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The Gyle Shopping Centre

We had so many submissions for the Mall of America we had to post it back in May last year. So here is our revenge in the form of the Google Sightseeing team's local "shopping centre", The Gyle. It actually…

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Tuesday, 28th February 2006

Belfast Docklands

In our never-ending quest to catalogue everything that stakes its claim to being the "world's largest something" I present to you the world's largest dry dock. Located in Belfast's Docklands (where the ill-fated RMS Titanic was built) the dry dock…

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Thursday, 23rd February 2006

Beef It Up

Someone has written Beef it up using hay bales in this field near Newport, Wales. Promotion for their other product perhaps? Thanks to matt.

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Wednesday, 22nd February 2006

More Crop Circles

More crop-circles have been found! This time half-way between Leeds and Sheffield, person or beings unknown have decided to create a rather complex star-shaped impression in these crops. Why here? Well, it's right next to the M1 motorway of course!…

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Monday, 20th February 2006

Spinnaker Tower

Portsmouth's Spinnaker Tower is like a giant sail on the dock. It was supposed to be a millennium project but only opened last year and as you can see it is still under construction in the Google Maps photo. There's…

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Tuesday, 14th February 2006

Alien Crop Circles!

Here at Google Sightseeing one of the things people most often ask us to post, are your common-or-garden alien crop circles. Never liking to disappoint our readers, GGSS is proud to present... a whole slew of possibly alien crop circles!…

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Tuesday, 14th February 2006

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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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