Twenty-five-year-old Briton Rachel Young (Rachel Young) got into a car accident and was forced to comply with bed rest. After reading about an Australian designer's alphabet, she decided to make her own using UK maps. Searching suitable places on the maps, it took her much less time than the Australian - only 15 hours. It is interesting that, according to the British, during this time she discovered about a hundred variants of the letter B, but the letters K, N and Q did not want to be.

But the story with the alphabet did not end there either. After Rachel showed her alphabet to the news agency she works for, she was asked to look for letters on a map of New York City. Despite the fact that the British woman had never been to this city, in just five days she completed the task and compiled another English alphabet, this time from aerial photographs of New York.

Dutch designer Thomas de Bruin went even further. Exploring the map of the Netherlands, he found on it all the capital and lowercase letters of the alphabet. In addition, he supplemented his alphabet with numbers from one to ten and punctuation marks.

You can see the results of Thomas' work on his Flickr page.

⇡ Area-51

In the search bar "Google Earth" you can enter not only the coordinates geographical objects or their names. If you try to find a secret military facility, code-named "Area 51" (Area 51), the program will "give out a military secret" and show the legendary American base in Nevada.

Many sincerely believe that it is in this place that the US government carefully hides secrets from civilians - either UFOs will be noticed there, or rumors will spread that the landing of astronauts on the moon was actually filmed at this base.

⇡ Conclusion

Hundreds of years have passed since the time of Columbus and Bering. There are no white spots left on the map of the Earth, and it is almost impossible to find a place where a human foot has not set foot. However, geographical discoveries are still going on. It is much easier to make them now, because today's Magellans and Bellingshausen do not need to equip bales and go on dangerous expeditions on ships and sledges. Thanks to Google Earth, you can explore our planet from the comfort of your home.

Mysterious Island

In 2012, a group of Australian explorers discovered an "undiscovered" island the size of Manhattan (58.8 sq km) in the southern part of Pacific Ocean. Mysterious place was named Sandy Island and took a place on the maps to the north-west of New Caledonia. On the google maps he also appeared, resembling a black, angular sausage. However, when scientists arrived at the site of the proposed island in November 2012, they found only endless ocean expanses. In their explanation, released in April 2013, the scientists declared the island a "mistake", explaining that most likely some kind of accumulation or formation, possibly made of pumice, was taken for the island.

lake of blood

Outside the city of Sadr in Iraq, at 33.396157°N, 44.486926°E, Google Maps indicates a blood-red lake. There is no official explanation about the origin of this object. In list unofficial versions: discharge into the lake of waste from production or local slaughterhouses, and possibly (and most likely), special bacteria that give the water a red tint.

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Ant peas

A strange polka-dot pattern near a volcano on the north side of the Grand Canyon in the United States has a fairly simple explanation from scientists. The authors of the pattern turned out to be red reaper ants (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) that live in this desert. They create nesting mounds up to 120 cm in diameter, around which about 10 square meters. m stretches bare land. Meanwhile, this explanation, put forward by the physicist Amelia Carolina Sparavilla from the Institute in Turin, is still only a hypothesis and has not received official confirmation.

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Island-"matryoshka"

And this is the world's largest island on a lake, which is located on an island in a lake located on an island. A narrow strip of land is located in Canada on a small lake located on another island. He, in turn, is located on a lake 90 km from the coast inside Victoria Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. According to the assumptions of journalists, a human foot has never set foot on the “matryoshka” island.

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Cemetery of retired planes

Davis-Monten Air Force Base is where military planes come to die. "Burial" with coordinates 32 08 "59.96 ° north latitude, 110 50" 09.03 ° east longitude and an area of ​​​​more than 10 square meters. km is officially closed to the public, but you can still look at it using Google Earth. It contains the remains of many legendary aircraft, from the B-52 StratoFortress to the F-14 Tomcat. Among the several thousand units of aircraft, there are also spaceships that have served their time. According to some estimates, the total value of the scrap metal located here exceeds $35 billion.

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name in the sand

Sheikh, billionaire and member of the ruling family of Abu Dhabi Hamad bin Hamdan Al Nahyan instructed to carve his name on the sand of his Al Futaisi island (8 km from Abu Dhabi) in Persian Gulf. Apparently, this is the largest sand inscription in the world. The letters are so large that they interact with the tide, filling with water instead of being swept away by it.

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Mysterious Gobi Pattern

In China's Gobi desert, images have captured quite a few structures that are hard to explain. One of them is a mysterious mesh of regular shape. Discussing the pictures, Internet users were mainly inclined to the military-strategic origin of the object. The area of ​​the pattern was embarrassing - about 33 km. However, most likely, this is the Yagi-Uda antenna, it is also a “wave channel”. This antenna consists of active and several passive vibrators arranged parallel to each other along the radiation line and is used in radio communication and radar systems.

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Trolling Google maps has a long history - people can not deny themselves the pleasure of diversifying their landscapes with man-made symbols. Even a special term appeared - mapvertising. As a result, the largest Coca-Cola logo in the world can be seen on a hillside in Chile. At the same time, it is alleged that it is made from 70,000 empty soda bottles. Another advertising creative that has settled in Nevada is a giant image of the KFC symbol, Colonel Sanders.

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"Kiss of the Earth"

One of the funniest objects on Google Earth is definitely the "Kiss of the Earth". These unusual lip-like hills are located in Sudan's Darfur and are traditionally the source of witty comments on the Web.

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Drawings in the Peruvian Nazca Desert

Looks like an unidentified object flying down the river in Buenos Aires- click on the image to view.

Well of course it's not UFO, and here's what it is, see for yourself.

And what is this a figure that looks like a flower, or maybe this is the landing site of a spaceship?

Head of an Indian in the mountains of the USA- click on the image to view.

Atacama, Giant Inca drawing- click on the image to view.

China.
Coordinates 40.458779.93.313129 Aircraft pad

Chinese pattern
40.458181,93.388681

Another chinese pattern
40.451323,93.743248

40.480381,93.493652

And when was this one made?

Is there anything to hide behind black rectangles?
62.174478,-141.119385

In addition to black squares, there is also
66.2557995,179.188385

The famous Area 51, where UFOs and aliens are supposedly hidden
37°14"13.39"n, 115°48"52.43"w

There are also such closed colorful zones in cities.
52°14"55.40"n, 4°26"22.74"e

Who needs a compass at an altitude of 2 kilometers?
34°57"14.90"N 117°52"21.02"w

Arrows on the underwater bottom, which are visible only from a height.
32°40"36.82"n,117°9"27.33"e

The rocket flew and did not fly
38°13"34.93"n, 112°17"55.61"w

Ground drawing of some animal
31°39"36.40"n, 106°35"5.06"w

UFO landed in a grove
45°42"12.68"n, 21°18"7.59"e

Sight hundreds of meters in size
37°33"46.95"n, 116°51"1.62"w

Colorful lakes on the outskirts of Baghdad
33°23"41.63"n, 44°29"33.08"e

33°51"3.06"s, 151°14"17.77"e

Rock paintings in Oregon, visible from a height of 1.5 km
+42° 33" 48.24", -119° 33" 18.00"

Another triangle
-30.510783, 115.382303

Apparently remnants ancient civilization under the water. Pay attention to the size of the building and the height of the shooting...
31°20"23.90"n, 24°16"43.28"w

Turkey, Noah's Ark

An anomaly near Mount Ararat is a geological formation unusual shape. It is located at an altitude of 4725 meters above sea level and has a length of almost 183 meters. To date, there are three main versions that explain its occurrence - it can be a geological formation, a glacier, or ... the remains of Noah's Ark.
Among local residents there are legends about a huge old ship on top of a mountain near Mount Ararat. The writer Charles Berlitz in his book "The Lost Ship of Noah" cites the testimony of the Armenian Georgy Khagopyan.
George Khagopyan said that in 1905, as an 8-year-old boy, he was on Mount Ararat with his grandfather. And that they found the ark and went inside. On the upper deck, George saw a superstructure with many windows. The hull of the ark was huge and hard as stone.
In the American magazine New Eden in 1939, an interview was published with a former pilot of the tsarist army of Russia, Lieutenant Roskovitsky, who allegedly discovered an object resembling an ark back in 1916 during a reconnaissance flight. Roskovitsky reported to the tsar, and Nicholas II equipped an expedition of 150 people. In two weeks they got to the object. According to Roskovitsky, the ship resembled a giant barge and a freight car at the same time, and inside there were many rooms - small and large. Moreover, the small rooms were covered with a metal mesh.
But the first significant evidence of the existence of an unknown object on top of the mountain is considered to be pictures taken by American pilots in 1949. A few years later, something resembling a ship covered with snow was seen by Turkish doctors. Then the object was photographed two more times: in 1973 it was made by the American spy satellite Keyhole-9 and in 1976 by the reconnaissance satellite Keyhole-11. CIA workers processing satellite images in the 70s found it difficult to interpret the data. Porcher Taylor, who at the time worked for the CIA, says that the picture was very unexpected. But he could not clarify what exactly was there, because the materials collected by Keyhole-9 and Keyhole-11 are still classified.
Coordinates: 39.440628,44.234517

World Seed Bank on Svalbard
78°14"23.12"N, 15°27"30.19"E

Neftegorsk - a ghost town, completely destroyed in 1995 after an earthquake measuring 9-10 points
52°59′45″n 142°56′41″e

Another strange building in the desert
30.029281,30.858294

An anomalous place near the city of Osoyoos in Canada - Lake Khiluk
49° 4"42.70"N 119°33"58.79"W

Ushtogai square
50 49"58.38N, 65 19"34.54E
- is a geometric figure consisting of 101 mounds in the form of barrows. The length of the side of the square is 287 meters! Approximately at a distance of 112 m from the northwestern corner, three rings with a diameter of 19 meters each are located diagonally.
On the opposite side, at a distance of 112 meters from the southeast corner, there is an embankment with a diameter of 18 meters. If the square, rings and mound are a single figure, then the length of the figure is 643 meters!

Clearly not of natural origin construction in Antarctica. Entrance to the dungeon
-66.603547, 99.719878

Four strange balls in Peru
13°33"39.26"s, 75°16"05.80"w

UFO in area 51?

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Chanquillo, Spanish Chankillo is an ancient monumental complex on the desert coast of Peru in the Kasma oasis in the Ancash department, Peru. Among the ruins are the hilltop fort of Chanquillo, the Thirteen Towers solar observatory, living quarters and public gathering spaces. It is assumed that the Thirteen Towers observatory was built in the 4th century BC. BC e. The area of ​​the monument is 4 square meters. km. It is assumed that it was a fortified temple.

"Mandala" is the most mysterious geoglyph of the Palpa plateau, located 30 km from the more famous Nazca plateau. In addition to it, there are many geoglyphs on the plateau, it is a pity that in Google Maps(and Earth) they should not be seen properly. Geoglyph "Mandala" or Estrella (i.e. "star"), as the locals call it, is definitely the most amazing of them. According to scientists, it was created in the 2nd century AD. the Nazca civilization. The composition of two drawings has a size of about two hundred meters and the mystery, as you may have guessed, is how in ancient times people were able to create such a geometrically correct drawing, which can only be seen in its entirety from a bird's eye view. It is believed that the geolyphs of the Nazca and Palpa plateaus carry information encoded in mathematical form from their creators, whether they are people or someone else.

Several videos on this topic

Earthquake, plane crash, fire, Russian geoglyph, crop drawings and others interesting places planets. The coordinates of all places are given. In some places, to see what's on the video, you need to change the date (where google often updates the photo).

23° 6"54.45"N 113°19"3.79"E game center, China
35°38"6.01"N 139°44"40.63"E Tokyo Reclamation Center
33°26"19.18"N 111°58"51.41"W airport drawing, USA
35°41"18.90"N 139°45"19.90"E Tokyo Flower
45°38"27.65"N 122°47"43.01"W US crop drawings
52° 2"33.57"N 4°12"47.26"E Sundial, Netherlands
51° 3"16.04"N 1°58"42.45"W Medals, UK
52°31"15.93"N 13°24"34.08"E Berlin TV tower
37°47"30.27"N 122°23"23.57"W Bow and Arrow, San Francisco
35°46"52.68"N 139°35"59.27"E Note, Japan
54°56"30.29"N 59°11"35.85"E Geoglyph "Moose", Chelyabinsk
32°51"31.47"S 70° 8"31.76"W Highway, Chile
46°45"56.81"N 100°47"34.26"W Accident, USA
36°10"58.55"N 68°46"37.34"E Afghanistan (Afghanistan)
55°57"4.82"N 3°13"35.22"W Spiral, Edinburgh
23°38"44.11"N 57°59"13.14"E Heart Arrow House, Oman
34°55"29.03"N 139°56"32.84"E Fish, Japan
52° 9"14.17"N 2°14"53.03"W Frog, UK
43°42"53.23"N 112° 1"4.04"E Geoglyph giraffes of Mongolia
43°27"25.38"N 3°32"39.48"E Dinosaur, France
29°10"32.51"N 34°42"6.29"E sand pattern, Egypt
50°41"53.40"N 3°10"8.99"E Roof top car, France
39°44"57.08"N 105°0"23.02"W Pepsi Center, USA
42°54"6.25"N 22°59"31.76"E Medal, Bulgaria
35°42"13.37"N 140°50"21.12"E Aftermath of the 2011 Japan earthquake
37.790699,-122.322937 Plane crash- only google maps!
42°19"59.78"N 83° 3"19.94"W drawings, America
43°17"25.51"N 80° 1"42.35"W Field in Canada
51°56"57.39"N 7°35"25.43"E Dinosaurs at the History Museum, Germany
56°40"45.06"N 12°48"42.85"E 3 hearts, Sweden
52°30"36.12"N 13°22"19.99"E Sony Center, Germany
26° 6"57.47"N 80°23"48.39"W Boat City, USA
39°51"37.23"N 4°17"5.20"E secret place in Spain
69°10"36.03"N 33°28"27.51"E Capsized ships, Murmansk region
43°34"35.10"N 28° 9"4.00"E Pozhar, Bulgaria
52°32"15.37"N 13°34"28.10"E Labyrinth Germany
21°35"4.41"N 39°10"33.58"E "Space", Saudi Arabia
25°14"3.58"N 55°18"3.48"E balls, Dubai, UAE
33°36"6.59"N 111°42"38.98"W Fountain, USA
51°34"38.38"N 0°41"49.54"W Aircraft taking off, UK
53°27"5.16"N 113°44"4.84"W fig. in Canada, Formula 1
12°21"55.53"N 76°35"41.31"E INFOSYS lettering from residential buildings, India
53°48"49.58"N 3° 3"16.87"W Skull, UK (change date)
15°49"32.22"S 47°56"7.71"W Star, Brazil
51°58"14.47"N 4°12"1.03"E MiG 23, Netherlands
52°30"28.86"N 13°23"9.32"E Globe, Berlin
35°41"30.80"N 139°41"49.08"E Cocoon Tower Tokyo
55°24"0.17"N 10°23"7.93"E drawings, Denmark
40°35"44.02"N 141°24"27.53"E Fish, Japan
6°37"43.75"S 31° 8"10.10"E Hippo Lake, Tanzania
47°16"52.49"N 0°50"51.44"W French crop drawings
70°14"24.91"S 69° 6"25.56"E Strange object in the snow of Antarctica
33°49"46.31"N 130°28"4.68"E Sunken plane, Japan
59°57"16.63"N 30°20"15.96"E Cruiser "Aurora" St. Petersburg
25°11"46.30"N 55°16"36.87"E Burj Khalifa, Dubai, UAE, 828 meters. Burj Khalifa, Burj Dubai

3° 0"8.59"S 33° 5"24.30"E Tanzania market
66°17"50.90"S 100°47"7.55"E Ice begins to melt in Antarctica
67°25"48.55"S 60°52"35.18"E "Hand" in Antarctica)
40°41"21.15"N 74°2"40.34"W Statue of Liberty, USA
41°40"2.82"N 86°29"32.18"W Studebaker
41°45"39.13"N 86°16"9.39"W St. Patrick's Park, USA
44°58"1.39"N 124° 1"7.43"W bear
47°35"43.11"N 122°19"51.84"W Football match
48° 1"39.15"N 122° 9"50.93"W Maze, Washington
21°50"21.11"S 46°34"3.04"W in Brazil
28° 0"21.90"N 86°51"33.79"E Camping at Mount Everest
29°50"36.13"N 47°50"49.45"E Fire
35°17"2.60"N 33°22"21.11"E Cyprus flag
44°45"39.41"N 20°28"19.73"E name of the former President of Yugoslavia
44°34"54.07"N 38° 6"13.78"E Gelendzhik
48°48"18.82"N 2° 7"8.93"E Skeleton, Versailles
50° 3"8.21"N 8°36"51.04"E aircraft
50°56"17.25"N 5°58"40.80"E NATO Headquarters The Netherlands
52°19"36.22"N 4°55"11.33"E Newspaper Parking, Netherlands
52°25"50.72"N 4°23"24.12"E Boat and aircraft
51°17"6.09"N 30°12"44.47"E Chernobyl-cemetery of ships
69° 3"38.05"N 33°12"18.76"E Nuclear submarine "Kursk"

Google Maps is the most popular mapping service that was developed in 2005. But we will not delve into the history of its creation, advantages, etc. We will talk about what are the secret places in Google Maps. Interested? Then read this article.

Google Maps - what is it?

As you can already understand, in this article we will consider secret places in Google Maps. But first, for those who are not in the know, it is worth briefly explaining what Google Maps is. In fact, this is a map that covers the entire Earth (for those for whom this is not enough, you can additionally look at the map of Mars and the Moon). Thanks to high-tech satellites Google such a map very accurately and clearly displays even the most remote corners of the planet.

But, perhaps, back to our sheep. Do you want to know where are the secret places in Google Maps? Read this article!

As you know, those merry fellows work at Google. Developers are constantly adding some chips, Easter eggs, secrets to their software. For example, did you know that if you type the phrase "google gravity" in the Google search box and open the first link, you can observe how it affects links, icons and pages of your browser.

And this is just one of thousands of examples. Google developers constantly insert some funny chips into their creations. The mapping service from this company is no exception. The developers have added the so-called secret places in Google Maps. secret and interesting locations that are marked on the map. In this article, we'll talk about how to find them.

Secret places in Google Maps: coordinates and their descriptions

Well, let's not pull the rubber, and immediately rush off the bat. Below we look at the most strange places in Google Maps.

By entering the coordinates 66.266667, 179.250000, you can observe an unknown part of Siberia, located near Alaska. What is there? This question excites the minds of many people in Russia.

By entering the coordinates 37.7908, 122.3229 in Google Maps, you can watch a real plane crash. The map shows a plane broken in two. It is not known for certain whether this is a real disaster or an ordinary production.

At coordinates 36.949346,122.065383, one can observe a skeleton of quite impressive size. It's terrifying to even imagine what animal these bones belong to.

If you are a fan of secret conspiracies, the following place will certainly arouse interest. By entering the coordinates 32.664162, 111.487119, you will be able to see the secret base of the BBC, which is located on the territory of the United States of America. What they do at this base is not known for certain, but if you wish, you can find a lot of the most fantastic theories about this.

By typing 54 28 "6.32", 64 47 "48.20" into the line of coordinates, one can observe a rather interesting picture. At this location, the inscription "Lenin is 100 years old" is clearly visible, which consists of trees.

Fans of sci-fi should type in Google Maps 19 56 "56.76" S, 69 38 "2.08" W. At these coordinates, there is a drawing that strongly resembles an alien. Is this the work of an extraterrestrial civilization?

Well, since it so happened, we will not deviate far from the topic of aliens. At the coordinates 45.70333,21.301831 you can see a real UFO, which lurks among the trees.

Entering the coordinates 45.408166, 123.008118, you can observe the plane, which "parked" in the middle of the trees.

Remember how in childhood, playing on the beach with a shovel and a bucket, parents told us something like: "Wow, what a deep hole, a little more, and you will dig to China!". We took it as a joke, but apparently it was a very real warning. Don't believe? Then type in Google Maps the coordinates 38.85878007241521,111.6031789407134 and see a giant hole right in the middle of China!

At coordinates 44 14 "39.45", 7 46 "10.32" you can see a huge pink hare. It is terrible to imagine a "little" girl who played with him.

We all have probably heard and read about the notorious Area 52. By typing the coordinates 37.401437, 116.86773 into Google Maps, you can also look at this top-secret base.

Did Google Maps Help Solve a Murder?

There is also one interesting story which deserves special attention. At the coordinates 52.376552, 5.198308, you can see the reservoir of the city of Almere. Pier, trees, beautiful landscape - everything would be fine if not for one detail. In the photo you can see a man dragging a corpse to the lake. Google satellite captured a small dock, several figures and a suspicious footprint that could be mistaken for blood. But everything is not as it seems at first glance. In fact, there was no murder.

As one authoritative publishing house later found out, the map showed the Rama retriever, who went for a walk with his mistress Jacqueline Kenen. The dog simply jumped into the water, after which it ran to its owner, who was standing on a wooden pier. Rama left behind a wet trail, which Internet users mistook for bloody.

The owner of the dog, who saw the photo on the Internet, helped to shed light on this "murder".

Conclusion

The man, who identified himself as "Dr. Boylan", believes that the darkened area in this picture and in several other locations hides extraterrestrial beacons of aliens.

2. Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany

This NATO air base is the starting point for Operation Iraqi Freedom forces, and for this reason, it can certainly be a target for terrorist attacks. This may explain why this feature is partially cut from Google Maps.

3. Pacific Northwest, USA

What exactly are we not seeing in this photo? This place is located near the border of the states of Washington and Oregon. Enthusiasts personally examined this place and found nothing remarkable, except for the sinister appearance of the fence and the unmarked entrance.

4. Shazalombatta Oil Refinery, Hungary

This is one of the strangest examples of censorship in Google Maps - this place is simply painted over in green. The factory area has been removed, the buildings have been erased, and all you can see is regular grass.

5. Huis Ten Palace, Holland

It's hard to imagine that the Dutch royal family could be a prime target for a crazed terrorist, but Royal Palace Huis Ten is heavily blurred on Google Maps when viewed from any angle. (However, the surrounding area and trees can be seen with crystal clarity at close magnification.)

6. Unknown zone, Russia

No one knows what is hidden in this region. One of the opinions is that there is a “radar station or missile interception system” there, and some argue that the image of the surrounding area is pasted from another region of Russia.

7. Mobil Oil Corporation, Buffalo, New York, USA

Some criticize Buffalo-based Mobil for blurring images of its operations, saying that oil corporations are not of much interest to terrorists. On the other hand, we do not know what the terrorists themselves think.

8. North Korea

Everyone has heard of this country, which is part of the supposed "Axis of Evil", but very few have ever visited it. You won't see it on Google Maps either, as the entire country exists in the imagery, but without road markers, street names, or any other identifying details.

9. Reims Air Base, France

The reasons why this air force base is blocked from Google Maps are unknown.

10. Indian Point Power Plant, New York, USA

Many members of the United States government called for a shutdown of the Indian Point power plant. Environmental considerations aside, according to energy experts, the power plant is not strong enough to withstand an earthquake like the one that recently devastated Japan.

11. Volkel Air Base, Holland

It is rather amusing to see how this air base is grossly blurred on satellite images, however, WikiLeaks has published diplomatic correspondence that confirms the presence of nuclear warheads on the territory of this base.

12. HAARP, Gakona, Alaska, USA

HAARP (High Frequency Research Program) northern lights) is one of the most controversial operations currently underway in the United States. Gakona, the site of research, and the ionosphere experiments there, are revered by some conspiracy theorists as the cause of everything from floods to earthquakes, but there is very little evidence for this.

13. Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway, Salinas, California, USA

This is one of the strangest examples of censorship on Google Maps: the Laguna Seca race track in Salinas, California. The strangest thing about this is the fact itself: this is an apparently harmless race track.

14. Babylon, Iraq

While the surrounding area is perfectly visible, the city of Babylon itself is blurred in the pictures. One can argue that this has something to do with the rebels there ...

15. national park Tantauco, Chile

Why is this endangered species sanctuary completely cut out of Google Maps? Nobody knows.

16. The Hill, Elmira Correctional Facility, USA

This is the highest security prison in New York State. Perhaps, after the Attica prison riots and several incidents of uprisings and mass escapes around the world, the authorities may indeed be worried about the possibility of helicopter escapes.

17. House of Alexey Miller, Russia

According to Wikipedia, this place is the "private palace of the executive director of JSC Gazprom Alexei Miller." But why is he given preference over all other people? Maybe we're just not powerful enough to convince Google to cut out our homes from satellite imagery.

18. Colonel Sanders

This is the strangest fact from Google: Colonel Sanders, the face of the Kentucky Fried Chicken chain, does not appear in any picture from Google street view. This is because, according to Google representatives, Sanders was a real person, and images of real people should be blurred in any pictures.

19. Faro Islands, Denmark

It is believed that in this zone there are some non-advertised military installations.

20. NATO Headquarters, Portugal

This shot would be the funniest if it didn't have such an ominous context. Whoever edited the image of NATO's Portuguese Headquarters simply copied another area of ​​the earth's surface over the image of the building. Very strange.

21. Seabrook Nuclear Station, New Hampshire

Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant is believed to be located in this northeastern United States.

22. Missile mine, Spain

According to one researcher, “At this site is a small building with what looks like a missile silo in the middle. What is strange is that this area is not blocked in Yahoo! Maps, but its image is not Google Maps.

23. Nuclear zone, France

We're not entirely sure what "The Marcoule site of the Commissariat l'Energie Atomique" means, but we think "atomique" is the key here.