Stadiums and Sport

Plane Shaped Pools

It seems that more than one person has had the idea of theming their swimming pool around aeroplanes... Here's a small private plane-shaped pool in Miami. This is the Flying W Airport in New Jersey, where they have a cool…

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Thursday, 26th April 2007

Keeping Up With The Joneses Part 3 and a Half

Astute readers will point out that we've already had part four of the famous series "Keeping up with the Joneses", but I'm going back to trampolines for the missing part - get ready for the stupidly titled Keeping Up With…

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Tuesday, 24th April 2007

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

Australia Day Flyover

The super-high-resolution aerial images of Sydney from the recent Australia Day flyover have this morning been added to Google Maps.1 Google even did some sightseeing of their own in the email announcement when they included links to Queenscliff Bay, Shark…

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Tuesday, 27th February 2007

Happy Valentine’s Day!

It's still the 14th of February for another hour in some time zones, so we'd like to wish everyone a Happy Valentine's Day with this heart-shaped swimming pool in Belgium! Yes okay, that's a stretch. In reality the only places…

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Thursday, 15th February 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.

Like this site? We published a photo book of the best entries, you should buy a copy.