The Google Lat Long blog has announced that Google has just added 12 more US cities to their street view coverage, bringing their total coverage to, um.. lots. The new cities added are as follows:

• Albany and Schenectady, NY
• Boise, ID
• Juneau, AK
• Kansas City, MO
• Manchester, NH
• Milwaukee, WI
• Research Triangle Park (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill), NC
• San Antonio, TX
• Salt Lake City, UT

And presumably just for today (because today is Valentine’s Day in case you’d forgotten), it seems the little Street View guy is standing on a little love heart.

Aww, puke.

As it’s home to the 509th Bomb Wing, operators of the very distinctive wing-shaped B2 stealth bombers, it should be easy to spot a B2 at Whiteman Air Force Base. Unfortunately, we’re not in luck today, as browsing around the base it appears that none of the bombers are on show.

But wait! We can now exclusively reveal that to maintain their magic-stealthy-ness the bombers are actually stored in… er, swimming pools?

OK, maybe it’s just a picture of a bomber painted on the bottom of the pool.

However, Alan Turnbull (no relation) reports on his Secret Bases website that earlier this year the image of the pool in Google Earth was obscured.

There’s no word on why it’s now been reverted, but I’m sure you crack-pot theorists¹ can come up with all sorts of ideas as to why this swimming pool is a matter of national security.

What’s definitely not a matter of national security, is this swimming pool in Germany. Left to right this swimming pool features the children’s TV characters Gary the Snail, SpongeBob SquarePants, Squidward Tentacles, Sandy Cheeks & Patrick Star.

Thanks to Simon Brennan, Gearthhacks and kjfitz

Here’s a plane in flight, here’s another one, and another. Ah, there’s hundreds of them – Boring! Now, here’s a School Bus In Flight. That’s much more interesting!

This is actually the City Museum in St. Louis. Built in an old shoe factory, the roof decor features two aircraft fuselages and a school bus.

Thanks: B.J. Olejnik

According to Google Maps this is Stacy Park in Olivette. I’m not entirely sure what that huge expanse of concrete is and the ‘DANGER KEEP OFF’ just adds to the mystery. Surely you can’t read that from the ground? Is it a big roof over something? But over what? Do any of our intrepid readers have an ideas?

Thanks to Lee Forshey.

On a bit of field in St Louis, we see the shadow of a Lockheed C-130 gunship. Click through and have a look for the plane, but come back here once you’re done…

You couldn’t find it, huh? That’s because this isn’t a shadow, it’s a bit of art. The detailed life size plane shadow was painted in 2002 for an art festival held in the urban wasteland of North St. Louis City in Missouri. Apparently some of the towers and whatnot around the area were also done as part of the same festival.

Thanks: Sam Ley