Top Ten Most Expensive Restaurants in the US

Last year bundle.com released a list of the 25 most expensive restaurants in the US, with mind-boggling average prices for highly stylised meals consisting of a wide array of exotic ingredients. However, it won't cost you a penny1 to join…

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Friday, 2nd March 2012

Rock ‘n’ Roll R.I.P.s

The world has a certain reverential (or just morbid) fascination with the death sites of famous musicians. The pantheon of dead music legends is far too great (and depressing) to capture in just one article, but here’s a look at just some of the famous/infamous places where great talents have met untimely ends.

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Tuesday, 28th February 2012

Google Sea View

Not content with covering almost every road in the world, Google have partnered with the University of Queensland to produce underwater Street View, and have announced plans to cover Australia's Great Barrier Reef in September of this year. The images…

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Thursday, 23rd February 2012

The World’s Worst Airport Terminals

A list of the best and worst airport terminals in the world has recently been published on frommer.com, and despite some cities making the list more than once, the results span the whole globe. However rather than tell you all…

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Tuesday, 21st February 2012

Napoleon in Exile

When Napoleon's reign over much of Europe came to an end in 1814, his opponents shipped him off to the Italian island of Elba. When Napoleon made his way back to France anyway and was deposed yet again, the British sent him to the remote Atlantic island of Saint Helena. Here are the various homes and locales Napoleon called home during his island imprisonments.

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Friday, 17th February 2012

Valentine’s Wood

This is the English county of Wiltshire - legendary home of crop circles, but they don't only cut down the local flora to make pretty shapes here, as shown by this lovely heart-shaped wood. Overlooking the village of Oare, the…

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Tuesday, 14th February 2012

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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