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Visit The Village from The Prisoner on Google Maps

Cyriaque Lamar — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:30:00 PST

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And by The Prisoner we mean the 1967 "Patrick McGoohan tooling around in a Lotus 7 Prisoner," not the 2009 TV miniseries nobody particularly enjoyed. In the Welsh county of Gwynedd, you can visit the faux-Mediterranean Portmeirion resort, which served as the shooting location for the cult classic television series. More »

Google Maps discovers mysterious sky creatures in Switzerland

Cyriaque Lamar — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:45:00 PST

Along a lonely stretch of road in Quarten, Switzerland, two strange figures and/or camera smudges survey the terrain, planning nefarious and/or blurry machinations. The figures follow the camera as it travels down the road. Some commenters on Reddit are claiming this is a gateway to Valhalla, but I'm of the mind that Galactus and the Silver Surfer accidentally ambled into the camera's view. There is a Giger Bar 40 minutes down the road. Coincidence? Of course not. More »

The Batcave's been discovered in Okinawa using Google Maps

Cyriaque Lamar — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:02:52 PDT

Batman's secret hideout has been discovered using the magic of the internet, and surprisingly it's not under Wayne Manor. No, it's located on a US military base in Okinawa. Who'd have thunk? More »

Is this elementary school secretly the Starship Enterprise?

Meredith Woerner — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:08:39 PDT

South Polk Elementary School in Leesville, LA might be getting a few renovations but to us it looks absolutely perfect... Perfect to train young Starfleet Officers, that is. Check out the even more convincing blueprints below. More »

Digital Maps Reveal Hidden Geographies Of Sex And Religion

Annalee Newitz — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:30:00 PST

When you create a marker on Google Maps, you could be revealing the most popular religious and sexual habits in your local region. At least, that's what a group of social geographers demonstrated with their "sex and religion" map. More »

Loch Ness Monster Spotted On Google Maps

Annalee Newitz — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:30:00 PDT

Discerning consumers of the interwebs know that you can find everything on Google Maps, from ghosts to the lost city of Atlantis. Now intrepid cryptid cartographers have spotted a new wonder: It's Nessie, captured in mid-paddle, right there on Google. More »

Medieval Ghosts in Google Maps - Again?

Annalee Newitz — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:48:11 PDT

What is it with ghosts and Google maps? First it was a nineteenth century ghost in Wales. Now we're seeing the ghosts of fifteenth century knights in Pittsburgh, where so many crucial battles between great kingdoms took place. via Clandestine Industries More »

Google Maps of Sci-Fi

Geoff Manaugh — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:30:00 PDT

It's another installment of Entropist, a sci-fi culture column by futurist design maven Geoff Manaugh, author of BLDG BLOG. The British branch of Penguin Books recently premiered a new website called - a bit lamely - We Tell Stories. The basic idea is that six authors will tell six stories over a period of six weeks. More interesting, however, is the fact that story #1, "The 21 Steps" by Charles Cumming, was told using Google Maps. So combine this same strategy with today's urban sci-fi, add a few more cities - and you've got a way to map science fiction across the planet. Could there someday be a Google Maps of Sci-Fi? More »