All sights in category 'Weirdness'

Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

The editors: James & Alex

Face of Jesus Found In Sand Dune

Posted by Alex Turnbull, Tuesday, 5th July 2005

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Well it’s gotta be Jesus, right? I mean that dude’s forever popping up in toast/paint/fungus etc. so why should sand dunes be any different?

Face in sand dune

Many thanks to Mick D and Greg Day.

Red Water Weirdness

Posted by Alex Turnbull, Tuesday, 5th July 2005

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Update: It seems that this is an artificial kelp reef. However, we’re much more interested in the underwater ketchup farming! (Thanks guys :-) )

Does anyone know what on earth this weird red stuff is off the coast of Anaheim, California?

Red Stuff

Thanks to a few people, but Steven Lagavulin was first there :-)

Newton’s Rings

Posted by Alex Turnbull, Friday, 1st July 2005

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Check out these weird coloured rings in Florida (centre of alien activity). Our submitter, Woowoowoo, reckons this is an example of “Newton’s Rings”. Nope we’d never heard of them either, but fortunately Wikipedia had. ;-)

Newton\'s Ring

Air Base Weirdness, Iraq

Posted by Alex Turnbull, Thursday, 30th June 2005

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There’s something very odd going on at this air base in Eastern Iraq. Quite apart from the aircraft parked on the runways, there’s some serious image misalignment, and what on earth is going on with the colours?

Blue Green Runways

Thanks to Marc Armstrong

Alien Civilization

Posted by Alex Turnbull, Friday, 10th June 2005

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Please note that some or all of the objects mentioned in this post are no longer visible on Google Earth or Google Maps.

Brilliant bit of weirdness here… Tom Comeau says:

I believe it’s winter, and we’re seeing snow and ice on the lake surface. But where there’s clear water, something very odd is showing through.

Alien Civilization