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Secret places in Google Earth - the Top 10

  • Oct 25, 2025
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Google Earth is a very popular Service - here you can see satellite pictures of practically any place in the world for free. But there are exceptions: We show 10 secret places on the Google map not visible, so the user is denied.

Place 10: French nuclear plant in Marcoule

  • Marcoule in the South of France is home to a centre for nuclear energy. Large parts of the area are to remain to the outside world, but hidden.
Marcoule - France

9th place: Ministry of defence of the Netherlands

  • The city in the heart of the Netherlands is home to several military facilities such as barracks and military training grounds. In addition, parts of the national defense Ministry are housed there.
  • A consequence, however, is that parts of the satellite were provided images with a colorful mosaic pattern. The user has to receive here seems to be no direct insight into the state institutions.
Ede - The Netherlands

Seat 8: the high-security prison in the state of New York

  • In the US most prisons are manipulated on images from Google Earth later. Also at the institution Elmira Correctional Facility, several of the buildings were whitewashed on the parts, to make Details unrecognizable.
Elmira - New York, USA

Seat 7: NATO base Geilenkirchen

  • Also Germany is not free of mysterious places: The military airport Geilenkirchen, directly on the Dutch border, is in Google's satellite images are only partially visible.
Geilenkirchen North - Rhine-Westphalia

Seat 6: Dutch-The Royal Palace?

  • Once again, we go in the Netherlands, this time to the coastal town of Noordwijk. Parts of a settlement are made completely unrecognizable. The Dutch Royal family to own a house.
  • The Paradox of this Google censorship, however, is that in the pixilated area in Street View is freely accessible. Instead of looking from the bird's-eye view, you can stroll simply virtually through the streets.
Noordwijk - The Netherlands

Seat 5: Nato base at the Airport of Reims

  • The French military airport in Reims, is are 2012 unused, but has to hide, apparently, still a thing.
  • The largest part of the airport was also used as a NATO base, is openly visible. Only a small piece of forest to the North of the runway is pixeled on Google. What is hidden here?
Reims - France

Seat 4: tourist-castle in Barcelona

  • The Montjuïc in Barcelona, is a popular stop for tourists. On the hill there is even a castle that used to be the military about the city prevailed. Today, you can actually view the building in Google Earth, it has been subsequently censored.
Barcelona - Spain

Seat 3: Logistic centre of the Taiwanese military

  • At the edge of the metropolis of Taipei, the logistics center of Taiwan should be army. On Google Earth this is not so easy to see - the area is covered by large shade and a complete building was pixeled complex.
Taipei - Taiwan

2nd place: US military base, is altered retroactively

  • The American army tests on the "Dugway Proving Ground," chemical and biological weapons. Several buildings of the airport in the state of Utah have been whitened so later.
Dugway - Utah, USA

Seat 1: HAARP - US research center located in the middle of Alaska

  • HAARP is the galante abbreviation for "High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program", an American research project in the middle of the forest of Alaska. With radio waves, of the earth's atmosphere should be examined.
  • Clarity about the grounds and processes of the users of Google Earth gets hardly. Parts of the area are obscured. At least With Street View you can catch from the adjacent Federal road from a quick look over the fence of the shielded area.
Gakona - Alaska, USA

If you are even more curiosities in the net, you can in other Google services and find it to be: In a further practical tip we will show you the funniest finds from Google Street View.

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