Edwards Air Force Base has this giant compass-thing scraped into the desert. I assume it’s to help pilots orientate themselves when landing or taking off.

Wow - there are a LOT of planes in Pima Air & Space Museum. It looks like they’ve got at least 10 of each plane, all laid out in very neat rows. Also of note is the plane scrapheap - they should do an episode of Scrapheap Challenge there. (Via)

Update: From the comments David points out these pictures aren’t actually from Pima Air & Space Museum (which looks like this).

This is actually the “boneyard” of the US military at Davis Monthan Air Force Base. It’s refered to as the world’s largest air force, as there are more planes parked here in various states of disrepair, destruction or stasis to out number any active air force in the world, including the Pima Air and Space is just next door but, while incredibly cool, does not have nearly as many airplanes. There are monthly tours available through the base’s boneyard.

and Yorkie points us to a collection of ground level shots.

The two shuttle launch sites and hangar at Cape Canaveral are quite recognisable. You can can follow the giant roadway from the hangar to the launch sites but it’s only when you zoom right in you realise how big they are.

This one shows you how long ago some of this images were taken. Here’s Concorde at JFK, presumably before April 2003. I’ve also beeen wondering if the people at Keyhole (Whom Google bought the technology from) had to Photoshop out any planes photographed in flight, as I can’t find any at all…

Updated: Turns out that there are loads of planes in flight!

The Headquarters of the United States Department of Defense are very easy to spot from space.

I had no idea it looked like this!

The Statue of Liberty and Liberty Island. You can also see the Staten Island ferry going past in the bottom right.