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Sightseeing placemarks that don't fit into any of the other sightseeing categories. |
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 | I'm marking some of the locations of famous or interesting viral videos. For now, most of them are traffic-related, as those are generally the easiest to find. I've tried to keep GE rotated in the general direction the video is taken.
If you have any suggestions you'd like me to try and find, please add them as comments. I can't promise I'll be able to find it, but I'm willing to... |  | 05/25/2008 | 474 | 
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 | found this strangr round island of the coast of england |  | 05/22/2008 | 523 |
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 | A propelling screw in front of the "German Museum" | | 05/22/2008 | 227 |
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 | Some flags in Lippstadt, Germany. |  | 05/19/2008 | 518 |
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 | Obviously not really on the landscape but found it interesting all the same. | | 05/16/2008 | 229 |
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 | This is a set of placemarks showing where one can find giant robot statues, many of which are visible in Google Earth. Now that the massive Optimus Prime statue is in a visible area of China, I thought I'd take the time to update this properly. Currently the file includes:
Lifesize Gundam-Z at a rest stop
Gundam exhibit in a theme park
Laputa Robot at Studio Ghibli<... | | 05/15/2008 | 570 |
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 | This file contains all the bus stops of Bus Line 85. Each placemark has an info bubble with a photo of the bus stop and a link to the timetable. | | 05/13/2008 | 171 |
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 | This castle is 'drowned'. It called 'Hulckesteijn'. The place agrees to where people have carried out sonarecho's in 1983. You see there clearly outlines of 200 at 200 meters in the water. | | 05/04/2008 | 535 |
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 | This is the place where they store all the contaminated vehicles from after the reactor disaster. |  | 04/14/2008 | 683 |
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 | The ancient road of Tibirke is from the Iron Age (500BC - 0) and is 100 meters long and 3 meters wide.
Under the road was found another road which was dated back to 2800 BC. Pillows for a bridge was found too. That road was 150 meters long.
The road appeared 1943 through turf digging.
Link with photo and Google mapping:
http://www.fortidsminde... |  | 04/09/2008 | 1,779 |
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 | The Bommerlunder inn was located at the Bommerlund Plantation north of Padborg. This is the origin site of the totay german schnapps Bommerlunder.
The story of it is this:
In the mid 18th century a french soldier arrived here sick and tired without money or anything of value. However the landlord, Peter Schwennesen, treated the soldier nice so he gave Peter Schwennesen the... |  | 04/04/2008 | 1,641 |
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 | In the forest of Jaegerspris 3 of the most famous oaktrees are located.
Kongeegen (The King Oak), slowly dying 1000-2000 year old.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongeegen
Storkeegen (The Stork Oak), dead.
Snoegen (The Twisted Oak), dead. | | 03/27/2008 | 341 |
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 | H:100m , plate length:40m
http://www.city.koto.lg.jp/seikatsu/kankyo/7281/7285.html | | 03/23/2008 | 130 |
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 | Tokyo Electric Power Company
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/index-e.html | | 03/22/2008 | 243 |
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 | Ooedo Onsen Monogatari(Ooedo Hot Spring Spa)--an onsen (hot springs) facility located close to the central part of Tokyo (only 45 minutes from Shinjuku).
There are many types of baths, 17 of which are for women only.
Water quality: sodium; good for neuralgia, muscle and joint pain, paralysis, joint stiffness, bruises, sprains, chronic digestive system problems, poor blood circul... | | 03/22/2008 | 133 |
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 | In the park of Visborggaard Castle is the white horse that King Christian X crossed the border after the reunion at Christiansfeld on July 10. 1920 buried.
The horse was owned by the owner of castle Visborggaard, Count Knud Danneskiold-Samsøe
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 | In the old town's north-easterly corner lies "God's Acre", as the Moravian churchyard is called.
This is where the congregation's members find their last resting place when their temporal life is over. After the funeral service in the church, where the bier is absent though when the priest reads aloud a summary of the major events of the deceased's life (the "life ... | | 03/22/2008 | 598 |
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 | The Sea organ is an architectural object located in Zadar, Croatia and an experimental musical instrument which plays music by way of sea waves and tubes located underneath a set of large marble steps. The waves create somewhat random but harmonic sounds. The device was made by the architect Nikola Bašić as part of the project to redesign the new city coast (Nova riva), and the site was op... | | 03/22/2008 | 217 |
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 | The Wave Organ is an unusual device constructed in San Francisco Bay by the Exploratorium. Using a series of pipes, the wave organ takes the waves of the bay and conveys their sound to listeners at several different stations. The effects produced vary depending on the level of the tide but include rumbles, gurgles, and other more typical wave sounds.
The Wave Organ sits at the en... | | 03/22/2008 | 168 |
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 | The William H. Zimmer Power Station, located near Moscow, Ohio, was originally intended to be a boiling water reactor type of nuclear power plant. Although once estimated to be 97% complete, poor construction and quality assurance (QA) led to the plant being converted to coal-fired generation. Today, the plant is generates 1400 gross MWe and 1300 net MWe. Zimmer Power Station is the largest sin... | | 03/16/2008 | 525 |
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 | This is a small fish farm on river Drina in Serbia. There are 3 more just up the river. | | 03/13/2008 | 219 |
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 | Der Bir Haddaj war das Herz von Tayma, er ist eine der wichtigsten archäologischen Stätten in Saudi-Arabien. Er gilt als einer der größten Brunnen der Welt - einige behaupten sogar, er sei der größte.
The Bir Haddaj was the heart of Tayma, it is one of the most important archaeological sites in Saudi Arabia. He counts as one of the biggest wells of the world - some state even, it is the b... |  | 03/13/2008 | 249 |
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 | this aircraft shaped pool is used by firefighters stationed on Brnik airport for training. they fill it with jet fuel and burn it. | | 03/08/2008 | 319 |
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 | These are actually turf farms. | | 03/04/2008 | 533 |
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 | Svalbard Global Seedbank is located on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen and opened officially on Feb. 26th, 2008.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault | | 02/29/2008 | 798 |
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