I thought there was a ‘strange things on Google maps’ thread but I couldn’t find it. Anyway, they’ve probably updated since then so…
Helping a friend find a Planet Fitness near him, I found this strange graffiti (?) on top of a building in a strip mall. (Sorry, I couldn’t figure out how to link to it, but put in ‘Planet Fitness Derry, NH’ in Google Maps and zoom in.
Today I was reading about a CIA plane crash in Death Valley National Park that occured in 1952. The plane - an SA-16 Albatross - is still there, and people occasionally hike to it.
I paraused a number of articles on it, but couldn’t find one that provided the lattitude & longitude of the crash site. Based on some descriptions on how to hike to it, I finally found it on Google Maps after quite a bit of searching: