![]() ![]() See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis. See the swastika building on Google Maps. "We don’t want to be associated with something as symbolic and hateful as a swastika," a spokesman said. The Navy says it’s spending more than $600,000 to mask the shape. But in 2007 Google Earth sleuths found that four unconnected buildings on the base formed an unfortunate shape when viewed from above: a swastika. When builders of the Coronado Naval Amphibious Base in San Diego planned this complex in 1967, satellite imagery was probably the furthest thing from their minds. Now it’s one of the largest shipwrecks visible on Google Earth. The SS Jassim, a Bolivian cargo ferry, ran aground and sunk on the Wingate Reef off the coast of Sudan in 2003. See the top 10 embarrassing diplomatic moments. See the Badlands Guardian on Google Maps. Even the Badlands Guardian, it seems, isn’t immune to exploratory drilling. Some say the man looks like he’s wearing earphones that’s merely a road and an oil well. Dubbed the Badlands Guardian, the "face" is actually a valley eroded into the clay. It looks disconcertingly like a face from above, but this formation in Alberta, Canada is entirely natural. ![]() Watch disastrous David Letterman interviews. No one has offered an official explanation, but it’s more likely the color comes from sewage, pollution or a water treatment process. One tipster told the tech blog Boing Boing that he was "told by a friend" that slaughterhouses in Iraq sometimes dump blood in canals. This blood-red lake outside of Iraq’s Sadr City garnered a fair share of macabre speculation when it was discovered in 2007. See the airplane graveyard on Google Maps. It’s one of the most popular satellite pictures online, making guided tours of the area are a hot ticket. More than 4,000 military aircraft are parked on the base, from B-52s to stealth bombers, where they are salvaged for parts and broken down for scrap. The Davis-Monthan Air Force Base outside of Tuscon, Ariz., is where old planes go to die. You be the judge, but if you look closely, the "missile" appears to have wings. Many dispute the image and say it’s merely an airplane. Google Earth has plenty of examples of planes, helicopters - even hot air balloons - caught in flight, but this cruise missile, thought to be fired during military training exercises in the Utah mountains, might be the most unlikely capture yet. ![]()
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