Weirdness

Ripley’s Believe It or Not

Ripley’s Believe It or Not celebrates peculiar events and curious items through a variety of media (television, film, books, games) and a chain of museums around the world. Many of the Odditorium museums were created to look like they had…

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Wednesday, 4th May 2011

North Korea Uncovered

North Korea Uncovered was a massive collaborative effort between 2007 and 2009 to map out the reclusive country using Google Earth imagery. The project reveals thousands of landmarks across North Korea – everything from military bases to amusement parks, restaurants to statues, agriculture to gulags. It’s impossible to cover everything in this post, but here’s just a sliver of what the project revealed.

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Monday, 11th April 2011

Spiral Island II: An island floating on plastic bottles

Ever dreamed of living on your own private tropical island? Rishi Sowa clearly had, as he took the rather novel approach of building his own floating paradise - Spiral Island. A keen environmentalist, Sowa wanted to make a statement about…

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Thursday, 24th February 2011

Roadside Mascots of Manitoba

Few places have taken to heart the concept of the 'roadside attraction' like the Canadian province of Manitoba, where dozens of quirky and wacky monuments to local icons dot the prairie landscape.

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Tuesday, 25th January 2011

Creative Place Names: Kitchen Stuff

Here at Google Sightseeing we're absolutely fascinated with the more unusual names that places have been given. There's so much choice in this field that today we're able to bring you another post about creative place names – but this…

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Friday, 21st January 2011

The World’s Most Expensive House

Perhaps proving that money can't buy taste, an Indian billionaire will soon occupy what is being described as the world's most expensive house. Antilia1 is estimated to have cost up to $70million (US) to construct2 and manages to squeeze 27…

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Monday, 10th January 2011

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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