# Too weird--the Wonder Of Random Street View **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 7, 2023, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815 "2023-03-07T01:13:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/1 "2023-03-07T01:13:50Z")
Enjoy, my buddies. > **[Wonders of Street View](https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/)** > > Explore the weird and wonderful things on Google Street View ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/2 "2023-03-07T01:18:55Z")
I got a street view of a McDonalds in Porto, Portugal that I walked past about six weeks ago. That is weird. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/3 "2023-03-07T02:15:00Z")
I got the Giant Footprint in Oahu, Hawaii, then an ATV parked on the roof of “Dray’s Dairy Bar” in New Brunswick, Canada. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/4 "2023-03-07T02:21:07Z")
I got nuthin’. It was in an airplane above the clouds. (I refreshed it and got a shot of CERN (interior, in the accelerator tunnel). ---
**Author:** ![Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy_PickleSniffer)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/5 "2023-03-07T02:30:11Z")
I got an abandoned mining town in Beaverhead County, Montana. This is kinda fun! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/6 "2023-03-07T07:58:26Z")
I was looking up an address a couple of weeks ago and checked out the neighborhood. I came across this. I copied it to show a friend so I’ll share it here, too. Man with three legs. [![](https://i.imgur.com/CbKcQcd.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/CbKcQcd.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/7 "2023-03-07T08:19:25Z")
I used to waste a lot of time on [geoguessr](https://www.geoguessr.com/), back in the day, before they changed the site. Fun game. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/8 "2023-03-07T08:38:51Z")
I got the Bellagio fountain on the Vegas Strip. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/9 "2023-03-07T09:59:21Z")
i got a view of The Red Boat in Svalbard, Norway then Barack Obama Plaza in County Tipperary, Ireland looks like a highway rest stop and there’s a disney fan in Nashville TN that has way too many plushies glued to their car… ok the people who built a lifesize starwars AT-AT in their yard .wins ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/10 "2023-03-07T10:16:46Z")
that was supposed to read : ok the people who built a lifesize star wars AT-AT in their yard in Raleigh, North Carolina wins ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/11 "2023-03-07T10:51:12Z")
I got something titled “The Captive” in Severn, Maryland. It’s two guys on ladders, one is pouring something on the head of the other, who is wrapped in bandages. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/12 "2023-03-07T12:44:33Z")
I got The Instant Ramen Tunnel in Japan’s Cup and Noodle Museum (which of course I hadn’t known existed). ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/13 "2023-03-07T12:53:23Z")
I got a guy carrying a massive tray of Jerusalem Bagels on his head across the street from the wall of the Old City. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/14 "2023-03-07T12:59:43Z")
Pistachioland in La Luz, New Mexico. Heh. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/15 "2023-03-07T14:20:40Z")
Gate 9 3/4 at a London train station, with half a cart sticking out from the wall. And a guy riding a motorcycle with a side-car, but on two wheels looking like he’s about to tip over. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/16 "2023-03-07T16:47:48Z")
Lots of birds - Midway Atoll ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/17 "2023-03-07T17:07:52Z")
I liked “Scott’s Hut” in Antarctica. Looks pretty bleak. If anyone gets “Spidey Fight” in Michoacan, can they clue me in? Just looks like an uninteresting street, with no spiders in evidence. I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy_PickleSniffer)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/18 "2023-03-07T17:43:28Z")
> [@teelabrown](#): > > If anyone gets “Spidey Fight” in Michoacan, can they clue me in? Just looks like an uninteresting street, with no spiders in evidence. I don’t get it. I just got that one today and I don’t get it either. I tried looking it up on google and found this: [Spiderman in Mexico](https://www.weirdgoogleearth.com/2023/01/13/spiderman-in-mexico/) It has that same scene, and then underneath of it another scene with someone in a Spiderman costume and two other people. No explanation though. I tried moving on the street view up and down the street to find that same area depicted in the 2nd photo and couldn’t find it. So ??? ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/19 "2023-03-07T18:47:37Z")
I am guessing the Spiderman thing has to do with rhe numerous power lines going thrh the photo, somehow resembling a spider web? ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815/20 "2023-03-07T19:27:02Z")
I got Walden 7, which I’ve read about. I find architecture fascinating, and this building is so interesting. > **[Walden 7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden_7)** > > Walden 7 is an apartment building designed by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura and located in Sant Just Desvern near Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. It was built in 1975. > The name of the building is inspired by B. F. Skinner's novel, Walden Two, which depicts a utopian community and itself is a reference to Henry David Thoreau's novel Walden. It is noted for its use of modules to create apartments and many public community spaces. > The original project includes 446 residences. With a budge... > [@snowthx](#): > > Gate 9 3/4 at a London train station, with half a cart sticking out from the wall. I hit Random a few times and got this one as well. Maybe it’s not so random. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-weird-the-wonder-of-random-street-view/980815.md?page=2)