Buckley Air Force Base

Buckley Air Force Base is home to the 460th Space Wing Staff and features loads of these giant radar golf balls, which I guess are used for communicating with their "Defense Support Program" satellites. The base also hosts the Colorado…

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Sunday, 30th April 2006

Milan Central Station

Milan's Central Station is covered with giant steel canopies, 341 metres long and covering an area of 66,500 square metres, which look amazing from above. Milan's tallest building, the shiny Pirelli Tower is just in front of the station. In…

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Saturday, 29th April 2006

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

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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