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Community Bookshelf, Kansas City

The parking garage for the Kansas City Public Library may not look very special from above: ... but from street level it's a different story! Created several years ago by design firm Dimensional Innovations, the facade of the garage portrays…

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Monday, 9th February 2009

Flocking

"Flocking" is the term used to describe the collective motion of a number of creatures, and is best known as something that birds do together. So much so that the collective noun for birds is of course "flock". A group…

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Wednesday, 7th January 2009

Giant Spiders

Caution arachnophobes, many parts of the world appear to be home to giant spiders, thankfully all in the name of art. First up, a giant bug on top of a building in Reno, Nevada. This spider sculpture was created by…

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Tuesday, 2nd December 2008

Top 10 Unseen Street View Sights

It's been a whole year since Google first launched their controversial Street View service, and we posted our first Street View sight. Since then we've seen the rate of discovery of the most bizarre and unusual finds increase as Google…

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Tuesday, 3rd June 2008

Stonehenge Replicas

Earlier this week archaeologists began excavating Stonehenge in an attempt to decide once and for all exactly when this enigmatic monument was constructed. Stonehenge has most certainly been around many thousands of years, meaning there has been plenty of time…

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Wednesday, 2nd April 2008

Street View Update Feb 08

The Google Lat Long blog has announced that Google has just added 12 more US cities to their street view coverage, bringing their total coverage to, um.. lots. The new cities added are as follows: Albany and Schenectady, NY Boise,…

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Thursday, 14th February 2008

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.