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95 Times Google Maps Accidentally Captured Something Nobody Expected To See
According to a report from CNET, Google Maps has photographed 10 million miles of our planet, or 98% of the inhabited world. And while it’s unlikely that anyone could ever explore all of those places in person, you can certainly do it from the comfort of your home.
Spend enough time on Google Earth, and you’ll start to notice some bizarre places and things. Or if you don’t want to spend time searching yourself, you can always just check out the Google Maps Oddities subreddit. We’ve gathered some of the most intriguing posts from this community below, so enjoy scrolling through these perplexing pics, and be sure to upvote all of your favorites!
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#1
Found A Plane Crash
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#2
Was Just Messing Around And Found This Randomly LOL
#3
Found Uzbek Deity At 39.834520, 65.498884
Serial pacifist 1 month ago
He is known as Stan, Uzbeki Stan. The Kazakh also worship one of their own.
#4
What Is This Building? It Spells Antibody
#5
The Time-Honored Sport Of Australian Axe Chasing
#6
Ship Crashed On An Island That Isn't On The Map But You Can See From Satellite 20.20266171538263, -91.97673646640403
#8
34°03′17.8" N 118°13′32.2" W
Chich the witch 1 month ago
Seen this before. IIRC it was a guy living in a junkyard who had mental health issues.
#9
What Is This? Middle Of Nowhere Canada
#10
Randomly Found This Statue… Fountain, While Google Earthing In Sweden. What Is This Thing?
#11
Help Me! Someone Explain? Only Find That They Were “Found” In 2013…. And They Are Called “Geoglyph”. 5j8v+2jf, In Salah, Algeriet
#12
The Mario And Luigi Car, 51.366086, -0.279144
#14
Winnie The Pooh On South Pole?
#15
(51.8618427, -2.2515415)
#16
Plane Graveyard?
#17
The Arabian Desert Has Reclaimed This Fort (20.3681353, 50.9259673)
#18
Found An North-Korean Waterpark? Looks Odd. 39.185830448387534, 127.40864354953058
#19
Found The World’s Greatest Skatepark | (21.3455456, -157.9345423)
#20
Why Are So Many Boats Needed In Nouadhibou, Mauritania? (20.912217,-17.0383803,656)
#21
Why Is There A Qr Code On The Ground In China?
#22
Strange Mannequins (47°35'22.2"N 6°25'07.7"E)
Rick Murray 1 month ago
That looks like the weird things people do when the Tour de France is passing by. Yup, that's just up from Besançon in the 2022 imagery, so I'm going with Tour de France.
#23
A Grey Bench With 96 Reviews In Italy
#24
Anyone Know What This Is?
#25
What Is This Building Surrounded By Monoliths? Outside Of Fillmore / Greenwood Utah
#26
Two Jets In The Ocean Off The Coast Of California
#27
Downed Battleship Off The Coast Of Utah Beach. Coordinates : 49.44123081337317, -1.1805022685058404
#28
Strange (Underwater?) Structures On Chausey Islands; Coords: 48.886976, -1.799964
#29
Some Kind Of Reflection?
#30
Scavenged Plane In Northern Mauritania
#31
What Is This Black Square In Mongolia?
#32
Tiny Island In The Middle Of The Caribbean With Absolutely Nothing Except A Docked Helipad
#33
Weird Base / Clearing In The Jungle In An Uninhabited Island Off The Coast Of Myanmar (11.79, 97.45)
#34
Pooping Dog In Mongolia
#35
Does Anyone Know What Going On Here? Found In Maryland (38°27'12.7"N 75°58'25.6"W)
#36
Huge Building In The Middle Of A Desert?
#37
A Sunk Boat? || 42.329386, 10.328868
Randy Schamber 1 month ago (edited)
It was a fishing boat. They recovered it in 2019, no longer there on current maps.
#38
Weird Circle Structures At Lat 42.8669 Long -105.7217
Multa Nocte (she/her 8647) 1 month ago
From original post: "Oil storage tanks used to sit there."
#39
Bread Town🍞
#40
Bizarre Concrete Structure In Kansas City, Present Since At Least 1991
1 month ago
Probably a cooling cistern for a series of power generators that were mounted on top of the visible columns. It's located where the Bendix Corporation had a massive plant.
#41
Found This Colorful Flying Airplane On Google Maps – Anyone Seen Similar Shots?
#42
Creech Air Force Base Unknown Structure 36°39'03"N 115°41'40"W
TotallyNOTAFox 1 month ago (edited)
My guess would be a target for fragmentation tests (for bömb drops) - Place dummies inside those boxes and look what happens to them
#43
What Is This Pipe That Runs Through An Entire City? Why Is It There?
Michael MacKinnon 1 month ago
Central steam heating. Pipe brings it to at least all the major buildings.
#44
A Tree Branch Got Stuck On The Street View Camera In St. Louis. Visible For The Whole Block
#45
Strange Building In The Middle Of Very Dense Forest
#46
Aircraft Carrier In Suez Canal
TotallyNOTAFox 1 month ago (edited)
That is the french carrier "Charles de Gaulle" based on the planes and the runway markings
#47
Weird Smoky Ring In Turkmenistan
2WheelTravlr 1 month ago (edited)
Consensus on Reddit is this is some sort of archaeological dig site, but to me it looks like a dry collecting pond. There are others nearby and what appears to be canals connecting them all.
#48
Empty Dirt Roads With Hundreds Of Weird Green Mounds Anniston Army Base
#49
Anyone Know What This Is At Jfk Airport?
#50
Weird Tower In The Dessert Near(Ish) To Area 51
#51
This Can't Be Real! 55°32'40.6"S 69°15'58.1"W
#52
Checking Out The Abandon Car In AZ
#54
Unmarked Russian Airbase On Disputed Island Etorofu
#56
I've Been Very Puzzled About This "Hole" I Found On Google Maps A While Ago. Does Anyone Know What This Is?
#57
Black Square In Australian Outback
#58
Does Anyone Know What Happened Here? 50.6227836,10.6607985
Rick Murray 1 month ago
There's a tunnel under the bay in Baltimore and the camera does the same thing.
#59
Is This A Lake Or Man Made?
Multa Nocte (she/her 8647) 1 month ago
From the original post: "there are a bunch of them in the immediate vicinity. Standard cenote"
#61
Street View From The Middle Of Great Bear Lake. Truly No Idea What I'm Looking At
Multa Nocte (she/her 8647) 1 month ago
From the original post: "Nothing crazy. That's just a custom 360º picture that user posted. Many people started to do this, usually picking very remote, difficult to find locations to "hide" their work. Some of these have been deleted by Google, like the one depicting Forth Bridge in the UK with a massive structure descending from the clouds."
#62
What Is This Alien-Like Land Formation/Structure In Inner Mongolia, China?
#64
Street View Driver Gets A McDonald's. Tychy, Poland. Coordinates: 50.1368152, 18.9768422
#65
A Kebab Shop In The Middle Of The Ocean
Caffeinated Ape 1 month ago (edited)
Maybe it's in R'lyeh? Even eldritch horrors can enjoy kebabs.(Oh, no, my mistake. Apparently R'lyeh is much further east.) Actual answer; I was wondering if it was maybe on the Chatham Islands but apparently it's just some sort of joke. ETA: Too far south for the Chathams anyway. Antipodes Island. The island is real, the "kebab shop" is not.
#66
I Was In Locomotion Through Downtown Albania When I Stumbled Upon This Faceless Man That Gave Me Quite The Fright
#67
What Do We Have Here In Uintah County, Utah (39.903824, -109.611152)
#68
Why Is There Not A Single Plane At Heathrow?
#69
Large Grid Of Roads On The Southern Tip Of The Island Of Hawai'i (19.11619261515121, -155.76478520346947)
#70
Looked Around In Maps, What Is This ?
Multa Nocte (she/her 8647) 1 month ago
From original post: "From what I can tell this is almost certainly water storage."
#71
Strange Estate At Mururoa Atall
#72
Only “Structure” On This Whole Island, Middle Of Nowhere Rose Island
Multa Nocte (she/her 8647) 1 month ago
"The Rose Island Concrete Monument is a historic commemorative marker on Rose Island, part of Rose Atoll, a remote island located in the far eastern reaches of the territorial waters of American Samoa. The marker is a concrete structure in the shape of a truncated pyramid with a rectangular cross-section. It is 1.53 metres (5.0 ft) wide, 1.59 metres (5.2 ft) high, and 0.74 metres (2.4 ft) deep. On the west side of the marker is raised lettering stating "ROSE ISLAND / AMERICAN SAMOA / TRESPASSING PROHIBITED / WARREN J. TERHUNE / JAN 10 1920 GOVERNOR". A brass plaque on the opposite side of the monument conveys a similar message. The monument was placed in 1920 by the order of Naval Governor Warren J. Terhune during a tour he made of all of the islands of the territory of American Samoa, and serves as a continuing reminder of the American claim to the atoll."
#73
What The Heck Is This Thing? (75.4575353, 144.7582522)
#74
What Is This Strange Network Of Channels In A River In Northern Florida?
Multa Nocte (she/her 8647) 1 month ago
From original post: "It is owned by White Oak Conservation. They claim to save rare and endangered species."
#75
Two Full Identical "Eastenders" Series Town Sets At Bbc Elstree Centre (Rotated 90 Degrees Counter Clockwise To Each Other)
Multa Nocte (she/her 8647) 1 month ago
From the original post: "No, it's very simple: The old set (left here) was replaced by the new one (right). Notice the missing cars on the left one. The show exists since the mid 1980's and the new set was build around 2021 (it was a parking lot before). The old one on the left has been stripped down and does not exist anymore."
#76
Found This In Middle Of Nowhere In Russia. Anyone Know What This Is?
#77
North Korean Battleship Dock
TotallyNOTAFox 1 month ago
I know what the OP means, but those are not "Battleships" - Torpedo boats and a corvette
#78
Does Anybody Have An Explanation For This?
#79
What Are These Terraces Deep In The Amazon?
#80
Victim Of Motorbike Accident On The Road
#81
Boeing Everett Factory Photoshopped
#84
What's This Giant Red Pit Near Stade, Germany
#85
Weird Pngs In Street View Images Of Republic Of The Congo
#86
I Clicked A Blue Dot And This Came Up, Any Ideas What This Room Is? Or Why The Hell It’s Apparently In The Middle Of Sentinel Island?
#88
Some Stone Structures In The Middle Of The Jungle In The Democratic Republic Of Congo Looking Like Ruins
#89
Uh Oh
Nikole [8647] 1 month ago
Isn't that a white supremacist symbol? Or is he flicking something off his shirt?
#90
I Was Looking On Google Earth And Then I Found This In The Netherlands
I Use Reverse Image Search But Nothing Came Up And Google Lens, Does Someone Know What It Is Or What This Represents, It Showed Up Somewhere In Between 5/2021 En 8/2023
Multa Nocte (she/her 8647) 1 month ago
From the original post: "that area is a national park" "and that seems to be their logo( at least one version , side lines should intersect the central cross thingy ? )"
#91
Creepy Guy Watches The Googlemaps Car From The Balcony Of An Abandoned Building 46.78534459717227, 22.125485432419538
#93
No Way This Road Name Is What It Is
BarkingSquirell 1 month ago
Pew is the elongated row of wooden seats in a church. What am I missing when you say it cannot be Pew Road?
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Caffeinated Ape 1 month ago
A lot of these have additional images at the source links, some of which are necessary to put the entries in context. BP is capable of having list items with multiple images, but I guess the software hasn't caught up enough to be able to scrape the full Reddit posts.
Salttypepper 1 month ago
I never find anything good on maps or earth google just don’t like me
Caffeinated Ape 1 month ago
A lot of these have additional images at the source links, some of which are necessary to put the entries in context. BP is capable of having list items with multiple images, but I guess the software hasn't caught up enough to be able to scrape the full Reddit posts.
Salttypepper 1 month ago
I never find anything good on maps or earth google just don’t like me
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