California

Mystery Plane Crash

Deep in the Mojave desert, there's some sort of aircraft which looks as if it crashed and was left to rot. So how did it come to be here? There's a military airfield to the east, Camp Wilson, so it's…

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Friday, 26th January 2007

Events in Google Earth

The cliquey Foo Camp was born out of a joke at O’Reilly that they should create a literal “Foo Bar”. The event is held each year at O’Reilly's headquarters and during the 2006 event (held during August 25-27, 2006) Google…

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Monday, 8th January 2007

Funerals

With the continually increasing quality of images on Google Maps/Earth, it's hardly surprising that the cameras are capturing ever more private moments of people's lives. Perhaps then it was only a matter of time before the very end of someone's…

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Tuesday, 10th October 2006

ICP

ICP, a crew of graffiti artists in the San Francisco area, have tagged up this roof and thanks to the passing photography plane have gained more exposure than they probably expected. My initial worries that the tag was related to…

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Friday, 6th October 2006

Illegal Aliens Busted

No, not that kind of aliens! Just on the American side of the U.S. and Mexico border there's 5 police cars who appear to have pulled over a truckful of illegal immigrants. Almost a million illegal immigrants make it over…

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Wednesday, 27th September 2006

Warped Plane

This passenger jet over Newark, California, has become very strangely warped. I think this is something to do with the angles involved between the plane, the earth and the satellite, but trying to figure it out is making my head…

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Wednesday, 27th September 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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