10 Unbelievable Secret Places Google Earth Doesn't Want You To See

2. Babylon, Iraq

Google have brushed out the entirety of this ancient place, making it out to be farmland when in reality, there is a lot of history behind this bodged up blob. It appears throughout the Bible, and its hanging gardens were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. So why is it so severely disguised? It is the city that Saddam Hussein spent millions rebuilding to strengthen Iraqi nationalism by appealing to such history, of which he personally inscribed messages into some of the 60 million bricks used in the rebuild. He even lovingly codenamed a supergun he had built in the early 90s after the place -'Baby Babylon' was 172 feet long and set a world record for shooting a projectile 112 miles straight up. Could the historical tourist attraction be hiding something else we don't know about? Chilling, indeed.