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Off the Map & Not in the Guide Book

Get out your diaries and keep November 9th free as that's the day you'll be able to buy Google Sightseeing - the book! We've got almost 100 of our favourite sights from the last year, licensed…

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Monday, 21st August 2006

Very Tall Flagpoles

We've previously featured Mexico's giant flags but this is the world's largest unsupported flagpole in Jordan. Narrowly beating the previous record holder in UAE, the flagpole is 126.8 metres tall, is illuminated at night and can…

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Wednesday, 19th July 2006

Bomb Drop Guitar

Remember a while ago when we featured the Mega Ramp - a giant skate-ramp built by professional nutter skateboarder Danny Way? Well, here's another location of one of his crazy stunts - The Hard Rock cafe…

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Monday, 10th July 2006

Madurodam

This is the small city of Madurodam in the Netherlands. They have an airport, canals, stadiums, boats, gardens, windmills and bridges with... giant people on them? And there's some giant cars too! Waaaait a minute... Madurodam…

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Thursday, 6th July 2006

Giant Cogs

On the southern coast of the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine there's giant cogs! They were left over parts from the world's largest clock, which spanned 600m across the coast and was used by scientists in Mir…

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Friday, 30th June 2006

Tropical Islands Resort

Tropical Island Resort is a large artificial "exotic island" resort in Germany. The 107m tall building was designed and built as a hangar for CL160 Super Heavy-Lift Cargo Airships, but the airships were never constructed so…

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Thursday, 15th June 2006

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