Twenty-five-year-old British woman Rachel Young was in a car accident and was forced to remain in bed. After reading about an Australian designer's alphabet, she decided to make her own using maps of the UK. It took her much less time to find suitable places on the maps than the Australian - only 15 hours. Interestingly, according to the British woman, during this time she discovered about a hundred variants of the letter B, but the letters K, N and Q did not want to be found.

But the story with the alphabet did not end there either. After Rachel showed her alphabet to the news agency where she works, she was asked to look up the letters on a map of New York City. Despite the fact that the British woman had never been to this city, in just five days she completed the task and compiled another English alphabet, this time from aerial photographs of New York.

Dutch designer Thomas de Bruin went even further. While exploring a map of the Netherlands, he found all the upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet on it. In addition, he supplemented his alphabet with numbers from one to ten and punctuation marks.

You can see the results of Thomas's work on his Flickr page.

⇡ Zone-51

In the Google Earth search bar, you can enter not only the coordinates of geographical objects or their names. If you try to find a secret military facility, codenamed Area 51, the program will “give away military secrets” and show the legendary American base in Nevada.

Many sincerely believe that it is in this place that there are secrets that the American government carefully hides from civilians - either a UFO will be noticed there, or rumors will spread that the landing of astronauts on the Moon was actually filmed at this base.

⇡ Conclusion

Hundreds of years have passed since the times of Columbus and Bering. There are no longer white spots left on the map of the Earth, and it is almost impossible to find a place where no human has set foot. However, geographical discoveries are still ongoing. Making them now is much easier, because today’s Magellans and Bellingshausens do not need to equip bales and go on dangerous expeditions on ships and sleighs. Thanks to Google Earth, you can explore our planet without leaving your home.

1. Baker Lake, Inuit territory in northern Canada

A man who calls himself "Dr. Boylan" believes that the darkened area in this photo and in some other locations hides extraterrestrial alien beacons.

2. Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany

This NATO airbase is the launching point for Operation Iraqi Freedom forces and for this reason could certainly be a target for terrorist attacks. This may explain why this item is partially removed from Google Maps.

3. Pacific Northwest, USA

What exactly do we not see in this photo? This place is located near the border of Washington and Oregon states. Enthusiasts personally examined the place and found nothing remarkable except an ominous-looking fence and an unmarked entrance.

4. Szazalombatta Oil Refinery, Hungary

This is one of the strangest examples of censorship in Google Maps - this place is simply shaded green. The factory area has been removed, the buildings have been erased, and all you can see is ordinary grass.

5. Huis Ten Palace, Holland

It's hard to imagine that the Dutch royal family would be a prime target for a crazed terrorist, but the royal palace of Huis Ten is heavily blurred on Google Maps when viewed from any angle. (However, the surrounding area and trees are visible with crystal clarity at close magnification).

6. Unknown zone, Russia

Nobody knows what is hiding in this region. One opinion is that there is a “radar station or missile interception system” there, and some argue that the image of the surrounding area was inserted from another region of Russia.

7. Mobil Oil Corporation, Buffalo, New York, USA

Some have criticized Buffalo-based Mobil for blurring images of its facilities, saying oil corporations are not of much interest to terrorists. On the other hand, we do not know what the terrorists themselves think.

8. North Korea

Everyone has heard about this country, part of the supposed “Axis of Evil,” but very few have ever visited it. You won't see it on Google Maps either, since the entire country exists in pictures, but without road markers, street names or any other identifying details.

9. Reims Air Base, France

The reasons why this air base is blocked in Google Maps are unknown.

10. Indian Point Power Plant, New York, USA

Many members of the United States government called for the shutdown of the Indian Point Power Plant. Environmental concerns aside, energy experts say the power plant is not strong enough to withstand an earthquake like the one that recently devastated Japan.

11. Volkel Air Base, Holland

It's quite funny to see how this air base is crudely blurred in satellite images, but WikiLeaks has published diplomatic correspondence that confirms the presence of nuclear warheads on the territory of this base.

12. HAARP, Gakona, Alaska, USA

HAARP (High Frequency Northern Lights Research Program) is one of the most controversial operations currently underway in the United States. Gakona, the research site, and the experiments with the ionosphere carried out there, are revered by some conspiracy theorists as the cause of everything from floods to earthquakes, but there is very little evidence of this.

13. Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway, Salinas, California, USA

This is one of the strangest examples of censorship in Google Maps: the Laguna Seca race track in Salinas, California. The strangest thing about it is precisely the fact that it is an apparently harmless race track.

14. Babylon, Iraq

While the surrounding area is clearly visible, the city of Babylon itself is blurry in the images. You can bet it has something to do with the local rebels...

15. Tantauco National Park, Chile

Why is this endangered species sanctuary completely removed from Google Maps? Nobody knows this.

16. “The Hill”, Elmira Correctional Facility, USA

This is the highest security prison in New York State. Perhaps, after the Attica prison riots and several incidents of uprisings and mass escapes around the world, authorities may indeed be concerned about the possibility of escapes using helicopters.

17. House of Alexey Miller, Russia

According to Wikipedia, this place is home to the “private palace of the executive director of OJSC Gazprom Alexey Miller.” But why is he given preference over all other people? Maybe we're just not powerful enough to convince Google to cut out our houses from satellite imagery.

18. Colonel Sanders

This is the strangest fact from Google: Colonel Sanders, the face of the Kentucky Fried Chicken chain, does not appear in any Google Street View images. That's because Sanders was a real person, Google said, and images of real people should be blurred in any photos.

19. Faro Islands, Denmark

It is believed that there are some unadvertised military installations in this zone.

20. NATO Headquarters, Portugal

This photo would be the funniest if it didn't have such a sinister context. Whoever edited the image of the Portuguese NATO headquarters simply copied another piece of land on top of the image of the building. Very strange.

21. Seabrook Nuclear Station, New Hampshire

This northeastern part of the United States is believed to be home to the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant.

22. Missile silo, Spain

According to one researcher, “At this site there is a small structure with what appears to be a missile silo in the middle. What's strange is that this zone is not blocked in Yahoo! Maps, but there is no image of it on Google Maps.”

23. Atomic zone, France

We're not entirely sure what "The Marcoule site of the Commissariat l'Energie Atomique" means, but we think "atomique" is the key word here.

Making money on the Internet is good, but sometimes you need to take a break from work.


There is a lot of entertainment on the Internet, starting with and ending with social networks. But there are more interesting options for spending time, for example, you can “walk” around the world using Google maps.

In this article we will introduce you to interesting places in Google Maps, although you can also see panoramas of your city or even your home there.

All this is quite interesting, but not many people use this useful tool. Why is it needed at all? For example, you can easily view the opening hours of a particular establishment.

Secret places in Google Maps

Google has always been distinguished by a creative approach to its work. Their maps have become very popular, as you can find a lot of interesting things on them.

Even a virtual walk around your city will turn out to be interesting and unusual, because it’s always interesting to look at familiar places through some tool.

When you go to the Google maps site, you can enter the name of your city and select any street on the map:

When you find your street or an interesting place, select the little man in the lower corner and drag him to some place:

This will activate Street View mode. From time to time, a Google car drives through cities and towns, recording surrounding objects. When viewing streets in this mode, you can even make out signs:

The license plates of cars and people's faces are hidden, but even without this it is interesting to observe what is where and what it looks like. Be sure to try to look for something, it’s addictive and for several hours, you definitely won’t be able to tear yourself away from this task.

Strange places on Google Maps

There are also places on the maps that are shrouded in mystery. It has been said more than once that inexplicable things can be found on this site.

We invite you to look at the TOP 10 secret places in Google Maps (just enter the coordinates in the search form):

1. Broken plane and scattered things (37.7908, -122.3229).
2. A man drags a corpse on the pier (52.376552, 5.198308).
3. Military base in the states (32.664162, -111.487119).
4. The plane is in the middle of the forest (45.408166,-123.008118).
5. 40 years of victory in the forest (53 20’26.15, 87 10’32.86).
6. Fighter in a regular parking lot (51.362428,7.557928).
7. Abandoned alien saucer (45.70333,21.301831).
8. Huge skeletons (36.949346,-122.065383).
9. FireFox logo in the field (45.123656, -123.114767).
10. Lenin is 100 years old from the trees (54 28’6.32, 64 47’48.20).

These secret Google Maps places are open to everyone. Perhaps you will find many other interesting things.

Looking at photographs of our planet taken from space, you can find many intriguing and sometimes inexplicable things, especially if you use your imagination while viewing.

AdMe.ru has collected mysterious objects and places that users discovered on Google maps.

Wasteland Guardian

In November 2006, Lynn Hickox discovered on Google Maps a geological formation located in the Canadian province of Alberta that resembled a Native American head with an earphone in its ear. This image appeared as a result of long-term soil erosion, and the wire from the earphone and ear is the road leading to the oil rig, and the derrick itself.

Blood Lake in Iraq

In 2007, near the Iraqi city of Sadr, it was discovered blood red lake. Versions of the origin of the anomaly were very different - from sewage to waste from a nearby slaughterhouse. But the reason for this color of water has never been established. Today the lake looks the same as the others.

Heart shaped island

Galeshnyak Island , belonging to Croatia, was discovered on satellite maps in 2009. The island quickly became popular, not only on the Internet, but also among travelers - the previously uninhabited part of the land turned into a place of pilgrimage for lovers from all over the world.

Maze shaped like a fingerprint

A labyrinth in the shape of a human fingerprint, made of limestone tiles, is located in Hove Park in Brighton, UK. It was created in 2006 from a sketch by artist Chris Drury.

"Murder scene" on a lake in Almere, the Netherlands

A satellite image taken in 2009 in the Netherlands was discovered by one of the Reddit users. The scene seemed similar to a murder, and there was a heated discussion on the site about what it really was.

However, no bloody crime was recorded in this photo. Almere resident Jacqueline Quenen identified the cruel “killer” as her golden retriever, who, according to her, loves to swim. And what was mistaken for traces of blood was actually just water that had drained from the dog’s fur.

Building in the shape of a swastika

The building, shaped like a swastika, belongs to the US Navy and was noticed by Google users in 2006. The Navy command stated that the resemblance to this figure was discovered only at the construction stage, when nothing could be changed.

In 2007 $600 thousand was allocated to change the landscape and install solar panels in such a way that they hide the shape of the building. As of 2017, thanks to solar panels, the building no longer resembles a Nazi symbol.

People in dove masks

This street photo was taken in the Japanese town of Musashino in March 2013. This “composition” was built specifically - by the users and the site team Daily Portal Z, having learned that the streets would be photographed for Google, decided to immortalize herself on the map.

Ship overgrown with trees

This abandoned and tree-covered ship was captured by satellite on the Parramatta River near Sydney, Australia. The ship called SS Ayrfield was launched in 1911. It was decommissioned in 1972, and since then the ship has been moored at the mouth of the river.

UFO in Romania

An object similar in shape to a UFO from science fiction films was discovered on one of the abandoned farms near the Romanian city of Timisoara. The discovery gave rise to a lot of rumors about a visit to Earth by an alien ship. In fact, a flying saucer is abandoned water pump, which previously supplied Timisoara with water.

Desert Breath

Strange circles in the Sahara Desert were created in 1997 by the hands of people who are members of the creative association D.A.S.T. The sculpture is made of two spirals emanating from the center, one of which is created from cones that expand as they move away from the beginning, and the second is created from recesses constructed according to the same principle.

According to the creators, the spiral should disappear over time under the influence of erosion. However, even now, 20 years later, it is clearly visible even from space.

Military aircraft cemetery

Davis-Montain Air Baseis located near the city of Tucson in the USA and is perhaps the largest aircraft preservation site in the world - about 4,400 aircraft and 40 spacecraft are laid up here. Every year about 400 pieces of equipment arrive here and the same number are sold or destroyed.

Strange creature from Loch Ness

Jason Cook, 25, was looking at satellite images of Loch Ness when he noticed a creature swimming in its waters. And although there is no reliable evidence of the existence of the famous monster, many believed that it was the Google satellite that captured it.

A creative approach to work is a distinctive feature of Google. Even Google maps contains unusual and funny places, and much more interesting things.

Surprises await users in different parts of the world - a virtual walk around your own or a neighboring city will turn into an exciting journey if you make it with maps from a popular search engine. Let's take a walk through several secret and interesting objects right now.

Wasteland Guardian

In the late fall of 2006, Lynn Hickox was looking at Google Maps and accidentally discovered an unusual place. The woman was surprised by the similarity of the relief to the head of an Indian. It seemed that the aborigine was wearing a national headdress and had an earphone inserted into his ear.

In reality, the find turned out to be a geological formation in one of the provinces of Canada. The soils in this area are soft and clay. For a long time - at least a hundred years - they were subject to winds and erosion, as a result of which the image appeared. What users mistake for a wired earphone is just the road to the oil rig and the oil well itself.

The dimensions of the “head” are impressive - its length and width are the same, amounting to 255 meters. Its coordinates are 50°00′38″ N. w. 110°06′48″ W. d.

Lake-heart

This amazing place can only be seen from above or on Google maps. It is located on private land in Ohio, adjacent to Columbia Station.

The heart-shaped lake is filled with clear turquoise water. Romantics and lovers are happy to pay for flights and aerial photography to admire this beauty.

The owner of the land makes good money on such air excursions.

Galeshnyak

While we're talking about hearts, we need to remember one of the most interesting places on Google Maps, discovered in 2008. This is the Croatian island of Galeshnjak - a place of pilgrimage for lovers from all over the world.

Why is it so attractive to couples? First of all, the shape of the heart. It is symbolic that an Internet user found this amazing place on Valentine's Eve. The community instantly dubbed Galeshnyak “the island of love.”

Until then, the uninhabited part of the land became a center of tourism. The local community took advantage of the situation by organizing engagement parties at the heart center. A Moscow couple was the first to celebrate their engagement here.

Sandy

Its shape resembles a black sausage, and this island became famous when scientists officially recognized it as non-existent. First things first. An unknown island in the Pacific Ocean was discovered by Australians. It was located in a northwest direction from New Caledonia and occupied an area of ​​about 60 km 2.

In 2012, a few months after the discovery of the new island, Google put it on its maps. And in November of the same year, a group of scientists went there to study Sandy in detail.

Imagine the surprise of the scientists when they saw ocean waters instead of land. The following spring, Sandy Island was officially declared a "mistake" with the explanation that Australian travelers had mistaken a cluster of pumice for land.

Blood Red Pond

There are not always official explanations for strange places on Google Maps. A good example is the bloody reservoir near the city of Sadr, in Iraq.

The unusual pond was discovered in 2007, its coordinates are 33.396157° N. w. and 44.486926° E. d. There were no official explanations about the red water, but dozens of unofficial versions were circulated.

Residents said that local slaughterhouses drained animal blood into the reservoir; others explained the bloody tint to the drain as waste or bacteria living in the water. Over time, the redness disappeared - the water in the lake acquired a normal shade.

Labyrinth as an imprint

Anyone can see this amazing place if they come to Brighton, Britain. In Hove City Park there is a labyrinth designed like a fingerprint.

The walls of the building were made of limestone slabs in 2006. And Internet users found the labyrinth using Google maps.

German cross

Users noticed the swastika on Google maps in the same 2006. The building, shaped like a German cross, is operated by the US Navy.

Users were outraged by the similarity with fascist symbols and demanded clarification. The Navy command apologized for the unpleasant situation and explained that the similarities were discovered during the construction process.

A year later, work began on the installation of solar panels - in this non-standard way, the owners decided to change the shape of the building.

Overgrown ship

The ship captured satellite imagery near Sydney. The ship was moored at the mouth of the Parramatta River and was overgrown with trees. Later his story became known.

It turns out that the ship SS Ayrfield set off on its maiden voyage in 1911. It was in operation until 1972, after which it was decommissioned. The SS Ayrfield has remained motionless on the river ever since.

American planes also have a cemetery. Its coordinates are 32 08’59.96° N. w. and 110 50’09.03° E. d., area – 10 km 2. The aircraft burial ground is located at the closed US military base Davis-Monthan.

The only way to see this place is to use Google Earth. Several thousand decommissioned aircraft and spaceships rest on the territory of the cemetery, including legends. According to unofficial data, the total value of scrap metal is estimated at $35 billion.

Desert Circles

Two spirals emanate from the center. One spiral consists of cones, the further they are from the center, the wider they are. The second spiral is recesses installed according to the same principle as cones. From above, the sculpture looks like circles. And everything would be fine if it weren’t for its location.

The sculpture is located in the Sahara - it was built by employees of TO D.A.S.T. back in 1997. They expected that in a few years, under the influence of wind and erosion, nothing would remain at the site of the composition. More than 20 years have passed, and the strange circles are still there today, clearly visible from space.

Darfur lips, kiss of the Earth – whatever they call them. Indeed, it is not every day that you come across giant lips in the middle of the desert. Their proportions are close to ideal: length – 2.5 km, width – 1 km. And even the color from above seems pink-red.

The lips are not an art object, but natural hills in the Darfur plateau in Sudan. You can only view and appreciate their perfect beauty from the air. On the Internet, unusual hills often become the basis for jokes and witty comments.