N’dama Skull

In the desert of Mali, West Africa, we find the skull of an ex-cow, which was captured as part of the National Geographic Africa Megaflyover project. By the look of those horns, I'd say the skull probably once belonged to…

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Wednesday, 31st January 2007

Buran OK-GLI

Although the Soviet Buran space program only ever achieved in a single orbital flight, we've found a surprising number of space shuttles on Google Earth. We started with images of a structural test shuttle and then the abandoned follow-up model…

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Tuesday, 30th January 2007

The World’s Largest Plasma TV

Google Earth satellite images have unearthed Samsung's top secret development of the World's largest Plasma Television. After Japanese manufacturer Matsushita topped the South Korean electronics company's 102" plasma with a 103" model Samsung moved developments to the African country of…

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Monday, 29th January 2007

Mystery Plane Crash

Deep in the Mojave desert, there's some sort of aircraft which looks as if it crashed and was left to rot. So how did it come to be here? There's a military airfield to the east, Camp Wilson, so it's…

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Friday, 26th January 2007

Happy Magic Rainbow Unicorn

On the roof of this farm building in Indiana, someone has painted a beautiful mural of a Happy Magic Rainbow Unicorn! Well, it could be of a My Little Rainbow Pony I suppose, but I'm inclined to guess that this…

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Friday, 26th January 2007

Lonsdale

Here we see that someone has carved the word Lonsdale into the crops of a small field in the Dutch town of Veenendaal. The name "Lonsdale" could refer to many things; towns, travel agents, accountants, or colleges - but probably…

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Thursday, 25th January 2007

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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