Canary Wharf

This is Canary Wharf, on the Isle of Dogs, London. Canary Wharf contains the UK's three tallest buildings, the 1 Canada Square building (235m), the HSBC Tower (200m) and the Citigroup Centre (199m). As ever, tons of fascinating info on…

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Thursday, 11th August 2005

Château d’If

The Château d'If is on the small island of If, in the Bay of Marseille, France. It was completed in 1531, and was originally intended as a defence against attacks from the sea, however it never had to fight off…

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Wednesday, 10th August 2005

The Colgante Bridge

This is the Colgante Transporter Bridge across the river Nervión in Portugalete, Spain. This extremely rare type of bridge (apparently there's only 8 of them left in the world) is designed to carry a segment of roadway across a river,…

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Wednesday, 10th August 2005

Optical Illusion

This isn't really an optical illusion, just an image mismatch on highway I-80 between Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska, but it looks really freaky! It makes my head hurt. Thanks to Michelle, and apologies to Joe, who doesn't like weirdness.

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Tuesday, 9th August 2005

Bullet Trainyard

This seems to be some sort of Bullet Trainyard in Tokyo (perhaps that should be Bullet Train train-yard?). I can count 15 with 4 more slightly south. Also, could this be part of one of the Doctor Yellow trains we…

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Monday, 8th August 2005

Portuguese Bridges

Portugal has some pretty cool bridges! First up is the Arrábida Bridge over the Douro River in Porto. The bridge is 493 metres long, and at the time of its construction in 1963 it had the largest concrete span of…

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Monday, 8th August 2005

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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