their untimely deaths? No, rather…

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Friday, 28th April 2006

Typhoon Class Submarines

In 1977 the Soviets began construction of a fleet of nuclear submarines that were to hold the title of "World's Largest Submarine" for nearly 30 years (and counting!) - the Typhoon class. The fictional "Red October" that was hunted in…

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Thursday, 27th April 2006

20 Years After Chernobyl

Yesterday was the 20 year anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, and Google has marked the occasion by providing high-resolution imagery of the whole area. In our thumbnail you can see the concrete sarcophagus which was built to attempt to contain…

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Thursday, 27th April 2006

Fungi the Dolphin

This is a crop maze in Dingle, Ireland which celebrates the local hero, Fungi the Dolphin (it's supposed to be a picture of a dolphin, and the text reads "Fungi 20 years in Dingle"). Apparently, Fungi is a bottlenose dolphin…

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Wednesday, 26th 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.

Like this site? We published a photo book of the best entries, you should buy a copy.