12 Places Google Earth Doesn't Want You To See

1. 2207 Seymour Avenue

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

41.472554, -81.697886

This censored image is the home of Ariel Castro, who kept three women imprisoned inside for more than a decade until their escape in May 2013. The house was demolished three months later but remains blurred in the aerial and street views.

2. Colonel Sanders’s Face, Every KFC

Google Earth is prevented from showing the face of any real person, living or dead. This explains why the face of Colonel Sanders (who actually existed), is blurred out on every KFC logo.

3. Army Logistics Command Headquarters Building

Taiwan

25.047424, 121.591454

This military logistics headquarters in China is blurred for obvious reasons.

4. Valencia City

Philippines

7.907765, 125.092966

Most of this large city, with a population of 160,000, is pixelated even when you zoom in. It might just be an oversight, but it’s hard to over look and entire city.

5.Personeelsvereniging Tankwerkplaats

Amersfoort, Netherlands

52.122640, 5.357492

This is the location of a Dutch tank manufacturer, and is censored in the Army-camouflage way for obvious reasons.

6. Volkel Airbase

Uden, Netherlands

51.654597, 5.686496

The Volkel Airbase has been rumored to hold nukes since the 1960′s which was later confirmed by the prime minister, Ruud Lubbers, in 2013. An understandable reason to censor the airbase.

7. Severnaya Zemlya

Russian Arctic

79.944966, 95.014199

A large archipelago with an area of 14,000 square miles that is uninhabited by humans. Why would this be censored? The case is unclear and people have been speculating the censorship of this place.

8. The Faroe Islands

Denmark/The North Atlantic Ocean

62.118920, -6.919588

Another suspicious area that has been blurred out. Admittedly, nothing much happens in terms of people in this area, but that does not explain why the borders of the islands can’t be sharpened out.

9. Gab?íkovo Power Plant

Gab?íkovo, Slovakia

47.884081, 17.541023

The switch yard of the power plant is censored for obvious reasons, but it’s done in such a way that you almost don’t notice it at first glance.

10. Chekhov

Near Moscow, Russia

55.148392, 37.479011

The street view of this city with a population of 60,000 is perfectly visible, but switching to bird’s eye view will reveal that it’s all blurred. What makes it stranger is that the town of Chudinovo, 5.5 km to the east, is perfectly visible.

11. The Royal Palace of Amsterdam

Amsterdam, Netherlands

52.373154, 4.891227

Several of the buildings that are related to the Dutch royal family have been censored. But even the Royal Palace was censored with a lot of care, as if someone took the time to blur each pixel instead of just obscuring the entire image.

12. Marcoule Nuclear Site

Chusclan, France

44.144520, 4.706259

This giant atomic energy site uses plutonium and uranium oxides and was the scene of an explosion in 2011. So it is censored for obvious reasons.

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