11 Strangest Places Spotted on Google Earth
| September 15, 2015
Map data: Google, DigitalGlobe / Google Earth
UTA Flight 772 Memorial, Niger
This amazing feat of human engineering is actually a monument made by the families of those who died in the UTA Flight 772 crash of 1989. Supported by a $170 million donation from the Libyan government, the victims’ families trucked millions of rocks into the desert to create a monument that looks like a plane inside a compass.
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