Germany

Super-Secret Volkswagen Test Track

The BBC's Top Gear program recently took the Bugatti Veyron for a quick test drive -- a very quick test drive1. James May was asked to test the car's top speed, and there was apparently only one place in the…

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Wednesday, 21st March 2007

Car Tipping

The urban equivalent of Cow Tipping, the inner-city phenomenon of Car Tipping has begun to spread like wildfire across Germany now that its been spotted on Google Earth... Also see our post on Extreme Parking for more. Via Gearth Blog.

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Monday, 12th March 2007

World’s Largest Paper Planes

Well, unfortunately the world's largest real paper planes aren't usually kept outside, so today we'll have to make do with sculptures of extremely large paper planes. in Mukilteo, Washington, Dillion Works (who specialise in creating large 3D architectural elements), claim…

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Monday, 26th February 2007

Top 10 Sports on Google Earth

With high-resolution images all over the globe, Google Earth has captured many sporting events actually in-progress, so today we proudly present - The Top 10 different sports you can actually see people playing on Google Earth! As a bonus, we've…

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Tuesday, 13th February 2007

Time Travelling Dinosaurs

It's time travelling time at GSS, and today we're travelling back to the Jurassic, Late Jurassic and the Pleistocene periods, all at the same time! Yes you heard me right, as here in the Plänterwald leisure area, Berlin, we can…

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Friday, 17th November 2006

Tetraeder Bottrop

To follow-up from the Copper Mining earlier in the week, we head over to the German coal mining town of Bottrop, where there's lots of industrial stuff going on. But if you're more of an art person, on a nearby…

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Thursday, 26th October 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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