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A weather station settlement in Nunavut, Canada - it's the northernmost permanently inhabited place on Earth! Alfonsów: The name of 4 different places in Poland. Basically means "pimpville". Almond: A township and village in Allegany County, New York. You'll go nuts over it. Almyros: A very jealous Greek town. Means "salty" in Greek. Aloha
The only place on earth where rocks from the Earth's mantle get exposed to the surface. Montague Street Bridge: A bridge in Melbourne that has had so many trucks crash into it and get stuck under it, the government used millions of dollars to install prevention measures (it did nothing). Mount Wycheproof
This is a list of satellite map images with missing or unclear data. Some locations on free, publicly viewable satellite map services have such issues due to having been intentionally digitally obscured or blurred for various reasons of this. [1] For example, Westchester County, New York asked Google to blur potential terrorism targets (such as ...
Google Earth gives people the power to search remote areas of the globe, and those virtual treks have resulted in some rather intriguing discoveries. Here are 10 mysterious sites spotted via ...
The Red Beach. Liaoning Province, China. This natural wonder in southern China, near the North Korean border, gets its fiery hue from a seepweed species that, as it soaks up saline, turns crimson ...
Ahu Tongariki, Chile. Part of Easter Island — also known as Rapa Nui — this photo shows the moais carved by Polynesian island inhabitants between the years of 1250 and 1500. The tallest among ...
Fucking, Austria.The village was renamed on 1 January 2021 to "Fugging" Hell, Norway.The hillside sign is visible in the background in the left corner. Place names considered unusual can include those which are also offensive words, inadvertently humorous (especially if mispronounced) or highly charged words, as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including especially ...
10 of Earth's Strangest Places At an early age we are taught that the seas and skies are blue, deserts are brown and grasses are green. But Mother Nature is full of surprises.