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Happy Globe/Man Thing

Check out this cool (and very chirpy looking) globe/man thing on a roof in Tokyo. He appears to be wearing a busboy's hat... or is it... a manhole cover? There's some characters on the roof too, but unfortunately Japanese is…

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Tuesday, 18th July 2006

Nazca Lines

The bizarre Nazca Lines were created thousands of years ago (between 200BC and 600AD) using simple tools to scrape away the dark pebbles and reveal the light sand underneath. Although they're called the Nazca lines, the famous geoglyphs also feature…

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Thursday, 29th June 2006

Main Street Station Sign

Fantastic shadow being cast from the sign on top of the Main Street Station Hotel and Casino and Brewery in Las Vegas. There's actually two signs, which means we can see it backwards too. Nice. Useless fact about this hotel?…

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Monday, 5th June 2006

Fat Planes

Invasion of the fat planes! There's a really fat green plane at Heathrow (which looks a little like Thunderbird 2)... And at Hong Kong International, there's some sort of fat pink alien spacecraft! (Or these might be fire training aircraft…

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Friday, 2nd June 2006

Gulliver Park

This is Gulliver Park in Valencia, Spain. The figure you see is an enormous fibreglass model of Lemuel Gulliver trapped by the Lilliputians, and the ropes that tie him to the ground form part of a children's adventure playground. Children…

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Tuesday, 23rd May 2006

Stacy Park, Olivette Missouri

According to Google Maps this is Stacy Park in Olivette. I'm not entirely sure what that huge expanse of concrete is and the 'DANGER KEEP OFF' just adds to the mystery. Surely you can't read that from the ground? Is…

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Friday, 12th May 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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