I'm not sure who built the structure in my picture, but Greenpeace has occupied this rock before and put up flags. This might be a Greenpeace structure too.

Beat me to it.:sniff:

Where is it?

Victoria Falls

what glatt said, isuzu falls, whatever.

Those are those falls in Argentina where a scene from Moonraker was shot.

Iguazú Falls

Glatt is right. Iguazu Falls more precisely.

You know what? One of my first of many google searches came up with the name Rockall but that's as far as I got.

ARGH!

I believe you, but BigV wins. He said it first.

The only reason I knew the falls is that my parents were there last week and e-mailed pictures.

Well DUH. Even I know that the basketball shot I DIDN'T make doesn't count!

:lol:

#winning

the only reason I knew the falls (and I'm using the term "knew" very loosely) is that they're featured in the Planet Earth dvd series I have. just bogglingly stunningly beautiful photography. gorgeous is a pathetic understatement. the image (obviously) stuck with me, though I lost the name in the translation.

I mentioned before that I'm reading this Ken Jennings map book. It really is mostly pretty dull, but every once in a while there is a neat footnote. Rockall was one of them, but an even better one is Ferdinandea.

Ferdinandea is a former island near Sicily. A volcano erupted in 1831 and created a new, small, island in the middle of the narrowest part of the Mediterranean Sea. It immediately became a popular tourist destination and caused an international feud between 4 different nations who all tried to claim the new territory. But after only a few months, it crumbled back into the sea, ending all disputes. All disputes until 1986, that is, when the US bombed the underwater island because we thought it was a Libyan submarine. Seriously.

I would have used Ferdinandea as a "where is it?" but it doesn't exist and there are no photos.

Not true! 1nf1n1te monkey posted the pitchur a while back in post #254!

Nice coincidence. Of course, you're right.

Very cool! Did anyone get LL's railroad?

That faded away... it's the Baily Railroad Yard in North Platte, Nebraska
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Here is a night time photo of Those Falls. Came from APOD.

bump ...

I have a picture I took from that same overlook! Taken on September 28, 1993. It's just an overlook on the road to Hana on Maui.

Wherezit or whatzit:

OK. I'll yammer on a little bit.

I see coniferous trees. I see a snow covered mountain in the background. I see a lot of bare ground. The American cars look kind of old. This picture was probably taken in the 90s. I'm thinking it's in the West somewhere. Maybe Colorado, but could be any number of Western states with high altitude.

It's a big building. Probably a hotel or lodge. Old. Historic.

Correct so far!

That cupola is a distinctive feature. Not many hotels out there with cupolas like that.

I think you already know it. ;)

I don't! I'm doing all sorts of searches using the terms I can think of.

That bare ground says it's dry there.

Yeah, well...it's the Stanley Hotel, which was King's inspiration for the book. The movie was filmed on soundstages, with exterior shots of Timberline Lodge.

However, they did use The Stanley for the made for tv version.

The Stanley is said to be haunted, natch.

AN Overlook, if you will. :)

And I was just coming back to post "The Stanley Hotel." I finally found it with "historic" "mountain" "hotel" "Colorado" "cupola."

Heh. I got my link with the search terms "overlook hotel colorado". Don't remember memorizing the name, but apparently I had.

Your word 'overlook' in post 364 made me think of it, glatt.

A very interesting hit in my google image search. Look at the profile picture.

I know this is really late and I know this is not germaine to the game - but HungLikeJesus just gave me a really good idea in post #343 about what to do with my son...


I'm heading out to Home Depot right now!!

:D

Jesus will always show you the way.

Just???? Do you remember driving that road? I drove it at night in a Jeep rental - Holy Crap!

Oh, and mine was from 2007 during the day, of course.

Oh. Well, by "just" I meant that there was no place there to identify it other than it was a spot along side a road. No shack, not bathroom, no gas station, nothing. Just a shoulder there, where normally there was none.

I know what you mean - lol. We had to drive that road in the dark to get to our rental place - we stayed on the "other side" for a week. Driving back in the daytime let us know how really dangerous driving there in the dark was.

where is this?

http://cellar.org/2011/place.jpg

Omni Mount Washington Resort in Bretton Woods?

I was going to say Canada but I think I see an American Flag.

It looked familiar. I saw it when looking for the Shining place. So I tried recreating some of my old searches and found it with:
"historic" "mountain" "hotel" "ski"

Where's this?

Madame Tussaud's wax museum?

9 minutes glatt may be a new record

Spex: Lackawanna coal mine museum

I thought that was what it was called, but now I'm seeing another place calling it "Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum."

Edit: Whatever the name of the place, it's that mine museum you can tour in Scranton.

Are you frickin Kreskin, or what?

It's both.

3 minutes! he beats his old record before it's officially confirmed...!

Pssst! UT! Does he have some super secret moderator ability that allows him to see the name or origin of the images, or allows him to read our minds from long distance?

Well, I've been in that mine. My family lives up that way, and we were visiting, and it was like the third rainy day in a row, and we were going stir crazy in the cottage on the lake, so we went off to tour a coal mine.

I'd forgotten about it. I'll have to take my kids next time we're up there and it's raining.

Here's a question. How much coal is in that cart behind the donkey?

So we need to find places glatt's never been.

Quick, go to Venus and get a pic!

It was worth a lot more before it was put behind the donkey.


Or, how much is that donkey in the window.


Ba dum dum

According to our tour guide, if I remember this correctly, one of those carts holds 16 tons. And that's where that song comes from. But when I look at it, it seems like it would hold less than that. But I don't really know the weight of coal.

Which weighs more, a ton of coal or a ton of feathers?

I did the tour, too. I have no idea how much coal is in the cart.:blush:

OK, here's one. I'm heading home, but if nobody gets it, I'll answer in the morning.

Where is this?

Folks used to come through the farm market and ask me how much one of those big rolls of hay or straw or whatever the heck they were (yeah, some country girl, eh?) WEIGHED, and I was like...um...I don't know. I don't think our scales go up that high. Or are that big.