Structures

World’s Largest Crosses

As so often seems to be the way with claims of "World's Largest", there's a certain amount of jostling for the top slot - regardless of who should rightfully be in it. Most often described as the World's Largest Cross…

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Friday, 23rd November 2007

Grande Dixence Dam

Completed all the way back in 1935, this is the Grande Dixence Dam which holds back the Lac des Dix, a 4 km long lake in the Val d'Hérens, Switzerland. The water mainly comes from the summer melt of glaciers,…

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Friday, 12th October 2007

Bingham Canyon Mine

This is the gargantuan Bingham Canyon Mine - an open-pit copper, gold, silver and molybdenum mine near Salt Lake City, Utah. In full-scale production since 1906, the pit is over 0.75 miles (1.2 km) deep, 2.5 miles (4 km) wide,…

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Monday, 1st October 2007

God’s Ark of Safety

This is God's Ark of Safety in Frostburg, Maryland. The brainchild of Pastor Richard Greene, this is a church... that's also a full-size replica of Noah's Ark.1 Well it would be... if Pastor Greene had ever gotten round to finishing…

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Thursday, 13th September 2007

Mud Island (Island Week 2)

(It’s Island Week 2 here at GSS, which means we’ll mostly be posting about Islands. For about a week.) On the mighty Mississippi River, Memphis, Tennessee, is Mud Island, which is home to a steamboat museum, restaurants, an outdoor amphitheatre…

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Wednesday, 29th August 2007

Baseball Pool

It's been a while since we've seen a new something-shaped swimming pool here on Google Sightseeing. So, just in time for the summer holidays, here's a swimming pool in the shape of a Baseball bat with a smaller, ball shaped,…

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Wednesday, 4th July 2007

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