"What if tomorrow we will fly to the aliens?" — apparently, this question is the authors of these amazing images. To meet the "guests", the artists and enthusiasts of different countries has long been create a huge image, called geoglyphs, which can be easily seen even from space.
Portrait of Genghis Khan, made during the festival of traditional Mongolian culture Naadam festival in Ulan Bator, 2006 year
Geoglyph Giant, Chamois-Abbas, Dorset, UK
Giant chess Board (400 x 400 m) near the German town of bad Frankenhausen Kyffhäuser.
Appeared in 2009-m year
Petroglyphs (rock carvings) of Llipta, Peru
These images, which appeared between 500-m and 400-m years BC, are part of the cultural heritage of the Paracas.
Anti-aircraft missile system at Nellis air force base, Nevada, USA
The forest in the shape of a guitar in the pampas of Argentina
This amazing Nazca created the Argentine farmer Pedro Martin Ureta in memory of his wife, Graciela, who died in 1977, the year when she was only 25 years old. The forest consists of more than 7 thousand cypresses and eucalyptus trees, and the length of the "guitar" is about 1 km.
Celtic sign "an Island in time," the author — artist William Holderied
Sign established in 1995 year and is located near Munich airport, Germany.
Meadow in the shape of a heart, South Gloucestershire, UK
This touching geoglyph farmer Winston Howes (Howes Winston) dedicated to his wife, who died 18 years ago. For its creation took about 6 thousand saplings of an oak.
Long man of Wilmington, United Kingdom
Presumably, appeared in the Iron age, in the XVI or XVII th century.
Nude woman in the fields of Sicily, the 2005th year
The world's largest "fingerprint" Park Hove, Brighton, UK
The length of the "footprint" — 38 m.
The lake in the form of man, state of são Paulo, Brazil
World's biggest portrait. It shows Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the first President of Turkey
The image, located near the city of Erzincan, Turkey, covers an area of 7.5 km2, over it within a month worked 3 thousand soldiers.
The white horse in Alton Barnes, 1812 year
World map at lake Klejtrup, Denmark. Author søren Poulsen created it from 1944 to 1969, the year
"Uffington white horse" is a stylized chalk figure in the form of a horse with a length of 110 m, Oxfordshire, UK
The red-nosed reindeer Rudolph, near the town of Vashon, Washington
Nazca lines (geoglyphs), Nazca, southern Peru, the estimated creation time — between 400 m and 650 m over the years ad
Mysterious pattern on the field to the East of the neighborhood Koltsovo, Ekaterinburg
According to the materials: publy.ru
