

It's actually a shipwreck in Homebush Bay in Sydney, Australia. This non-descript looking island has an interesting story. These are actually potassium chloride evaporation ponds at a potash mine near Moab. Though these bright blue features in the Utah desert might look like huge stained glass installations, they're actually something much less benign. "Stained Glass" Structures in the Utah Desert See what your photos look like as fine art. Though the factory closed in 1982, the building remains and is now a shopping center and a hotel - complete with the test track still on the roof! Editor's Tip: Great photos deserve to be printed and hung on the wall. The vehicles made at the factory would actually be tested on a track built on the building's roof. The Lingotto Building in Turin, Italy was once a factory for carmaker Fiat. Granted, this shot doesn't look all that weird, but the story behind the oblong building certainly is. Of course, not everything is as it seems because this is actually a really cool water tower, despite there being a waypoint that say that it's an "Alien UFO Resort." Turin, Italy's Rooftop Racetrack This shot of a heavily forested area in Romania seems to reveal a UFO just hanging out in the woods. You can see the outline of the "Badlands Guardian," including its forehead, sharp nose, lips, and chin.Ībove the waypoint and to the right, you can see what looks remarkably like a headdress as well.
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This "face" is actually a series of hills and other geological features that look a whole lot like a person. Map Data and Imagery: Google & S Alberta MD s and Counties This huge cat-like feature is a 390-foot-long geoglyph that was carved into the side of a hill in the Chilean desert sometime between 1000-1400 AD.

Unlike some of the strange things that are photographed by Google that trick your eye into thinking they're something they aren't, the Atacama Giant shown above is 100 percent real. Glancing at the screenshot above, it's hard not to come to the conclusion that this must be some sort of devil-worshipping center.Īs it turns out, though, the pentagram shape is nothing more than pathways made in the shape of a star. Kazakhstan has a lot of very, very remote places, and one of them just happens to be home to a humongous pentagram, at least on first view.

This is actually the largest airplane boneyard on earth, and though many of the planes here will never fly again, some will re-enter service if need be. If you've ever wondered where airplanes go when they're retired, it's to an airplane boneyard like this one at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. This photo isn't as much weird as it is really stinking cool.
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So, in other words, no, they didn't do this just for the benefit of Google's cameras! Editor's Tip: Not sure how to work your lens properly? Learn how to read the markings on your lens. Google doesn't need to send its cameras into space to find wild things to photograph.Ī few years ago while conducting street view photography, one of their cameras captured this strange scene of people dressed like pigeons.Īpparently this is a thing in this area of Japan - to do pigeon role play. Here's just a sampling of weird Google Earth images from around the world. That fact alone makes it one of the best photography inventions of all time, if you ask me.īut throw in the fact that Google Earth (and Google Maps, too) takes photos of some really weird things, and you have the makings for one heck of a way to entertain yourself. By now, it's no secret that Google Earth is an incredibly powerful tool that has allowed everyday people like you and I to explore areas of the world that we would otherwise never get to see.
