My son has an uncanny sense of direction though suffering from a variety of learning disabilities.
Once we were driving across upstate NY on the thruway and came to a detour near Corning. I got lost, as usual. He, age 10, said "There is a church on the corner. Turn left and left at the park. It will atke us back to the main road." I was skeptical but he was right. The church, the park, the turns...I had covered this area for ten years as part of my sales territory. He had been there once on a trip to the Corning Glass Museum and a fair the summer before. Go figure.