Where Is This?
Here is sort of a Cellar Research Project. I was StumbleUpon-ing the other night, and came across this pic of a reservoir. On a mountain. Shaped, apparently, like a heart. I mucked around on Google Image Search for about an hour, searching for every variation on 'heart-shaped reservoir' I could think of, and got zilch.
I'm hoping some far-flung Dwellar will recognize the reservoir, or the area, or something. Or, perhaps, have angrier Googling skillz.
So, I put it to you, Cellar:
Where is this? Is it really shaped like a heart, or is perspective punking me out?
BTW: I don't know where this is. But, I bet someone solves this.
That's the
Taum Sauk hydro plant reservoir in Missouri.
That's the Taum Sauk hydro plant reservoir in Missouri.
Ok how did you find that?
google image search terms: "mountain top reservoir"
It yields this result.Google image search for: reservoir mountain top
led to a copy of the same image identifying it as being in Iron County MO,
so I searched: Iron County Missouri reservoir
and found it.
that, plus glatt knows shit.
and Firefox and Google can suggest the correct spelling for shit I don't know. Like how to type reservoir.
Like how to type reservoir.
Why? Are you leaving?:D
Thanks a million guys!
We should turn this into a regular thing, like the What Is This? thread...
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Google image search for: reservoir mountain top
led to a copy of the same image identifying it as being in Iron County MO,
so I searched: Iron County Missouri reservoir
and found it.
I googled something like "artificial reservoir on mountain" and didn't see it. :sniff:
We should turn this into a regular thing, like the What Is This? thread...
Google does one
every day. (Today's is a little unusual, actually. Generally they're more historical/researchy.
Yesterday's is a better example.)
Boy it would be a bitch if that thing failed.
Not if. When. And in this case, when was 2004.
Spin-off of
What Is This?.
Make sure there is enough info in the pic for us to find the place. It shouldn't be so common as to be too difficult to differentiate a place from a thousand places like it, but, try not to make it so obscure as to be unfindable. Also, if you don't know where the place is, let us know upfront, so we can shift gears from competition to actually helping.
I'll go first.
Where is this?
It's easy to cheat, unfortunately.
Just say no to TinEye. And the new googly image searchy thing...I hadn't thought of that. I just used good old fashioned search terms.
Oh, well, you're correct in any case.
It's the
Kjeragbolten, in Norwegia.OK, I promise I won't cheat.
I guess I go? I'll continue on the outdoorsy theme.
I took this shot while on a hike. This is part of the trail and is a natural formation.
This is part of the trail and is a natural formation.
It doesn't
look like a natural formation.
It looks like a good place to break an ankle (or a leg).
It doesn't look like a natural formation.
Which is why it's unique and is searchable.
It's pretty freaking cool. It's perfectly sized for a human being to walk up, but the treads are a little uneven and sloped.
Oxxx Rxxx is Sxxx's most popular and most dangerous hike.
Sounds as if not many people make their own pics of this place.
I'm impressed you made the hike... more pics ?
If you know the answer, why aren't you guessing?
It's moderately dangerous, but only if you do something dumb like hike it when the rocks are wet and slippery.
If you know the answer, why aren't you guessing?
It's moderately dangerous, but only if you do something dumb like hike it when the rocks are wet and slippery.
Cause I cheated with Google Images.
OMG - is that the Straight Stair to Mordor?
I've heard you can walk across their borders...
I, too, used Google to find it. Coordinates: +38° 33' 6.67", -78° 18' 25.88".
A wonderful hike for sure. If I ever go across the pond, I may go there.
So where's this one?
the ruins of some church or abbey. I'm thinking Ireland or Scotland.
Ruins of an old abbey : Right
Wrong location.
So where's this one?
Abbaye Saint-Mathieu de Fine-Terre in Brittany?
Right. About 40 miles from home.
Although it is Finistère and not Fine-Terre.
Here's the whole picture.
Although it is Finistère and not Fine-Terre.
Wow!! I was right.
Blame Google (or Wikipedia).
I'm unprepared, so, if someone else wishes to go ahead with another Where Is It?...please do.
:D
This'll be short and sweet.
Where is this?
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I think you kids can handle this, see ya tomorrow.
Oh, that's in Greece. I forget what it's called.
I can't tell if glatt is being serious or making a joke about Greece and the tight canal.
The canal through the Isthmus at Corinth.
I'm not that funny. It really is in Greece. Don't make me Google it. It's a canal that separates southern Greece from northern. Cuts right across the peninsula.
Edit: And Zen's got the name.
That's amazing. What does the Captain do if he hears the Pilot say "Oooops"
I googled it, and the canal was completed in 1893.
You'd think in the time since they could have widened it a bit.
Still, neat photo, Glatt
I wonder why they built the walls so high.
I wonder why they built the walls so high.
To keep the land from falling into the canal, silly.
Glatt for ¼ points,
Zen for ¾ points.
It is the
Corinth Canal in Greece.
To keep the land from falling into the canal, silly.
It ain't working.
Another persistent problem was due to the heavily faulted nature of the sedimentary rock, in an active seismic zone, through which the canal is cut. The canal's high limestone walls have been persistently unstable from the start. Although it was formally opened in July 1893 it was not opened to navigation until the following November, due to landslips. It was soon found that the wake from ships passing through the canal undermined the walls, causing further landslips. This required further expense in building retaining walls along the water's edge for somewhat more than half of the length of the canal, utilising some 165,000 cubic metres of masonry. Between 1893 and 1940, it was closed for a total of four years for maintenance and to stabilise the walls. In 1923 alone, 41,000 cubic metres of material fell into the canal, which took two years to clear out.
That Wiki article (in the link above) is really interesting. For example: It's was in the planning stages since the 7th century B.C.:eek:
Yeah, I think it is actually to stop the fish from climbing out.
So, it's getting wider but shallower on it's own through normal use? Sounds like they need a dredger.
Being Greece, maybe they need a canal earth bail-out.
Being Greece, maybe they need a canal earth bail-out.
Or just more grease.
If Russia attacked Italy from behind, would Greece help?
There's no joy in Mudville!
It's not a flood. They built on an island on purpose.
On porpoise?
Is it some sort of fishing community? Crayfish catchers? Baitworm farm?
Not very scenic, and not very far from more land, so it can't be for beauty or security reasons.
Rice paddies maybe? Or raising a herd of baby Swamp Things?
Is it The Republic of Elbonia?
Edit: From Wikipedia:
The "Tiny East European country of Elbonia." It is an extremely poor, "fourth-world" country that has abandoned Communism. Most of the nation is covered with waist-deep mud, which the residents use to build houses.
That's not quite true. Communism abandoned Elbonia.
I'd say an village in the Amazon area.
It's not a flood. They built on an island on purpose.
Because it was easier than building underwater?
I'd say an village in the Amazon area.
The closest guess so far. It IS in the Americas. Mexico.
MexcaltitanI was off by at least a thousand miles
Where is this?
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The town starts with an "A" ?
The closest guess so far. It IS in the Americas. Mexico.
Mexcaltitan
It's at 21degrees 54' 21.09"N 105degrees 28' 30.92"W
I'm not going to do the math to convert decimal degrees to minutes/seconds, but that sounds about right.
Did you find it on your own or from the coordinates in the wiki link I posted?
I'm not going to do the math to convert decimal degrees to minutes/seconds, but that sounds about right.
Did you find it on your own or from the coordinates in the wiki link I posted?
I entered Mexcaltitán de Uribe into Google Earth, but that was way off. Santiago Ixcuintla was much more helpful. I didn't see the coordinates until you pointed out that they were there :blush: It's described as "off the coast", but really it's in the salt marsh somewhat inland.
The geology between the coast and the island city is really interesting. It almost looks glacially carved, but I seriously doubt the glaciers made it that far south.
The town starts with an "A" ?
Yes. I would have barred you from the competition, but I thought that itself would be too big a clue. It's a lovely bridge, I have a couple more that are pretty interesting. I only took drive by shots--actually, I have to credit my girlfriend for this one as I was driving and she's a more talented and experienced photographer than I am. Plus, she was on that side of the car.
That's quite a compliment for your girlfriend, because you are no slouch in the photography department.
Thank you, :). But seriously, she *can* drive, it was her car after all.
(eta, funny little story... actually. Ima axe her first ... yeah. brb)
It's the Astoria-Megler Bridge. It crosses the Columbia River between Astoria, OR and Point Ellice in Washington.
I got there w/a Google Image search, using the search term 'steel bridge Washington state'.
It's the Astoria-Megler Bridge. It crosses the Columbia River between Astoria, OR and Point Ellice in Washington.
Correct!
This second shot was taken a minute after the first one. It is a
BIG RIVER.
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By the way... I'm glad you noted your method for answering this. I'd had the mistaken notion that Google was off limits, especially Google Image search....
I think the picture search version of GIS is off limits. But I think searching for a phrase is fair. Otherwise how are you going to do it?
I got there w/a Google Image search, using the search term 'steel bridge Washington state'.
It's easy to cheat, unfortunately.
Just say no to TinEye. And the new googly image searchy thing...I hadn't thought of that. I just used good old fashioned search terms.
Oh, well, you're correct in any case.
It's the Kjeragbolten, in Norwegia.
I think the picture search version of GIS is off limits. But I think searching for a phrase is fair. Otherwise how are you going to do it?
Reconcile these please?
Actually, I was stuck with your question too, hoping I'd just.. know, I'd just recognize the place. If not GIS, then what? "Fair" is what we decide is fair, of course; it's just a game. I knew Lamplighter would have an advantage, and I was right. I dunno. Text searching ok, image searching not ok? Does that sound right?
Google has a new image search where you can throw a picture's URL into the GIS, and it actually searches for similar images. I think that's cheating. But if you are smart enough to know how to search for images while using descriptive words, then I think that's fair. My picture a few posts back could be searched for with "jungle island city" or something like that.
Otherwise is really is impossible. Either you know it, or you don't.
Well, it can't be much fun if you have to have been to the place to identify it. Kinda leaves out, pretty much everyone who hasn't been there. In my mind, cheating would be using a TinEye-type search, this includes the new-ish Google image search thing where you drag the actual picture to the search bar, which then performs a TinEye-type search.
It'd get awfully slow, and awfully boring, awfully fast if we were to go with first-person knowledge only. Think about it: Say Grynch posts a Where Is It? pic, from Switzerland. Unless it's a VERY, VERY famous subject, virtually no one outside of a very few world travelers will get it.
Google has a new image search where you can throw a picture's URL into the GIS, and it actually searches for similar images. I think that's cheating. But if you are smart enough to know how to search for images while using descriptive words, then I think that's fair.
What he said.
This how I do it:
1. Study the picture in question for anything specific to the subject/area. A sign, a peculiarity of any kind. Something that you wouldn't find just any/everywhere.
2. Go to
Google Images.
3.
Type words into the search box. As I said earlier, for V's pic I typed "steel bridge Washington state", (I first typed "steel girder bridge Washington", but that didn't do the trick for me) without the quotation marks, and just drilled down the results til I found one that was similar. I then clicked the link for that image, and, after finding some sort of identifying info, double-checked it against Wikipedia.
4. Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
It looks like someone bent your bridge.
I'm not sorry bout ur bridge.
By coincidence, I had just driven to Astoria about 3 weeks ago, for the first time in ~30 years.
But that's the reason I didn't give a name in my post.
If you'd like another bridge over the Columbia, search Google Images for "St Johns bridge Portland"
Under the bridge is "Cathedral Park"... We (in PDX) think it's a magical place.
Somewhere wet and European.
OK 30 minutes is enough for me today. I got nothing.
There's not enough unique reference there for my fragile little mind today.
It's not Europe. Those parking lots and vehicles are too big for it to be Europe. Plus there is too much space between buildings. The roofs of the houses are peaked. They look northern and fairly old. It's gotta be northern USA. Probably north east or rust belt. Near a river. Twin traffic circles are fairly rare here, so it shouldn't be too hard to find. Train track too. Train tracks along rivers are common.
I have never seen a traffic circle in person, and I've been to thirty or so states.
But not lately, though.
Thinking about it, I've never seen video or photos of a roundabout in the U.S., either.
I feel cheated.
Oh, you haven't lived! Traffic circles are just peachy
Are you sure that those are traffic circles and not roundabouts? I don't see any stop signs.
and just swell for pedestrians - NOT
Are you sure that those are traffic circles and not roundabouts? I don't see any stop signs.
I thought they were the same thing. we have these weird traffic circle intersections here in the city. but they have traffic signals, so they are the worst of both worlds.
Traffic circles always say "joisey" to me ... is that somewhere alog the Blackhorse Pike? Or the Whitehorse? Or Somedamnhorse?
Traffic circles always say "joisey" to me ... is that somewhere alog the Blackhorse Pike? Or the Whitehorse? Or Somedamnhorse?
I don't think the roads involved have ever been referred to as a horse pike. Getting warm, though.
Traffic circles always say "joisey" to me ... is that somewhere alog the Blackhorse Pike? Or the Whitehorse? Or Somedamnhorse?
[Beavis] Black Whore Spike [/Butthead]
What is the difference between a roundabout and a traffic circle?
What is the difference between a roundabout and a traffic circle?
Country of origin.
Over here, a roundabout is a movable platform you put a train car on to spin it so it's pointing the correct direction.
Is that the infamous Marlton Circle, then?
Wikipedia has a fascinating discussion of the many types of road junctions, complete with illustrations!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout
Look at this one from the Czech Republic:
OK what else: the four-lane road ends in the circle, it's two lanes after that.
I don't remember ever seeing that style of hashed lines marking some of the road edges.
The land has to be on the right side, the tracks on the right side and the rail line hugs the edge. Therefore it's not the Delaware, Spexx' home ground.
The land on the right side has to be rather straight, which kind of confirms it's a river and not sea or bay.
Everything is going from SSW to NNE, possibly the biggest clue.
The major buildings look to cover industrial (on the river), office space (middle) and retail (lower right), so the area has to be busy enough to support all three.
It's Brooklawn NJ
Edit: And I spent way too much time on this.
Daaaamn
So the rail didn't hug the river but it wasn't river we were looking at...!
Nice work sir, I put in a good 45 minutes
I spent about 20 minutes yesterday and another 45 or so this morning.
I turned on railroads in Google earth, and turned off roads, and didn't find it until I noticed the color of the grass in the circles and started looking for that color.
I thought they were the same thing. we have these weird traffic circle intersections here in the city. but they have traffic signals, so they are the worst of both worlds.
The conventional roundabouts (the UAE has never really implemented miniroundabouts) have difficulty in dealing with unbalanced flows, especially during peak hours when the traffic entering on an arm is considerably greater than the traffic leaving by it. In such situations, there is frequently a shortage of gaps in the circulating stream and as such, delays may become excessive.
As in many other parts of the world, roundabouts have been commonly used in central city areas where traditionally they were used to resolve traffic and pedestrian conflicts in the large open squares that existed in the early 50’s and 60’s. The central island frequently covered a large area of the square and was utilized for ornamental flowerbeds or statues whilst traffic circulated around the surrounding carriageway.
Increasing traffic demand, and the pressure to allow pedestrians to cross the carriageway at grade, has resulted in many of these roundabouts being connected to signal control, so that more positive control over traffic movements on an area wide basis may be exercised. At first part-time signals were introduced but the continued growth in demand resulted in most of these becoming full-time signals at all the key locations in the city.
Perhaps?
grumble mumble... I spent a lot of time on this one too. I started looking at the Delaware river much further south and went right past it.
Good job glatt and good one Spexx.
Outstanding job as far as I'm concerned, Glatt. Did personal knowledge of some sort figure in here. I know that with V's bridge whereisit, I knew (well, thought I knew) that V lived in WA. So that's where I started looking. How did you know to look in Joisey?
Glatt, u da man! Impressive, sir.
Where is this?
clue: Unique in the world, and I am certain everyone here has heard of it.
Correct!
Have you been there? How did you know?
I guess it was really more of another "What is this?", and the where would be SLC, UT. ... I'll get better at this, promise.
I must have seen a pic before. It was the first thing that popped into my head. sorta weird really
I visited there in the 60's and V's picture is different than I remember.
This Google Images pic is dated ~ 1999
That is one strange city, strip joints and beer joints all on the same street as the Morman Temple.
Big organs all over the place, eh?
I knew that organ too. I think it's been on TV a lot.
Grav, I was looking from Chicago to Richmond. I didn't settle in on New Jersey until I was trying to match the shade of green. When you look on Google Earth, the green comes in different shades in different regions.
Daaaamn
So the rail didn't hug the river but it wasn't river we were looking at...!
It's very close to the Delaware. I'd say "hug" is appropriate.
That is one strange city, strip joints and beer joints all on the same street as the Morman Temple.
If all the beer in Utah is 3.2 beer then I wonder if all the strippers wear bikinis or something. Don't the LDS have special underwear?
Total guess, someplace like Windsor Castle.
Right idea, wrong country, apparently. It is a palace ... Governor's Palace, Williamsburg, Virginia.
That could be almost anywhere. Probably Europe though. I've been to at least a couple armory rooms in castles that looked like that.
But it could also be some place like colonial Williamsburg VA.
Are you kidding me? I'm such a slow typist.
Seen in isolation, sometimes things become less familiar.
I thought it was Spexx's new addition.
Ron Paul's campaign headquarters ?
Independence Hall?
If I'm right I'll tell you how I figured it out.
Yay!
I thought...well, it's in Philly right? And Philly has the liberty bell, right? Well where do they keep the bell, I thought. Google images of liberty bell, saw this, then wiki'd liberty bell to see where it used to be housed.
Not rocket science but I was proud, having never been anywhere near it.
Back in my day you had to go inside Independence Hall to see the Liberty Bell. And you were allowed to touch it.
Well, that narrows it down to about 20,000 possible places ...
Where is this?
Area 51?
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Area 51?
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
ding ding ding dong
:blush:
Ding dong, I ding donged you way up thar!
That's not the real picture. That's the picture of how the cloaking device based on alien techologies looks.
OK, here's a pretty easy one. Where is this?
I'm not even gonna go there.
It looks a bit like
other photos of the Empire State Bldg, but then...
Yes. Empire State Building.
Yea....
OK, here is a building that changes annually...
If you really without a clue, there is a hint
in another threadIs it made of Lego bricks?
Reminds me of the Corn Palace. Is it the Corn Palace? I thought that place burned down?
Ha. It's been a very long time since I was there. Maybe it did burn down !
It is the Corn Palace... and it is where ?
And looking up its history, the Corn Palace burned down in 1979 and was rebuilt. It's now the corn veneer palace, so it will stand up to future fires better. I was there a very long time ago as well.
OK, here's a pretty easy one. Where is this?
I stole that pic from somewhere back in the summer...and I paid for stealing it, I got virused.
Im gonna jump in with one (even tho I haven't guessed one yet).
My first reaction is that I've seen that pic on TheCellar before.
East coast ? civilian boating mishap ?
San Diego - isn't that German?
Where is this?
Wilkinson Sword's Corporate HQ?
Wilkinson Sword's Corporate HQ?
I don't think Dr Fumblefinger should be working there! :eek:
hmmmm. Even Glatt's not guessing.
Lets see.
Lamp, you are right, this picture was posted before, because I posted it - I took it. What I like about it was the view of the neighboring state's mills. Its something you only see on a very clear day.
So the pic was taken in Indiana and the mills are in Michigan ?
Ok, I guess it is a bit esoteric. Pete Zicato should recognize it and possibly Nirvana too.
It is Lake Michigan, Lamplighter, but from the vantage point of Navy Pier. I grew up very near to those mills on the Indiana shore - sometimes, on a clear day, you can see the Chicago skyline from there.
OK, this one is also from a long time ago.
The question is not what, but where...
Well, it's a pixelated picture of a hanger ... looks a bit run down ... Soviet Union?
Or maybe it's run down from plain old disuse ... Lakehurst, New Jersey?
Tustin, California ... which did involve some google fu. I knew roughly what KIND of hangar it was, and went looking for pics of such.
Tustin, California - Sorry, no, but closer
Ah ... with the addition of the airplane graveyard we get ... Tillamook, Oregon Air Museum.
Ding ding ding...
It's hard to appreciate how BIG that place is without going inside
The blimps were used to during WWII to look for submarines
Thought this might be an interesting one...
I get the feeling of Windows and MicroSoft in Redmond, WA...
...curved paths leading to squares with colored umbrellas
Ummm....that's an allegory :rolleyes:
It's not Microsloth. But you're close.
Geographically.
Well, closer than I am, anyway.
It's not around the corner from you or anything, but it's not on my side of the continent, either.
Google campus in Redmond, WA?
I agree, it has something to do with Google.
I was using Google Earth to look over MicroSoft's buildings,
and then thought that Wolf would be devious enough to use Google.
So I went to Google, Kirkland, WA and found this building,
with colored umbrellas and curved paths.
But Wolf's place is not the Kirkland campus... Google somewhere else.
It's Google HQ in Mountain View
We have a winner.
I thought it would be amusing to use a googlemap image of Google. The color of the umbrellas was the giveaway, really ... otherwise I would have posted a shot that focused on the acres upon acres of solar panels on the rooves of the buildings. I thought the streetview was a lot of fun.
Looking at some of UT's assortment, though ... check this ... Google is apparently the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow ...
It looks like the base from some old Atari game...which one I haven't a clue. ;)
Old, palm trees, and water... I'm going to start with Florida, maybe the Dry Tortugas ?
Note the shadows cast by palm trees. This place is in the south.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Castillo+de+San+Marcos,+South+Castillo+Drive,+Saint+Augustine,+FL&hl=en&ll=29.897792,-81.311322&spn=0.003646,0.004629&sll=40.140937,-75.469395&sspn=0.013254,0.018518&vpsrc=6&hq=Castillo+de+San+Marcos,+South+Castillo+Drive,+Saint+Augustine,+FL&t=h&z=18
The St Augustine Fort at Castillo de San Marcos.
Ehhh UT, you beat me by just seconds...
Google search of "Florida Forts"
I think
this is it...pic of CASTILLO DE SAN MARCOS
Does it intentionally resemble a turtle?
Does it intentionally resemble a turtle?
Yes. San Marcos was a world famous turtle, who circled the globe entertaining audiences with his feats of speed and precision.
Good old San. When he died, I cried. Put him in a box, they did.
quick guess: National Park - west - flags - boundary marker
"Four Corners" ? (CO, UT, AZ, NM)
or a new carnival ride: "Nine flags over Texas :rolleyes:
Nice rig !
"Four Corners" ? (CO, UT, AZ, NM)
Yes!
Hey, it was only a guess !
Glatt, was that pic from a trip you made on that bike ?
Dallas, Texas? Dealey Plaza
Just popped into my head all of a sudden
Groan.... Wolf, I hope that double entendre was un-intended :right:
Yes, exactly right.
Hey, it was only a guess !
Glatt, was that pic from a trip you made on that bike ?
Nah, I grabbed it from the web.
I also recognized the JFK picture instantly.
Groan.... Wolf, I hope that double entendre was un-intended :right:
Yes, exactly right.
Completely unintended. I really meant popped into my head ... looked at the image and knew 1. I've never been to this place, and 2. I know this place. It's Dallas. School book depository.
Then I went off on musing a bit about memory and how it functions, and well ...
I'm just surprised I'm taking time off from reading A Dance with Dragons ...
I hope this is actually where I think this is...
Looks like Mount Cadillac Maine (Acadia National park)
Funny. I was going to say Schoodic Point.
Fast! Yes, Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park. Those are the Porcupine Islands. I think. That was the part I wasn't entirely sure about. I knew it was Cadillac Mountain because I climbed up the motherfucker.
When I say "climbed" I actually mean "followed a groomed trail spiraling up to the top of the mountain." Which is significant because after reaching the top, appreciating the scenery, and being proud of myself for not screaming and falling off the sides of this relatively weathered and rounded chunk of pink granite, it was time to go and started back off down the path. my friend says, no, this way, pointing to a set of steps. 10 seconds later I was standing at my car, cursing her out for not suggesting this route at the outset.
Yes, I let her live. She knew how to get to the lobster pound.
lol
Yeah, I never understood why anyone would hike up Cadillac only to see a parking lot at the top. The journey is great and all, but not when the destination could have been reached so easily and was, by hundreds of other people.
Did you find my stuff? The back of our Pathfinder opened up while going up Cad Mt unbeknownst to us and a bag fell out, containing a Toonces the Driving Cat t-shirt, and something else I'd just bought.
You can't drive down the same way you drive up, so we just wrote them off.
Here's one. I've never been here, but it looks cool. Where's this?
I get as far as "looks like a lock" and stall.
I tried the Welland Canal around Niagara Falls, but that all looks too old.
St Lawrence and Houston ship canals are the only two that come to my memory... maybe Sacramento has locks on some of their waterways ?
Otherwise, nothin.
A man, a plan, a canal...Panama?
Do I get some credit for answering in palindrome?
Only if you invented that palindrome. I heard it years ago. Did it originate with you? It's a good one.
Yeah, I wrote it. :eyebrow:
Grand Canal, China
Suez Canal, Egypt
from Wikipedia:
The Nieuwe Waterweg ("New Waterway") is a ship canal in the Netherlands from het Scheur (a branch of the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta) west of the town of Maassluis to the North Sea at Hook of Holland. It is the artificial mouth of the river Rhine.
Yeah, I wrote it. :eyebrow:
Cool! ;)
FYI: It's not a canal.
Good job Grav!
MaeslantkeringSo how did you find this storm surge barrier in Holland?
Cool! ;)
FYI: It's not a canal.
The Nieuwe Waterweg ("New Waterway") is a ship canal in the Netherlands from het Scheur (a branch of the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta) west of the town of Maassluis to the North Sea at Hook of Holland. It is the artificial mouth of the river Rhine.
What's not a canal? :D
So how did you find this storm surge barrier in Holland?
I googled "flood barrier". Third pic.
That was after searching every single combination of swing, curve lock, gate, floodgate, river lock, etc, etc, etc.
What's not a canal? :D
Why, I oughta...
It's a river! Just because some wikipedia editor thinks all straight bodies of water are canals doesn't make it so,
Is that McMurdo Station Antarctica?
Where be this?
Just guessing, McMurdo Station?
Close...it's a station and in the antarctic.
Just throwing gas here:
The Nieuwe Waterweg, which opened in 1872 and has a length of approximately 10 km, was constructed to keep the city and port of Rotterdam accessible to seafaring vessels as the natural Meuse-Rhine branches silted up. The Waterway is a busy shipping route since it is the primary access to one of the busiest ports in the world, the Europoort of Rotterdam. At the entrance to the sea, a flood protection system called Maeslantkering has been installed (completed in 1997). There are no bridges or tunnels across the Nieuwe Waterweg.
:D
Why, I oughta...
It's a river! Just because some wikipedia editor thinks all straight bodies of water are canals doesn't make it so,
True, it IS wiki.
Just throwing gas here:
:D
:) Ok, maybe it's a canal.
Close...it's a station and in the antarctic.
Rothera Station? They got a tower kinda sorta like the one in your pic.
Close...it's a station and in the antarctic.
That leaves Ammundsen Scott, or however you spell that crazy Norwegian's name.
Nope, and nope. :)
It's at the southern Pole of Cold.
Now I recognize it.
That's my house.
Now I recognize it.
That's my house.
Yeah, Jesus Station in Colorado. :p:
Vostok Station
Got it!
The coldest place on earth. Acclimatory (is that a word or did I just make it up?) side effects include weight loss. I'm going tomorrow.
That's because everything is served with a side of ice.
Goddamn, a squirrel just ran across my window sill. Scared the hell outta me!!
Jeez, that was full-body jolt, too.
quick guess:
woman's costume, cobble street, architecture, fountain in square
Alsace Lorraine area ?
Chantilly?
(My head initially said Scotland, but then I realized that was nowhere near gloomy enough.)
I know I should wait for the previous one to be finished, but I have to leave the house soon and I want to throw it in before I go. Where is this?
Clod, that's either Castrovalva or Portmeirion.
I soooooo want to see that place!
:)
I knew wolf would be the one to get it. I thought it might take a little longer, though. Portmeirion for the win!
It is not Chantilly either.
:)
I knew wolf would be the one to get it. I thought it might take a little longer, though. Portmeirion for the win!
Big fan of The Prisoner, I actually recognized it faster than I did the Dallas School Book Depository.
And I have the Portmerion Tarot deck ... The Hanged Man and The Hierophant are both in the image you posted ...
Sorry but no, it's not Spain.
It looks like France. Loire valley?
OK. Where's this?
Here :)
quick guess:
woman's costume, cobble street, architecture, fountain in square
...
You know it is, and I know it is, but women don't like when we refer to their clothes as their "costume."
Yabbut...WHERE?
That picture is of the same place that this picture is of.
Narrows it right down. ;)
Now we get to guess where Quarantine is... earlier posts point to UK.
Isn't it the town from Disney's Beauty and the Beast?
Better than the damn grenade joke, eh?
Shuddupaboutit
OK. Winner is Quarantine. The picture shows the main square in the city of Locronan, Finistère, France. About 15 miles from home. A most beautiful village.
Here's the Google Maps link:
Locronan.
Zoom in and activate Street View.
Wikipedia:
LocronanIt is pretty.
We just needed some hints.
Mine was the very spot where the Edmund Fitzgerald sank. As far as you know.
Oh, by the way. Quarantine is situated in my hard disk.
C:\ProgramData\BitDefender\Desktop\Quarantine
Mine was the very spot where the Edmund Fitzgerald sank. As far as you know.
Gitche Gumee?
Yes, Hiawatha.
Actually it's just random water. Can't even tell you where I got it now. But I did hope to find a picture of where the EF sank without the EF there to give it away. It would've looked...well, pretty much like I posted.
Just my weird sense of humor. Carry on!
In general, where is this?
gulf of mexico
rip oriskany
Wow glatt, did you remember that photo from 5 and a half years ago?
Dear glatt.
You need to call the tech support dept to get a new keyboard, cause the one you have now has a stuck F5 key.
Yours,
everybody else who doesn't refresh like you do. we luvs ya, tho
Uh ... In the Ocean?
ETA - I was watching Spexxies video
Wow glatt, did you remember that photo from 5 and a half years ago?
You didn't? ;P
I wasn't even born yet. To the Cellar.
24 miles off the coast of Pensacola, Florida
Glatt for the win!
Who'd a thunk it?
ETA: Now known as The Great Carrier Reef.
Dear glatt.
You need to call the tech support dept to get a new keyboard, cause the one you have now has a stuck F5 key.
:lol2:
I'm currently reading the Ken Jennings book on geography. He talks about a lot of stuff, and some of it is really skimmable, but every once in a while, he throws out an interesting tidbit. Last night I read that the border between Finland and Russia is a really stark contrast in places because in Finland, real estate is presumably at a premium, so they use up more of it with farmland, while right next door in Russia, they just let the trees grow because they have all the room they need.
I thought I'd use that as a "where is it?" but it would be too hard and get tedious.
Every time I hear or see Ken Jennings' name I think of this:
[YOUTUBE]KKL7nyJrPAM[/YOUTUBE]
HIJACK
This happened this week...
[YOUTUBE]EcmRgtohMlU[/YOUTUBE]
We know who gets around, at least, don't we?
:lol2:
To bump this thread up again... the place + 2 hints
/
That's the Maryhill Museum of Art in Maryhill, WA.
Way too easy.
Yes, it was easy. But for those who are not aware,
it's history and it's collection of Rodin sculptures
might be of interest. (Some are quite erotic ! :facepalm:)
Funny thing is that the "Musée Rodin" in Paris was my customer about ten years ago. Got a nice after hours visit and a "behind the scene" tour.
Easy one
Anybody gonna guess?
Here's another view.
Sawgrass?
* dislikes golf - hates golf courses
Sawgrass?
* dislikes golf - hates golf courses
Yes. The iconic hole 17 at TPC Sawgrass. Well done.
I don't think there are a lot of golfers here.
I've tramped up and down a thousand courses - work though, not pleasure - I think they're incredibly ugly.
How about this?
So far as I know it's unique.
hint: This was also an IotD.
Glatt, I ran across it looking for your canal doors.:p:
Ah, sorry. I took that yesterday - our weather is always like this in November.
Don't be sorry. But now you've given a hint as to general vicinity.
That's so cool that you got to see it! Did you get to watch any boats passing through?
That's so cool that you got to see it! Did you get to watch any boats passing through?
I have in the past, it's a regular walk for me. Not yesterday though - if you look you'll see the basin is dry and they seem to be doing some kind of maintenance work.
You drive there to go for a walk, or you live walking distance? That is so cool! I'd be going there all the time.
I'm about 15 miles from the wheel itself, other parts of the Union Canal (the top part of the wheel) are closer and the towpath is great for walking on as it's lovely and flat - water doesn't run uphill too well!
towpaths are really nice to walk on. We've got a canal close by too (along the Potomac river) and it's a nice place to walk or ride bikes.
The Union, for most part, is in countryside and peaceful - which is what I like - there are stretches that are reasonably easy to get to that seem to be just out of the reach of casual dog walkers and you can do several miles without meeting a soul and just wildlife for company.
Hey Boo Boo. I'm smarter than the average bear.
.
So why didn't they make two Yogi Bears ?
Because someone made a Boo Boo.
Please excuse me, these are my senior moments.
OK, this one might be sort of tough.
.
And another one from impatient me:
@Clod: Somewhere near Minneapolis, Minnesota... fossilized Pillsbury dough family ;)
Lamplighter: Rock Island.
@Z: No, on Rock Island, but maybe that's the answer for Clod's
Not Rock Island here either.
OK, this one might be sort of tough.
.
Chicago railroad yard?
@Spex: No on Chicago railroad yard. But you are within 700 miles
Clod: Looks a lot like the mountains around Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.
Ha! I just looked up a picture of Mount Rushmore before the carvings. Pretty sneaky, Sis. You posted an old picture of Mount Rushmore.
Ha! I just looked up a picture of Mount Rushmore before the carvings. Pretty sneaky, Sis. You posted an old picture of Mount Rushmore.
So that's a "when is this", too. Double jeopardy.:)
@Spex: No on Chicago railroad yard. But you are within 700 miles
Atlanta?
@Spex: No, on Atlanta. Think big, bigger, biggest.
Ha! I just looked up a picture of Mount Rushmore before the carvings. Pretty sneaky, Sis. You posted an old picture of Mount Rushmore.
But it's in color!
Blame Ted Turner for the shameless colorization. ;) Yes, glatt wins it, it's a "before" picture of Mount Rushmore.
Ha! I just looked up a picture of Mount Rushmore before the carvings. Pretty sneaky, Sis. You posted an old picture of Mount Rushmore.
omg...what commercial was that from?
Oh oh oh...um...CONNECT FOUR?
omg...what commercial was that from?
Oh oh oh...um...CONNECT FOUR?
ding ding ding!
Here, diagonally.
I can hear that in my head (here, diagonally)!
This one might be dumb, but where is this? It's kind of a what and where is it...
(Did we miss one being answered, btw?)
@Spex: No, on Atlanta. Think big, bigger, biggest.
Yes, one missed.
Maschen Rangierbahnhof, south of Hamburg, Germany?
(Is googling legal?) :D
Well, it looks like a glacial erratic. And those look like the great plains somewhere.
*starts googling*
Edit: Horse Heaven Hills, South of Kennewick, WA
Is there a reason you chose that particular one?
I was reading Lamp's usertitle, and I googled Massoula floods. I saw the pic of the guy on the rock (from
here) and thought it was cool.
I like the term 'glacial erratic.' My brother will be proud when I tell him I learned it. (He's heavily involved in geology in his work.)
I saw the pic of the guy on the rock (from here)
That's the same picture I found. Page 6 of search results for "glacial erratic."
I like the term 'glacial erratic.'
User title!
Oh wow.
Let's narrow it down. Is that an ocean, rather than a big lake?
It's one of the oceans. And I'll give you a bigger hint. From the top of that rock, you can't see any other land, even on a clear day.
Oh poo, on a clear day, you can see FOREVER! Rise and look around you.
I don't know. Is it a Galapagos thing?
I think you just made that up, but no.
That flag should be a hint, but I see an all green flag, and it's not listed by flag color in the wiki link I found.
Like someone decided it was their own nation. But what is that structure? It doesn't look like something you'd live in.
That's a house Brianna is building for her son.
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.
Rockall
Beat me to it.:sniff:
[strike]Victoria Falls[/strike]
what glatt said, isuzu falls, whatever.
[YOUTUBE]q-l5FJ_CPqY[/YOUTUBE]
Those are those falls in Argentina where a scene from Moonraker was shot.
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.
I believe you, but BigV wins. He said it first.
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.
Where is this?
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!
The only reason I knew the falls is that my parents were there last week and e-mailed pictures.
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
.
Where is it?
Iguazú Falls
Here is a night time photo of Those Falls. Came from APOD.
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.
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.
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.
It's just an overlook on the road to Hana on Maui.
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?
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"
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!
Here's a question. How much coal is in that cart behind the donkey?
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?
Here's a question. How much coal is in that cart behind the donkey?
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.
Yes. Good job, Spex.
When I was a kid and my family spent a year in Tucson, we would drive out into the desert to attend this church every once in a while. The Indian ladies sold honey covered wood fire toasted home made tortillas right outside after the service let out. They were delicious.
The Indian ladies sold honey covered wood fire toasted home made tortillas right outside after the service let out. They were delicious.
Dad and Grandad used to head straight over to the pub after Mass.
Then again, they did have free cheese and roast potatoes on the bar.
We were settled with a 10p bag of sweets.
You got the country right and found a picture, but there is no lake anywhere near these boulders. This isn't Lake Tekepo.
moeraki boulders
Koekohe beach in New Zealand
I'ma go with that old Star Trek episode. Those aren't rocks... those are eggs.
What would be big enough to lay an egg that size?
:eek:
Something from Land of the Lost.
What would be big enough to lay an egg that size?
:eek:
The eggs start out small, with faces painted on them.
I'mma keep this going with a potentially challenging one.
Where is this?
Looks familiar. Georgia is my first thought.
Where the 1940 Olympics were to be held in Japan before they scrapped the idea?
A Russia / US joint space rocket center ?
no
here's the inside of the "saucer" as it looks today.
Buzludzha Monument, Central Stara Planina, Bulgaria
beautiful!
how did you find it?
More pics.The use of quotes helps enormously, thank you for that tip. "Russia" "saucer" "building" did it, I think.
those damn dirty apes...!
On River Anduin, just north of Tol Brandir
Looks like it, right?
But that's not a hobbit village in the distance. This is on the planet earth for realz.
What would be big enough to lay an egg that size?
:eek:
cloaca... [SIZE="7"]OF THE GODS![/SIZE]
On the Danube, in Romania
On the Danube, in Romania
Yep!
That's king Decebalus. They are proud of him.
Where?
Hard to see details in the village, but the land is brown, not green. So Faroe Islands and Iceland are probably out, and Greenland and Baffin Island are in.
I'm going to guess Qaqortoq, Greenland, although I can't match up any buildings.
Didn't Google establish a computer center in the far north of Norway or Sweden to take advantage of the hydroelectric power. Maybe that's it.
Hard to see details in the village, but the land is brown, not green. So Faroe Islands and Iceland are probably out, and Greenland and Baffin Island are in.
I'm going to guess Qaqortoq, Greenland, although I can't match up any buildings.
No, but good logic.
Didn't Google establish a computer center in the far north of Norway or Sweden to take advantage of the hydroelectric power. Maybe that's it.
No
Lilliput
Very Swift of you
Lofoten Islands, Norway..
I'd say Reine.
Lofoten Islands,
No
Norway..
Yes, but Imma ask you to be more specific
I'd say Reine.
No
Both you and Gun mentioned an important aspect.
Spitzbergen-ish
No.
Northeast
Spitzbergen-ish
Dang, that was my guess.
Longyearbyen?
Dang, that was my guess.
Longyearbyen?
JaProbably another easy one, but here goes.
Where is this?
Is that an abandoned Great Lakes lighthouse platform?
Is that the Exxon Valdez, from Waterworld?
Hint: The Doctor will see you now.
I have no idea what the hint means, and I can't tell what the rusty thing in the water is. Looks like an oil drilling platform or a lighthouse platform. The water is blue like it's in the tropics, but I figured it was near you, so I guessed Great Lakes.
It's not near me. It's like the opposite of near me. ;)
:lol:
Rock City! (Oh wait, this isn't word ass!)
It's like the opposite of near me. ;)
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/deguru/Europe_2000/germany.htmlCan 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.
Even I'm not that obvious ;)
It is a recognisable place.
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.
.
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.
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 :(
.
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/ruins-of-cumberland-island.htmlI was just about to post the answer! Oh well, next time maybe...
Griff, why don't you post the next one. I am out of here for the next few days or more after tonight.
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.
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
La Fontaine Saint-Michel in Paris?
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.[ATTACH]35603[/ATTACH]
I saw that as well. There are some really cool orthodox churches out there.
I don't have time to keep looking right now, but I did find this pretty cool looking place in Antarctica.[ATTACH]35603[/ATTACH]
The Addams family meets Eastern Orthodox meets Frosty the Snowman at dusk/dawn. Beautiful.
It appears that the the shingles are on upside down, on that antarctic church. The snow seems to be piled in top of the ledge. Maybe it's been blown and has stuck up under them, assuming they're mounted properly.
Looks like an arctic outpost...
Saint Nick church
80° 48' 24.39" N 47° 41' 33.03" E
More precisely:
NagurskoyeNice!
Saint Nicolas at Nagurskoe
How did you find it? It's not even on Google Earth.
name of 1 pict in google image
then a look at the web page holding the pict : Panoramio page so google maps
a bit more research
et voilà...
these two buildings are about 50 meters apart: where are they?
The one on the right is about 60 yards to the right of the one on the left and the one on the left is just to the left of the right one.
name of 1 pict in google image
then a look at the web page holding the pict :
Panoramio page so google maps a bit more research
et voilà...
GM, what do you mean by the "name" of the pic ?
Is it something that can be obtained from any image on the web ?
I'm not seeing any thing useful when I do a "get image info"
In any case, I have more fun here trying to figure it out from clues
in the pic, but it's much more frustrating and often futile for me.
Then I just end up cheating and doing a Google Image search on the image, itself.
The one on the right is about 60 yards to the right of the one on the left and the one on the left is just to the left of the right one.
:rolleyes: try again...
GM, what do you mean by the "name" of the pic ?
Is it something that can be obtained from any image on the web ?
I'm not seeing any thing useful when I do a "get image info"
In any case, I have more fun here trying to figure it out from clues
in the pic, but it's much more frustrating and often futile for me.
Then I just end up cheating and doing a Google Image search on the image, itself.
Right click on the pic, Save as...
It'll offer a filename you can research since most pict are uploaded from other web sites...
Thx GM, I didn't know that was possible.
Isn't that hotlinking?
I thought doing that would get you put on report.
No, he's right. I just checked some of mine and if you choose 'save as' the name comes up as I saved it. And mine and I think all these others are not hotlinked.
I had no idea.
So folks, you need to change the name of your picture to something else, in many cases, unless you want to give the answer away.
I'm not the one doing it. And I believe the Cellar upload the file once and then store it on its own server.
You're not the one doing what? :confused:
All I'm saying, if you want to thwart cheating (um, I mean, taking advantage of hidden opportunities) that those playing this game might want to "save as" something like 587464687897 or "no peeking" or "no, no info here."
I always looked at the "properties" of the picture and THAT points to the cellar. It's the 'save as' that brings up whatever you saved the picture as before you uploaded to the Cellar. Often if you leave it as is, the name of the picture is right there.
I always looked at the "properties" of the picture and THAT points to the cellar. It's the 'save as' that brings up whatever you saved the picture as before you uploaded to the Cellar. Often if you leave it as is, the name of the picture is right there.
Yeah, I almost always download the picture I want to use and sanitize the name when I save it. I give it an obvious name devoid of clues.
It goes against the spirit of this game to use file names to find something.
The arctic orthodox church picture was neat, because I stumbled across a bunch of fun images as I was trying different searches.
Spex, how did you come up with that image originally?
I came across a neat place while word googling for that place too.
To the Japanese, tea ceremonies are a significant custom that speak of their very culture and values, it represents Sen no Rikyu’s principles of purity, tranquility, harmony and respect. With this philosophy in mind, it is no wonder that architect Terunobu Fujimori has created a tea house devoted to the intricate practice of tea making and drinking. The structure is a 2.7 square metre building padded with bamboo mats and made of plaster and bamboo. To reach it guests must climb a ladder leaning against one of two chestnut tree trunks. The refuge amongst the trees of Chino makes for a perfect place to surrender to calmness and meditation, the ideal elements associated with tea ceremonies.
Spex, how did you come up with that image originally?
I'm a Hobbit, at heart, except taller. I could wander around Google Earth for hours. I read a reference to Svalbard somewhere, sometime, and that lead me to look around and find Longyearbyen, and then Saint Nick at Nagurskoye. Yeah, it's a fascinating time-waster.:blush:
I came across a neat place while word googling for that place too.
That's a cool house, but I would definitely fall off it and die.
Have you ever noticed how tropical cities are mostly drab and dull, while northern cities are colorful? Dust? Wealth? I don't know.
Dudes! We are failing to name Gunmaster's church(?). I'm guessing it is some kind of sailor's cathedral... maybe commemorating a wreck or multiple loses.
All I can figure out is they are called 1 and 2.
;)
Yeah. Looks like Northern France. Not the UK, since the cars are on the right side of the road. Coastal village with that anchor. Dreary weather.
The anchor looks like a very early design. If I knew architecture there are clues in that low walled design...
Could it be Newfoundland too, don't they drive on the other side of the road as well?
That's a cool house, but I would definitely fall off it and die.
You'd surrender to calmness and meditation. Perfect tea ceremony whether you reach the hut or not!
Dudes! We are failing to name Gunmaster's church(?). I'm guessing it is some kind of sailor's cathedral... maybe commemorating a wreck or multiple loses.
Right about the commemoration of wreckages and sailors.
But it's just a small church, not a cathedral.
I did a Google Image search on Architecture Britanny and found this image of Sailors Last Hope (Cokebuster)
Is it the same place ?
(If it is, I still don't know where it is !)
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Brittany, eh? I was looking around Normandy.
It's in Brittany all right.
Camerat-sur-Mer.
It's Notre Dame de Rocamadour and Tour Vauban
Again with Google Image search + GM's hint of "church" and "sailor"
I found another image I think is the same church in St. They, Brittany, France.
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Ooooopps... didn't see Glatt's post before I hit SUBMIT
That's right:
Camaret sur Mer.
For those who are curious about the truncated form of the bell tower, it's due to the sea.
The church and the Vauban Tower are built on a small island that was linked the continent by a small ridge. This was used to build the sea wall protecting the harbour. At high tide, the church is less than 15 meters from the sea.
The sea side of the wall has an added protection to break the waves: a mountain of round stone pebbles. Quite big pebbles: they weight around 40 pounds. Usually it is enough. But sometimes the waves are powerful enough to propel those stones like cannonballs and strike the tower bell or come throught the roof of the church.
On occasion, when sea, tide and wind are in the hurricane range, those stones can reach the marina and sink boats more than 40 meters away.
That's right: Camaret sur Mer.
For those who are curious about the truncated form of the bell tower, it's due to the sea.
The church and the Vauban Tower are built on a small island that was linked the continent by a small ridge. This was used to build the sea wall protecting the harbour. At high tide, the church is less than 15 meters from the sea.
The sea side of the wall has an added protection to break the waves: a mountain of round stone pebbles. Quite big pebbles: they weight around 40 pounds. Usually it is enough. But sometimes the waves are powerful enough to propel those stones like cannonballs and strike the tower bell or come throught the roof of the church.
On occasion, when sea, tide and wind are in the hurricane range, those stones can reach the marina and sink boats more than 40 meters away.
Wow. That's a lot of power.
I was there once during a winter storm and I can tell you that you feel very small in front of such nature force.
I also know the chapel shown by Lamplighter. The St They chapel is on the
Pointe du Van. The place is less known and visited than the
Pointe du Raz that is south of it just across the
Baie des Trépassés.
Bush Gardens, Williamsburg VA?
Freiburg, Germany. The Martinstor gate tower.
Edit : too late...
I searched on "McDonalds Bavaria" and it was
here. Amazing number of beautiful girls in that search, odd.
I used to live in Freiburg, and went to that McDonalds a few times. They serve beer in there. And the fries come with vinegar.
Those windows above the sign house seating for the McDonalds, but most of the restaurant is in the building to the right.
Feiburg is an amazingly beautiful city. I miss it sometimes.
I'd say Detroit Opera House but I think it's now a parking lot.
Detroit United Artists Theater
this one shouldn't be too hard
4
:lol2:
That was funny. You know I had to go check!
The answer is 4.
Ha, I was listening to your A.P.P. link and was on song four when I looked it up.
Seemed like a sign.
Its called the Golden Deer Antler tree in Venison, France.
Be careful where you step...
pointy black crystals growing in a pine forest
quartz ? tourmaline ? ilvalite ?
...with some dufus in a black body suit and sneakers
doing a 1-hand stand by a gold-foiled elk tree
(The latter was my senior moment on first seeing this pic)
Its called the Golden Deer Antler tree in Venison, France.
To my knowledge, there's no city or village called Venison in France.
Try again
this one shouldn't be too hard
The Golden tree is in Paimpont forest, which according to legend is the enchanted forest of Brocéliande. The enchanted forest is an important part of Arthurian legend, being the home and burial place of Merlin.
Winner: Quarantine.
Your turn to post something we have to find ;)
An aerial shot taken from Google Earth.
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I love it. Hmm... looks like mining, flooding, and/or patties? Earth berm around a settlement...
I love it. Hmm... looks like mining, flooding, and/or patties? Earth berm around a settlement...
There is quarrying around this location, but that is recent. A few years ago it was surrounded by fields.
bumpity. I don't think I'm getting anywhere. Here is another to chew on. Pete just got a birthday present with this image on a cloth.
Looks like a chemist examining an Erlenmeyer flask.
My guess is of Dr Waksman at Rutgers Univ in NJ.
I get a beer if such a wild guess is right !
You sir... are pretty damn close. Wrong scientist, wrong continent.
That's how close a wild guess can be... wrong continent !
OK, staying with the microbiologists and antibiotics...
My second wild guess is Louis Pasture in Paris, France
Sorry, chemistry is out of my field, except to move my guess to Germany
No free beer for me :(
To my knowledge, there's no city or village called Venison in France.
:eyebrow:
:right:
Looks like another deadlock,.. Koping, Sweden. Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
OMG Griff, how did you come across "suck-it-up Carly", or should we call him "Woeful Wily" ?
I have heard of a lot of scientists, but never Carl Wilhelm Scheele !
But I'm glad someone built a statue of him. Phooey on phlogiston.
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Namafjall Hverir Iceland?
Niland, CA?
Jed Clampet's hunting ground?
No, no, no.
It's not bubbling crude. Well, it's bubbling, and it's crude, but it ain't gonna get you to Beverly Hills.
Are you saying it's not petroleum related or it's not geology related? Or both?
It's not petroleum related.
Is it in Rotorua, New Zealand?
An aerial shot taken from Google Earth.
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Did we get an answer for this?
Is it in Rotorua, New Zealand?
Yay! Yep, that's it! :)
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Did we get an answer for this?
Nope.
it's just about impossible with no additional clues.
Because of the vegetation, we know it's not in the arctic. It doesn't appear to be mountainous, since the water is so flat. There probably isn't a lot of snow, since the roofs are flat. It's below the tree line in elevation.
Ruts show that vehicles are available in the area, but don't go into the compound itself.
That narrows it down to about a million possible locations.
It would be cool if it were Bin Laden's compound, but I don't think there was water around that.
Yeah, I don't know, but without a "yes" or a "no" or a "you're close" we're just stabbing around in the dark.
glatt, you get this one. ;)
I was thinking it might be the home where the Burmese opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is under house arrest. That was just in the news because Hillary visited her. So I looked that up on Google Earth, and it's not it. But when I looked it up, Burma looks really nice! You get the impression that it's a really backwards place from the news, but I guess that's just the government. It's no North Korea.
And the US is building an embassy just down the road from the opposition leader, only half a kilometer away from her house. I read that she lived on a remote island on a lake, but she's actually on a lake shore drive of mansions. Sweet neighborhood. (University Avenue, on the shore of lake Inya in Yangon)
I thought of Burma Shave and wondered if the name were related to Burma. Well, I'll be, it is.
Burma-Shave was introduced in 1925 by the Burma-Vita company, owned by Clinton Odell. The company's original product was a liniment made of ingredients described as coming "from the Malay Peninsula and Burma."[1] Demand was sparse, and the company sought to expand sales by introducing a product with wider appeal.
The result was the Burma-Shave advertising sign program, and sales took off. At its peak, Burma-Shave was the second-highest selling brushless shaving cream in the United States. Sales declined in the 1950s, and in 1963 the company was sold to Philip Morris. The signs were removed at that time. The brand decreased in visibility and eventually became the property of the American Safety Razor Company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma-ShaveDid we get an answer for this?
Some additional clues:
The site is now derelict, originally built over 70 years ago
A close-up of part of the site.
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That should help identify what the site is and should narrow down where.
Spex: Potemkinstairs in Ukraine
Spex: Potemkinstairs in Ukraine
Odessa Steps
Yes. Wow! I didn't think that would be so easy.
I googled famous movie stairs scenes.
Seems like it's an abandoned ww2 artillery emplacement, googling images for that doesn't show anything similar.
It's like a ghetto stonehenge.
Is it ovens for burning folks?
@Quarantine's ruins
The graffiti looked a bit asian, and Google Images turned up this
ancient fort (model) with similar shape, but it's from the Ming Dynasty.
Dagu Paotai or Fort Dagu ?
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Spexxvett: Very close, it is a type of gun emplacement that has a very specific purpose
Lamplighter: Some more graffiti for you from the site :)
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The bunkers arranged in circles look like the place where they store the ammo. There are two spots at the corners of the site where the guns probably sat. The shadows have the sun coming from the right. I'm going to assume the image is in its proper orientation and right is East. That's where the guns would be pointing. Who would point their guns to the East? France would. But I've been doing all sorts of image searched of the Maginot Line, and those fortifications look completely different from these.
I keep hitting dead ends.
glatt: The orientation is the top is north. The guns did predominantly face east, but they were not in France. There were 8 guns here with each set of 4 guns surrounding its own command post. The ammunitions stores are the 4 rectangular buildings around the edge. The concrete areas near the permiter were machine gun posts.
The attached view gives a clearer layout of the site. It measures approximately 190 yards north-south, and 100 yards east-west
I feel like I just put my glasses on.
So it's not France, huh? Is it the Fulda gap? They were focused on the East too, but this looks older than that.
Who would point their guns to the East?
Eastern seaboard of the US?
So it's not France, huh? Is it the Fulda gap? They were focused on the East too, but this looks older than that.
Not the Fulda gap.
The attached image shows the type of guns used here.
Yeah, there are a fair number of batteries on the East coast, but they don't look like that. They are much more massive.
East coast of England?
Right country, but not on the coast.
Holy cow, there are a lot of HAA batteries in the UK. I'm just about ready to throw in the towel.
Awesome. How did you find it? Or did you just know?
OMG Griff, how did you come across "suck-it-up Carly", or should we call him "Woeful Wily" ?
I have heard of a lot of scientists, but never Carl Wilhelm Scheele !
But I'm glad someone built a statue of him. Phooey on phlogiston.
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Pete has had a pen pal from Koping since forever and her recent birthday present featured Carl's unlabeled image which it took some google action to figure out. They have recently migrated to facebook.
I looked for an 8 gun HAA site. Most sites in England are only 4 guns. Thank you for pointing to us it was an HAA site :)
Where is this?
Rotarua, NZ? (I've been there to see the boiling mud)
eta: I see i'm a bit late with that answer. Oh well.
I took that water in the photo to be a river or such, but it looks like it's just a swampy basin.
(Are there any photos which haven't been guessed correctly? I got lost with all the posts trying to exactly name that bermed place.)
Where is this?
Valley Daher In Sana'a Yemen
Yeah. Dar Al Hajar, Yemen.
Well that was fast. Good job Spexx. How'd you know?
Google images: house on a rock
Hahahahahaa. Well, sure, if you get THAT technical.
I don't know. Can't seem to find anything with "big wooden face statue."
Architecture of small houses looks Australian or New Zealand
Statue looks more Maori, so I'm guessing NZ ?
But have they changed over to drive on the "right" side of the road ?
I was thinking along those same lines.
But of course I was way off, because it's in Bethany Beach, Delaware.
Red, white, sorta blue flowers in front garden. I knew it was Merka.
Where is this?
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The view from the top:
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Wow! Look at the speed demon.
Astana, Kazakstan
But of course I was way off, because it's in Bethany Beach, Delaware.
Correct!
No, it's Coca Cola world headquarters where they store the secret formula... where it is, is a secret too.
Its at Rt 1 and 26 in Bethany Beach, DE. That is actually the replacement totem pole as the original was eaten by termites.
ETA - just saw glatts post... never mind.
Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden
Chonburi, Thailand
Well done. And quick, too.
I won't tell you how I got that one.
There really is nothing up my sleeve. And I wouldn't have a clue about those photo-looker-atter-matcher things.
Spexxvet: The Kizil Thousand Buddha Caves in Xinjiang, China
Welcome, TonyE!
Thanks, I've previously posted here as Quarantine but I have abandoned that userid.
OHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Well howdy, Tony nee Quarantine.
where is it?
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Pacific Atlantic Southwest North Mid-continental East DVX
Did you leave a file name on the picture intentionally?
snicker.
Imma say a church in Tulsa, but I think that was a set-up. :lol:
NO! It's not Tulsa.
You fell for my trap. :p: ;)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Bravo!
I've been making funny comments and stuff on mine, so I look to see what others are doing.
I KNEW you were too smart to not change it.
Good one!
I linked the attachment instead of letting it fall on the bottom of the post because that way, when you mouse over it, the file name shouts out to you.
Just like smearing gobs of peanut butter all over the mouse trap trigger.
I was going to recuse myself, Mr. Trickster. :blush:
Here's a hint. The site from Google Earth
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(I check all photo names now!)
Adobe Super Secret headquarters?
It reminds me of a California building that was used in television science fiction for its futuristic look; but, was actually utilitarian like a water pumping station or something.
With the ones that I have answered, I located them by using keywords that describe the image in a Google image search. It was just a case of finding the right words :)
For example for
http://cellar.org/showpost.php?p=777292&postcount=574 I used "Golden Tree France" (I guessed it would likely be in France)
For
http://cellar.org/showpost.php?p=778581&postcount=668 it was more difficult to find the right words. Most searches using words such as caves, cliffs, rock face, dwellings came back to Petra. Knowing that many such places have a religious significance, I added religions to the searches. I can't remember exactly what I used but it was something like "caves Buddhist" that led to the answer.
For
http://cellar.org/showpost.php?p=778786&postcount=678 I used 3 words that described the picture and the answer came up straight away. Those 3 words are...
I located them by using keywords that describe the image in a Google image search. It was just a case of finding the right words
That's the trick. The skill is in observing what's in the picture. Your knowledge helps with that, but sometimes it's just plain observation. If you know enough that a particular church has a Russian Orthodox look to it, then that's going to narrow your search down considerably.
But then other times your knowledge hurts you. Like if you are looking for totem poles in the Pacific when the pole is really in Delaware.
You guys are killing me. I want my 45 minutes back. This game is deadly.
I can't tell if 678 has been answered yet or not. :right:
This game is deadly.
I know! I hate it, but I love it.
Notre-Dame-du-Haut (Ronchamp, Franche-Comte)?
The 3 words I used to find it were "church modern architecture"
I used 4: modernist open air chapel
Notre-Dame-du-Haut (Ronchamp, Franche-Comte)?
Yes!
You could also use white concrete church
where?
Hey, that'll come in handy - I need somewhere to land my UFO!
I'll have to sit this one out.
Trementina Base, Church of Spiritual Technology near Trementina, New Mexico.
I saw these symbols in Clearwater some time agao.
too obvious?
Yeah. I posted it over on the wtf thread a few years ago.
Yes mitite - dang I missed your first post for some reason!
I don't know why, but it shouts Binghamton to me.
What is that sculpture in the front? Looks like bones or tusks. Chicken bones even.
Colonel Sanders Home for Wayward Youth in Corbin KY?
That's really amazing. It looks like wood timbers, but it's impossible to bend thick timbers like that. Yet, there they are.
That's really amazing. It looks like wood timbers, but it's impossible to bend thick timbers like that. Yet, there they are.
There's an issue of Fine Boatbuilding or whatever the hell it's called where they show how the Vietnamese Bend 6" thick planks (read beams) when building boats. They coat the planks with tar and set them afire. When the wood begins to soften the push it into place with poles and some guy puts out the fire just in the spot where he wants to fasten the plank to the ribs.
I guess it is possible, but the picture shows whale bones, not timbers. That was my mistake.
It's In Stanley, Falkland Islands.
Christ Church cathedral.
grumble grumble
Good game, good game.
;)
I googled whalebone gazebo
safesearch is always on at work. :blush:
So where is this?
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I'll show a little more background in this old painting from the 1800's.
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Took a few searches to locate this one, the [FONT=Arial]Natural Bridge[/FONT][FONT=Arial], in Rockbridge County, Virginia.
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There are 699 steps on Jacob's ladder in Jamestown, St Helena
I found it by using the search option in the worldinprint.com site that the picture is from :)
I recognize that tree in the background. That's on the northwestern side of Ojrzanowo, Poland. The street doesn't have a name, but it's behind the Wojciechowski's barn.
It is a building believed to be of significance to some folks.
Hint: it is a church.
Most significant religious sites have huge throngs of people around them at all times and they have chains and other crowd control devices. Not to mention spot lights illuminating them. They are also usually in better repair, even if they are old.
Maybe the photographer and crowds are kept behind a chain, and this is the view as seen from the front of the crowd?
Ok, Imma say I effed up. That pic showed up a couple times in my search, so I used it. Here's a better pic.
Axum, Ethiopia
The Ark of the Covenant is supposed to be in there.
The Ethiopian flags helped a lot. Thanks for that hint.
Here's one. where's this?
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glouster, ma ? my guess is from
here Bridge to nowhere? Ketchikan to Gravina Island, Alaska?
:) Almost, I think Sara vetoed the building of that bridge.
And you're in the right direction, but it's not in the U.S.
Where is this?
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Well, the obvious guess is a Seaworld? That's too easy, right?
Not Wyland. Not Seaworld.
Edit: I thought you meant that Wyland was a place. It's not a place called Wyland. I don't know if somebody named Wyland painted the mural.
Oh whale, all google roads lead to Wyland.
Very sneaky, bro.
Turns out it was painted by Wyland. So that narrows it down a bit.
Oh.
According to Wiki, narrows it down to about 100.
Yeah, but look at the picture. There are a few other major clues.
Where is this?
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Sarasota?
IM, nice catch on the Wyland.
driving on left - UK
driving on left
There you go.
Arghhh. So that's not Country Folks or Country Fabrics?
Hmmm...the statue.
another shot
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I'm glad they finally rented the place :rolleyes:
Still don't know where it is...
this was via Google Image for "wyland building paintings UK"
Ahhhh, was going through the list. Westpac threw me.
Oh, I thought lamp knew. I did a 'save as' and saw the Bundaberg. ;)
Well, I suppose Spex gets it, but really IM deserves huge props for the Wyland thing. And Lamplighter would have gotten it if he had said it.
Anyone who googled whale wall would have come up with Wyland. (A lot of alliteration for anxious anchors placed in powerful posts.) I just did it faster.
Wyland and Whales, hand in fin.
Bundaberg, Australia
Still don't know where it is ! :neutral:
We need a war with Australia so I can learn the geography of Oz.
No, dude. They have boomerangs!
Bundaberg is a neat little town known primarily to me as the home of the Bundaberg rum distillery, which you can tour. It's also the home to the catamarans that will take you out to one of the southern most islands in the Great Barrier Reef. Fun for snorkeling. The town itself doesn't offer much of anything though. The place is surrounded by sugar cane fields as far as the eye can see. They make rum with it, you see.
I would love to visit there. Someday. (Sigh)
Sorry, I posted the wrong map above...
I suppose it was settled by Germans, or German want-to-be's
I did manage a trip to Melbourne and Sydney years ago, and really enjoyed my hosts.
A couple of them still called England "home", even though they had never been there.
I did learn a lot while there, but still don't have the names pinned into their (special) maps.
Bundaberg is a neat little town known primarily to me as the home of the Bundaberg rum distillery, which you can tour.
Our Australian rellies sent us some Bundaberg rum. It was the roughest thing any of us had ever tasted (well, at the time)
As Dad said, the clue should be in the suggestions on the back of the bottle - drink with MILK?!
It's possible it was over-proof rum or somesuch.
Anyway, after their grumbles, I pitched up about a week later, offering to give it another try.
No, sorry. All drunk up.
So it might have been rough - but not so rough they couldn't choke it down!
(FTR, Mum and Dad were used to white rum, which might have been the difference)
It was very rough, as I recall. We got a sample at the end of our tour and had the option of buying some in the gift store, but I declined. It was yucky. But the process was neat. They get the molasses from the sugar cane and then ferment it, of course. The only thing you could actually see was the molasses making process. But the molasses were different from cooking molasses. Thinner, runnier, with weird bubbles and scum. Smelled good though.
Yo ho ho, and a bottle o'...
@Spex:: It's a beautiful building, but so far "nada".
Can I get 1 point for finding the rear entrance ? ;)
Yeah, I gave up after about 20 minutes. Nothing here either.
I tried too. Nothing.
Well, I saw the picture lamp posted above. That was about it.
how many points do I get for these?
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For the copper wall sculture: 10 points; plus 10 more if you designed or made it !
For the neon sign: minus 5 :rolleyes:
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I love the copper!
I love the neon, but not as much as the copper.
They did a piece on neon on CBS Sunday Morning. Neato.
I believe that the sculpture above the entrace is Euterpe, the greek muse. The building is probably a opera house or a concert hall, maybe a music school.
I believe that the sculpture above the entrace is Euterpe, one of the nine Greek Muses.
FIFY.
Sorry - that's pedantic and really petty, especially as your English is flawless.
You can beat me over the head with your string of onions and beret if you like.
I have no idea where it is BTW.
Just dropped in to be insufferable.
You both forgot an 'n'. ;)
Wats a "n' betwen frends ?
No, dude. They have boomerangs!
Yebbut, they're only dangerous to the thrower. Here, let me show you. Take it in your hand like this, get your arm well back, give it a flick... :bolt:
Bundaberg is a neat little town known primarily to me as the home of the Bundaberg rum distillery, which you can tour. It's also the home to the catamarans that will take you out to one of the southern most islands in the Great Barrier Reef. Fun for snorkeling. The town itself doesn't offer much of anything though. The place is surrounded by sugar cane fields as far as the eye can see. They make rum with it, you see.
Bundy rum is indeed pretty rough. A bouncer I knew in Queensland told me quite a few pubs simply stopped selling it when they noticed most of the pisshead troublemakers were drinking it. When they stopped selling Bundy, the amount of violence fell noticably. Whether the bundy
causes violence, or simply appeals as a drink to those who would cause violence anyway, was not established.
FIFY.
Sorry - that's pedantic and really petty, especially as your English is flawless.
You can beat me over the head with your string of onions and beret if you like.
I have no idea where it is BTW.
Just dropped in to be insufferable.
Why would I beat you with a string of onions and a beret?
1) Sorry to disappoint you but I don't own a beret (too much of a
cliché)
2) I believe I already said that I prefer to use a :whip:.
Actually, I think GM's English is perfect.
Euterpe, the Greek muse.
distinguishes Euterpe the Greek Muse from all the other Euterpes such as Euterpe the fishmonger of Venice and Euterpe the pokemon.
But hey, if you guys just want to :whip: , that's cool too...
It's the East Pyongyang Grand Theater in North Korea
Like the others I was drawing a complete blank so I used a different approach. As the building was not coming up in any of the searches, I reasoned that it was probably in a place that is off the usual tourist trails. I was thinking maybe somewhere in the former communist dictatorships of eastern Europe. I did Google image searches for "national theater" and "concert hall" in combination with communist or dictatorship. Using "concert hall communist" led to this article with a similar looking building but without the dome -
http://leonidpetrov.wordpress.com/2010/10/03/foreign-films-show-in-north-korea/
I then searched for "Pyongyang concert hall" and found it -
http://www.fotopedia.com/wiki/East_Pyongyang_Grand_Theatre#!/items/f92u9unugujk0-RxcW5mnKswM
It was not in the part of the world I thought it may be, but sometimes you get lucky :)
Good job, Tony! That was difficult!
Good image, Spexx. :)
Wow TonyE, I'm impressed.
It's the East Pyongyang Grand Theater in North Korea
Like the others I was drawing a complete blank so I used a different approach. As the building was not coming up in any of the searches, I reasoned that it was probably in a place that is off the usual tourist trails. I was thinking maybe somewhere in the former communist dictatorships of eastern Europe. I did Google image searches for "national theater" and "concert hall" in combination with communist or dictatorship. Using "concert hall communist" led to this article with a similar looking building but without the dome - http://leonidpetrov.wordpress.com/2010/10/03/foreign-films-show-in-north-korea/
I then searched for "Pyongyang concert hall" and found it - http://www.fotopedia.com/wiki/East_Pyongyang_Grand_Theatre#!/items/f92u9unugujk0-RxcW5mnKswM
It was not in the part of the world I thought it may be, but sometimes you get lucky :)
Great get. Sorry, sick as a dog yesterday (not much better today), didn't even touch the computer.
Good job, Tony! That was difficult!
Good image, Spexx. :)
Thanks.:blush:
In a way, this was a really great search for me.
Even though I could not find it, I did lots of Google Image searches
on words like "modern architecture music", etc and saw some really
beautiful buildings... particularly the interior stairways, and stages.
I cry foul... I'm searching and looking, and then where's it at ? went ! :confused:
I was pouting. I'll get it back. Sorry. I'm a moody bitch.
i get tired of clearing the playground
You need to give it some time. That was a really hard one. Look how long spex's opera house took.
so where was it, anyway? I was doing all sorts of Gothic revival mansion searches and coming up empty.
Hey! Moody bitch!
Bring it back (please)
:blush:
Moody impulsive bitch got it back! Thanks guys. Sorry.
If it wasn't a mental institution then it should have been!
I was thinking it was the [strike]Danbury nuthouse in Connecticut. [/strike] Danvers, in Mass., rather.
I have an eye for nuthouses. (but not for their names, apparently)
In France? Is that a clue? You don't normally type in French.
It's a clue, but the place isn't in France. ;)
Sorry you didn't get a quick response, IM. I, personally was going through like ninety-fricking-nine pages of "historic hotel postcard" images. This here's a toughy, so far.
No biggie. Just that the other day there was some lightning fast guessing, answering, and posting and then I got on it and...(chirp chirp chirp)
Pay me no mind, my Aunt makes me paranoid.
Okay, so French, but not France. Quebec, maybe? Asylum Projects only has pages for two of the nuthouses in Quebec and none of those pictures match up. It looks like a Kirkbride plan building though ...
Not Canada, or anywhere in North America.
This may be more difficult than some. Since these pictures were taken during this exploration, the place has been completely demolished. Some people on the site where I found this structure were a bit upset. More views:
Gheel, Belgium? That's where the shrine of Saint Dymphna, my favorite saint is ...
L'hôpital du Valdor située à Liège en Belgique
I found it by using the clues already given and searching in French, I could not find it when searching in English.
Pretty cool looking. Any more info on it? Was it some kind of insane asylum?
Slowly I turn....
Too easy, eh?
Pretty cool looking. Any more info on it? Was it some kind of insane asylum?
There is very little I could find on the operations of the hospital itself. As I never saw that it was a mental hospital, I have to assume it was just a regular hospital.
It's well gone now. But it is cool, huh?
How does one get to be a person who travels around checking out abandoned places? Is there any money in it, or do you have to be independently wealthy to do such things? I would love it!
http://www.forbidden-places.net/urban-exploration-le-valdor-hospital#gal
http://www.abandoned-places.com/valdor.htmThere is very little I could find on the operations of the hospital itself. As I never saw that it was a mental hospital, I have to assume it was just a regular hospital.
It's well gone now. But it is cool, huh?
How does one get to be a person who travels around checking out abandoned places? Is there any money in it, or do you have to be independently wealthy to do such things? I would love it!
Check out these. I posted them a long time ago on TC.
http://www.kirkbridebuildings.com/buildings/
this was another one:
http://www.abandonedasylum.com/I favorited that link to peruse later. Thanks!
I am so darn fascinated with that kind of stuff.
Where is this train?
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It's not in Llandudno, I did not make it that easy :)
I hate you and I want my 45 minutes back
The "bumpers" make it look like a european train.
The closest I have come is via "old swiss train"
I found
this pic of a train at the jugenfraujoch between
Switzerland and Italy.
BUT, it's not the same train
Double L at the start of a name says Wales.
The train can't be in Llandudno, because it's going there.
UT's reaction deters me from actually searching for this.
I hate everybody and I always want my 45 minutes back.
The train is not in Wales, it is on a scheduled service in England. The train company for some reason likes displaying Welsh locations on this train even though it does not go anywhere in Wales.
A clue: The number on the train will help, though it is only half of the number.
Yorkshire...220-034, (Yorkshire Voyager?)
Yorkshire...220-034, (Yorkshire Voyager?)
It's not 220034 and it's not in the Yorkshire area.
Well heck. I was sure, for a second there, that I was a genius! ;)
*grumbles back to the drawing table*
I want my additional 15 minutes back
ARGHHHH...I've lost track of how much time I want back!
Another little clue, it is not the first photograph of this station to appear in the Cellar.
So far I ve been able to determine that it is a Class 121 "Bubble" train. If the number 034 is an identifier, then it is the 121 034 operated by Chiltern Railways, it's their only Class 121.
And that damned station is probably Aylesbury.
So far I ve been able to determine that it is a Class 121 "Bubble" train. If the number 034 is an identifier, then it is the 121 034 operated by Chiltern Railways, it's their only Class 121.
And that damned station is probably Aylesbury.
Well done it is Aylesbury, the station previously featured in the Cellar
hereSo far I ve been able to determine that it is a Class 121 "Bubble" train. If the number 034 is an identifier, then it is the 121 034 operated by Chiltern Railways, it's their only Class 121.
And that damned station is probably Aylesbury.
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Very well done, GM
How did you come by the "Class 121 Bubble" train ? I don't see any clues in the pic.
Is that the sort of the thing that Brit/European travelers would know ?
I came up with a list railway companies in the UK and then tried to find some detail on their fleet. Wikipedia gave me a list of cars for one company and each model had its own entry with pictures. When I found an identical one I shortened the search.
Where is this house?
I'm struggling with this one.
The house appears quite old, possibly 19th century, constructed of brick, stone, wood and possibly with an iron framework. One of the most noticeable features is the decorative carvings of the eaves.
Conducting multiple Google image searches concentrating on the eaves, trying to narrow down the style of architecture, I keep on coming up with Russian buildings using similar decorative features. Examples include
this,
that and
the other. The Russians appear to like decorating their eaves. Am I on the right track?
Oh yes you're on the right track.
All my searches keep leading back to this place. It's similar, but not the same.
I've learnt something today, the traditional Russian wooden house usually found in the countryside is called an izba, but I have still not found this one...
yeah, I though izba would be the key, but it doesn't help much.
Gustomesowo village, 30 km south of Kostroma.
Without any hintage, this is my answer and I'm sticking to it.
Next! Where is this? (Just throwing another one in...we'll keep guessing on the izba)
This one might be a lot easier. ;)
This one might be a lot easier. ;)
The picture shouts out theme park and the state of the paintwork indicates that it is abandoned. A search for abandoned theme parks led to China's Wonderland near Beijing -
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/12/chinas-abandoned-wonderland/100207/Well that was quick! :)
Imma go back to
retronaut.
Back to the Izba.
(crickets)
I got it. It's
Villa Beauséjour in Paris France.
I found it when one of the sites I went to had "isba" as an alternate spelling for "izba" and a Google image search for "isba" turned up a similar picture. then I clicked through a maddening number of web sites in French that all had pictures of this before I found a link that told me where it was.
I want my 45 minutes back.
Where is this?
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No. Not Staten Island. Sorry.
Glatt winner !!
Those isbas are a remant of the four ones that Russia built in Paris for the Universal Exposition in 1867.
http://maps.google.com/?ll=38.469618,-77.269812&spn=0.004389,0.008256&z=18
That was fast. How did you do it?
For the record, it's Mallows Bay in the Potomac River in Maryland.
That was fast. How did you do it?
Google search on "google earth multiple shipwrecks", the first link opened a map at this location.
It's not really my turn, but I'm going to keep it going.
Where is this?
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Narrowing down - Pa, prolly Lancaster county
Springfield Missouri - on the lookout for the rise of the
Amish undead ? :)
I want my 15 minutes back;)
Actually, it was only like 5minutes: "large amish couple statue"
yes! Well done.
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Edit: It's actually visible from the highway between Harrisburg and Allentown, so many of you in Dwellar land may have seen it while driving East on 78.
Let's keep it going.
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Watson Lake in Canada? In the Yukon, where they hush muskies?
Yeah! I thought somebody was going to say Watson Lake, Alaska because there are at least half a dozen sites that have it mislabeled that way, and I figured it would go on a bit longer then.
Here's another that won't take long.
Where is this?
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I thought it was down the path labelled: "Pristine Nature Trails ---> "
Here's another that won't take long.
Where is this?
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Aogashima, Japan
It takes a certain kind of individual to live IN a volcano.
:headshake
Her name is Su. Su Icidal.
Probably an easy one
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London, England
ArcelorMittal tower
London, England
ArcelorMittal tower
Correct.
Come July that tower will probably be better known around the world than many of the popular tourist locations of London.
Aogashima, Japan
That pic is beautiful. I could live in a place like that if I didn't have neighbors.
Where is THIS?
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Oh I have seen that one... not in person.
Yay me!
I don't have one ready.
Someone else can go.
I don't have much time today to search, but unless somebody has built a good replica elsewhere, that is a traditional Tudor manor house. It is most likely somewhere in England.
I had enough time after all. Searching for "timbered Tudor manor house" led to Bramall Hall near Stockport, England
Correct. Where I grew up. Not in the hall, but in the stables with the other serfs :)
Beautiful in the sunlight but kinda dark and creepy in a vampire kind of way.
Sunlight? In England. Hmm, I see a problem ...
Sunlight? In England. Hmm, I see a problem ...
No, you cannot see a thing...
They have fog too. :)
Has everyone had enough?
Or are you ready for more?
Where is THIS?
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The street signs look like Germany. That yellow diamond with the white back ground looks like a priority road. The white sign with the yellow bottom strip looks German too.
I like your thinking. It's not Germany though. There are other places that use similar color schemes on signs.
Yabut, who besides the Germans would need a building size mix master?
The cake capital of the world
I'm pretty sure it is in France but I don't know where.
The cake capital of the world
Seems a lot of places don't want to claim 'cake capital of the world' but 'fruitcake capital of the world' is very popular, per google.
The building looks so much like our power plant building, and a couple manufacturing buildings in town. So I'm guessing it's somewhere in the states.
I live a few blocks from the birthplace of "Pie a la Mode"
Spent an hour on it.
Then I cheated.
Never assume.:smack:
An hour! Oh man, I'm sorry.
OK, let me give out a big hint for anyone left playing.
There's tremendous airflow through that contraption on the side of the building.
Do they make ball bearings or marbles there? It looks a little short for a bearing tower (if that's what they are called) and a little too close to the parking lot, but who knows?
No, but now you have me wondering how ball bearings are made.
OK, let me give out a big hint for anyone left playing.
There's tremendous airflow through that contraption on the side of the building.
That big hint helped, I was getting nowhere before that hint. Searching for "vertical wind tunnel" did not help, it just gave lots of hits concerning indoor skydiving, but searching on "vertical brick wind tunnel" led to the TsAGI Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute in Moscow.
The cake capital of the world
The Bundt Republic?
...There's tremendous airflow through that contraption on the side of the building.
It's a whistle factory.:p:
No, but now you have me wondering how ball bearings are made.
Sorry, I confused ball bearing manufacture with lead shot, cf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_tower
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_bearing
The second link has a very good animated gif that does double duty explaining why the hunter never circles the squirrel.;)
Sorry, I confused ball bearing manufacture with lead shot, cf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_tower
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_bearing
The second link has a very good animated gif that does double duty explaining why the hunter never circles the squirrel.;)
No, it doesn't.
But the hunter does circle the squirrel.
Doesn't he?
no, he does not. He and the squirrel both circle the tree, however.
If the squirrel's circle is smaller and inside the hunter's, then yes he does.
But the squirrel's circle is not inside the hunter's circle in this case. The squirrel is not stationary, he moves with the hunter.
Yet it is, as the squirrel is "fixed" to the tree and the hunter circles the tree.
The squirrel is not fixed to the tree, it is moving around the tree at the same rate as the hunter.
The squirrel is ON the tree. The hunter circles the tree.
Therefore, the hunter circles the squirrel.
Where's Pie when we need her?
mmmmm... squirrel pie, yum yum!
The squirrel is not fixed to the tree, it is moving around the tree at the same rate as the hunter.
no matter - it is ON the tree and the hunter circles the tree.
The hunter completes his circle and the squirrel has been inside it the entire time
The tree is irrelevant
OK, back on topic ... Where is this?
Gray squirrel, multiflora rose, and hemlock? = PA
It's right behind me! Argghhhhhhh
is this the ƒucking metal bars of "where is this"...?
That looks tough.
It's huge. First thought is that it's a church, but if it were a church, it would probably still be in use and would have pews in it. So it must be some sort of government building. It reminds me of Ellis Island, but a quick search shows that it is not.
It looks like a building from the last 150 years. Those are bricks, not stones. (edit: well, maybe they are stone.)
Vaulted ceilings, mosaic floor, looks like brick, above ground, intersection....
Maybe a train station ...
Michigan Central Train Station?
Looks a bit like pink granite ... Moscow?
Where?
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Wherever it is, I like the way this image shows the edges of the arches
melding smoothly into the bridge footings to form bezier curves.
I'm totally reaching.
It looks like a bridge over to a farm, but the trees somehow seem like hot weather trees.
Is it somewhere in Colombia?
Not Columbia, but it is in the Americas.
The Bridge of Flowers in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, is the name given to a former trolley bridge that is now covered in a garden throughout its length.
I started with "four arch concrete bridge", which led me to a postcard with a similar looking bridge in Peru, IN. I then used "concrete bridge Peru, IN", which led to a results page with a postcard of The Bridge of Flowers. Then I wiki'd it.
Not so pretty in this pic.
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On August 28, 2011, rain runoff from Hurricane Irene (at that point a tropical storm) flooded the Deerfield River and engulfed the Bridge of Flowers.
I bow to the master.:notworthy
Clever, grav. I tried but couldn't find it.
It was that 'in the Americas' bit, I bet.
I spent about twenty minutes trying to figure out how many hemispheres I'd narrrowed it down to. Then I gave up. :lol: I was a little buzzed. ;)
Looks like a toxic waste site. :greenface
or a little like salt flats, but there's a lot of vegetation, and the flat area is also pretty small.
Do you think it's floating algae on snow or ice covered water, or with a high salt content?
It looks like salt to me. Snow would be up on the hills too.
Nope! Though that would be a yummy place to live (sorry if I'm egging you on, but it's a good yolk.)
First wild guess: Burning Man festival (Black Rock City) near Gerlach NV ?
No sir, not NV.
I have to go to a webinar so I'll be back in about an hour and a half!
San Pedro de Atacama, Chile?
Lake Natron in northern Tanzania?
Laguna Colorada, Bolivia?
I guess I should give some kind of hint. It's in the Americas.
As for searching by characteristic, how would you describe it?
Sunny side up valley?
I was thinking The Plain of Fried Eggs.
Wow! How did you find it? It looks nothing like the first picture. Well done!
The colours of the spots indicated minerals other than salt, I found it using a search for minerals salt & lake
Where is?
Mars. What's that giant valley they have?
correct
I find it between funny and disturbing that that's the only one of these I have recognised. WTF?
You never forget what home looks like.:)
I wiggle my antenna in your general direction.
I'm not sure how this one will go over, but, as there has been a hint of sorts in another thread, we'll give it a try.
Where is this?
**NOTE**
I tried to confirm what I think I know, but, goddamned Wikipedia is down for this PIPA/SOPA clusterfuck. Will aslo prolly fubar the where is this. Butt, fuck 'em, we'll do it anyhow.
Where is this?
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glatt had he used your pic, I'd have responded
"under the bird" :)
Well done, Glatt!
The round (and most outside exhibits) is still on display at Aberdeen Proving Ground, but, (I think) the building housing the museum has been closed (or repurposed, maybe) and the Museum itself moved...somewhere.
glatt had he used your pic, I'd have responded
"under the bird" :)
...he said
mockingly.
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LL Bean in Freeport, Maine ?
not LL Bean in Freeport, Maine
but you're on the right track
Oh, and I'll give you extra bonus points if you give me a street address.
sorry infi,
not Ed Sullivan's house.
Dodgeville, Wisconsin?
113 N Iowa St
Dodgeville, WI 53533
Not Dodgeville, Wisconsin
Kenetrek Boots
237 Quail Run Rd Unit A
Bozeman, MT 59718
?
not LL Bean in Freeport, Maine
but you're on the right track
Not
Freeport.200 Domain Drive, Stratham, NH 03885
200 Domain Drive, Stratham, NH 03885
nope
Seriously? No.
But you are at least reading news stories now, and are getting warmer.
Still LL Bean, but in 8 Industrial Parkway -
BRUNSWICK, Maine
— A nearly century-old hunting boot is catching on with a younger generation that sees the utilitarian footwear as hip. L.L. Bean’s familiar duck boot with leather uppers and rubber soles — designed for slogging through mud and snow — has become something of a fashion statement owing ...
We have a winner!
It's the factory, not the retail store.
Seriously? No.
But you are at least reading news stories now, and are getting warmer.
Yeah, first I was looking for companies who make duck boots. Then when you said not freeport I thought you meant it was LL Bean but not freeport Maine, or not Maine at all. But the articles kept referring to freeport.
Oh, and I realized too late there was snow in the picture. Florida. :blush:
I still don't get the Ed Sullivan thing.
"Tonight, we're gonna have a really big shoe."
Just an imitation of Ed that I've heard over the years, I guess that was how he pronounced 'show'
"Tonight, we're gonna have a really big shoe."
Just an imitation of Ed that I've heard over the years, I guess that was how he pronounced 'show'
:D
Where is this and how did it get to be that way ?
.
The small village of Juzcar, in Spain’s Malaga region, has recently been painted blue as part of a global promotion for the Sony Pictures film “The Smurfs 3D”.
Right on...
Too easy for Glatt... next time I'll stump him for sure.
Since it's been quiet...
Where is this?
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Bell Island in the Grey Islands of Newfoundland in 1987 with Captain Randy Price (check pilot) and Captain David Barkes at the controls. This Labrador Helicopter was from CFB Greenwood in Nova Scotia. The flight engineer was sgt. Kevin Gray.
Where is this and how did it get to be that way ?
.
This is the "where is it?" thread. The "how did it get to be that way ?" thread is down the hall, on the left. ;)
Dayum!
TonyE with the where, the when, the win, and the friggin who!!
:thumb:
Not to be outdone, the marines get on the horn and send one of theirs out to land on a smaller one.
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And then this boat joined in on the fun.
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Was tha Francesco Schettino's boat?
Right on...
Too easy for Glatt... next time I'll stump him for sure.
Riiiiiiight. Good luck with that.
OK Glatt, your clock starts now... where is this ?
Ooh, I know, it's the Land of the Lost!
The Dinosaur is Google HQ.
Hmm. apparently not. The Dino at the Googleplex is just bones. How's about just down the street from the Flinstones, over by LaBrea?
Bob Jones University
bwaaahahahahhahahaha!!
St. Louis Science Center?
The paint jobs don't quite match, but you picture could be before it was repainted.
No to all so far. :yelsick:
OK, well I give up. Half an hour is all I can spend on it.
The Zoo in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
The all the text associated with that pic on the internet are in Chinese, so search is a bit difficult. :rolleyes:
OK, so where is this?
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Above the clouds!
What do I win?
Shanghai, China
The building under construction in the foreground has a new twist to it.
Not Shanghai. But, like Shanghai, these buildings are mostly new.
Yes, I realized I was wrong after the post.
I was going on two buildings of unusual shapes and found this for Shanghai.
The architecture reminds me of Dubai.
:) Thankfully someone got it.
That is some tall cotton, indeed.
No, really, where is this? I have no idea.
OK ... Jon Rafman is an artist engaged in a long-term project of collecting and curating these images.
He displays them on his blog Nine Eyes of Google Street View and is currently showing a selection in
“Free” at the New Museum in New York City (on view until Jan 23.) The show gathers works that speak
to the incredible abundance of the Internet, while examining the changing relationship between public and private space.
I think there was a PBS special on it, but that's where I keep finding a dead end.
No, really, where is this? I have no idea.
You remember the scene in "Princess Bride" where Fezzik waits to smash Westley with a rock? I think it's somewhere around there.
Maybe Greece? I used tin eye and really only got links to sites that were showing the photos in Rafman's Nine Eye collection. I found a couple sites written in Greek.
Nothing to tell me where it is. I wonder if it really exists?
TonyE must not be able to find it either.
I looked for a few minutes back when you posted it. I bet it's near
this place in NW France. The rocks and ground look very similar. But it's not the same place.
Yeah, it's odd. I've found other stone houses, with locations mentioned usually. But even most of these were found off google street view and then researched for authenticity.
I smell a rat. A stone cold rat. :ratsmilie: :cheese:
will ... not ... look ... again ...
I spent so much time the other day looking for this.
I'm ready to email somebody and ask. grrrr
Damn you IM, you sucked me into it again.
Ask that Rafman dude. He's got a site. I double dog dare you.
Otherwise I'm going to keep smelling that rat!
You're an angel.
Thanks. :)
853 Menez-Ham, Kerlouan, Finistere, France
http://g.co/maps/565ec
:^)
Ask that Rafman dude. He's got a site. I double dog dare you.
Otherwise I'm going to keep smelling that rat!
HA! check your PM.
Just got an email reply from the Photographer whom I contacted earlier today.
Hi Dave,
I see the mystery was solved a few hours ago.
Anyway I just posted the exact location on Google Maps to the thread:
853 Menez-Ham, Kerlouan, Finistere, France
http://g.co/maps/565ec
Best,
Jon
:notworthy
Cool.
Thanks Mr Rafman! :)
Wow! clicking on his link now shows a TON of images taken of that house.
Some absolutely gorgeous pictures!
Now I want to see the interior! :D
Tcha. You'd think Gunmaster would have answered this for us.
It's just down the road from him.
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Tcha. You'd think Gunmaster would have answered this for us.
It's just down the road from him.
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Yes, but I was busy trying to solve a bunch of heavy family problems (still not solved) along with being out of job by mid March.
So I didn't find time to open the cellar door.
Have you been there Gmaster?
Is it that close? What is the inside like?
Do people live there or ? ? ? ? ?
(nice to see you back)
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Yes, I've been there. While not close to home, it's about 90 minutes away. It was built as a guard post around 1750 (at least that's what is said) so it belongs one or another Ministry probably Culture or may beDefense. Hence no one lives there.
It might be open in summer for tourism purpose.
spiral jetty north of the Great Salt Lake in Utah ?
spiral jetty north of the Great Salt Lake in Utah ?
well done!
OK.. My turn now. Shouldn't be too difficult
Calvaire de l'enclos paroissial de Sainte-Marie-du-Ménez-Hom en Bretagne.
Wrong answer... but you're not that far.
1 rue Jean Fournier, 29200 Plougastel Daoulas, France
(Edit:
Here's the place.)
That's my mother birth town. I, too, lived there from age 4 to 21.
Now, Gun.
I spent half a term in a French village within the shadow of the Puy de Dome.
The village proper was on a hill.
I was boarded in the new houses further down, where young boys buzzed about on farty little bikes, without helmets.
You paid two different prices when buying a soft drink depending on whether you would be returning the bottle or not.
The lady in the boulangerie/ patisserie spoke good English and called in half the street to hear it. They were very kind to me.
There was an abandoned vineyard close to the cetre of the village, also a fountain in the main square.
It was 30-40 miles outside of Clemont Ferrand, although I can't be sure as all the signs were in km's. As was the milometer :)
Also the school served a block of truly revolting cheese every day with the set lunch.
I mean I was picky then, so I didn't appreciate the main course - which I might like now. But I thought at least I'd have the bread and cheese. GRIM! It was hard and tastless, apart from a vague flavour of old socks. Who knows - I might regard it as a delicacy now.
Where is it?
Not serious of course.
I just can't remember the name.
Now that we have Google Earth I'd love to look at the place again. I was desperately unhappy at the time, but even then I acknowledged that it was gorgeous. My diary was full of descriptions of the Autumn fields and walls, the village of old stone on its hill and the views.
And how how I fancied G- R- and was terrified he would snog someone else before I got back.
[Aside] He didn't, but we didn't get back together. He dated a teen model next. Seems he liked skinny girls with small tits (mine were finally growing by then)
He came out when he was at Uni.
Where?
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Ball's Pyramid, Australia?
I got it from googling 'big giant rock in the ocean' :)
No, you may not.
OICU did one anyway.
Sorry - should I delete it?
omg...he deleted it.
I was joking. Were you seriously asking for permission, and why?
:lol:
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You think I saved it huh? You'd be wrong. :(
I could magically undelete it, you know ...
I'm so sorry. I was really joking. I didn't think there was any protocol as to posting next. Really, I am so sorry. Can you find the pic again anyway?
Wolf - Let gravs go. Not that big a deal.
I just thought IM had a pic ready and thats why she wanted me to delete it.
So I did. Just me being a triple fucking prick again.
That must make you real popular with the ladies ...
Wolf - Let gravs go. Not that big a deal.
I just thought IM had a pic ready and thats why she wanted me to delete it.
So I did. Just me being a triple fucking prick again.
Tell me again how I got in this?
Gunmaster, that looks like one of those caves in Mexico, but you always post stuff from France. Is this another place in Brittany?
Gunmaster, that looks like one of those caves in Mexico, but you always post stuff from France. Is this another place in Brittany?
That's for you to find.
And no, it's not in Mexico.
Next time, I'll use a wider area.
Just killed an hour.
Uncle.
I got it from ogling a big giant cock in the ocean :)
Aww, come on, don't I get a FTFY? :lol:
Gouffre De Padirac in France.
Google search that worked for me: cavern stairs descend elevator
That's right, gtown. A very beautiful place.
My first "Where is this" so this will either be simple or impossible...
I've tried numerous approaches and have had no luck. Tricky one.
No idea, but I get the feeling that it would be unwise to piss off the locals.
looks eastern European to me
It's wherever they made Children of The Corn. Iowa or whatever.
I think this is a difficulty of 10 since it's not a well known location/object, just something cool I saw once.
Here are two more pics (my own, the first onewas from online) with a few more clues (including a partially scribbled town name) if you want to dig.
This one's gonna be the death of me.
I think Austrian city signs are blue bordered and German city signs are yellow.
Bruce and Spexxvet: Nein!
The OP on the license plate probably stands for Opladen, Germany, and the .....gen on the sign is probably Ratingen, a neighboring town.
That may be true about OP, but I've also seen New York license plates in Boston.
Somewhere between Nuremberg, Germany and the Czech boarder ?
No, though that area is a bit closer to it than Opladen.
Böblingen, Germany, according to
this page
Edit: and here's a picture
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Good job glatt! That was hard. I wonder if I would've found that image using the german word for sickle.
skulptur sichel was the search term that worked for me
well, English wasn't working and sichel by itself wasn't working, but sichel skulptur turned up one image and it said where it was taken.
How many times I tried variations with 'sickle sculpture' in the search term. :)
I went off on a snipe hunt by the sign pointing to "U6 ->"
in this photo :)
U6 and smart were both dead ends. Funny how the path to success always looks obvious when you see it laid out for you. Of course! Sickle sculpture in German. I feel dumb that it took me so long.
This one was a difficult one. But a good one.
where is this?
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It's an ancient fortress built 1500 years ago in Siberia
More precisely : Tere-Khol', Tuva, Russia
First post was from memory only
Por BajinDeep inside Siberia there is a lake, one of thousands others. And in the middle of this lake there is a small island. And on this island people have found an ancient fortress, which is dated more than 1500 years old.
Por-Bajin - stronghold in the Eastern Siberia, built in the VIII century A.D. on an island of lake Tere-Hole. Some consider this stronghold to be a temple and call it 'Russian Shaolin'. Others believe that this construction serves as the northern gates to sacred place Schambala. Por-Bajin is translated form Tuva language as 'clay house'. It's mostly built of clay bricks. The monument has complex structure - inside the regular rectangle of walls there is a whole labyrinth of buildings, which look like as a buddhistic or induistic temple. The walls forms the regular rectangle with side sizes 211x158 metres.
If GunMaster357 and infinite monkey don't mind, I'm going to take another turn. :)
Have fun...
Red bus and driving on left says it's London.
Don't mind a'tall, gtown. :)
I had found a picture when I was looking for the wiener sickles, but later on I couldn't remember where it came from. Searching turned up nothing. Ha!
Funny thing is that it looks like a building model
GunMaster357: Good point. I think that's because it was taken through a window and zoomed in with a (relatively cheap) digital camera.
glatt:
London's Brilliant but is not where this is.
Not Beijing. As a bonus, it's not Peking either. :)
That's 2 cities down!
Birmingham (United Kingdom) has red buses too.
But then so has Christchurch (New Zealand).
And Vienna (Austria).
That's 3 more cities eliminated from contention...
Then it has to be Tokyo.:3eye:
Quite possibly Japan, the general style of the architecture feels right, and while I don't remember any red buses, that red sedan with the white bonnet ("hood") reminds me of some Japanese taxis. And the shot is from a very tall building.
I doubt it is Tokyo, though, not enough people or traffic.
Tokyo it is, can you find the building?
OK, I'll play but only if I can use one of my images.
:D
Well, those look like saguaro in the background,
which really limits it.Could be on west coast of southern Africa (e.g., Angola, Nambia, South Africa)
Africa, huh? Possible. Chris has been there.
I'll go with the west coast of Nambia.
This is the closest I've come using terms of architecture + location...
chris will be back with your answer when he returns from a Nova Scotia/South Australia tour.
Thank you for your patience. :lol:
It's the Alto Vista chapel in Aruba.
If you search for: africa chapel cactus
in google image search, it will pop right up.
Good job, glatt.
Sigh...Aruba. Look at that water. Look at that relaxation. Look at it. Just LOOK at it!
It's the Alto Vista chapel in Aruba.
If you search for: africa chapel cactus
in google image search, it will pop right up.
Nice job glatt!
I went up to the chapel just after sunrise and shot this using my 15mm fisheye lens.
OK here is the one I found/lost and now found again...
Is that Palau?
I searched for archipelago
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I was bequeathed the official key, as classic was going to be offline for a bit.
It is Palau. But you could be a bit more specific. (Like how I refrained from saying more pacific?)
I dunno, it's just a bunch of islands.
Mechercher? Ngeruktabel? Kokor?
Is he close enough, classic?
It's a reefer.
Looks like Velasco Reef North of Palau.
Close enough.
Helen Island, Helen Reef, Palau.
Well. It's been a minute since we done one of these.
So, without further ado:
Where is this?
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I'll check on you kids late tonight, or see ya tomorrow.
Remember, no cheating.
No idea, but .... :eek: whoahhhh!
Way to go Gtown!! It is indeed the Baatara Gorge Waterfall.
To get a better sense of scale, the drop is 837 feet.
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Mad lurking skills, also, Gtown!
Thanks, I lurk with the best of them. After a few tries I found "waterfall hole gorge" in image search as the winner.
In lieu of breakfast, here's an image...
Random guess..... Area 51.
No, of course it's not, move along, nothing to see here.
butseriouslyitsnotarea51
Area 52?
Are those camouflaged radomes?
Looks like a small prison.
Reminds me of the scene of the final battle from a zombie movie. Like Resident Evil, or some such creature.
Liechtenstein's cosmodrome?
Not enough info in the pic for me to go on.
Hintage?
I'm thinking about helping out in that project. I was reading about it the other day.
Now, to figger out that hint.
Given the Wiki project reference, and your location, I'm guessing it's somewhere in Texas.
Does it concern detention, or space?
Nah, Texas would be too obvious. That just leaves 60 states/territories to choose from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_RHPsIf I had a guess - and I'm going to - I'd say somewhere in new mexico? Looks pretty desolate but green. Are those crops or just grass and stuff? Looks like some kind of dam in the distance, so I'm wondering about cultivation.
Not New Mexico (or an adjoining state).
Not spacey, but definitely sciencey.
I've been there. Idaho. Part of the Idaho National Laboratory...those two gizmos in the parking lot are prototype nuclear aircraft engines. There's a decommissioned reactor in the building. Now just an interpretive historical site.
Winner!
Experimental Breeder Reactor I, the world's first electricity-generating nuclear power plant and U.S. National Historic Landmark.
Oh, brother, another "where art thou?" post. But I'm probably not on the right track and I don't want to derail the thread, so I'll hand the cart back to you.
There will be many ob-stack-les in yo path.
You will see a cow on top of a cotton house.
It does put you in mind of that movie, of course. Which is a bonus!
Hint:
What's that you're ridin' there Tommy?
And the answer isn't roll-top desk. ;)
Hand cart for section hands
It is a hand cart. But where/on what?
Are they just outside of Rock Ridge?
"Dang, that was lucky...Durn near lost a four hundred dollar handcart."
I don't know. They could be anywhere...we could track them the whole way.
Well, they are on a track. At a junction switch. In the middle of a flat plain.
Is it where the Eastern lot met the Western lot when they built the trans-continental railroad?
Well, this was a vague 'where is this' round but I found the pictures so compelling I thought it might be interesting. It's the Union Pacific Railroad in 1867. This is primarily Kansas.
The photographic series made by Alexander Gardner in Kansas between mid September and late October 1867 is the earliest and most diverse systematic photo-documentation of the American West. The Kansas series, originally titled “Across the Continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division,” is part of a later series titled “Across the Continent on the Union Pacific Railroad.” The entire series systematically photo-documented the surveyed railroad line which began at the Mississippi River in St. Louis and ended at the Pacific Ocean near San Francisco, California. The Kansas series, consisting of several hundred views between Kansas City and Fort Wallace, in Western Kansas, documented the initial impact of the new railroad settlements on the native prairies. This was particularly true along the Smoky Hill River route where construction was in progress as shown in Gardner’s pictures. This series makes an especially valuable source for a rephotographic series to detail visually the transformation of the Kansas landscape by the early European settlements along the railroad.
- via “Rephotographing Alexander Gardner’s 1867 Across the Continent on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division” by John Charlton
courtesy of one of the best sites EVER...Retronaut!
http://www.retronaut.com/2012/10/hell-on-wheels-across-the-continent-on-the-union-pacific-railway/How can you say that, why that second picture shows they had to cut through a massive hill. :lol:
I watched a TV documentary (a couple of times) from the 'Seven Wonders of the Industrial World' series which is why I gave the answer I did. It's a fascinating glimpse into a whole range of the problems and successes around the railroad's construction. Watch it if you can.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Wonders_of_the_Industrial_WorldThat sounds really interesting. Thanks for the tip!
In fact, here it is!
[YOUTUBE]jQkFRAZzAcU[/YOUTUBE]
The others in the series are worth a look too.
Thanks Rhianne, that's tasty!
Ok Ladys and Gents Here's a weird one ,
OK, it's Big Lake Wildlife Area, but the real question is why? :confused:
How the Hell Dude ?????
And the forrestry folks were seeing how it grew back and how it affected the wild life
Bruce is good but lets see him get this one ,
I want to know why an Arkansas park in operated by Texas?
I know those Google campuses have perks, but alcohol?
But how did you get Big lake ?????
Easy, I saw it before the edges were red. But I still want to know what/why those shapes, that's when Google twisted my poor little pea brain. :nuts:
the forestry folks were experimenting with different shapes for cutting back the Forrest , to see how it grew back and how it affected the wild life
I wonder if it was just the shape of the clearing or there was some ground contour involved. You know, rock outcrops, knolls and stuff.
Not much conture in a swamp
OK, then whether animals get freaked more or less by different sight lines and their perception of open spaces of different shapes. Sounds tough to get funding for, probably some federal money there.
I'm sure this will be easy for this crowd but I thought it was worth it for such a nice variety of aircraft in one place.
In addition to Where Is This, What Is That middle aircraft at the bottom? Something with the wings removed?
I was thinking Palmdale, CA, but, after GooglEarthing a bit, I think, maybe not.
The fuselage might be a B-58 Hustler. W/the wings removed.
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Close but not quite.
Could be the B-58, can't find pics of one taken apart.
Another pic from the same location and another one of those wingless things, this time without the notches taken out.
Two pics zooming in on them a bit.
Still working on the "Where", (Eastern blok somewhere I suspect) but the "What" I'm pretty sure is a SAAB J 35 Draken
With wings removed - the air intakes just screamed Saab at me
Nice find, that definitely looks like it. Strange bird.
It makes sense now for where the picture is, though believe it or not you're a lot closer with Palmdale than Eastern Bloc.
Wow! Great first post.
Welcome to the Cellar!
Thanks for the welcome. It was an interesting challenge.
well done!
Gravdigr you were only 35 miles away with Palmdale though you get extra credit for the plane ID.
Oops, it was Ocean's Edge who came up with the plane, thanks for playing!
This one would be difficult for me, but I'm guessing someone who follows sports closely might pick it up quickly.
Killed two hours, anyway.
The area that has been masked off with white, is that covering a name on a roof, or is that an open stadium with a name visible on the field? I assume you blocked off the name.
I whited out a sponsor name on the roof.
This is North America. Anywhere else and it would have to be a massive fútbol stadium, right? :)
Nope, strangely enough. It does host pro sports though.
Looks like San Antonio - home of the Spurs
Where is this?
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Looks like San Antonio - home of the Spurs
Sorry, looks nothing like White Hart Lane.
Very well done, Ocean's Edge. How did you find it? There are huge boulders, and a campground sign. With a Pegasus picture.
Got lucky ... Pegasus / Campground ... wasn't too hard
Is that the Atlanta Marriott Marquis atrium?
Got it in one.
Atlanta Marriott Marquis Hotel, one of the Southeast USA's true architectural masterpieces. In 1986, acclaimed science fiction writer Ray Bradbury had said of the then-new Marriott, "
This hotel is science fiction!" It's still one of the most unique structures in the Southeast.
It took me a while to realize the camera was aimed down. My brain kept seeing the pattern of a face, and I thought it was some sort of sculpture. But then it was obvious it was a huge atrium, and I did lots of Google searching for terms along those lines. A very impressive building.
It took me a while to realize the camera was aimed down. My brain kept seeing the pattern of a face, and I thought it was some sort of sculpture. But then it was obvious it was a huge atrium, and I did lots of Google searching for terms along those lines. A very impressive building.
I stay there when I attend
Dragon*Con. The first time I saw the atrium it was absolutely mind blowing.
Put together this vertical panorama from images I shot in while I was there in 2006.
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click for bigger image)
Any building done by the same architect (John Portman) is usually spectacular.
The Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites in Los Angeles, is another example of his work and is a regular feature in movies and TV series.
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Lake Geneva.
Lake Geneva.
Well damn.
Yes. That's it.
That atrium is in the Tardis. Next.
I'm outta here for today, but, Ima leave you with this.
Should be easy enough.
Whir dis be at?
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Whiteman Air Force base in MO
Knob Noster? Really? :haha:
Whiteman Air Force base in MO
It
is Whiteman AFB. Probably the only place in the world with a B-2 Spirit on the bottom of a swimming pool.
Interestingly, the B-2s flew nonstop sorties (two mid-air refuelings, each way) to Afghanistan and Iraq, and also Kosovo, from Whiteman in Missouri. Some of those missions were 30+ hours.
where is this guy hanging out?
Looked like the Great Plains, so I poked around and it's Lake Sakakawea in North Dakota.
yep - nice find, I thought someone might just recognize the face but didn't think poking around would find it so fast...
Where is this?
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That's much of the state of Nevada. The lake in the lower corner is Walker Lake.
Where's this?
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Coast of Bangladesh
21.903552,89.971046
Okay, how the fuck? I mean, without just tossing the jpeg into Google image search, right? What are you people doing to get these answers?
I just used Google maps for Bangladesh. Water is blue so I thought tropical, but at least 60 miles across so that ruled out the Caribbean and small Pacific islands. So I started looking for southern deltas north of Australia and eventually found it. Don't think I would have tried without the scale since it could have been very small and harder to find.
Nevada was similar. The image looked arid to me, so I thought it had to be one of the world's deserts. I started with the Western US and immediately recognized the pattern of mountain ranges. The scale also helped a lot there.
I don't know how UT got Paris Disney, but as I was loading it, I knew I would be able to get it quickly myself. It's clearly Europe, it's self contained in a ring, but isn't a city by itself, it has a HUGE parking lot, and it's clearly an amusement park all packed in tight at the North end.
I started with theme/amusement parks, and realized that it had to be Europe since there was planted land right next to it and several roundabouts. I actually started with France and there
aren't many amusement parks to check. When I noticed the first on the list, I thought, that's probably it.
"Where Is This?" game website based on google street view locations:
http://geoguessr.com/
Humbling.
Very cool. I was burned twice by Brazil and ended up with
12893 points. Best hit was downtown Houston, within 1.5km of the target.
Oh EVIL EVIL UT !!!!!!!!
Damn it dude now im never going to get any thing done !!!!
There were several repeats in the game, But it was FUN!!!
Yeah. And addicting. There were 2 images where I used clues and was able to get within 100 meters, but I had to guess for the other 3, and averaged about 200 miles for those.
I never missed by less than 1000 km. I am so shit at this game.
My parents sent me this picture they took today and asked "what is this"
I now ask you "where is this?" and to answer that, you probably need to figure out what it is first.
Only hint I'll give you is that my parents are world travelers who are currently on the last leg of a trip. And I obscured a sign on that white building.
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Tropical, tourist destination, prefab concrete building, seedy-looking art installation...
Cuba?
Not Cuba. The key is the purpose of the building. Ask yourself what it is, and then you'll have something to Google.
I can't decide what to call the thing. A stair maze? Terra Cotta-colored stairs to nowhere?
Hawaii?
The building actually has a function. It does something.
Which building, the white one, the concrete one, or the orange/coral-colored one?
World's worst waterslide?
good job! a search for "observatory ancient" led me to Jantar Mantars in Dehli:
http://www.amusingplanet.com/2012/10/jantar-mantar-ancient-astronomical.html
Edit: good job Gravdigr
Rats. Late to the thread, one of the few that I've known.
I was gonna guess Dubai regardless of any other clues in the picture. Dubai is the place they do decadently weird stuff like that.
This might be easy, I dunno...
Good guess. I was thinking Brady Bunch, but it didn't look right. That roof above the driveway matches Walter White's house perfectly.
Yep, it's the house in Albuquerque where they filmed the series.
Who the F is Walter White?
Character on a very popular tv show that had its final season this year.
Ahh, I just googled it.
We are similarly out of touch, must be the cozy caves. The ladies here started to watch the series even going back to the beginning to try to get me on board. It didn't take. If I want to see drug ruined lives, I'll just teach special ed...
If I want to see drug ruined lives, I'll just teach special ed...
You could also work in the ER, or live in western PA, or have a child with a drug addiction.
I haven't had any desire to watch that series.
Yeah, it just isn't entertaining. I'm glad someone else gets it.
It ain't about the drugs. They're there, yeah, but that ain't what the show's about.
Yes, but isn't about his choices in the face of a terminal illness, about his rejection of any caring or responsibility toward anyone not in his family? He produces meth to finance his treatment so that his family doesn't suffer. What about the people he harms? Am I missing something?
I'm just saying there's a lot more to the show. If someone's decided they're not gonna like it, they're not gonna like it.
Yes, but isn't about his choices in the face of a terminal illness, about his rejection of any caring or responsibility toward anyone not in his family? He produces meth to finance his treatment so that his family doesn't suffer. What about the people he harms? Am I missing something?
There are overarching themes about accomplishment, about doing something that no one else could have achieved, about wanting to leave a legacy that's more than just money. The show doesn't glorify these, rather it shows the downfall that can come from such hubris. It's about how we all make bad choices when confronted with our most dire fears. Walt doesn't start cooking to finance his cancer treatment, he reluctantly does it so his children--a special needs son, and a newborn baby--won't be homeless and destitute when he dies. At first, he doesn't even want treatment; the money he plans for is just enough to care for them after he's gone. He doesn't try to get people hooked on meth, he just figures the meth heads are going to buy it from someone anyway, it might as well be him for a couple months. You start out thinking Walt is a weak but fundamentally caring guy, but slowly over the course of the series, pride transforms him into a total bad guy. Other characters start out being bad guys, and you realize that they're more good guys, in the end.
It's about how none of us are perfect, and we all have the potential in us to be a bad guy, given the right circumstances. It's about how evil isn't born; it's made. It's a cautionary tale.
I can still understand not wanting to watch the base storyline, it's pretty intense. But it's definitely about more than a jerk who gets people hooked on meth.
Yeah: Breaking Bad is about meth, like There Will Be Blood is about oil, Apocalypse Now is about Vietnam, Leaving Las Vegas is about alcohol, The Shining is about a resort hotel, ... you get the idea. It's just the context for a character slowly descending into madness/destruction in a world where he often seems like the sanest of all.
It's one of the most well-written shows ever broadcast.
Imho, 'Breaking Bad' is the second best thing ever shown on television. The best being 'Lonesome Dove'.
:2cents:
I get that its "good." It's the sort of thing I'd watch on the big screen, one time. It isn't the sort of thing I'd allow space to inhabit my mind week after week. The real world can be a dark enough place without help from Hollywood.
It is shows like this, and others is the major reason I watch PBS, and got rid of cable. I can find no entertainment value in a show about a cooker and gratuitous violence. There are other shows that I find objectionable and refuse to watch, like Modern Family glorifying faggotry and portraying men as idiots. Needless to say I don't watch a lot of TV. Turn off the boob tube and read a book.
Yeah, well even PBS is not immune.
I'm not sure what you're watching, but Shelock has a lot of violence, and even Downton Abbey has taken a dark turn in the most recent season with brutal violence as well.
Edit: And I think it's great Modern Family has a gay couple on it as main characters instead of just as wacky neighbors. The men being idiots thing is only part of the show. The women are idiots too. It's a sitcom. They all act like clowns so you laugh at them.
I have friends and family members that are gay, and I don't hate them. My feeling is that when somebody's bedroom antics become a political statement I get tired of hearing it. When my nephews came home from school with pamphlets glorifying the gay life style. I went to school the next day to complain that kindergartners and first graders do not need to even know that there is such a thing as the gay life style. When I voiced my concerns to the Principle I was told that I was just uninformed and needed to become enlightened. I moved the boys to their Grandfather's place in Texas.
Gay people are a fact of life in Laguna Beach Ca. I had no problem with gays and had several gay employees, they were hard working and honest. My biggest problem with the gay agenda is that they seem to have a sense of entitlement.
I choose not to watch shows that glorify the gay life style, and I do not support gay marriage for religious reasons (but that is a topic for another time.)
I know that I am a bigot, and will probably be hated I'm sorry but I will not change my mind.
I moved the boys to their Grandfather's place in Texas.
So they can grow up to beat gay men to death because they're big bad texans, hiding their "faggotry" because their uncle will whack their penis if they show even a little sign of sensitivity or compassion.
I mean it's good you disconnected cable, because basic cable is all about the homos. ESPN, for example. Ever watch college football? 22 college-age, virile, succulent asses on the screen and sometimes they even bend over. On purpose.
I know that I am a bigot, and will probably be hated I'm sorry but I will not change my mind.
If someone knows they're a bigot, and refuses to change, is that better or worse than bigots who mange to convince themselves that they're not bigots?
Ever watch college football? 22 college-age, virile, succulent asses on the screen and sometimes they even bend over. On purpose.
And they slap each other on the ass, too!
It's not just coincidence that women are not allowed in the locker room...
Please take this shit to a more appropriate thread so I can more easily avoid it.
TIA:D
So they can grow up to beat gay men to death because they're big bad texans, hiding their "faggotry" because their uncle will whack their penis if they show even a little sign of sensitivity or compassion.
Their mother who came back into their lives soon after they moved to Texas would have never allowed them to belittle or get violent with anybody, gay, straight, or in between.
Now who is the bigot.
John my youngest nephew is gay and married to his partner.
where is this entitled plane flying?
"My family member/best friend is..." is a poor defense of bigotry in the best of circumstances, but "my nephew is gay married" really has no weight after you shipped your nephews (not sure if this nephew is one of those nephews) across state lines to keep them from seeing any references to gay people, and you explicitly say you don't support gay marriage.
John my youngest nephew is gay [SIZE=1](and I freaked out and uprooted him [or his cousins] when he [or they] were exposed to the existence of gay people)[/SIZE] and married to his partner [SIZE=1](which I oppose)[/SIZE].
Presumably, you knew your nephew was in a same-sex marriage when you posted that you opposed gay marriage. Is it OK for him, but not anyone else? Or were you presenting your
bona fides on opposing gay marriage even though your own nephew is in one?
Also, I don't support Spexxvet's implication that you would train them to be violently homophobic, but your response is that their mother shortly took custody back, and
she wouldn't do that...
Now who is the bigot.
Yeah, you didn't do yourself any favors on that question.
Actually I knew that he is gay for about 10 years, and married for 3 years. He got married in Hawaii I think. BTW he lives in Texas. My brother who lives in the same small town in Texas he grew up in is now called Karen. He/She does not feel entitled to anything, he works, and takes care of his house, and has a good life.
Is it your transgender brother who doesn't feel entitled, or your married gay nephew? What is it that they don't feel entitled to? Marriage? Being non-closeted? Being able to go out in public as Karen? Not having children whisked away if they enter a room?
Cupertino, Calif?
No bites out of that plane...
where is this entitled plane flying?
Chicago?
Correct! Over Hyde Park I believe.
Now who is the bigot.
At least I didn't ship your gay hating ass to San Francisco. ;)
quite a derailment, let's see if we can get back on track...
yeah, that rainbow plane has disappeared from Google maps, probably gone to Texas...
I was on my phone and couldn't do Google Earth that well, so I just guessed Chicago. Which is kind of cheating, because I never actually found the location.
This most recent one is fairly hard. I'm assuming it's in its correct north-is-up orientation?
It looks like coastline with a lake or sea at the top. Slightly arid, but still gets some rain, so I'd guess it's not a tropical rainforest like around Indonesia. Away from the arctic and antarctic circles because there are trees. Not a lot of population. Looks like parts of Cuba or Mexico but I can't find a match.
yes, north is up and you're getting warmer/tropical. Top coastline is not a lake.
quite a derailment, let's see if we can get back on track...
Is that Bigot in Haiti?
Heh, just easing the train back on track slowly, eh?
:D using the tracks I was provided...
I haven't put one of these up in a while, so Ima jump line and do so now.
Where is this?
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Yep. (just read an article about Ft Drum)
:thumb:
Shoot, shoulda had that one.
Been a long time
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Is it cheating if I recognize this from the Cellar?
No. It means you are paying attention.
gtown beat me to it!
Never mind, here's an alternative view.
What is that, a silo? Water tower? Nuclear missile?
Damn, when I first noticed it, I thought of Mt Palomar. :haha:
Thanks gtown.
State/province/region of what country will do
maybe...can't find the same pic on a map...
sorry, it's Manicougan Crater in Quebec
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manicouagan_crater
51.378638,-68.709412
Where is this?
Here are your levels of difficulty.
Easy: What's the city?
Medium: From what address was this picture taken?
Medium-Hard: From what floor is this picture taken?
You may want to consult the larger view, or just enjoy it.
Well, it's Wilmington DE.
I'll dig some more.
Did you see Obama at the Charcoal Pit?
Looks like the 12 floor of
Marriott-Execustay
115 Christina Landing Dr, Wilmington, DE ‎
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Yeah, I'm going with 11th floor.
Correct and well done sir!
I will never cease to be amazed with glatt's ability in this game.
Here's how bad I am at geography: I saw an article yesterday about military movements on an Israel beach, and my first thought was, "Waithangonasecond Israel has a beach?" It's like my brain doesn't even try to remember maps, fuck 'em, it's not like they're real...
In this case he has identified J's old condo-style apartment, where she is no longer going to be living after this weekend. We watched many interesting sunsets, but sunsets are not worth the high rent. Especially when the neighborhood wasn't really completely revitalized, after they built these two tall residences. There were still shootings down the block and at one point J's car got broken into.
Thanks for the props, but geography knowledge had nothing to do with it. I just Googled the neon sign and used Street View to plop myself down in that spot. Then looked in the direction of where the picture had to be taken from to identify the building.
Then I looked at the photo to see the one car you can see, and I put myself in that car's spot with Street View. Notice how the car is lined up with the edge of the roof staircase access, and is also lined up with the gates on the street? I put myself in the spot of that car and looked back along those same sight lines. The high resolution version of the image was very helpful.
You would be a dangerous stalker sir, props.
You would be a formidable counter-sniper sir, props.
FIFY
I was going to ask a HARD level of difficulty question which was: which month is it in this picture?
You can identify the location, so you can identify the direction of the sun at its setting horizon.
A two-fer this time.
What/Where is this? Either or.
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Remember: No "drag'n'drop", or, TinEye-type image searches.
You are correct!
For the too-lazy-to-click-the-link-and-learn-something, it's Krishna's Butter Ball, in Mahabalipuram, India.
I used "giant balanced rock" when I searched it. I had to look at more than two pics, though.;)
:D
And if that doesn't get your rocks off
there's more.
Where is this?
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Table Mountain, South Africa?
quite interesting and so many questions! Why put pavement out to there, except maybe to access that pipeline looking thingee running down the left to nowhere, what is the little building for, why does the pavement need to be so wide at the end and what uses the dirt trail around the left that can't drive on the pavement....???
Where James Kirk wrecked his Dad's '65 Vette?
seems like pretty nice asphalt up there for it to get small so quickly and have whatever that is on the left. Dangerous is one thing but this looks like suicide unless you're in a helicopter...
For what that place was used for, you most certainly did NOT want to be in a helicopter.
Yeah, I cheated.
Hurricane Mesa Airport, UT?
Yes. Except it's not an airport. It's a test "track" (really rails) for testing ejection seats in jets. They go hurling towards the cliff and over the edge.
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Hurricane Mesa, Utah is correct.
This should be fairly easy.
Where is this?
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Panama Ship Canal.
Possibly...
Different canal
It's not the Suez, and it definitely isn't the
Manchester Ship Canal, so unless a flash of inspiration flies across the Carruthers Cranium in the next few seconds, I'll retire from the fray.
Will lurk to see if anyone has any better luck. Meanwhile, off to see if the Badgers have churned up the lawn again.
One for all Dwellars at breakfast time on the Eastern Seaboard.
Get your thinking muscles into gear for the challenges of the day ahead with this one.
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Is that the Jodrell Bank live music venue? It must beam its performances to Arcturus for the Arturians' pleasure.
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If you'll just give me a couple of minutes to find my cheque book, the $64,000 prize will be on its way to you.
Well done, sir!
Jodrell Bank ObservatoryOK, have a go at this one.
A Google search for [stone arch viaduct] brings up pictures of Ribblehead Viaduct in North Yorkshire UK
Pretty.
That's the one. It's OK up there in the summer, but winters can be lethal.
Street View - Ribblehead Viaduct.
Settle - Carlisle Railway.That's the one. It's OK up there in the summer, but winters can be [COLOR="Magenta"]lethal[/COLOR].
This would be worth posting in its own right, but I thought I'd make a 'Where is this?' out of it.
Looks like an English flag.
Reminds me of this scene.
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Which is to say that I think it's Durham Viaduct in the foreground and Durham Cathedral in the background.
And tonight's winner is:
Mr Glatt of Arlington, Virginia!
That's another $64,000 I owe you. Have you heard about our (my) economic situation? :D
I'm not sure how this one will go, but...
Where is this?
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And, no, "the ocean" will not do.
Kudos Gtown!!
It
is the break off
Teahupo'o, Tahiti.
Good job Gtown, I wasn't sure this one would get solved.
:thumb:
I've seen that pic before so thought I could find it again. While I believed it wasn't a major storm event (water too calm, lot of people bunched together and more curiosity than panic) I still searched for "surfing tsunami" and sure enough it was mis-labelled that in a few places. That then led me to a Snopes discussion page with the answer:
http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=109;t=000828;p=0Cool. I like seeing what peoples' thought processes were like in cases like this.
Where oh where is this?
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Not Cambodia, or anywhere else in Asia.
Is this a picture from the future? The seas rise, Dubai becomes tropical and Burj Khalifa is covered in volcanic ash? You maniacs, you blew it up! Damn you all to hell!
You maniacs, you blew it up! Damn you all to hell!
I thought that sounded familiar, just couldn't place where. Found it.:D
As the tree said to the lumberjack, I just don't know. All my searches keep bringing up China or Minecraft...
Not South America or Easter Island.
But it is on an island
Jurassic Park, Dominican Republic
Not Dominican Republic. Real or imaginary.
Here's another, clearer view.
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Looking at the vegetation, I'd say it was tropical.
As we know it's on an island I'll try to narrow it down to the Caribbean.... somewhere.
Not Caribbean. That spiky mountain is all that is left of a volcano that formed this island. The rest of the mountain eroded over time and the lava plug is all that is left.
I'll take the island name or the mountain name.
Well, if we're talking volcanic islands I suppose that any of these would fit the bill:
Hawaii
Azores
Canaries
Ascension (Probably not)
I'm going to admit defeat on this one. I can only suggest that it might be Devils Tower's long lost brother.
(Devils or Devil's? Opinion seems to be divided. Anyway, a side issue of little matter).
Brazil? Fernando de Noronha?
Cão Grande on Sao tome and principe?
Awesome! Yeah, it's a tiny Portuguese island off Western Africa.
This is easily found.
Where is this?
And what is the tall building?
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Is that Taipei? That building (Taipei 101) usually looks more jagged on the sides to me.
That is Taipei's skyline, and that is Tapei 101.
Why am I not surprised you're the one who got this? Good job!
:D
Sorries for the big pic, but, I wanted you to be able to see it well.
Now then...Impress me.
Where is this?
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I'll post the answer tomorrow. Later taters.
Close enough, literally.
I did, afterall, ask where, and, not what is it.
It's the
Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, almost literally across the street from Nekoma, ND. 1.07 miles, to be GooglEarth precise.
I shoulda used it as a What Is This, instead.
Good on ya, Sexo.
How'd you find it, if I may ask?
Not impressive.
Those who regularly post these have learned that the more distinctive the landmarks in the photo, the easier it is to locate.
I Googled
"windmills pyramid buildings" under images and it came up fairly early in the results. I followed the image-webpage link to
here. Then I waited an hour before posting because I didn't want to be mean.
This shouldn't cause any problems...
RAF Fylingdales, Royal Air Force station on Snod Hill in the North York Moors, England?
RAF Fylingdales, Royal Air Force station on Snod Hill in the North York Moors, England?
... and $64,000 is winging its way to you even as I type. :thumb:
I'm retiring from this thread while I'm ahead.
Shit, man, you're on a roll.
I'm retiring from this thread while I'm ahead.
You're really going to need more than $64k to retire man.
I'm converting those virtual bucks to Bitcoins: I'm gonna be rich!
OK, have a go at this one...
Hell's Half Acre Wyoming.
Hell's Half Acre Wyoming.
Dammit. That's another $64,000 I'm out of pocket.
I visited a few years back and it was pretty windy that day. Mind you, it's always windy in Wyoming.
most efficient baseball park I've seen...
No problem, Google took me right to it. It's in Stock Photo. :lol2:
Hey, no cheating! :)
Ok, maybe too difficult, I thought this formation was unique but maybe not - maybe some zoom levels will help a bit
Is that in Austin? Because I know we have some like that here, but it seems unlikely for you to post a "where is this" from the location listed under your name...
oh hell, if they have them in Austin then there's little hope in finding this unless you're from the town, so the answer is Fort Lauderdale:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=26.157518,-80.161146Um yeah, I was just going to say that... really, right on the tip of my keyboard. :lol2:
Is the answer Fort Lauderdale?
Now here's a challenge. Italian Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti posted photographs taken from the space station, describing what and where. This one however nobody seems to remember taking it or where it is. If you can figure it out, this stone fox, Italian Air Force Captain, wants to hear from you. :D
Looking for more shots from her provided the Image of the Day sir...
...and also revealed the answer to this question, which I will not give...
this stone fox, Italian Air Force Captain, wants to hear from you. :D
I did a different image search.
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Found it (by doing a web search and seeing that somebody else found it.)
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Yes, I hadn't read the comments until UT mentioned he'd found it.
But I was right about stone fox part, plus Air Force Captain means she can take orders from a legitimate source, and astronaut means brains too. :blush:
I saw that she speaks 4-5 languages fluently too. Impressive.
Where is this?
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Chartreuse Mountains, France.
Goddamn! What, have you been there or something?
You are correct.
On behalf of DanaC:
Where is this?
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BTW, we don't know where this is. We're asking you.
See that long straight street that goes to a large silhouetted building? That reminds me of the Arc de Triomphe...
See that long straight street that goes to a large silhouetted building? That reminds me of the Arc de Triomphe...
Yeah, I think we can nevermind
that shit.
Supposedly, it's Mississauga, ON.
Perhaps the in the neighborhood of Confederation Parkway, and Curran Place? StreetView and the overhead don't match up here, maybe some construction has taken place between the time of our pic and Google's pics.
StreetView in this vicinity shows a couple buildings with the matching window types. But, I can't seem to find the right viewing angle from them to get those buildings and homes in the lower left of our pic.
I think the homes are on Wallenberg Crescent, between Turnbridge Road, and Parkview Blvd.
Awesome Googlefu, btw, Glatt. How on Earth did you find it?
Dumbass is hanging on the side of the building at the corner of Confederation and Princess Royal.
Awesome Googlefu, btw, Glatt. How on Earth did you find it?
Google image search and a Reddit thread
And a mere 18 minutes. Glatt is the undisputed champion of this game.
10 of those minutes I spent trying to find the exact building, but I gave up in frustration. So I consider myself a failure because I couldn't find the building.
With googlefu strong this one.
Looks like a supersized version of the chainsaw bear in my living room.
Not the same bear. Look at the size of the head and the legs.
Yeh, I was kinda half joking.
How can you joke when a family, probably with children, is grieving over the loss of their beloved bear? :haha:
Still missing?
Classic, you are certainly on the right track.
The bear statue I posted was
also stolen by some kids,
but their Dad found out and made them confess.
...
My pic was of a statue in honor of the man who wrote stories,
and this one was picked up by Disney and made into a well known movie.
Here is a different view of the same statue in the park in Wilsonville, OR.
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Now, my reason for posting is that one day, my wife and I were driving into the park,
and we saw this statue from the back side, as in my original post.
My wife and I turned to one another and said at the same time.
" Did you see that Pissing Bear "
And that's what we have called the statue, the park and the neighborhood ever since.
This should be easy to find because of all the labels I left in there, but where is this?
And for extra bonus points, why on earth did they build the road like this?
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By the way, I just merged the two "Where is this?" threads. It was causing a little confusion (for me) which one was the correct one. The posts still flow almost seamlessly with this merge, and you probably wouldn't have noticed the merge if I hadn't made this post.
Custer State Park SD.
I've been there!
And for extra bonus points, why on earth did they build the road like this?
My first guess it has something to do with the "big rigs" meeting one another on the sharp curves to/from the Mt Rushmore campground.
My second is the steeper terrains of the "old road" became impassible in winter, so a bridge was build for a "new road".
Here is an annotated version of the road.
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Traffic joins together in the same direction at one point on the same road to get through this:
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It's a park, so they put a road through the gap instead of just going around the rock outcropping because it's a cool feature to see. But the gap is too narrow for two-way traffic, and there is a blind curve on either side of the gap, so cars don't see each other until it's too late for an inattentive driver to yield to whichever direction has the right of way. So road engineers made an elaborate loop-dee-loop to get all traffic to go through the gap in the same direction.
They could have gone around the gap and saved a lot of effort and money, but in a park, it's about pleasure and scenery, not practicality.
You're right about inattentive drivers, which are far more dangerous than bear, bison or moose. :haha:
Whir dis be at? (Braghint: I found it in less than 60 seconds, without cheating.)
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It would be easier if your picture wasn't backwards. :p
I kept coming up with Tehachapi Loop, but that's a clockwise looping under itself loop, and yours is a counterclockwise looping under. But closer inspections shows your picture is backwards. It's Tehachapi Loop in California.
And I learned that the main reason for the loop is just to gain some elevation before going through a pass. I guess there was no other convenient locations to build what is essentially a ramp, so they put that loop in.
Not famous... though I've posted about it before.
OH, your folks place in the country.
Yup,
my mom's steps are on Google maps/earth.
Maybe this should also be "What is this ?"
.
Marshall Island nuke test sites?
More specifically, Cactus Dome, Enewetak Atoll, RMI
glatt, why do you use question marks in this thread?
you don't have one of those voices that turn up at the end of statements making everything sound like a question, do you?
**snicker**
Marshall Island nuke test sites?
More specifically, Cactus Dome, Enewetak Atoll, RMI
Yes , with quite a history that was not all made public,
... this specific site is their nuclear waste dump with a cement cap.
The gov't has since declared much of the atoll "completely safe"
for human habitation ... by Pacific Islanders.
Remember, you can't put too much water in a nuclear reactor.
Remember, you can't put too much water in a nuclear reactor.
Like all good rules, there are exceptions.
Fukushima Daiichi, for example.
That would be on and around, rather than in.
Google image search and a Reddit thread
I was reading back through this thread, looking for something, and I saw my admission above that I cheated and used Google Image Search. I was horrified. I didn't remember ever cheating in this thread. I remembered looking for hours for stuff.
But then I read a little bit more...
By the way, I just merged the two "Where is this?" threads. It was causing a little confusion (for me) which one was the correct one. The posts still flow almost seamlessly with this merge, and you probably wouldn't have noticed the merge if I hadn't made this post.
Phew. I had used GIS in the other thread that I merged into this one. So I messed myself up when I merged the two threads.
Waht a maroon.
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Where is this?
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Looks like the aftermath of the terrorist bombing in Norway.
Close.
Not geographically, but, you know...
That pic is probably as recognizable to those across the pond as the pic of the bombed Alfred P. Murrah Building is to us.
Manchester
On second thoughts, cancel that. I think it's London after the IRA bombed Bishopsgate.
Not Manchester...according to the caption I read, which could be very wrong, I suppose.
I expected you would nail it, btw...I didn't think you would have troubles.
ETA: London it is...Street name, perhaps?
Carruthers gets the win. After a moment of thought, I realized I didn't know the street the Murrah building sat on...
The pic caption said Wormwood St., after an IRA bombing.
Probably Bishopsgate. It's commonly known as the Bishopsgate Bomb.
Close enough I suppose, but for complete accuracy, see Gravdigr's post above.
Thank you Mr G.:thumb:
Per Wikipedia:
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Yay, Carruthers!
Close.
Not geographically, but, you know...
Drat, I bombed. :haha:
[announcer voice]
This looks like a job for...
Glatt Man!
Glatt, it's time for you to do your thing...
A Thrift Store Find Yields an Astronomical Mystery
Where is this?
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Go, go, Glatt Man!!!
At the link they are working on the assumption the three pictures were taken at approximately the same place and time. looks to me like a different outfit in the third picture. The first two she has that blue dress with a red apron. The last picture the dress looks longer and red, but that may be from the setting Sun. However I don't see the apron.
Re Bishopsgate bombing - I had friends who lived in Waterloo at the time, which is across the river - about two miles away at a guess. They thought someone tried to kick their door in. F went down with a baseball bat.
I don't even think they're the same woman, Bruce. Could be different models on the same shoot, though.
From the article at the link:
A few things caught our eye upon reading the mystery of the girls in the negatives this past weekend.
Girl
s. Plural. I guess at least two ladies, then.
Good catch, I didn't notice that. :thumb:
If they are not the same women, what makes them think it's the same location/time? Because Abell found them together at the thrift store? Or they were marked in some way to indicate that? And lastly, why the hell don't you know? :lol2:
It's actually more of a When Is This?, I suppose. They seem to think it's Dockweiler Beach, California near LAX. They want to confirm this, and the time of year, by the position of the moon, and the sunset.
I thought this may be the only way to actually tax Glatt's mastery of WhereIsThisness.
Should be quick. And easy.
Where is this?
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Should be quick. And easy.
Sooner or later.
:lol2:
Or not.
It's in Seattle, WA, a couple blocks from the Space Needle, which is visible in the background of pic 2.
Where is this?
Either the name of what you're looking at, or where it is, or both.
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With the right phrase, it's surprising easy...
Obviously it's the planet of the 5 suns. :haha:
With the right phrase, it's surprisingly easy...
Yeah, surprising
ly easy...
If you type "cove" into GIS, it's the 5th picture. Not this exact picture, but it's the same cove.
Lulworth Cove in the UK.
Where is this?
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And I'll give a hint. You are facing EXACTLY West in this photo.
If you type "cove" into GIS, it's the 5th picture. Not this exact picture, but it's the same cove.
Lulworth Cove in the UK.
Winnah, winnah, chicken dinnah!!!
Where is this?
And I'll give a hint. You are facing EXACTLY West in this photo.
The Garden Of Phallic Symmetry?
That's Referee Gardens. The one in the middle is signaling a touchdown.
It's a border in North America.
Int'l Peace Garden, Dunseith, North Dakoda bordering Manitoba, Canada.
(Followed the Peace Poles)
Yeah but it's 6 or 7 miles from the border.
I've provided you with the info you need to determine where this is. It may not be obvious at first glance, and may require an extra step or two, but, the info is there. Ima throw a "most likely" in there, too.
Where is this? Most likely.
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I'll see youse guys on the morrow.
English Channel - off the coast of Brest?
English cleavage off the coast of breast?
It is my informed opinion that Dana is correct.
Dana is, indeed, correct. Most likely.:D
Pyotr Velikiy along with the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov and the tankers Segey Osipov, Kama and Dubna; the tugboat Altay, and the landing support ship Minsk entered the English Channel to sail north. The British destroyer HMS Dragon monitored the Russian task group as it neared the United Kingdom. Once the ships spotted each other they sailed briefly close by as a standard 'meet and greet'.
~
WikiI don't know if this will be hard or super easy.
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And two more pictures.
This image is from May 2015.
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And this is from 3 months later in August of 2015.
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Those are the floating reed islands of Lake Titicaca. They rot fairly quickly, so the inhabitant need to constantly add more reeds to the top layer.
I wasn't real sure about that, as I couldn't find an area of the lake that resembled your pic.
But, yay me!
I (finally) guessed they were temporary floating islands when I noticed they were differently shaped in the three-month span pics.
I spent waaaay too much time looking for something that probably wasn't there anymore.:neutral:
That first picture is still there. It's in a winding channel that goes through the marshland near Puno
Damnifitaint:
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:D
Lake Titicaca?
Heh heh. You said tit.
I might not be able to stay with this one, might have to leave early for Bucket Night.;)
Maybe it won't be too hard.
Where is this?
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Er, one of the Baltic Republics?
Closer to Mr. Carruthers.
From the bar
It's Mont Saint Michel. I wouldn't have got it except I watched the start of Le Tour this year on TV.
Think closer.
Thanks for the hint, Grav!
I'm ashamed to say that I don't know very much about France despite it being our nearest (continental) neighbour.
It's about 120 miles as the Dwellar flies from here to France's closest point, yet I've never been there.
As an illustration of proximity, I could catch an early morning train, transit a few stops across London on the Tube to the Eurostar terminal, and be in Paris in time for an overpriced lunch.
Perhaps one day!
Then again...
It's Mont Saint Michel. I wouldn't have got it except I watched the start of Le Tour this year on TV.
Dingdingding! We have a winner!
Well done, Rhianne.
I got two today. And things to do. So, Ima post 'em both, and let y'all argue about 'em til I get back. Tomorrow, maybe.
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#1: Fort Jefferson in the Florida Keys.
#2: Table Mount Cape town So. Africa.
Damn. I ain't even had time to leave yet!
Correct on both counts.
Go, go Fargon!
Thank You Fans. Without you I would be nothing.
And don't you forget it, we wouldn't even put up with you if we didn't love Keryx.
I don't know...He is a sexy beast...:p:
...if we didn't love Keryx.
Speaking of The Boss Lady...I just stumbled across this.
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WTF? A bathtub full of motor boats in the sand. Yee ha!
I would like you to tell me where it is.
My google fu is strong today. The answer came from a Japanese site.
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://earthjp.net/mercury/1607100002.html&prev=search
That gave me the coordenets: 34.90501200668396, -116.7994065089984 (latitude / longitude) and viloa Barstow Ca.
My google fu is strong today. The answer came from a Japanese site.
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://earthjp.net/mercury/1607100002.html&prev=search
That gave me the coordenets: 34.90501200668396, -116.7994065089984 (latitude / longitude) and viloa Barstow Ca.
What search words did you use?
Uh, you mean you typed words into Google Image Search, right?
'Cause the Drag'n'Drop Image Search is right out, illegal, uncouth and uncalled for.:eyebrow:
Bullshit, Trump says it's OK to cheat.
So this is the only where is this picture?
tarheel
Nope, (there's another ~107 pages of them:D) but it was the most recent.
This one here, this is the next one:
Whir dis be at?
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Keep in mind that Drag-n-Drop-type searches and Tin-Eye searches are frowned upon in this establishment. That requires no skill, nor even effort.
You can use WORDS to do a Google Image Search, or words to search any other way. Of course, you can also use personal knowledge.:cool:
So this is the only where is this picture?
There is also a
Where Is This? For Dummies Edition...
You are correct, sir![/EdMcMahonvoice]
Where?
(No google image searches. Text searches are fine.)
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I know, but I cheated. I'll tell you later.
It's beautiful, wherever it is.
Farmers' Palace in Kazan, Tatarstan?
I searched "Russian building with tree in front" (without quotes) on Google Image search.
Where is this?
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Spirit Lake, north of Mt. St. Helen's?
That's the spirit!
Way to go.
I thought that was it, but, I couldn't come up w/the name of the lake, though. I took a quick look at GoogleEarth to confirm.
For others:
This is Spirit Lake.
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It lies around four miles north of Mt. St. Helen's. When Ol Helen blew her top, she blew down probably millions of trees for a long way around, and those trees wound up in Spirit Lake. The log jam (for lack of a better word) is about 2.5 miles long, and just under a mile across at it's widest.
Other smaller lakes around the area also have log jams (small one in the upper left of the pic), but not on a scale like this. The surrounding hills have an astounding number of fallen trees. It's well worth wandering around the area on GoogleEarth.
I'm a little surprised those logs are all still there after being weathered for 37 years.
The level of the lake rose by about 200 feet after the eruption of Mt St Helens. I've been to the lake and to the mountain and the area around it several times. It's amazing, amazing.
I was wondering how thick the jam was. Reckon it's only a layer of logs deep, or multiple layers?
They're protected by the spirit of Harry Truman.
Where it's at? [SIZE="1"]♪ ♫I got two turntables and a microphone♪ ♫[/SIZE]
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I see palm trees and a US flag.
Off to Google Earth...
Vincent Thomas Bridge. The Vincent Thomas Bridge is a 1,500-foot (460 m)-long suspension bridge, crossing the Los Angeles Harbor in the U.S. state of California, linking San Pedro, Los Angeles, with Terminal Island.
eta "suspension bridge in hawaiian port" was the search term I used in GIS before even opening Google Earth.
...it is the only suspension bridge in the world supported entirely on piles.
Where it's at? [SIZE="1"]♪ ♫I got two turntables and a microphone♪ ♫[/SIZE]
That was a clue. It's a title and verse by
Beck, who is from Los Angeles.;)
San Pedro, prounounced "San" "Pee-dro"
Looked like L.A. to me.
Maybe I should turn on more Google Earth stuff.
Well, I thought I had a cool Where Is This? post...
And I did.
Back in 2014.:yelsick:
I thought it was a cool pic, then,
and now.
![Lake Tekepo, NZ]("http://blog.travelpod.com/travel-photo/valetroy/2/1149069420/boulder-beach.jpg/tpod.html"){kind=link}
![click for bigger image]("http://www.anobviousdistraction.com/cel13/20060904-panorama.jpg"){kind=link}
![You may want to consult the larger view]("http://cellar.org/2014/largepano.jpg"){kind=link}