10 Secret Locations Around the World (That Aren’t Area 51) …and 2 extras

I had some fun making this one.

I wanted to make a little exhibit, if you will, of some interesting open source imagery. Every location listed here is described much more fully in plenty of other places on the internet (some more than others, of course). Nothing here is “secret” in any meaningful sense of the term… and yet, these locations – or perhaps more accurately their referents – are indeed secret. What does that mean? It’s an interesting thing to think about, and I did for a few minutes, but then realized it was just a lot more fun playing around with Google Earth and putting this together.

Couple of things: One, click on the images to see a larger version. Also, I’ve marked all the spots here in a single Google Earth overlay file for downloading.

And… on with the show…

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