Wow, that is pretty close!

the wreck of the US merchant ship Alkimos off the coast of Perth, Australia



Found via a Google Image Search for: perth abandoned lighthouse platform

Yes!

I found it because I googled things like "interesting places" or "unusual places" and kept getting hits of places that weren't so unusual.

So I googled Haunted Places.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkimos_(ship)

A relic of WW II e.g. Battle of the Coral Sea


Oh well, not the first time I've been a dollar short and a day late...

:)

You have to be quick around here, Lamp.

This pict is extracted from a comic book, but identical to the real life model, so where is this?

Rothenburg, Germany

It took to two Google searches to find the same image in a pic

Google search: "town clock tower gate"

1) http://www.romanticroad.com/rothenburg/sights.php

2) http://members.fortunecity.com/degur...0/germany.html

Can I have partial credit for looking at the illustration and saying, "that looks like Germany?"

Of course, you get full credit. Without your thoughts, how else would
Google's searches have come up with that particular town clock tower ?

Wolf, will you pick the next place, OK ?
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I would, but I'm still involved with all the crazynurse stuff and I can't reliably monitor the thread.

Okay, I'll step in.

Aylesbury?

Even I'm not that obvious ;)
It is a recognisable place.

York Minster?

Nope.

Darn, looks sort of like it.

Westminster Cathedral?

Nope (that's a steaky bacon type building).
But it's not Wesminster Abbey either.

That's the place in The Prisoner where he goes after he escapes. It's near Big Ben I think.

In fact, I think that's Big Ben

No that was a stupid guess, there's no clock in that picture and as Wikipedia points out, Big Ben is at Westminster so I give up.

I'll take Clam Knives for $200 please.

Sundae's going to Glasgow and probably has it on her mind.

I haven't found the same pic, but I'm guessing Glasgow University ????

You have it Lamp!
It's the main University Building, taken across a snowy Kelvingrove Park.
You could only find exactly the same photo on here, as it's one I took on our GTG last year.

I deliberately chose a personal photo to make it harder to track down.
But it's a well known building architecturally, so it wasn't stupidly hard (like a picture of my school).

I hadn't seen that kind of open lattice work in steeples/ towers before I went to Scotland. It's quite distinctive.

Yeah, I finally got my post in before the experts on here...

OK, here is one that might require a bit of detective work.
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Versailles?

Group of international flags, double decker bus, Nazi flag on the top, Berlin?

Good call!
Even if it isn't right, it does have an Olympic feel to it.

Yeah seems more likely, but I can't put together a search for those nudes.

Yeah for the teamwork... keep going on that track

With the international flags I can only guess Berlin 1939 Olympics. Just don't know where.

Yes Merc, Berlin Olympics, but it was 1936

The statues were in a plaza in front of the ..... football stadium

"Monument at the Sports Field of the Reich in Berlin. The promotion of sports during the Nazi regime went hand-in-hand with theatrical nationalistic triumphalism."

Finally found it. That was a tough one. Well done Lamp.

Here is one.

southern palms and cement block construction and ruins.
Not fire, so maybe weather. --- tried with "Louisana" and found one image
that says "Dungeness" but I have no idea what that means or where
in Louisana it is :(
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Right picture. Wrong caption. Look at another source.

OK Merc, I give up. that's even a tougher one.
I'll have to leave it to one of the experts to figure out this one.

I found nothing in searches on "Louisiana Dungeness"... except pics of crabs.

So finally I cheated :( and did a Google Image search on my pic.
It found the pic in just one woman's travel blog.
Somehow Google had led me very far astray. :eyebrow:
It was only half right. :right:
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Dungeness in England is in Kent and is the site of a nuclear power station.
Derek Jarman lived in Prospect Cottage, in its shadow.
He didn't die there exactly, but it was his last home before dying in hospital.

When I went to San Francisco I found it quite jarring to see Dungeness Crabs advertised everywhere. My associations for the name do not lend themselves to an enjoyable seafood experience.

Anyone else want a crack at it before I put up the answer?

I am no good at this game, but I'd give them another 24 hours if I were you.

Well since I am off to work for the next three days, here is the answer. For Lamp and Sundae if no one else wanted to play.

http://www.kuriositas.com/2010/07/ru...nd-island.html

I was just about to post the answer! Oh well, next time maybe...

Neat.

Griff, why don't you post the next one. I am out of here for the next few days or more after tonight.

Hmmm... air-worthy?

Hmmmmm..... C-130 Body. One engine makes it a Caribou.... Palm trees... Caribou's were in Panama, Central and South America big time.... Looks like a bar.

El Avion: Iran-Contra-Cargo Plane Converted Into a Bar in Costa Rica
(but this was the sister ship, not the actual US-owned Iran-Contra drug ship)

via Google: "airplane made into home"

I would love to make one of those into a house.

Well done Lamp.

Nailed it!

Thx Merc... you were dead on in reading the pic.

Let's see how long this one takes...

I believe it's home to this team:

Hey, very good, GM. Right the first time....

Very easy when you got the full pict name

So where's this?

La Fontaine Saint-Michel in Paris?

Glatt wins.

Here's a cool place

That is cool!

That dome looks Russian.

Outpost though, probably Pacific Northwest... looking

I don't have time to keep looking right now, but I did find this pretty cool looking place in Antarctica.Attachment 35603

Here's more

I saw that as well. There are some really cool orthodox churches out there.