A simple glitch or weird quirk of the camera can make any simple street scene in Google Maps turn into something out of a nightmare.
For example: The blurred entrance of a building in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina in southern Brazil invites you to take a look. But clicking on it reveals a haunting shadowy figure surrounded by darkness.
Oh, it’s probably nothing.
In 1946-1947, Admiral Richard E. Byrd, of Hollow Earth fame, spearheaded Operation Highjump, a military training exercise in Antarctica. Many have since claimed that this was actually a cover-up for…
If you ever stumble upon a group of pigeon roleplayers in Japan, my advice is to just keep walking.
Well, that's strange. Why doesn't Google Maps show the North Pole? The answer's actually pretty simple: Our Earth is round, and not effectively represented by a two-dimensional map. Google Maps…
