Europe

Coca-Cola

Two factories of the Coca-Cola company. The first is in St. Petersburg, Russia and the other is somewhere in Germany. Thanks: Max & Bilbo

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Sunday, 31st July 2005

Hungaroring Formula 1

Hungaroring is the Hungarian Formula-1 Grand Prix race track, where the 20th Hungarian GP is currently being raced. Thanks: ilves, Zoltan Marton, Kertész Attila, Rickard Jensen & Mario Sarno

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Sunday, 31st July 2005

The World’s Largest Gantry Crane

The 7,560 tonne world's largest gantry crane at Kockums AB shipyard in Malmö, Sweden also has the world's largest lifting capacity of 1,500 tonnes. If you're in Sweden don't bother trying to go and see it though as in 2002…

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Saturday, 30th July 2005

Fernsehturm, Berlin

The Fernsehturm (literally, "TV tower") was built in 1969 and features a revolving cafe and observation deck. Aside from the obvious function of providing TV and radio signals for the city the underlying motivation for the tower was to create…

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Thursday, 28th July 2005

More Scotch Tape

Remember our giant piece of Scotch Tape holding Canada together? Well our ever-helpful readers have since turned up several more pieces of this gargantuan sticky-tape... Firstly we have this enormous length of tape, which is actually holding Ghana and Ivory…

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Monday, 25th July 2005

Scimitar Pool

According to submitter "Roberto" this house is owned by a local butcher who had his swimming pool built in the shape of his company's logo, a Scimitar sword. I checked our submissions database and there were no other custom-made pools…

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Friday, 22nd July 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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