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In the early days of online mapping, sensitive locations were often censored for security reasons. Examples include military installations, government buildings, royal residences, prisons, power plants and more. However in many cases blurring happened on one service but not another.…

Over the past few years Google has captured imagery of ski resorts and other snowy locations using Street View snowmobiles in a number of countries. With the northern hemisphere in the midst of winter, it's a good time to take…

A few years ago we took a detailed look at Canada's Grand Railway Hotels (parts 1, 2, 3). To look at things from the opposite perspective, there are a surprising number of train carriages around the world which serve as…

We recently took a look at a number of Churches with twisted spires. Rather more common are Churches with detached bell towers, though the architectural styles vary wildly. The most famous example is Italy's Torre di Pisa, more commonly known…

Recently the town of Burford, Wyoming made the headlines when it was sold for $900,000, which isn't a bad price for a town where only one person lives. This got me thinking - how many towns, villages, valleys and islands…

Here at Google Sightseeing, our obsession with superlatives knows no bounds, whether it be the largest, the smallest, the funniest, or the strangest. Join us as we literally go in another direction with our look at ten items that have the right to be called the northernmost such things on Earth!