Zen of Satellite Images

Stonehenge
One of the oldest structures built by humans is Stonehenge in England. A circle of monolithic stones of gigantic dimensions, probalby arranged to measure or observe astronomic phenomenons.
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Britannia
Official site
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Address:
2 Miles West of Amesbury
Salisbury
SP4 7DE
UK

Fermilab 
Fermilab (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) is one of the most important Particle physics facilities worldwide. Unlike the CERN facility in Meyrin, the partly subterranian collider structure can be seen clearly from the top here. Another interesting thing about Fermilab is the architectural striking Robert Rathbun Wilson Hall, the main entrance to the site.
Address:
Fermilab
Main Entrance Road
Batavia
Chicago
Illinois
USA

CERN
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (formerly: “Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire”, thus the name) is one of the top research facilites in the world. The Suisse campus located in Meyrin, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland, is the main and oldest site of what is today a network of sites, combining a number of […]

Burj Al Arab
Due to extensive Television coverage, the Dubai Burj Al Arab is one of the most prominent hotels in the world. As Wikipedia states it is “at 321 metres (1,053 ft), (..) the tallest building used exclusively as a hotel”.
Wikipedia page
Address:
Burj Al Arab
PO Box 74147
Dubai
United Arab Emirates

Burj Dubai
Although the satellite image does not yet show very much, the Burj Dubai will soon be the tallest building in the world, at an estimated height over 800 m (2,625 ft) and - as of May 2008 - while it is under construction it already is.
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Address:
Burj Dubai
Dubai
United Arab Emirates

Golden Gate Bridge
The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, completed in 1937 was for a long time the longest suspension bridge in the world - spanning the Golden Gate, the opening of San Francisco’s Bay with 4,200 feet (1,280 m) on its longest span.
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The Golden Gate Bridge does not have a physical address, but its hard to miss.

Pixar’s headquarter in Emeryville, California
Everyone who knows Toy Story, The Incredibles, Monster Inc. or all the other instant classics knows Pixar, the California company that has produced landmark films in the 3D animated domain and a good share of the recent feel-good-laugh-out Entertainment output from Hollywood.
Address:
1200 Park Ave
Emeryville,
CA 94608
USA

Tokyo Disneyland Park
Nearly thirty years after the inital opening of a Disney Park in Anaheim USA, Tokyo Disneyland Park (DLT) in a suburb of Tokia, Japan opened its gates. As part of Disney’s global expansion strategy, it is one of currently three Magic Kingdom parks around the world. An interesting fact is that in Tokyo, […]

Radio telescope Effelsberg
For 29 years, the radio telescope Effelsberg in Germany was the world’s largest fully steerable telescope in the world. Until 2000 when its 100m diameter antenna was superceded by the the Green Bank Telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia (USA) with a bit over 100 meters (roughly 110m).
Address:
a road descending the
Max-Planck Strasse
Effelsberg  (Bad […]

Arecibo radio telescope
The site of the Arecibo Observatory is home to a 305 m diameter radio telescope, the largest single-aperture telescope in the world. May know the characteristic “bowl” from films, such as the James Bond movie GoldenEye and in the film Contact or the “X-Files” episode “Little Green Men“.
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Arecibo […]