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Mansion from "Growing Up Gotti"
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Pinecastle Bombing Range in Ocala National Forest
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Sedan Crater
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Crater created by underground nuclear blast.

Treasure Island
Another good aerial pic here:
http://www.treasureislandmuseum.org/island.html

Estadio Azteca
Azteca Stadium. Hosted two World Cup finals (1970 and 1986).

Los Angeles Storm Drains
Terminator 2 chase location

Abu Dhabi Equestrian and Golf Club
Located in the Mushrif area of Abu Dhabi just 10 minutes from the commercial center is a tranquil oasis in one of the Gulf’s most modern and beautiful cities, which is often referred to as the Garden City of the Gulf Region.
Within the Club complex is the site of the racecourse, which covers a vast area and includes a grass surface nine hole Golf Course located inside the racetrack.

Manhal Palace in Abu Dhabi
Sheikh Zayed’s residence until 1974. Next to the post office on Airport Rd.

Dole Pineapple Maze
"...officially recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records 2001 as the World’s Largest Maze"

Paumalu Earth Station
Array of dishes used for satellite tracking/communications.

Post-It note on Thailand?
It certainly looks like a post-it note due to the shadow on the left.

Green Island, Kuwait City

Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Mosque-Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi Mall

Abu Dhabi Police Officers Club

Lurigancho Prison

Soviet MiG Boneyard at Bagram Airport

Los Pyramides de Teotihuacán
Google updated the resolution since the last map was submited.

Freedom Plaza scale model
Maps within maps!
From www.culturaltourismdc.org:
This extensive plaza, inlaid with parts of the L'Enfant Plan, was designed by Robert Venturi, architect, and George Patton, landscape architect, in 1980. Originally known as Western Plaza, it was renamed Freedom Plaza because Martin Luther King Jr. worked on his "I have a Dream" speech in the Willard Hotel nearby. Quotes by famous people about Washington, DC, are carved into the paving stones surrounding the L'Enfant Plan. The plaza is frequently used for festivals and special events.
A time capsule, which contains the slain Civil Rights leader's robe, Bible, and other memorabilia, is buried here and is scheduled to be opened January 15, 2088.

Darulaman Palace
The palace built by King Amannullah in the 1920s is set into a small hill in front of the Kabul museum with the once impressive four-mile avenue (once lined with poplars) past the former Soviet embassy, schools and ministries leading to it. Fighting from 1992 onwards destroyed the building but it remains one of the most impressive, albeit shattered structures in Kabul. The palace was used by King Amannullah and was later used as the Justice ministry and Defence ministry. The equally striking former Defence Ministry is on the hills behind.

Venetia diamond mine

Kolola Pushta Fort
The fort of Kolola Pushta overlooks the Sherpur and Shahr-e Nau districts of Kabul, sitting on a round hill that gives the fort its name. An important garrison and armoury for the Afghan army, its capture in December in 1928 by the Tajik rebel Bach Saqao led to the fall of Kabul and overthrow of Amanullah. The fort is still garrisoned.

Abu Dhabi volcano fountain
http://www.etoile.co.uk/Travel/UAE/AD_Volcano.jpg
The Volcano Fountain stands on the Corniche overlooked by apartment buildings on one side and the Gulf on the other. Designed with the conical shape of a volcano, hidden lights colour the water orange.
Update 2004: As part of the large scale redevelopment of the Corniche, the Volcano Fountain has been removed. Updated pictures of the Corniche will appear on this site when the work is completed.

Al-Hosn Palace (Old White Fort), Abu Dhabi
The Al-Hosn Fort in the centre of Abu Dhabi, is the former home of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, since 1966 Ruler of Abu Dhabi and 1971 President of the UAE. The interior courtyard is a haven of tranquility in traditional Arab style, in marked contrast with the glass and concrete of the modern city beyond its walls. It is by far the oldest building in Abu Dhabi - parts of it date from 1793.

Abu Dhabi International Airport (AUH)

Mushrif Palace Garden / Park

FLW Beth Sholom Synagogue

Unidentified Floating Object
What is the object to the left of this island in Kung Bay?

Oracle Headquarters

2004-12-26 - Banda Aceh, Indonesia
City affected by Dec 26, 2004 tsunami

Sattahip Royal Thai Navy Base
Note the docked ship

Abu Dhabi - Etisalat corporate headquarters building
http://www.etisalat.co.ae/index2.htm

More desert farming in Libya
Thanks to the comments poster on the other Libyan desert farming map for the following links:

Flagship, The (ship-shaped building)
Apparantly it is an old boat in Union, New Jersey that has been turned into a building.

USGS - John Wesley Powell Federal Building
National center for the United States Geological Survey

Champions League UFO at Manchester Airport
Can anyone explain this?
Here's the actual Champions League logo for comparison:
The unidentified object looks slightly better in Google Earth.

Crop circle formation in Sheffield Green

Al Wahda Sports Club

Galata Tower

Cinedome 70 twin theaters
Looks much better in Google Earth for some reason.

Cairo Opera House

BMW Zentrum Museum
BMW museum in the North American BMW assembly plant

Target store in College Point, NY

New Quebec impact crater

TV Tower Hill in Kabul
The hill was/is used for broadcasts and is known for spectacular views of Kabul.

Targets at China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station

Abu Dhabi clock tower

Estadio Olímpico Universitario
Site of the 1968 Summer Olympics

City of Entertainment, Kuwait City
An amusement park in Kuwait City

The Heart Forest

Atomic roundabout in Zhuhai?
Anyone know the significance of this?

Aquarium of the Pacific

La Lobera (Sea cave with collapsed roof)
URL is to a discussion of the hole on another Google Maps site.

Kabul Stadium

Abu Dhabi Le Royal Meridien Hotel

Bala Hissar fort
More info: http://www.zharov.com/dupree/chapter04.html

Century II Convention Center

University of Tennessee central library ziggurat
University of Tennessee's library building has a ziggurat-like architecture.

Plaza de Espana

Rotonda, Florida
Very fancy road planning!

BAR in Spain
Another one I stole from Googlesightseeing.com. :)

Al Qa Qaa explosive storage bunker complex

Plaza de Acho bullfighting ring
"Taurine bullring built in 1766 by order of the Viceroy Amat y Junyet with Hipólito Landáburu's support. It is the third oldest plaza of the world and considered the most beautiful and famous. There had been the best bullfighters of the entire world. Every year here takes place the traditional bullfight Fair of "Señor de los Milagros" (October - November), in which are carried out bullfights with the best bullfighters in the world of the present time, having as main trophy "El Escapulario de Oro" (The Scapular of Gold)."

Taoyuan International Airport (TPE)

Chaman-i-Houzouri (a.k.a. Jeshn Ground)
The Chaman-i-Houzouri lies at the foot of Tapa Maranjan. This open field was a golf course during the reign of Amir Habibullah (1901–1919). Today it is a favorite meeting ground, especially on Fridays and during holidays such as Jeshn-i-Jamhuriat (July 17–19), Republic Day. Occasionally spectacular competitions in tent-pegging are held here. Superb riders on gaily caparisoned horses gallop past, long lances lowered, and attempt to spear a series of small pegs planted in the ground. Once a practice sport for young warriors training to ride through a rival encampment and literally bring it down upon their enemy’s heads, it is now an exacting sport in which riders from the Ghazni-Katawaz area excel. Other sports events take place in Ghazi Stadium, next to the Chaman. The Jeshn exhibition buildings and the Kabul Nandari (Theater) stand in a ring around an artificial lake between the Chaman and Tapa Maranjan.

Center of New Industries and Technologies (CNIT), La Défense

Mausoleum of King Nadir Shah Ghazi, Kabul

Air Force Space and Missile Museum
https://www.patrick.af.mil/45sw/ccafs/museum.htm

Tibesti - Tousside and Trou au Natron
Part of an extinct volcano complex in Chad:
"Tousside is located in the Northwest portion of the Tibesti region in Northwestern tip of Chad, Africa. The main cone is located on the western rim of its caldera. The explostion crater - Trou au Natron lays on the southeast portion of the caldera rim. Looking to the east from the summit of Tousside, it is possible to see the volcanic cones, Ehi Timi of to the northeast and Ehi Sosso looking due east. Trou au Natron explosion-and-collapse structure is 6 to 8 kilometers in diameter and 950 meters deep. Within its walls is located four small andesitic volcanoes. Pic Tousside reaches 3,265 meters in height, the second highest peak in Tibesti. In the image above Pic Tousside is visably located near the middle of the dark andesite flows as well as Trou au Natron's white crater floor of sodium carbonate off to the lower right."

Charles Evans Whittaker Federal Courthouse
Illus W. Davis Park is immediately to the south of this building.

Jazeera Sports Club

Officer's Club and International Conference Center
Presumably a resort in Abu Dhabi under construction. I could not find out for sure what this structure is, but it looks very interesting.

North Korean fighter jet at Kaechon Airfield

Spaghetti junction (England)

Unidentified objects (targets?) in the Tonopah Test Range
This map is centered on the second object:

Statue of Liberty replica
Note the cityscape facade to the left, including the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building.

Artificial lakes
To the east is an oil well fire. To the south are more spots.

Central Fountain of Dajia Riverside Park

Bodie Island Lighthouse

Odd airplane at Cairo Airport
Note that one wing seems shorter than the other. There are also skid marks on the nearby runway.

Qala-I-Biland fort ruins in Kabul

Big wake

TCG Uluçalireis (S-338) (Ex-USS Thornback SS-418)
TCG Uluçalireis (S-338) (Ex-USS Thornback SS-418) at the Rahmi M. Koç Museum
USS Thornback saw service in the last months of WWII, sinking one Japanese warship and damaging another, before returning to the US and being placed in the Reserve Fleet. In 1953 she was converted to the latest Guppy IIA-class specification and re-entered service in 1953, serving in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Caribbean. USS Thornback was transferred to the Turkish Navy on 2nd July 1971, and was immediately renamed TCG Uluçalireis with pennant number S-338. She then gave thirty years of valuable service to the Republic of Turkey before being finally transferred to the care of the Rahmi M Koç Museum in 2001. During her Turkish Navy service TCG Uluçalireis received many awards for meritorious service, and participated in many NATO and national operations in the Mediterranean, Aegean, Marmara and Black Seas.
TCG Uluçalireis remains the property of the Turkish Navy.

Macau International Airport (MFM)
Aeroporto Internacional de Macau
澳門國際機場
Oumùhn Gwokjai Gēichèuhng

Defense Logistics Agency
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Logistics_Agency

Target store in Everett, MA

Old Galata Bridge
Remnants of an old bridge that were moved to this location. The old bridge was replaced by a new Galata Bridge further down the waterway.

Abrupt-looking mountain near Los Llanos
Almost looks out of place amid Los Llanos (the plains) De Aridane. Could not find the mountain name (closest I got to a reference was a mountain called Las Rosas - photo here:

Cairo Tower
http://www.egy.com/landmarks/97-10-16.shtml

Plaza de Toros, Córdoba

Churchill Falls insanely long hydro corridor
Looks like a scotch tape error at first but it is an extremely long cleared path for transmission lines.

Dibos 2002
Must be more mountainside political campaigning.

Memorial of the Unknown Soldier, Cairo

Grand Palais

California State University pyramid
The gymnasium for the basketball and volleyball teams on the California State University, Long Beach, campus in California, United States, is an 18-story-tall blue pyramid.

Transco
A natural gas distributor in the UK

'Exploration Place' by Moshe Safdie
2000
"A science and discovery center for all ages"

El Estadio de La Cartuja

March Field Air Museum

Packaging tape in Issyk Kul, Kyrgyzstan
Or is it something else?