Looking at photos taken from space, you can find a lot of intriguing and sometimes inexplicable things.
We have gathered for you the strangest and most mysterious objects and places found on Google maps for ordinary Internet users from around the world.
Guardian of the Badlands
In November 2006, Lynn Hickox found on Google maps located in the canadian province of Alberta geological formation resembling the head of an Indian with earphone in the ear. In fact, it is not that other, as the result of a long erosion of soils, and the wire from the earpiece and the ear, a road to the oil rig, and the rig.
Bloody lake in Iraq
In 2007 near the Iraqi city of Sadr, it was discovered the lake blood-red color. Around this event was a lot of speculation. Version of the origin of the anomaly was very different — from sewage waste to the nearby slaughterhouse. However, the reason for the sudden repainting was never installed.
Today, the lake looks just like any other.
Island in the shape of a heart
Island of Love, belonging to Croatia, was detected on satellite maps in 2009. The island quickly became popular, not only in the Internet, so once an uninhabited part of the land became a place of pilgrimage for lovers from around the world.
Labyrinth in the form of a fingerprint
Labyrinth in the form of the imprint of a human finger, lined with limestone tiles, is located in the Park “Hove” English city of Brighton. It was created in 2006 by the sketch artist Chris Drury. The difference between this maze of many others is that the road leading to the center, has no dead ends and branches.
“Murder scene” on the lake in the city Almere, Netherlands
A satellite image taken in 2009 in the Netherlands found one of the users of the website Reddit. The scene seemed like a murder, and the site has a heated discussion, what it really is.
However, no bloody crime in this picture is not fixed. Resident Almere Jacqueline Kenna was identified in the brutal “killer” of his Golden Retriever, who, according to her, loves to swim. And that was made for traces of blood, in fact just water that glass with dog’s fur.
The building is in the shape of a swastika
The building, owned by the U.S. Navy, whose form repeats the swastika, said the Google in 2006. The Navy command said that the resemblance of this figure was discovered only at the construction stage, when it was impossible to change anything.
In 2007 it was allocated $ 600 thousand to the changing landscape and the installation of solar panels so that they hid the shape of the building. Today on the satellite maps you can see only one of the L-shaped buildings of the military base, the rest are closed plates of solar panels.
Masked dove
This the streets were made in the small Japanese town of Fuchu in March 2013. This is one of those cases where “composition” were built specifically users and is a website Daily Portal Z, knowing that the streets will be photographed for Google, decided to immortalize themselves on the map.
The ship is overgrown with trees
This abandoned and overgrown with trees, the ship was cleared companion on the PARRAMATTA river, flowing near the Australian Sydney. A ship called the SS Ayrfield was launched in 1911. In 1972, he was discharged, and since then, the ship moored in the estuary.
UFO in Romania
This object, similar to the form of a UFO from a science fiction movie, was discovered on one of the abandoned farm near the Romanian town of Timisoara. The discovery has generated a lot of rumors about what our planet landed alien ship. In fact, a flying saucer is nothing like an abandoned water tower that once supplied the Timisoara water.
Breath of the desert
These strange circles in the Sahara desert actually was created in 1997 by the hands of people who are creative joining D. A. T. S. Made a sculpture of two spirals emanating from the center, one of which is made from cones, widening as one moves away from the beginning, and the second is the pits, constructed on the same principle.
According to the creators of spiral should disappear with time under the influence of erosion. But now, 20 years later, it is perfectly visible even from space.
Cemetery military aircraft
Base “Davis Monthan” is near the American city of Tucson is perhaps the world’s largest place of preservation of the aircraft — laid here are about 4 400 40 planes and spacecraft. Every year it receives about 400 pieces of equipment, and the same is sold or destroyed.
A strange creature from Loch ness
Jason cook, 25-year-old English security guard from Nottingham, examining satellite images of Loch ness, saw the creature floating in its waters. Although reliable evidence of the existence of the famous Nessie no, many felt that it captured all-seeing companion Google.
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