Use Google Maps at home to discover 12 strange landscapes hidden in corners of the world

Have you seen the star that fell to the ground?

Goryokaku in Hokkaido, Japan, is one of Hakodate’s famous attractions. Visitors here will climb the Goryokaku Tower to appreciate the cute and romantic star-shaped fortress.

This type of star-shaped fortress originated in Europe and was a new form of fortress developed to cope with the invention of cannon. It can currently be seen in the province of Groningen in the Netherlands, Copenhagen in Denmark, and the city of Palmaro in Italy. And Japan can be said to be one of the very few countries outside of Europe that has a star-shaped fortress.

Goryokaku was a fortress built in 1864 with reference to European castles. It was originally the seat of the Japanese shogunate's foreign affairs, coastal defense, or city administration units. A few years later, it became the place where Japan's last civil war ended and the feudal system ended.

Today’s Goryokaku has become the most beautiful park in Hakodate. It has different styles in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and carries the history of the past, making it a scenic spot full of stories.

Coordinates Location: 41.79679599159021, 140.75574327740424

Why do mysterious geometric patterns appear in the Egyptian desert? This is not a masterpiece by aliens, but a super large work of art!

This "Breath of the Desert" totem is a very large work created in 1997 by a team composed of installation artist Danae Stratou, designer Alexandra Stratou and architect Stella Constantinides.

The Breath of the Desert is composed of 89 protruding cones and 89 concave circles. More than 20 years later, through Google Maps, we can still see the perfect arc on the desert, witnessing a unique and fascinating artistic achievement in human history.

Coordinates Location: 27.380583, 33.631839

Not only are there fish in the sea, there is also an island that looks like a cute little fish on the sea.

This "Fish Island" located off the coast of Croatia is not only cute in appearance, it is also eye-catching because it contains many important archaeological and cultural sites in the world, and it even once was here. Found 200 dinosaur footprints!

Coordinates Location: 44.938916, 13.718527

On the vast sea, there are not only fish islands that look like cute little fish, Guishan Island that looks like turtles, and even dolphin islands!

This small island that looks like a dolphin is located off the coast of Amalfi in southern Italy. It is a very suitable place for snorkeling. In addition, Dolphin Island is the place where sea monsters live in Greek mythology, which makes this cute island even more curious and mysterious.

Coordinates Location: 40.582650364808245, 14.434860524143042

Sometimes some strange surprises are hidden in ordinary places. Just like next to an ordinary parking lot in The Hague, Netherlands, a car parked on the building!

This small red car stopped on the high wall of a nearby building in a manner that defied gravity. And not only does it look weird from the air, but actually in street view mode, the car is still firmly stuck to the wall!

I don’t know if there is a bug in Google Maps, or if this is actually a special advertisement or installation art that makes this ordinary parking lot the most magical place.

Coordinates: 52.069207, 4.3139865

A mysterious triangle pattern appeared in the barren desert, with several circles of perfect circles inside. It looked magical no matter how you looked at it.

This triangle that appears in the desert can’t help but be associated with aliens. What just happens to be that the location of this triangle is not far from the mysterious "Area 51" in the United States, so it makes people more imaginative!

Coordinate location: 37.62811286036575, -116.8490691090737

Have you heard of "Airplane Cemetery"? Located in the Arizona desert in the United States, there is the world's largest "aircraft cemetery." There are many retired aircraft parked here, and it is extremely spectacular when viewed from the satellite perspective of Google Maps.

These aircraft parked here are not scrapped, but will still be used if there is a war one day. The flat terrain and dry climate of the desert can slow down the corrosion of aircraft, making it the most suitable place to preserve aircraft. In addition to fighter jets, the global aviation industry has been hit hard by the epidemic. As a result, many large passenger aircraft have entered the aircraft graveyard, waiting to fly into the sky again in the future.

But unfortunately, most of the planes that enter here will never be "resurrected", making this place a veritable "aircraft graveyard."

Coordinates: 32.1515627099191, -110.83220058478553

Have you seen this fantastic lake in some nature journals or travel magazines?

This natural wonder called "Grand Prismatic Hot Spring" is one of the famous landmarks in Yellowstone National Park and the largest hot spring in the United States.

As the seasons change, the color of Grand Prismatic Hot Spring will also change. For example, spring water is dark green in winter and orange-red in spring. Such rich color changes are mainly caused by the different ratios of carotenoids and chlorophyll in the algae and pigment-containing bacteria in the hot springs.

Speaking of this, some people may be curious, "Can I soak in this hot spring?" The answer is definitely, no! No one can bear the temperature of the spring water as high as 85 degrees!

Coordinates: 44.52513671934417, -110.83814532063383

In the Sao Paulo area of ??Brazil, there is a wonder that can only be discovered from the "God's perspective".

Open Google Maps and observe carefully, you will find that there is a lake (perhaps a pond is more appropriate) in the forest of St. Paul. It looks like a man with open arms, which is amazing.

Judging from the facilities around the lake and the "unnatural appearance" of the lake itself, we can tell that this is a man-made lake. But I don’t know what kind of concept the designer of this pond wanted to convey

Coordinates: -21.805149,-49.089977

In South America, there are not only human-shaped lakes, but also human-shaped lakes. There is a guitar forest! And these can only be discovered by looking down from the sky.

Compared to many unknown totem landscapes, the Guitar Forest in Argentina has a poignant and romantic story behind it.

In order to commemorate his late wife Yraizoz, Argentinian farmer Pedro Martin Ureta spent 35 years building a guitar forest, realizing his wife’s dream.

While on a flight, Yraizoz saw a farmland that looked like a milk bucket, and like Ureta, he expressed the hope that their farm could also be shaped like her favorite guitar in the future. However, until his wife passed away in 1977, Ureta had no time to fulfill this wish because of her busy farming schedule.

After his wife passed away, in order to realize his wife’s dream, Ureta began to study how to build a large guitar on the ground.

Now that the Guitar Forest is completed, Ureta and his children take good care of it, hoping that Yraizoz, who is far away in heaven, can see that in their home, the huge guitar silently plays the joy of the past Melody, and the sound of longing.

Coordinates: –33.867316488450776, -63.9867133683305

A super-large Coca-Cola advertisement appears on the surface?

On a hillside near Arica, Chile, there is an unforgettable super-large Coca-Cola logo. This logo was made of 70,000 empty Coca-Cola bottles in 1986 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Coca-Cola. Even today, it is still an amazing sight.

When you see this logo from a distance, do you think of the comfortable and refreshing taste and want a bottle of Coke?

Coordinates: -18.529211, -70.249941

Located in the Atacama Desert in Chile, there are many mysterious portraits made of dark stones. The most special one is that A 120-meter-long "giant statue" with a charming smile.

To this day, no one knows what the original artists of these paintings intended, and these totems can only be seen clearly from the air, which makes people curious about who these patterns are intended to show. What about?

Coordinates: -19.948874238779744, -69.6335431337681

The above 12 unique landscapes can all be found using Google Maps.

In addition to these wonders, there are also many mysterious and fantastic scenes hidden in other places, just waiting for you to open Google Maps to discover!