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Right Down the Toilet

The toilet – home to some of humankind’s most intimate moments, and probably one of the last things you’d think you’d find on Google Maps (or think to look for, for that matter). One might be surprised, however, at just how many random toilets and toilet-related items are lying around on Google Maps. As part of our effort to maintain our highbrow credibility, we’ve collected a few for you here; it’s a dirty job but someone has to do it.

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Thursday, 8th March 2012

Top Ten Most Expensive Restaurants in the US

Last year bundle.com released a list of the 25 most expensive restaurants in the US, with mind-boggling average prices for highly stylised meals consisting of a wide array of exotic ingredients. However, it won't cost you a penny1 to join…

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Friday, 2nd March 2012

Rock ‘n’ Roll R.I.P.s

The world has a certain reverential (or just morbid) fascination with the death sites of famous musicians. The pantheon of dead music legends is far too great (and depressing) to capture in just one article, but here’s a look at just some of the famous/infamous places where great talents have met untimely ends.

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Tuesday, 28th February 2012

The World’s Worst Airport Terminals

A list of the best and worst airport terminals in the world has recently been published on frommer.com, and despite some cities making the list more than once, the results span the whole globe. However rather than tell you all…

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Tuesday, 21st February 2012

Groundhog Day

Today is Groundhog Day, a North American festival which reckons that "if a groundhog emerges from its burrow on this day and fails to see its shadow because the weather is cloudy, winter will soon end. If the groundhog sees…

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Thursday, 2nd February 2012

Google Maps publishes aerial images of murder scene

The continuing rollout of 45° "birds eye view" images across the globe1 has now revealed a real-life tragedy. On the railroad track near Sanford Avenue in the city of Richmond, California, we can clearly see a corpse lying on the…

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Tuesday, 31st January 2012

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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