Google Earth has given us a view of the world few got to see even a decade ago — and we don't even have to leave our homes to explore the world.
Which is good, because the world can be a scary place! The evidence is right on Google Earth!
Google Earth has given us a view of the world few got to see even a decade ago — and we don't even have to leave our homes to explore the world.
Which is good, because the world can be a scary place! The evidence is right on Google Earth!
You can almost feel the heat! This volcano is on an island in the Vanuatu chain in the South Pacific.
Meanwhile, in nearby Nevada, there's this triangle with a bunch of circles inside it carved into the desert. So, maybe this is aliens? Some suggest it's an old bomb testing site or an abandoned air strip...
Whether it's okay or not to roam the streets with a rifle in Russia, this happened.
This five-pointed star has literally been etched into the Earth's surface, and so far, no one's been able to explain why or how it got there!
This satellite view provides a pretty graphic explanation of the forces at work here.
A Reddit user commented that the fire is probably controlled since there are people on the south side, but that doesn't make it any less cool!
Has product placement gone so far? Search coordinates -18.529211, -70.249941 and you'll see where a Coca-Cola logo has been drawn onto a hillside in Chile. There are also pictures of it from the ground, for the record.
There are a lot of historical photos that Google couples with current satellite images, and not all of them are pleasant.
One woman, Ayano Tsukimi, is responsible for the 350 dolls around the village that she made to replace all the people who have died or left the village throughout her life.
Australia sent the SS Ayrfield into a well-earned retirement back in the '70s after seeing action as a supply ship in WWII. But it earned a sort of new life in retirement when trees took root in the hull, making it a popular tourist sight.
So far, there is no explanation as to why the lake is this color.
According to a commenter on Imgur, this is the site of the world's largest nuclear detonation, Tsar Bomba.
The area appears to have since been replaced with new photographs, but the screenshot lives on.
The formation is referred to as the "Badlands Guardian." This is entirely natural, though somewhat eerie.
The reason the car wasn't seen before was because it was too murky at ground level.
While this type of thing is relatively common in Japan, it is certainly a bit less common everywhere else.
When the coal ran out, the island city was simply abandoned.
Theories suggest it could be anything from an underwater UFO to the Kraken to the Loch Ness monster (apparently on vacation from Loch Ness). In all likelihood, it's probably a blue whale.
This strange symbol etched into the earth is reported to be the "alien space cathedral" of the Church of Scientology. If you look closely you can see a private airstrip built for the church's leaders.
Established after WWII, the Arizona Boneyard has become the largest site of its kind in the world.
Apparently the area was raided and cleared out by Colombia's armed forces, but it lives on in Google Street View.
Northern Arizona still bears the scar of a 50,000 year-old meteor strike. The Barringer Crater was created with the exploding force of 2.5 million tons of TNT, about 150 times the force of the Hiroshima atomic blast.
And yes, that's a small child on the ground in the sun, with no adults in sight.
Ariel Castro held three women hostage in his home in Cleveland for over 10 years. The home was demolished but the space is still blurred on Google Earth.
Luckily, they're just a bunch of mannequins, but that doesn't make them any less terrifying.
While some of them are actually quite beautiful, this one is extremely alarming. I'd love to know what's going on here.
Could be a crime scene right out of Law & Order, amirite? It's easy to see how folks might think someone was caught dumping a body, but the clues don't add up — these coordinates are for a public park in the Netherlands, where zero people would ever dump a body in broad daylight.
With one of the cars off the road, you really have to hope everyone was okay.
It's not the only shipwreck you can see on Google Earth, but it's one of the largest.