10 prohibited places on Google Maps

Some places cannot be seen on Google Maps for "security reasons". Their images on the map are blurred and distorted. Here is a selection of ten such locations from Mashable .

1. Royal residence , the Netherlands - a complex of buildings belonging to the royal family:


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2. Buffalo Niagara International Airport , it can not be seen in detail with increasing scale:



3. Tantauco National Park , Chile. Private reserve where many endangered species live. It can be seen only as a marker on the map:



4. Artificial reservoir on Lake Kiyovi in South Carolina, USA. The reservoir serves the energy company Duke:



5. Unknown piece of surface in Siberia , Russia. Part of the tundra near Alaska:



6. Airport Minami Torishima , Japan. The only airport on the island of Minami Torishima, painted white. Now it is used by naval forces:



7. Building Michael Aaf , Utah, USA. Zone of a military test site where biological and chemical weapons are being tested:



8. Cornell University of Combined Heat and Power, Ithaca, NY. High-tech ecological ways of producing electricity from natural gas are being developed here:



9. Babylon , Iraq. More like a field than a noisy city:



10. Part of the city of Vlissingen , the Netherlands. Oil storage facilities, as well as several air force bases:



In Holland you can find at other places hidden by Google under umbrellas , but completely accessible for viewing on Bing .

PS in February Mashable picked up 20 weird shots on Google Street View.