The Mystery of the Carolina Bays

When viewed from above, much of the landscape of South Carolina is clearly covered in mysterious oval depressions that aren’t obvious from ground level. Known as “Carolina Bays”, nobody really knows how these unique geological features were formed. Despite their…

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Friday, 30th May 2008

Google Earth Web Plugin Released

The newly released Google Earth Web Plugin allows you to access the 3D globe of Google Earth, right within your browser. You can give it a go right now as we’ve enabled the Google Earth mode on our map page1.…

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Wednesday, 28th May 2008

A Lost Submarine

The town of Holbrook, Australia, is notable as home to the only set of traffic lights between Sydney and Melbourne. Slightly more interesting though is that here, 160 miles inland we can plainly see a full-size submarine. Originally this place…

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Wednesday, 28th May 2008

Secret Russian Encampment

Hidden away in the forests of western Russia, is a highly suspicious-looking collection of buildings which have never been place-marked by the Google Earth Community, and don’t seem to have ever been mentioned on the web. The buildings are all…

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Tuesday, 27th May 2008

Kid Shooting Other Kid

This post has been around the web several times already, but by popular demand, here’s the Street View sighting of a child pointing a gun at another child on the streets of Chicago. In the next frame we can see…

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Monday, 26th May 2008

Aircraft Strip Bar

Just outside Lisbon Airport we can see an old jet airliner. Nothing unusual about that, clearly – however you’d have to go a very long way to find another aircraft that has ever been converted into a strip bar, complete…

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Friday, 23rd May 2008
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Brasília: a Modernist Masterpiece

The largest city on the planet that wasn’t in existence at the beginning of the 20th century, the city of…

Crazy SCUBA Guys Chase Street View

Google has today launched brand new Street View imagery for Norway, Finland and large parts of Canada. But it’s in…

Community Bookshelf, Kansas City

The parking garage for the Kansas City Public Library may not look very special from above: … but from street…

Definitely a duck (maybe)

Here in the United States somewhere (we think, we haven’t checked), we’ve found this random patch of land that we…

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…

Trollstigen (Troll’s path)

In a country renowned for its natural beauty, one of the most spectacular landscapes is found along the Trollstigen (Troll’s…

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