The Laredo “Boy’s town” in Mexico is a legal prostitution area which, not by chance, is just over from Laredo, Texas. A Dallas Observer article goes into further details of the American young men who frequent the area.

In the aerial photo you can plainly see the 8-foot wall around the “Boy’s Town” which keeps it separate from the rest of the town. There is only one entrance and exit, to the east, which can be seen in the thumbnail below.

Wikipedia

Spanning the LA Harbour is the Vincent Thomas Bridge. At full zoom the shadow on the striking green water gives a very good detail of the bridge’s shape.

Thanks: Dan

What kind of ship is this? It seems to be using a very strange propulsion system, which makes it look like a cross between a ship and a rocket!

On further investigation I found another one to the west, and after having a closer look in Google Earth, I now believe these are barges being pushed along the thin waterways by small tug-type boats. Does anyone know what they’re transporting?

Thanks to Adam Fannin.

This is the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, a few kilometres east of my last post, in Arizona. The monument consists of the ruins of multiple structures constructed by the Hohokam, farmers who lived here from the early 1200s.

In our first thumbnail you can see the outlines of the walls of some village buildings, and just to the south-west of these is an oval-shaped area which seems to have been a sports-field of some kind.

The ‘Casa Grande’ itself is what remains of a four story structure that may have been abandoned by the mid-1400s (its name means ‘big house’ in Spanish). You can clearly see it in our thumbnail… or rather, you can clearly see the roof that was built in the 1930s to protect it.

There’s a good ground-level shot on the Wikipedia page, and the official site has lots more information.

Thanks to Eric, Jeff Burton and William.

Most of the mines which people submit are in low-res, but here’s one which isn’t. This is an abandoned open pit copper mine in Casa Grande, Arizona. Can’t imagine why they abandoned it… I mean, that hole isn’t nearly big enough yet!

It really is huge, – I can’t fit it all on my screen at maximum zoom!

Thanks: Papapenguin, Eric Veilleux, Josh