Seen in Geoguessr

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Weird, funny, or otherwise notable things seen while playing Geoguessr

A triangular sign on the side of a road depicting the silhouette of a baboon with a rectangular sign underneath that reads "BABOONS"
A mailbox that is shaped a small green trash bin
A shrub shaped like a human riding a bicycle, on the grass in the middle of a roundabout
A large rock formation on the edge of a town that has numerous pockmarks visible across much of the rock. The rock is a part of the Meteora geological formation, which formed via sedimentary processes roughly 60 million years ago, and features 24 monasteries carved into the rock in the middle ages.
A man on a motorcycle doing a burnout on a rural road, producing thick white smoke, as two of his friends look on from the side of the road
Five men riding horses on a residential street
An urban utility pole that has a red dragon sculpture on the side of it a few meters up
A ~8 meter tall sculpture modeled after the Puya de Raimondi, a plant native to the desert highlands of Peru that is spiky all over and cyndrically shaped and tapers upward.
A hotel in an alpine ski resort town that has a colorfully painted exterior
A house in a suburban neighborhood with a very large (~4 meter wide) metal mesh dish atop an exterior garage pointed straight upward, most likely for amateur ham radio purposes, specifically bouncing radio signals off of the moon
Larger than life (~3-4 meters tall) realistic, painted statues of a man and a women dressed in traditional Ecuadorian clothes. The man is playing a drum and a trumpet. The statues are situated atop a pedestal with shrubbery on a sidewalk in an urban area.
A white, single story home with several amateur sculptures of humanoid characters on the roof looking over the street
A dirt road in a jungle with a small fire in the vegetation on the right side of the road
A large, white arch at the entrance of a park with a sizeable statue of Chinggis Khaan AKA Genghis Khan riding on a horse in the background
A freestanding early 20th Century architecture building with a sign reading "STEAMPUNK HQ". In front is a steampunk train engine mounted on top of a pile of rocks, a miniature zeppelin, and a road sign displaying a skull inside a gear and the text "SLOW: steampunk crossing". The building is a museum of steampunk art projects.
On top of the awning of a storefront is a statue of a man made of bricks, blending in with the adjacent red brick wall
A rural road with a makeshift basketball board+hoop made of logs and tree branches
A parking lot between a highway and the ocean with a battleship up on land with stairs leading up to its deck
Entrance of a bridge with a stone arch with turrets
Entrance of a roadside amusement park with a large banana sculpture lying on its side, serving as a sign for the park, reading, "The Big Banana - Coffs Harbour"
A bus stop shelter made to look like a giant hollowed out strawberry
A hockey monument including a very large hockey stick and statues of players in action poses next to it
Landscaped entrance of a park with a roughly 5 meter tall sculpture of a carrot and a sign reading "Ohakune Carrot Adventure Park"
The Google car is in the area directly in front of a large dam which looms over a park area with buildings and trees.
A faded-green train engine on a pedestal beside a road with ornate churches in the background and visitors looking on from the sidewalk. A plaque reads (translated from Ukrainian): "STEAM LOCOMOTIVE Sy 253-25 Manufactured in 1950 One of the best examples of passenger steam locomotives in the world Installed by Lviv Railway in 1984 on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the liberation of the city of Kovel from the fascist invaders"
A very recent collision between a red pickup truck and an older black one in the middle of a highway. The red one appears to have rear ended the black one and is relatively undamaged compared to the truck in front which has a crumpled truck bed. The people involved in the accident stand by on the side of the road.
An urban center with a tall obelisk in the middle of a roundabout. The obelisk has statue of a woman holding a sword and a torch atop it and Christmas lights running from the top of the obelisk to the ground, forming a Christmas tree shape. On the sidewalk around the entire monument are Christmas decorations in the form of 3-4 meter tall nutcrackers and candy-cane-patterned pillars.
An urban center with an 18th Century Baroque monument situated in the middle of an open square with pedestrians walking about
View from a modern bridge over a river in a rural mountainous area, of an old dilapidated rope bridge hanging parallel to the modern bridge but higher up. The remaining wooden slats are hanging haphazardly from the ropes.
In a suburban area, a very colorful and decorated bus is parked in front of a nursery for children.
Two almost life-size sculptures of humpback whales on the side of a road
A dry, somewhat hilly desert with countless pointy rock formations 1-3 meters high scattered throughout
A distant view of a 17th-Century fortress atop a hill
A person wearing a clown outfit with white mask and frizzy blonde wig stands in the middle of a rural tropical intersection
In a dreary and rundown Eastern bloc apartment complex, four men stand around a cream colored Lada car.
A roughly 8-10 meter tall wooden Windsor chair on the side of a rural road
A large hand sculpture rises out of the ground in a very dry and otherwise featureless desert.
An urban intersection surrounded by redbrick buildings. A thick concrete pole has a dummy clad in black clothing hanging from it about 3 meters off the ground, with a cardboard sign attached with the handwritten words, "LADRÓN PILLADO SERÁ QUEMADO," which translates to, "A caught thief will be burned."
Park with replicas of small rockets on display
A small town intersection with a stop sign that is ordinary except for the fact that it says "NAQA'SI" instead of "STOP".
A tank sits about 30 meters from the side of a road next to some rural buildings
A ~6 meter tall sculpture of a bald-headed giant looms over a road from behind a fence. The giant was made by artist Sebastià Riera Pocoví, a native of Manacor, Mallorca, and is taken from the Catalan folk story "Roca des Castellet" about a giant removing a magical rock from his shoe.
Next to a rural highway is a thick pole about 5 meters high with a destroyed car on top of it.
View of a very cool looking building in the futuristic-looking Neo-Andean style, with a color palette of red, orange, and beige.
A man wearing a harness and rope clings to a rock wall about 20 feet off the ground. A person stands on the ground belaying him, and other members of the group sit in lawn chairs watching, one of with is facing the road and waving at the Google car.
A highway about to enter a tunnel, and poking out from behind trees on a hill behind the tunnel entrance is a sleek observation deck. A blue sign next to the highway reads "A12, E45, E60" and "Salzburg 185km, München 163km, Hall i. T.-West 6km, Innnsbruck-Ost 3km"
Next to the entrance of the zoo "Izu Shaboten Animal Park", a ~3 meter tall bright green anthropomorphized cactus statue with a friendly face. Izu Shaboten houses a collection of ~1500 species of cactus and other succulents, as well as many different animals.
Thick white smoke pours off the ground next to the road in a rural area. Two men are seen standing by with pitchforks. It's unclear if the fire was accidental or intentionally set as a controlled brush fire.
Young students wearing red school uniforms play drums on a street adjacent their school
A neo-gothic cathedral stands out among the green landscape of a deep, thickly vegetated gorge
A median adjacent a rural intersection that has three painted statues on pedestals. From left to right: a priest in black clerical garb carrying a cane and presumably a Bible, a man riding a horse, and a man playing an accordion
Suburban intersection in which a police truck is stopped with officers walking towards four men on a sidewalk lined up facing away from the officers with their hands behind their heads
A white lorry tipped over on its right side in the middle of a mountain pass road. The driver is standing on the side of the cab and a policeman stands by next to the truck.
On a suburban sidewalk, a thick pole roughly 3 meters high has a sculpture atop it of a man in a hat leaning out of a seemingly free-floating window frame and holding out a fishing net in front of him.
A rural Croatian road. The blue Google Streetview car has its back hatch all the way open.
A dilapidated pyramid-shaped wooden hut in a dry rocky desert
Hundreds of uniformed soldiers carrying supplies on their backs line the side of a rural desert road.
A white lighthouse with 3 convex sides that taper towards the bottom rests atop an idyllic green hill.
An old, faded-green car rests on top of a dilapidated single-story building, its back two wheels hanging off over the ledge