Forum Game - Where's That Landmark?

[CaptainQuasar]

Okay, this is a game I've played on other forums that I really like. If there's one of these already going on... well, I'm starting a new one! So there!

The general idea is that one person posts an image of a landmark somewhere in the world and other people have to guess what the landmark is either by personally being able to recognize it or by successfully hunting it down over the internet. The person who successfully identifies the previous landmark wins the privilege of putting up a new image as a challenge. The point is to pick things that aren't too easy but aren't too hard either and ideally images with some contextual clue from which the identity of the landmark can be deduced.

So, not strictly a brain teaser but this seems like the best section for it.

The rulez iz:

Remember, you can't post an image unless you're the first to successfully guess the last one.

When guessing it is suggested that you provide a link to an internet page somewhere that can confirm your guess; i.e. provide some evidence that you're correct.

The image you post should be resized to maybe 650 x 490 at the largest. You can do that by uploading it to http://www.TinyPic.com/. When you're uploading, from the "Resize" dropdown choose the size "Message Board (640x480)". After you've pressed the "Upload" button, on the next page there's a section titled "IMG Code for Forums & Message Boards". You want to select the text in that area and cut and paste it into your Physics Forums comment.

Even if the image is already the correct size you probably ought to upload it to Tinypic. This will anonymize it - make sure someone can't just look at the URL and find the original page the image is displayed on explaining what it is - and also save Greg some money in bandwidth costs.

You can provide additional, supplementary images but please just link to them, don't actually post them in your comment.

If people are stuck go ahead and provide incremental clues, start off by naming the continent it's on and which country it's in, for example.

You probably want to stay away from any naughty images, of course. Well, at least any extremely naughty images. http://i35.tinypic.com/2ljqets.gif

[CaptainQuasar]

I'll start us off with one I don't think should be too hard:

http://i38.tinypic.com/ics8wy.jpg

[Ygggdrasil]

It's the Stata center at MIT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stata_Center).

Going with the same theme...
http://i35.tinypic.com/2yn3tec.jpg

Additional pic that may be more helpful to people who have visited: http://i36.tinypic.com/124bz34.jpg

[CaptainQuasar]

Sather Tower (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sather_Tower) at UC Berkeley! Whoo hoo! I wouldn't have gotten it without that 2nd picture with the Joshua Trees.

Taking a different tack; I think this one will be harder:

http://i38.tinypic.com/1760q0.jpg⚛

[ƒ(x)]

Easy, its the Pyramid of Djoser. Everyone who has taken World History I should recognize this picture.

[CaptainQuasar]

Well all righty then! I apologize for offending your refined sensibilities.

I take it you aren't going to put your own candidate forward so I'll do another:

http://i35.tinypic.com/2a7xuv8.jpg⚛

[turbo-1]

Is that the Iron pagoda of Kaifeng?

[CaptainQuasar]

You got it! Give us a tough one.⚛

[turbo-1]

Probably not tough enough...

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/bridge.jpg

[CaptainQuasar]

Hmmm... is it the Penobscot Narrows Bridge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penobscot_Narrows_Bridge) in Maine? I didn't notice what a degree of variation in cable-stayed bridges there was until now...⚛

[turbo-1]

Hmmm... is it the Penobscot Narrows Bridge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penobscot_Narrows_Bridge) in Maine? I didn't notice what a degree of variation in cable-stayed bridges there was until now...⚛That's the one. It's pretty new, so I was hoping that most people hadn't seen pictures of it.

[CaptainQuasar]

That's the one. It's pretty new, so I was hoping that most people hadn't seen pictures of it.

Oh, I hadn't seen it before, although I happen to live next door in New Hampshire. I found it through Google Image Search (http://images.google.com/) based on recognizing that it's a cable-stayed bridge and conjectures based upon there being deciduous trees. That's totally legal and it's how things usually end up being found in this game, especially as the landmarks get more obscure.

Like this one:

http://i36.tinypic.com/11j3ukx.jpg

Close up of the clock face (http://i38.tinypic.com/xf0oqh.jpg)⚛

[CaptainQuasar]

A hint: it's in North America.⚛

[Greg Bernhardt]

try this

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e181/hades_sector/2006_0423%20Milwaukee/Allen-BradleyClockTower.jpg

[turbo-1]

A hint: it's in North America.⚛Been racking my brains over this one. The ornamentation appears to be Moorish, and the surrounding buildings appear to be run-down, calling to mind shots from Havana.

[Borek]

Greg: you have to guess the previous one first.

[Borek]

http://i36.tinypic.com/11j3ukx.jpg



Ottoman Clock Tower in Mexico City

[turbo-1]

That's a real good catch, Borek. I had trouble finding an image of it even after you gave its name.

[CaptainQuasar]

You got it, Borek! You can put your own one forward or cede to Greg's one.⚛

[Borek]

This one (intentionally) very easy. At least for some PFers (and I don't mean just myself and Marzena).

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark00.jpg

[turbo-1]

Monument to Sigismund III, Warsaw

[Borek]

Told you this one will be easy :wink:

Turbo's turn.

[turbo-1]

Told you this one will be easy :wink:

Turbo's turn.Yep, that one was easy, and here is another easy one.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/dome.jpg

[Borek]

Colt's Blue Dome in Hartford, CT

[turbo-1]

Colt's Blue Dome in Hartford, CTYou got it. I thought my NH neighbor might have picked up on that. I had to find a tight crop of the dome - a shot of it on top of that giant Colt armory would have been a dead give-away.

[Borek]

Wel... I have won similar contest last year and I am running this year's edition right now (Warsaw quiz (http://www.werttrew.fora.pl/gry-i-zabawy,23/warsiawski-quiz-2008,2015.html)). So to some extent I am pro :wink: Difference is that the contest I am talking about was about Warsaw and many of the pictures were never earlier published on the web (we are talking about pictures of old Warsaw, not contemporary).

So, where is that?

http://images28.fotosik.pl/293/b4e78f0d40e0b3c8med.jpg

(And - in case you are in doubt - that's not Warsaw :rofl:).

Edit: forgot to mention that, this picture was not taken by me, but by Geo (girl I know from other forum).

[lisab]

Wel... I have won similar contest last year and I am running this year's edition right now (Warsaw quiz (http://www.werttrew.fora.pl/gry-i-zabawy,23/warsiawski-quiz-2008,2015.html)). So to some extent I am pro :wink: Difference is that the contest I am talking about was about Warsaw and many of the pictures were never earlier published on the web (we are talking about pictures of old Warsaw, not contemporary).

So, where is that?

http://images28.fotosik.pl/293/b4e78f0d40e0b3c8med.jpg

(And - in case you are in doubt - that's not Warsaw :rofl:).

Bowling Ball Beach, California (or another place that looks just like it).

[CaptainQuasar]

So is that it Borek? If it's not, I have to say that a bunch of normal-looking rocks on a beach might be too obscure... Though I might just be confused because I'm from New England and there are smooth round glacial boulders all over the place here.⚛

[Borek]

No, thats not California. And the place is known as the touristic attraction and scientific reserve just because of these boulders, so it is not just another bunch of glacial stones (although I agree that they may look like).

Hint: they are as far from Warsaw as possible.

[turbo-1]

There are some very round boulders in Fiji, and some are hollow, like geodes. Is that where this shot came from?

[CaptainQuasar]

Okay then, with that hint, are they the Moeraki Boulders (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moeraki_Boulders) of New Zealand?⚛

[Borek]

Yes, that's Moeraki :smile:

1:30 a.m., time to bed.

[CaptainQuasar]

All right, continuing the coastal theme:

http://i36.tinypic.com/2d9e9sm.jpg

[lisab]

All right, continuing the coastal theme:

http://i36.tinypic.com/2d9e9sm.jpg

Is that the Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland? Basalt columns are so cool :cool: !

[CaptainQuasar]

You got it! Your turn...⚛

[lisab]

You got it! Your turn...⚛

OK.

This one is probably too easy...

http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/9117/msvxw9.jpg

[turbo-1]

Looks like Mars.

[lisab]

Looks like Mars.

The reddish sky gave it away. Your turn, turbo...

[turbo-1]

Back to the coast....

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark.jpg

[CaptainQuasar]

If I was going to blindly guess I would say it's somewhere in Acadia National Park. But is that thing that looks like a flag at the base of the rightmost pillar a clue?⚛

[turbo-1]

No guessing. This is a REAL easy one.

[CaptainQuasar]

Oh, pooh - somewhere on the Bay of Fundy in Maine? I know Maine's state nickname is "Vacationland" but not everyone goes on vacations there, y'know! :biggrin: There's a zillion rock arches in the world, I only found it because that Richard Miller guy whose site the photo came from (http://images.quickblogcast.com/62055-54438/Arch_Low_Tide.JPG) has gotten good Google rankings!

Here's one with more of an industrial bent, then:

http://i36.tinypic.com/5fooeo.jpg

[Math Is Hard]

Oh, pooh - somewhere on the Bay of Fundy in Maine? I know Maine's state nickname is "Vacationland" but not everyone goes on vacations there, y'know! :biggrin: There's a zillion rock arches in the world, I only found it because that Richard Miller guy whose site the photo came from (http://images.quickblogcast.com/62055-54438/Arch_Low_Tide.JPG) has gotten good Google rankings!

Here's one with more of an industrial bent, then:

http://i36.tinypic.com/5fooeo.jpg

Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, TN?

[lisab]

Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, TN?

:surprised!!...:rofl:....

[turbo-1]

Nope! It's not in Maine, but close by. Fundy is good guess, since the tides there are incredible. The bedrock in this place is a soft conglomerate of sandstone and harder pebbles that is easily eroded. This is a very popular vantage-point for photography.

Edit: It's about 2:30 am Eastern. Borek will have this one solved before breakfast.

[turbo-1]

It's 2:45 Eastern. Mr. B will be up soon, and will bat this one out of the park. You betcha! (Alaskan dim-wits unite!!)

[turbo-1]

2:55. Wait for it.....wait......

[Borek]

I am up but I am also off in less then hour, so no time for searching... Do I understand correctly that CQ answer is incorrect? Because picture CQ linked to definitely contains the same object, so perhaps that's just wrong localisation?

Hmmm... Lovers Arch, Hopewell Rocks, New Brunswick, Canada?

[Borek]

Change of plans, I am already back. But I am leaving again. In the meantime...

http://i36.tinypic.com/5fooeo.jpg

San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.

[turbo-1]

I am up but I am also off in less then hour, so no time for searching... Do I understand correctly that CQ answer is incorrect? Because picture CQ linked to definitely contains the same object, so perhaps that's just wrong localisation?

Hmmm... Lovers Arch, Hopewell Rocks, New Brunswick, Canada?That's it. There have been many thousands of pictures taken from that vantage point on the stairway down to the gorge.

[CaptainQuasar]

Oops! Sorry for jumping the gun on that one, I should have waited for confirmation. That's a pretty clean sweep, Borek, even getting the one I put up prematurely! I guess we'll have to wait for you to get back to see the next installment, take your time...⚛

[CaptainQuasar]

Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, TN?

http://www.runemasterstudios.com/graemlins/images/lol.gif Yep, that's why I chose it, because if you correctly guess it's a nuclear power plant you can track it down using searches for "nuclear tits" or "nuclear boobs". Though I don't know if that's how Borek did it...⚛

[Borek]

I guess we'll have to wait for you to get back to see the next installment, take your time...

I am back.

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark01.jpg

if you correctly guess it's a nuclear power plant you can track it down using searches for "nuclear tits" or "nuclear boobs". Though I don't know if that's how Borek did it...

That it is nuclear power plant was obvious, I was lucky to get it googling and following links just for "nuclear plants" search, although I was very close to mistake it for Donald C. Cook.

[turbo-1]

I am back.

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark01.jpg



That it is nuclear power plant was obvious, I was lucky to get it googling and following links just for "nuclear plants" search, although I was very close to mistake it for Donald C. Cook.Is that the main building of Moscow State University in Russia?

[Borek]

Yes :smile:

[CaptainQuasar]

I think that may be correct, just from memory.⚛

[turbo-1]

Here a personal favorite - never visited, though.
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark-1.jpg

[lisab]

Here a personal favorite - never visited, though.
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark-1.jpg

Is that Alhambra?

[turbo-1]

Nope, not Alhambra, but a good guess from the architecture. It IS a named building, though and its name ends in an "a". One of my favorite artists wrote a beautiful song about the house.

[mgb_phys]

Victorian gothic say 1870-1890, so if it's in the USA it will be on the east coast.

[turbo-1]

Victorian gothic say 1870-1890, so if it's in the USA it will be on the east coast.You're very good - it is a famous house built by a famous man in the early part of your date range.

[turbo-1]

Need another hint?

[lisab]

Need another hint?

:blushing: yes, please...

[turbo-1]

The man who built the house was a famous artist, and he sold one of his paintings for the highest price ever paid to a living artist, at the time. He traveled widely.

[turbo-1]

The house and grounds are maintained as a park open to the public.

[lisab]

The house and grounds are maintained as a park open to the public.

Olana!

[turbo-1]

You got it! Frederick Church was the most prominent artist of the Hudson River school of landscape painting, so I didn't want to mention the river that the mansion overlooks.

[lisab]

You got it! Frederick Church was the most prominent artist of the Hudson River school of landscape painting, so I didn't want to mention the river that the mansion overlooks.

I've never heard of Olana. But I browsed around all the pictures of it...looks like a really nice place.

OK, I'm working on the next one...give me a minute....

[lisab]

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/6854/mysterypicvf1.jpg

[Jonathan Scott]

That was trivial to find by searching for "Steam Clock". But I don't have the time to have a go myself, so I'll pretend I don't have the answer.

[turbo-1]

Gastown Steam Clock in Vancouver

[lisab]

Yes...mine are too easy.

[turbo-1]

Here's an easier one. Sorry for the small image size, but you get the idea.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark2.jpg

[turbo-1]

Get your votes in early!

[turbo-1]

Here's a better view of the main building.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark3.jpg

[turbo-1]

C'mon, CQ!!!! This one is for you and you're dropping the ball.

(no pressure)

[Borek]

http://images.forbestraveler.com/media/photos/inspirations/2007/06/Family-Friendly-01-g.jpg

The Balsams Grand Resort Hotel

[turbo-1]

You got it, Borek! It's a wonderful place to spend a romantic weekend with your wife (though the air-fare might be a little daunting for you). I gave a hint for CQ, too! Remember "Get your votes in early."? This resort is located in Dixville Notch, NH, and has traditionally been the very first town to vote in national elections, with polls opening at midnight, and a voting booth for EVERY resident.

[Borek]

I must admit that most of your hints are completely useless to me - you refer to things that I have no idea about :uhh: But that's hardly surprising taking into account cultural distance :smile:

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark02.jpg

[mgb_phys]

Borek! It's a wonderful place to spend a romantic weekend with your wife
Is turbo confessing to some PF intrigue?

[CaptainQuasar]

Oops, sorry turbo, I was afk.⚛

[turbo-1]

Is turbo confessing to some PF intrigue?OK! It's a great place to spend a weekend with one's own wife. I have never taken anybody but my own wife there. The food is incredible, and the insider-instructions are, too. At the Mt. Washington resort, the masseuses gave day-classes to skill attendants (and attendant clients) in massage therapy. Elevated room temperatures and pre-warmed almond oil can get your a lot of the way there.

[CaptainQuasar]

I guess the hotel is trying to arrange a 2nd Bretton Woods conference? The international financial crisis was just a really expensive advertising campaign, evidently.

[EDIT]Oops, never mind, I'm getting all the fancy hotels in Northern NH confused.⚛

[CaptainQuasar]

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark02.jpg

Whoo hoo! The Powder Tower (http://picasaweb.google.com/alexberinde/PRAGA2008STAREMESTOTHEOLDTOWN#5198024906314233266) in Prague?⚛

[CaptainQuasar]

Well Borek's probably asleep or afk. I'll set another one up, I can be drawn and quartered if I was wrong about the Powder Tower, though a Google Image Search for that term seemed to confirm it.

http://i35.tinypic.com/zwey5i.jpg

[mgb_phys]

The bridge in the background does rather give it away - it's the new glc hq in london
edit - apparently it's called city hall.

This one makes even less sense from the ground!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/images/2007/10/22/msn_magic_roundabout_470x350.jpg

[Andre]

Swindon's magic roundabout (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Swindon))


How about this one?

http://gallery.myff.org/gallery/376476/where-is-it.jpg

[Borek]

Whoo hoo! The Powder Tower (http://picasaweb.google.com/alexberinde/PRAGA2008STAREMESTOTHEOLDTOWN#5198024906314233266) in Prague?

Just for the record: this is the correct answer, Prašná brána in Prague.

[Borek]

http://gallery.myff.org/gallery/376476/where-is-it.jpg

Gouda's Town Hall.

[Andre]

Right, knowledge or clever googling?

[Borek]

Googling.

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark03.jpg

Again, this is not my picture.

[Andre]

Hercules rock Pieskowa / Poland? (http://www.simplygroups.co.uk/Locations/Poland/Krakow.aspx)

http://www.simplygroups.co.uk/images/Poland%20Hercules%20Rock.jpg

[Gokul43201]

The bridge in the background does rather give it away - it's the new glc hq in london
edit - apparently it's called city hall.

This one makes even less sense from the ground!

[ IMG ]http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/images/2007/10/22/msn_magic_roundabout_470x350.jpg[/IMG]
Not smart.

The rulez iz:
...
Even if the image is already the correct size you probably ought to upload it to Tinypic. This will anonymize it - make sure someone can't just look at the URL and find the original page the image is displayed on explaining what it is - and also save Greg (http://www.physicsforums.com/blog.php?u=1) some money in bandwidth costs.
...

[Andre]

Not smart.

Actually I did not even check. Just googled craziest roundabout (http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=craziest%20roundabout&lr=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi). But I know there was a thread about roundabouts where it popped up.

[mgb_phys]

Sorry about the linking - I thought the browser would fetch it directly from the site in the link and the BBC could afford the bandwidth. And nobody here would cheat and look at the URL.

[Borek]

Hercules rock Pieskowa / Poland?

Hercules club. And it is located in Pieskowa Skała (skała means rock). But yes, that's obviously the place.

[Andre]

Okay, should not be difficult but a fascinating construction.

http://gallery.myff.org/gallery/376621/whereisit.jpg

[turbo-1]

aqueduct over Gard River, France, near Nimes.

[lisab]

Okay, should not be difficult but a fascinating construction.

http://gallery.myff.org/gallery/376621/whereisit.jpg

Roman aquaduct at....Pont du Gard?

[Andre]

aqueduct over Gard River, France, near Nimes.

Correct Turbo and Lisa, the aquaduct is named "Pont du Gard" but the river is the "Gardon".

[turbo-1]

This should be a quick one.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark4.jpg

[lisab]

This should be a quick one.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark4.jpg

Ski jumps at Lake Placid, NY.

[turbo-1]

Yep! Go, lisa!

[lisab]

I hope this one's tougher than my previous entries.

http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/1905/landmark1ip6.jpg

[lisab]

A little hint -

That's no ordinary rock.

According to Wiki :rolleyes:, it's the biggest of its kind.


Edit: Oh look at that! Smilies don't get hidden...

[turbo-1]

Ah, the "largest" clue pulled it in. Hoba meteorite in Namibia

[lisab]

Ah, the "largest" clue pulled it in. Hoba meteorite in Namibia

That's right!

[turbo-1]

Here is a landmark.
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark5.jpg

[lisab]

Here is a landmark.
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark5.jpg

That would be the sun dial at All Seasons Park in Lloydminster, Alberta, Saskatchewan.

[turbo-1]

That was fast, lisab. Gotta pick tougher ones.

[CaptainQuasar]

Sorry about the linking - I thought the browser would fetch it directly from the site in the link and the BBC could afford the bandwidth.

Yes, that's correct. The bandwidth-savings suggestion for using Tinypic (http://www.tinypic.com/) is only as opposed to uploading it to PF. As long as the image is hosted somewhere else, it doesn't matter.⚛

[lisab]

This one's maybe too easy but it looks like such an awesome place!


http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/2413/landmark2ar7.jpg

[mgb_phys]

Angel falls in Venezuela ?
(Based on googling images0

[lisab]

Angel falls in Venezuela ?
(Based on googling images0


You got it, and I did't detect any irony at all in your post.

[mgb_phys]

You got it, and I did't detect any irony at all in your post.

After the post in the nuclear power thread - I thought I shoudl add a general warning!

[turbo-1]

Punte del Este Uraguay?

[mgb_phys]

Yes - never seen that before

oops, managed to delet the post while I was changing the image to a better one.

[CaptainQuasar]

Arrgh, ya beat me to it turbo. Here's another pic of it I found:

http://i36.tinypic.com/1tndwg.jpg

Give us another one, turbo!LANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

[turbo-1]

Here's an easy one - I'm a bit busy and didn't have time to find a hard one.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark6.jpg

[mgb_phys]

Mt Washington?

I really should get some work done

[turbo-1]

Mt Washington?

I really should get some work doneYep! That's a section of track on the Cog Railway.

[mgb_phys]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/32/39167491_c3c140030d_m.jpg

[Andre]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/32/39167491_c3c140030d_m.jpg

A wrapped Reichstag in Berlin? Germany (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/13/2118451.htm)?

[Borek]

My idea was to write that in no longer exists :smile: but Andre beat me by few minutes.

[mgb_phys]

yes - I thought the odd angle would fool people
On the other hand, how many buildings are wrapped in plastic?

[Andre]

http://gallery.myff.org/gallery/376866/whereisit2.jpg

Don't think it's cold at the poles only

[Andre]

http://gallery.myff.org/gallery/376866/whereisit2.jpg

Don't think it's cold at the poles only

This is a visual hint, (hence, not the question)

http://gallery.myff.org/gallery/376916/visualhint.JPG

[lisab]

http://gallery.myff.org/gallery/376866/whereisit2.jpg

Don't think it's cold at the poles only

Mawson Peak

[Andre]

Yes, but that's only the summit. It's the (visual hint) Big Ben volcano on Heard Island in the Indian ocean, at a lattitude of a mere 53 degrees South, which is equivalent to South Canada, The Netherlands, Germany and Poland on the northern hemisphere, which shows that we are still in an ice age.

[lisab]

This probably isn't what you think it is.


http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/6333/landmark3fv3.jpg

[turbo-1]

I live at almost exactly 45 deg N. Here is what March looked like at my house this year.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/marchhouse.jpg

[turbo-1]

lisab, is that the Snake river canyon?

[ƒ(x)]

Is it San Juan Canyon?

[lisab]

Nope, it's neither of those.

[lisab]

Hint:

It's in a country that has already had a post in this thread.

[lisab]

Hint #2:

This canyon is in an African country. Oh, and Africa isn't a country :tongue2: .

[CaptainQuasar]

Fish River Canyon, Namibia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_River_Canyon)!LANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

[lisab]

Fish River Canyon, Namibia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_River_Canyon)!LANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

Yes! I keep going back to Namibia....

[lisab]

LANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

CQ, your link doesn't work.

[CaptainQuasar]

Hmmm... both the Wikipedia link and the rules link, which just goes to the first page of the thread, work for me. Do those work for anyone besides me?

I thought that last one was great lisab, really tough.

So here's my next offering:

http://i38.tinypic.com/1072n1h.jpgLANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

[CaptainQuasar]

It's in a country somewhere South of China and it's significant that you can see no windows nor doors.LANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

[Andre]

Hmmm... both the Wikipedia link and the rules link, which just goes to the first page of the thread, work for me. Do those work for anyone besides me?

I thought that last one was great lisab, really tough.

So here's my next offering:

LANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

http://www.transitionsabroad.com/listings/living/articles/vietnam_bray_phan_thiet_water_tower.jpg

Gotcha
Bray Phan Thiet water tower

http://www.transitionsabroad.com/listings/living/articles/vietnam_bray_phan_thiet_water_tower.jpg

[Andre]

How about this?

http://i38.tinypic.com/2guz3bl.jpg


Oh and Turbo, about the snow on the Big Ben, it looks like that all year. These are glaciers, covering about 80% of Heard island (http://www.btinternet.com/~sa_sa/heard_island/heard.html)

[Andre]

I'll be alway for a couple of hours but you'll know it when you've found it.

Clef is a key

[mgb_phys]

Fort Bouyard at La Rochelle
There a bunch of similair ones off the coast of England aswell.

http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/articles/a104_s15.jpg
edit changed to one that is harder to google for!

[turbo-1]

Isn't that in Tubingen?

[mgb_phys]

Correct - the biology dept !

[turbo-1]

Probably too easy, but here goes.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/bridge-1.jpg

[Jonathan Scott]

"Longest bridge in the world" finds that easily in Google.

[turbo-1]

"Longest bridge in the world" finds that easily in Google.You're right. I didn't know it was the longest or I would have picked a different one.

You're up.

[Jonathan Scott]

You're right. I didn't know it was the longest or I would have picked a different one.

You're up.

But I deliberately didn't say what it was! Sorry if I spoilt your go, but I don't have the patience to find and copy images right now, so you'd better let someone else have a guess or try a new image.

[turbo-1]

I'll dig up another.

[turbo-1]

here you go
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark1.jpg

[Borek]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_Rock_Light

[Jonathan Scott]

here you go

That was much more of a challenge. However, a somewhat optimistic Google on images using the words "lighthouse" and "rock" found it on the third page (although I now see Borek found it before I did).

[turbo-1]

You got it Borek. Guarding the east entrance of Long Island Sound, and warning of the most dangerous navigational hazard on the East Coast - many shipwrecks there.

[Borek]

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark04.jpg

[turbo-1]

Fire-breathing dragon at Wawel Hill in Krakow.

[Borek]

Yes, that was too easy.

[turbo-1]

Also too easy, but fun.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark0.jpg

[mgb_phys]

Princeton - how many US universities would have heraldry on the stone work

Whole page of candidates here http://www.toroller.com/2008/01/03/amazing-weired-statues-manuments-sculptures-of-the-world/

[turbo-1]

Yeah, and how many non-US universities would have a football-player gargoyle? You're up.

[mgb_phys]

http://www.urban75.org/london/images/leinster02.jpg

as an extra clue here is a closeup
http://www.urban75.org/london/images/leinster03.jpg

[Andre]

London Leinster garden?

http://www.urban75.org/london/leinster.html

[Andre]

Well I think it's obvious.

Try this:

http://i38.tinypic.com/eqzdcx.jpg

[Andre]

Losing interest or is it that hard?

Not in the Netherlands but still related to the Dutch Royal Family

[Borek]

Wasn't easy without spoiler. But with spoiler - Dillenburg Castle.

[Andre]

Wasn't easy without spoiler. But with spoiler - Dillenburg Castle.

Right Borek, actually it is a rememberance tower for the first of the "stadhouders" from the Royal Family, Willem van Oranje (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_Silent).

[fuzzyfelt]

London Leinster garden?

http://www.urban75.org/london/leinster.html

Wow, I've been past there plenty of times and had never realised it was just a facade.

[Borek]

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark05.jpg

[Andre]

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark05.jpg

Gdansk? "Zuraw Gdanski"?

http://www.staypoland.com/images/gdansk.jpg

[Borek]

Yes.

[Andre]

Sorry for the delay, service pack one and social obligations

Should not be difficult, a very weird place

http://i38.tinypic.com/qqweva.jpg

[Borek]

Meteora, Greece. Googling only to check spelling, Polish name is Meteory.

[turbo-1]

I couldn't seem to Google up this one, guys. (Glad I didn't have to be the one putting on the roofing tiles.)

[Andre]

good one Borek

[turbo-1]

I kept searching on "villas" "mansions" "cliffs", etc - no monastery. Who knew?

[Borek]

I kept searching on "villas" "mansions" "cliffs", etc - no monastery. Who knew?

I did :smile:

Let's add a little bit of fun. Generally speaking what you see is my wife, but that's not what you are looking for :wink:

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark06.jpg

[mgb_phys]

That's cheating Borek -it's not in Poland!
Somewhere that walking across the street is difficult perhaps?

[Andre]

I kept searching on "villas" "mansions" "cliffs", etc - no monastery. Who knew?

What if you had googled James Bond "for your eyes only"? (http://www.selectworld.travel/destination-essentials/2007/7/16/the-pelion-peninsula-and-the-meteora-monastries.html)

[lisab]

St Mark's Campanile tower, Venice?


Edit - Oops, forgot the link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mark%27s_Campanile)

[Borek]

That's cheating Borek -it's not in Poland!
Somewhere that walking across the street is difficult perhaps?

I can post something from accross the street, but you will look for it for ages :wink:

St Mark's Campanile tower, Venice?

And that's the correct answer :smile:

[lisab]

Look a little bit familiar...?

http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/163/landmarkru7.jpg

[||spoon||]

Doune castle in Scotland. In Monty Python and the holy Grail.

[lisab]

Doune castle in Scotland. In Monty Python and the holy Grail.

You got it. "Castle Aaargh" in the openning scene, also "Castle Anthrax" in another scene.

[Andre]

You got it. "Castle Aaargh" in the openning scene, also "Castle Anthrax" in another scene.

Should have looked at the hint. Finally I decided to google "familiar castle" and bingo. There must be two million castles at least.

[lisab]

Should have looked at the hint. Finally I decided to google "familiar castle" and bingo. There must be two million castles at least.

I almost included, "Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!" but I thought that would be too obvious :biggrin: .

[||spoon||]

OK, my go right?

I have one, but not sure how you post the image...

[Proton Soup]

OK, my go right?

I have one, but not sure how you post the image...

press button:http://www.physicsforums.com/Nexus/editor/insertimage.png

receive bacon

[CaptainQuasar]

Also, you probably want to save the image to your desktop then upload it to http://www.tinypic.com/ otherwise people can figure out where you got it from.

(and Tinypic will make the forum code you need for pasting into the PF comment box; it shows up under the line "IMG Code for Forums & Message Boards" after you've uploaded the image.)

LANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

[||spoon||]

Ok Thanks

http://i37.tinypic.com/351bko6.jpg

Probably too easy...

[maze]

Mathematical Bridge Cambridge!
http://www.e-architect.co.uk/cambridge/jpgs/mathematical_bridge_cambridge_26.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chanc/1016886822/

http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/3513/landmark2av2.jpg

[CaptainQuasar]

Aughhh darn it, I had to go through every footbridge on Wikipedia to find spoon's.

LANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

[maze]

Aughhh darn it, I had to go through every footbridge on Wikipedia to find spoon's.


Architecture and setting looked like an older/distinguished university in the UK. Google image search for bridge cambridge => first result

[CaptainQuasar]

Yeah, I figured it was in the UK, I just ended up looking for bridges like Godmanchester Chinese Bridge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godmanchester_Chinese_Bridge)

LANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

[||spoon||]

Hut on the summit of Mount Whitney in Tulare, California.

[Borek]

Mt. Whitney

http://www.hikejmt.com/sequoia/sequoiamain.htm

Arghh, 4 minutes too late.

Don't make tea when searching :wink:

[maze]

Yep. Wow I thought that would be a tough one but yall got it fast.

[||spoon||]

Yeh it was a fairly hard one i thought.

Well what about this one?

http://i34.tinypic.com/2ppe9zp.jpg

[Borek]

Australian Capital Territory, Canberra, Parliament Building

http://www.australianbedandbreakfast.com.au/nsw-act-bandb/gallery/canberra.html

Next time remove photographers and service name :smile:

[||spoon||]

haha woops, your turn

[Borek]

Landmark towering over the city.

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark07.jpg

[ƒ(x)]

Yokohama Landmark Tower of course. It was pretty easy with that hint.

Here's the link: http://web-japan.org/atlas/architecture/arc10.html

[CaptainQuasar]

Looks confirmed f(x), yer good ta go.

For maze's one I ended up looking all over Mount Everest for it because I thought some of the things I could see were prayer flags. They probably are, stupid Californians.

LANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

[Borek]

For the record: Yokohama it is.

[ƒ(x)]

This one should be easy for you guys:

http://i35.tinypic.com/21zjav.jpg

[CaptainQuasar]

Dubai!

Specifically it's referred to as The World archipelago.LANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

[ƒ(x)]

Dubai! LANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

Dubai is correct : )

[CaptainQuasar]

One of the United States' most historic monuments:

http://i36.tinypic.com/2nt0z9.jpg

LANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

[cristo]

One of the United States' most historic monuments:

http://i36.tinypic.com/2nt0z9.jpg

LANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

Is that really a "leaning tower of Pizza?" (groan...)

[CaptainQuasar]

Hey, we USians knows our histree and geogerphee real well.

(The people who built it certainly got the joke but I've heard several people say that when they were children they thought this was the famous tower. So I'm inclined to think there's at least some adults who never figured it out. :tongue2:)

LANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

[CaptainQuasar]

I must be going so I'll leave a further clue: students out and about on a day trip from Harvard might have lunch here.LANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

[ƒ(x)]

I don't know what the actual name of the building is. Although, I would guess that it's named the "Leaning Tower is Pizza."

Here's the link: http://www.littlereview.com/north04/salemrs3.jpg

[ƒ(x)]

Here's one:

http://i38.tinypic.com/eheq8y.png

[CaptainQuasar]

It's the sign next to it in that photo, it's called "Prince's Restaurant" FYI.⚛

[turbo-1]

f(x) that is "The Wave" - a sandstone formation in Arizona.

[Ygggdrasil]

f(x), is that Zebra canyon in Escalante, Utah?

[cristo]

I don't know what the actual name of the building is. Although, I would guess that it's named the "Leaning Tower is Pizza."


That's what I said :grumpy:

[turbo-1]

cristo, I've got to take some bank documents to my father, so I'll be gone for a while. Please take my turn posting a landmark. I KNOW that "the wave" is correct. It's perhaps the most photographed sandstone formation anywhere, although access is strictly limited (daily lottery at the park office) to control human-caused erosion and wear.

[cristo]

Thanks, turbo.

I think it's time to slow the game down a little. I bet no-one will guess this (apart from either Kurdt or Hoot! :biggrin:)

http://i37.tinypic.com/x5xvrr.jpg

[mgb_phys]

I was going to powst that for my turn
La Tour de Pool-noir ?

[cristo]

I was going to powst that for my turn
La Tour de Pool-noir ?

C'est vrai

(Those yanks would never have got that!)

Your turn!

[mgb_phys]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3002/3033157124_9f40386856.jpg?v=0

[Jonathan Scott]

Thanks, turbo.

I think it's time to slow the game down a little. I bet no-one will guess this (apart from either Kurdt or Hoot! :biggrin:)


Well, I recognized it at once (and so did my wife a moment ago as she walked past), although I can't remember when I was last up there (I live between Winchester and Southampton).

[Jonathan Scott]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3002/3033157124_9f40386856.jpg?v=0

From the notice at the foot of the picture, it's very easy to find out what it is (about two clicks).

[Andre]

From the notice at the foot of the picture, it's very easy to find out what it is (about two clicks).

right

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonbradbury/3033157124/in/set-72157609153667309/

[mgb_phys]

From the notice at the foot of the picture, it's very easy to find out what it is (about two clicks).

Not really in the spirit of things - I didn't have time to upload any of my pics of it so I though I should keep the photographers copyright attached.

[Borek]

I found it without following to flicker, but it took few minutes more.

So, who is the winner? JS or Andre? :rofl:

[Andre]

I found it without following to flicker, but it took few minutes more.

So, who is the winner? JS or Andre? :rofl:

Should fate have it my way, got a good educational one ready to paste.

[Jonathan Scott]

Should fate have it my way, got a good educational one ready to paste.

Go ahead, please. I have no imagination this week and not enough patience to play with pictures.

[Andre]

:smile: Why, you are too kind, Sir

http://i36.tinypic.com/rtltab.jpg

[fuzzyfelt]

:smile:http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://hrca.honda.com/HRCA_DCTM/Articles/images/popups/04CH13_Wonders_02_ES.jpg&imgrefurl=http://hrca.honda.com/Articles/Article.aspx%3Fxml%3DArticles/Segment/Segment_Article_0220.xml&usg=__hhRpPqg6ushhYKYloH5_8aHCdog=&h=522&w=781&sz=142&hl=en&start=37&um=1&tbnid=TewDXX4dGJEpPM:&tbnh=96&tbnw=143&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dindonesia%2Blandmark%2Btemple%26start %3D20%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/5733/p1010465no4.th.jpg (http://img208.imageshack.us/my.php?image=p1010465no4.jpg)http://img208.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)

[Andre]

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://hrca.honda.com/HRCA_DCTM/Articles/images/popups/04CH13_Wonders_02_ES.jpg&imgrefurl=http://hrca.honda.com/Articles/Article.aspx%3Fxml%3DArticles/Segment/Segment_Article_0220.xml&usg=__hhRpPqg6ushhYKYloH5_8aHCdog=&h=522&w=781&sz=142&hl=en&start=37&um=1&tbnid=TewDXX4dGJEpPM:&tbnh=96&tbnw=143&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dindonesia%2Blandmark%2Btemple%26start %3D20%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

Right! The Borobudur (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borobudur). Have you been there Fuzzyfelt? after all it's somewhere in between Australia and the UK.

[fuzzyfelt]

Hi Andre, yes, beautiful, now I have to try to think of a new entry, though! Have you?

[fuzzyfelt]

Stumbled upon this place by accident, but weren't caught with a flat.

http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/6100/pa280289jb8.th.jpg (http://img511.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pa280289jb8.jpg)http://img511.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)

Is it ok that it is a thumbnail? I had trouble.

[Andre]

Haven't been there Fuzzyfelt, (see my pm)

[turbo-1]

Looks like the Oakley Court Hotel - location for horror film shoots.

Good hint, Fi.

[fuzzyfelt]

Correct, thanks Turbo.

[turbo-1]

Here's one that won't last long, but it is beautiful.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark0001.jpg

[mgb_phys]

whitby abbey - have you been there or just a dracula fan?

[ƒ(x)]

f(x) that is "The Wave" - a sandstone formation in Arizona.

Sorry that I was away for so long. For the record turbo-1 is correct.

[turbo-1]

Righto, mgb_phys! Never been there, but I like old ruins.

[mgb_phys]

Alittle easy - but an amazing structure

http://www.brianmicklethwait.com/images/uploads/FalkirkWheel2.jpg

[Andre]

Alittle easy - but an amazing structure

http://www.brianmicklethwait.com/images/uploads/FalkirkWheel2.jpg

Fall kirk wheel Flakirk Scotland

http://www.edsphotoblog.com/index.php?s=anderton

[CaptainQuasar]

Whoa, that's amazing. It looks like something out of a Pixar movie made IRL. Here's an animation showing its components and operation:

U5DKERgsWhYLANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

[Andre]

Well, back to nature

http://i33.tinypic.com/hvq59x.jpg

[ƒ(x)]

For some reason I really want to say that this is at Lake Baikal.

[Andre]

For some reason I really want to say that this is at Lake Baikal.

Not really.

Hint:

http://i35.tinypic.com/2cyia9g.jpg

[ƒ(x)]

Hmm...I bet Borek would have found it by now.

[ƒ(x)]

That would be the Rock Arch West of Etratat, the hint helped.

[Andre]

That would be the Rock Arch West of Etratat, the hint helped.

Excellent. Know your art (http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/claude-monet-paintings-1879-188610.htm).

[ƒ(x)]

http://i37.tinypic.com/eg4sk6.jpg

[mgb_phys]

The Sanctuary of our Lady of Las Lajas - columbia

[ƒ(x)]

The Sanctuary of our Lady of Las Lajas - columbia

That is correct.

[mgb_phys]

http://www.bdonline.co.uk/Pictures/468xAny/r/w/t/main_image_13_ready.jpg
Hint an unusual view of one of the world's most recognisable monuments.

[ƒ(x)]

The Statue of Liberty?

If that is the correct answer I'm giving my turn to mgb_phys.

[mgb_phys]

nope

[turbo-1]

Riveted iron construction.... base of the Eiffel Tower?

[Andre]

Riveted iron construction.... base of the Eiffel Tower?

Been on the Eifel tower. Doesn't look familiar.

[mgb_phys]

It's a mechanism

[lisab]

It's reminiscent of a tour I had of a large dam when I was a kid (you can guess my dad was a Civil Engineer!)...is it inside the Hoover Dam?

[lisab]

Inside Big Ben?

[turbo-1]

Inside the foundation of London Bridge.

[mgb_phys]

Correct - it's the counter chamber for the rising bidge decks

[turbo-1]

might be too easy.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/rocklandmark.jpg

[Borek]

Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, Table Rock

http://www.outandback.org/new_page_5.htm

[Andre]

That's curious. Google "dolmen" to find identical architecture in West Europe. For instance:

http://www.galiciaguide.com/Dolmen-of-Axeitos.html

[turbo-1]

You got it, Borek. It's not well-known, but inferring that it might be called table rock could bring it up quickly.

[Borek]

Finally... three or four times today I was late by a minute or so.

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark08.jpg

[turbo-1]

Is that the Strait of Gibraltar?

Edit: Must be - look here.

http://www.mccullagh.org/image/d30-31/strait-of-gibraltar-view.html

[Borek]

Wow, you never know which one will be easy, which one will be hard.

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/107656

[turbo-1]

Like Borek says, might be easy, might be hard.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmarktree.jpg

[ƒ(x)]

This isn't just a random tree that you found while walking, is it?

[turbo-1]

Nope. Did you notice that trees along the river are kinda sideways, too? Why would that be?

[lisab]

This isn't just a random tree that you found while walking, is it?

Dang it, f(x), I was about to guess "random tree" :tongue2: !

[ƒ(x)]

Maybe it's just me, but does this look like the same tree?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/68/229911232_1b3e173c59.jpg?v=0

[turbo-1]

Dang it, f(x), I was about to guess "random tree" :tongue2: !"Random sideways tree?"

[ƒ(x)]

Oh, those are trees along the river? I thought that they were bushes.

[mgb_phys]

All trees in Scotland look like that, it's to remind you that when the mist lifts - the rain will be horizontal.

[turbo-1]

Oh, those are trees along the river? I thought that they were bushes.Well, trees that might grow tall and straight in other locales might be stunted if they were subjected to relentless high winds.

[ƒ(x)]

I'll have to go to Scotland next time I'm in England.

[turbo-1]

I pulled up pictures of trees just like this, and pictures of this particular tree whenever I typed in the name of the region that I'd like to feature in the contest.

[turbo-1]

I'll have to go to Scotland next time I'm in England.Ooh, you're bad! My father's ancestors emigrated from Ireland during the potato famine, and any suggestion that our ancestry has anything "English" in it is met with stony disapproval from the elders.

Scots have their own issues - not less important, I'll bet.

[lisab]

"Random sideways tree?"

Well yeah, just about every other tree on the coast from Northern California to Victoria Island looks like that.

But, I have an idea...

*runs off to google*

[ƒ(x)]

Sorry, I didn't mean to offend.

[turbo-1]

Hint: Where are the winds so relentless that the trees HAVE to grow sideways?

[turbo-1]

Sorry, I didn't mean to offend.No offense taken. I have been called all sorts of names, like "Frog" or "Canuck" from my mother's Fench-Canadian heritage, and other names related to the fact that she brought me up as a Roman Catholic. Maine was a hotbed of Klan and know-nothing activity years back.

[ƒ(x)]

Well, I get called a communist and worse almost everyday. So, I'de take being called a "Frog" or "Canuck" over that any time.

I hope lisab finds it.

[turbo-1]

All trees in Scotland look like that, it's to remind you that when the mist lifts - the rain will be horizontal.Oh, it's good Scottish weather, madam. The rain is falling straight down. Well, slightly to the side like.

[turbo-1]

I should go to bed soon, so will add that the shot was taken in the southern hemisphere.

[turbo-1]

I might add that sailboat races in this region have some pretty impressive average speeds, and some pretty impressive fatality rates.

[turbo-1]

OK, nighty-night.

[||spoon||]

ok I'm just gonna have a stab here... Is it near slope point? The southern most point in new Zealand??

[maze]

What is this
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/315/landmarktreeclonele1.jpg

[matthyaouw]

What is this
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/315/landmarktreeclonele1.jpg

Really poor use of photoshop's clone tool. There was something there that the person who took this didn't like.

[Borek]

ok I'm just gonna have a stab here... Is it near slope point? The southern most point in new Zealand??

:rofl: random stab at random tree.

[Andre]

Another wild stab would be at Cape town peninsula South Africa. But I hate guessing.

[||spoon||]

Well good for sailing and pretty windy, they have lots of windswept trees there... But yeh basically new zealand is somewhere in the southern hemisphere... ;)

[Borek]

There is only one important Cape left in the southern hemisphere... But I don't recall any sailboat races there (nor near Cape Town), while there is a very well known race Sydney-Hobart (both fast and dangerous), which will shift the picture to Australia or Tasmania. But I can't find it and I have no time now to try harder.

[turbo-1]

I've taken up too much of the game's time. I ran across this picture as a high-ranked Google Image hit for a certain location, and figured it would be found by now. Should I just pack it in?

[CaptainQuasar]

I will use my super magic powers to break the deadlock: Tierra del Fuego (http://stanstone.skynetblogs.be/post/367190/les-sauvages-de-la-terre-de-feu).

(There are ways to cheat but I won't tell you how, it could fall into the wrong hands. :tongue2:)LANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

[turbo-1]

You got it, CQ. It's a desolate, wild place.

[CaptainQuasar]

Here's another then:
http://i36.tinypic.com/2yzh64z.jpgLANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

[CaptainQuasar]

And a 2nd view of it:

http://i37.tinypic.com/2eqdfux.jpg

I have to go afk so if someone guesses don't wait for me to move on.LANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

[turbo-1]

Montjuïc Telecommunications Tower - Barcelona

[turbo-1]

An easy one, to make up for my "random tree" pic.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmarkx.jpg

[Borek]

New Portland.

[turbo-1]

New Portland.Correct

[Borek]

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark09.jpg

Astonishing luxury.

[mgb_phys]

Just about any opera house east of the Rhine?

[Borek]

Unexpected place :smile:

[mgb_phys]

Manaos in the Amazon - and the poor guy in Fitzcaraldo wasted all that effort dragging a river boat over the mountains.

[mgb_phys]

http://www.worldofstock.com/slides/ASC1453.jpg

[matthyaouw]

Hmmm... Looks very much like the Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, but it's not, is it?

[turbo-1]

Tough one! From this angle, it looks like the feet are elongated (flippers) suggesting that the subject is a pearl diver or a sponge diver. No luck looking for those, though. I've tried narrowing to Cyprus, Greece, etc with no luck.

[Borek]

Statue Of A Woman Diver On A Rock In Water Vancouver - British Columbia Canada

[mgb_phys]

Correct - it's the 'not mermaid' statue!

[Borek]

Manaos in the Amazon - and the poor guy in Fitzcaraldo wasted all that effort dragging a river boat over the mountains.

For the record:

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/196815

[Borek]

Correct - it's the 'not mermaid' statue!

Ah, notamermaid.

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark10.jpg

Vanity.

[mgb_phys]

Some sort of mausoleum, catholic country, possibly in the tropics from the grass and the clouds.
And i'm guessing somewhere with the sort of ruler that liked to dress up in uniforms.

[Borek]

Not bad :wink:

[turbo-1]

I have spent hours on this one, Borek! Who would think that such a dramatic (and HUGE memorial) would be so hard to find?

[mgb_phys]

Perhaps it's closeup view of a miniature monument? Is it the founder of legoland?

[lisab]

How about we narrow down the country?

Good observations, mgb_phys. A tropical Catholic country...I think of the Phillipines.

[maze]

Looks very similar in architecture to St. Peter's basilica, though that is not it.

[maze]

Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Our_Lady_of_Peace_of_Yamoussoukro
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Yakro_basilique002.jpg

[maze]

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/5340/landmark082bd7.jpg

[Borek]

Aral Sea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_sea

[Borek]

Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro

That's right.

I am surprised it took so long, especially after mgb_phys gave so perfect hints.

[maze]

Aral Sea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_sea

Yep. Interesting story behind it too.

[Borek]

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark11.jpg

Disaster.

[maze]

Fira/Santorini old port
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://static.flickr.com/60/169675248_b51d362286.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.bootsintheoven.com/boots_in_the_oven/italian_and_greek_honeymoon_june_2004/&usg=__i-32zfD6pK-VaSJr1x0Ctr4FRmo=&h=375&w=500&sz=168&hl=en&start=19&um=1&tbnid=SDQ3Y7Grqhdl6M:&tbnh=98&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcliff%2Bport%2Bferry%26start%3D18%26n dsp%3D18%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Santorini-20070808-058248-panorama-small.jpg

[Borek]

That's right.

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/2230480

Disaster took place three and half thousands years ago, and most likely helped to put an end to a thriving civilization.

[maze]

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/3505/landmark333fd0.jpg

[Borek]

So far I am drawing a blank.

[lisab]

Hoover Dam. (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.firelily.com/stuff/hoover/image/visitor.center.entrance.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.firelily.com/stuff/hoover/visitor.center.html&usg=__LB7T64vfUSo8Bb0FgVqlV9vTn8w=&h=600&w=450&sz=76&hl=en&start=17&sig2=_lElxJaSzMwg5SKqqUvtXw&um=1&tbnid=IAgRSCdpfdRq_M:&tbnh=135&tbnw=101&ei=ObsiSZ2-OpWWsQOu_6WrCA&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhoover%2Bdam%2Bvisitor%2Bcenter%26um% 3D1%26hl%3Den)

[maze]

Hoover Dam. (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.firelily.com/stuff/hoover/image/visitor.center.entrance.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.firelily.com/stuff/hoover/visitor.center.html&usg=__LB7T64vfUSo8Bb0FgVqlV9vTn8w=&h=600&w=450&sz=76&hl=en&start=17&sig2=_lElxJaSzMwg5SKqqUvtXw&um=1&tbnid=IAgRSCdpfdRq_M:&tbnh=135&tbnw=101&ei=ObsiSZ2-OpWWsQOu_6WrCA&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhoover%2Bdam%2Bvisitor%2Bcenter%26um% 3D1%26hl%3Den)

yes!

[lisab]

Amazing, the things you see goofing around on Google Earth.

http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/9523/landmark4lw7.jpg

[Borek]

Tern Island.

www.wfu.edu/biology/albatross/hawaii/view_air.htm

[lisab]

Tern Island.

www.wfu.edu/biology/albatross/hawaii/view_air.htm

Right! 14 minutes, pretty good :approve:

[Borek]

1 minute, I was afk :smile:

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark12.jpg

It's all about asking correct PFer :wink:

[turbo-1]

Sprint campus, Menorah Medical Center, Overland Park, KS

Evo!!!

[Borek]

Few miles from her place :smile:

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/9198294

[turbo-1]

Here ya go. Won't last 5 minutes, but it's a fun one.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmarkwoo.jpg

[mgb_phys]

Watts Towers?

[turbo-1]

Watts Towers?Sorry, no.

[turbo-1]

How---Deee!

[mgb_phys]

Grant's tomb - I did't realise there were mosaics, not exactly in keeping with generals and granite monuments.

[turbo-1]

It's the surface of a pretty interesting creation. Does that lady have a tag hanging off her hat?

[turbo-1]

There is also a mosaic image of Dolly Parton on that large object.

[turbo-1]

Children climb on the object and play around and under (parts) of it.

[Borek]

Fannie Mae Dees Park - Nashville, Tennessee?

Honestly, I thought mgb already guessed.

OK, here you go:

http://mosaicartsource.wordpress.com/2007/02/01/dragon-mosaic-sculpture-fannie-may-dees-park-nashville-tennessee/

[turbo-1]

You got it, Borek.

[Borek]

Dolly Parton was relatively easy to Google, otherwise it was a tough one.

Especially for someone like me - living on the other continent.

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark13.jpg

[turbo-1]

Dolly Parton was relatively easy to Google, otherwise it was a tough one.

Especially for someone like me - living on the other continent.
My earlier hints were aimed at getting people to identify the lady in the mosaic. Minnie Pearl was a comedienne who performed at the Grand Ole Opry (country-music venue) and that should have been a clue as to the location. Her main props were a conservative-looking dress and a big flowered hat with a $1.98 price tag hanging off the brim. When she came on stage, she always started out with a shouted Ho-o-o-o-w De-e-e-e-e! Not that it would have been a good clue for you, Borek. I doubt that the Grand Ole Opry got a lot of air-play in Europe.

[Borek]

Grand Ole Opry

I have seen the name, but that's about all.

[turbo-1]

Baikonur. Energia launch gantry.

[mgb_phys]

The mosaic does look very like this one:
http://mosaicartsource.wordpress.com/2007/02/01/grants-tomb-mosaics-new-york-city/

[Borek]

Baikonur. Energia launch gantry.

Bingo.

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/6473390

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/baikonur_energia_250.html

[turbo-1]

The mosaic does look very like this one:
http://mosaicartsource.wordpress.com/2007/02/01/grants-tomb-mosaics-new-york-city/Yep. Same artist.

[turbo-1]

At least you know this isn't in Florida.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark-2.jpg

[mgb_phys]

Château Frontenac, Quebec
(had to google it to get the accent right)

[turbo-1]

We have a winner.

[mgb_phys]

This is probably easy to google - but I thought it looked fun
http://bp1.blogger.com/_ujk9GTedwW8/Rjooc1l66ZI/AAAAAAAABBQ/HUbwwheV560/s400/COVRA.jpg

[maze]

Habog nuclear waste facility, netherlands:
http://74.125.45.132/search?q=cache:DYyfL3AXSdIJ:www.world-nuclear-news.org/Award_for_beautiful_waste_facility_120208.html+E%3 Dmc^2+orange+building&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us

Apparently they paint it a lighter shade of orange every 20 years as the radioactivity of the material stored there decreases.

[maze]

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/6738/landmark4rn7.jpg

[Borek]

Ryugyong Hotel, Pyongyang

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyong_Hotel

[maze]

Correct indeed

[Borek]

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark14.jpg

[turbo-1]

Darn! I just found it. "The world's worst building."

[turbo-1]

Twisted building in Prague, according to this link.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://farm1.static.flickr.com/216/488033966_6dee010fa4.jpg%3Fv%3D0&imgrefurl=http://flickr.com/photos/laptopdj/488033966/&usg=__OZ9R3vxTLDiw4Duf6Brs1YMymwc=&h=500&w=375&sz=121&hl=en&start=24&um=1&tbnid=SJLKoClAjc4nrM:&tbnh=130&tbnw=98&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtwisted%2Bbuilding%26start%3D20%26nds p%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN

[Borek]

That's it.

[turbo-1]

OK, one more building.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/building.jpg

[mgb_phys]

T mobile HQ in vienna

The twisted building in Prague was covered in the architecture book 'how buildings learn'
It is impossible to clean the windows. They tried using mountain climbers but it's too dangerous - the architect's response was something like 'it's a work of art - which should I be concerned with mere details like cleaning windows' !

[mgb_phys]

http://k53.pbase.com/g6/69/793369/2/84491040.sTvX5ix6.jpg

Sorry about the large image - only one I could find without the name in the link.

[maze]

Might want to remove the name of the photographer and url... they are in the lower right of the image

[turbo-1]

Might want to remove the name of the photographer and url... they are in the lower right of the imageI have resisted the urge to "cheat" because of that.

[mgb_phys]

Might want to remove the name of the photographer and url... they are in the lower right of the image
It's his work and copyright.

[ƒ(x)]

Don't worry, I tried. :rolleyes: And unless I completely messed up the url, it won't tell you anything. Plus his website doesn't have that picture on it...unless I messed up there as well...

[maze]

Don't worry, I tried. :rolleyes: And unless I completely messed up the url, it won't tell you anything. Plus his website doesn't have that picture on it...unless I messed up there as well...

err, actually...

[ƒ(x)]

err, actually...

Err....I messed up...didn't I? :frown: I'm embarrassed.

[lisab]

Err....I messed up...didn't I? :frown: I'm embarrassed.

I promise I didn't look at the photographer's name or website o:)! I googled "pinnacle island" and went from there....

Is it Moto Nui (http://lh5.ggpht.com/_pxbEtHB17qg/RnMkUVFMM6I/AAAAAAAAALQ/AmD5vP2ZrjU/IMG_3107.JPG), south of Easter Island?

[mgb_phys]

No - but right ocean!

[lisab]

No - but right ocean!

How about Lord Howe Island (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://bp0.blogger.com/_GmUR7aBzG5U/R3nBm6_mlSI/AAAAAAAAAGU/E-BRP7fumbg/s320/Ball%27s%252520Pyramid%252520South%252520Pacific.j pg&imgrefurl=http://wonders-of-our-world.blogspot.com/2008/01/balls-pyramid.html&usg=__iK38ot6S4QRBxXD1c5Ui88i3GBQ=&h=219&w=320&sz=16&hl=en&start=106&sig2=FVLpEOINnRE_hJeX2tlhFA&um=1&tbnid=iB_yjm5tFrkDRM:&tbnh=81&tbnw=118&ei=GeAkSdTQOJ-0sQPHy8SlCA&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpinnacle%2Bisland%2Bpacific%2B-galapagos%26start%3D100%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl% 3Den%26sa%3DN)?

[mgb_phys]

Well done!

[lisab]

Don't know if the problem is on my end (probably is) but I'm having all sorts of tech problems tonight. So I hope this posts.

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/9223/landmark5hq4.jpg

[||spoon||]

Sigiriya, Sri Lanka.

[lisab]

Sigiriya, Sri Lanka.

Yes!

[Borek]

Somehow on the picture rock seemed too small so I didn't check the place, even if I have read about it many times :frown:

[neu]

Can I do one??

Here it is, where is it??


http://www.qsl.net/nera/white-house.jpg

[lisab]

Can I do one??

Here it is, where is it??



Hi neu -

To post a picture, you have to:


identify the current landmark, and
get confirmation that you were correct.


Right now it's //spoon//'s turn, but he/she hasn't posted yet.

Tip: the White House would be far too easy.

[Borek]

Can I do one??

Please read the first post in the thread.

[||spoon||]

Neu can take my turn if they want, I'm on my iPod at the moment, so a bit tricky...

[Borek]

Well, lisab already "guessed".

Answer was obvious even for me :wink:

And not because of the file name :rofl:

[turbo-1]

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, DC is probably one of the most-photographed addresses in the US. Was that rock fortress/monastery easy? Nope. Borek, if you are still awake, would you start us out with another puzzle-image?

[D H]

Borek is offline. The back side of the White House was far too easy. How's this?

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/5435/whereisthiscy3.jpg

[lisab]

Kings Canyon, California?

[D H]

Wrong state.

[lisab]

Hmmm.

Glenwood Canyon, Colorado?

[D H]

Hmm. Split the difference between your two guesses and your there.

[Ygggdrasil]

Scenic byway 12 in Utah?

[Borek]

Virgin River Gorge, I-15, Arizona (close to Utah and Nevada).

http://www.arizonaroads.com/interstate/i15.html

[D H]

Bingo, Borek. For a while this was listed as (a) one of the most scenic interstate drives in the US, and (b) the most expensive (cost per mile) rural interstate drive in the US.

I pass through this gorge after committing the ultimate sin in Las Vegas (in the eyes of Las Vegas, that is). I fly into Vegas, pick up my rental car, and drive out of town without spending a dime. My wife and I love southwestern Utah. Once past the gorge it's another world, full of neat roads with big signs that proclaim "closed to all but vehicles with 4 wheel drive, high-clearance 2 wheel drive vehicles, and rental cars with full LDW".

[Borek]

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark15.jpg

[neu]

Well, lisab already "guessed".

Answer was obvious even for me :wink:

And not because of the file name :rofl:

You cheated.

[Andre]

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark15.jpg

Tatra mountians? Mt Rysy?

[Borek]

Correct mountains, incorrect mountain :smile:

[turbo-1]

Arghhh! I found a picture of that exact mountain (in Google images) linked to polishholidays.com, but the web site is down.

[turbo-1]

Is it named Giewont? That's the name of the jpeg on another Polish vacation site.

[turbo-1]

Success!


http://www.zakopane-life.com/poland/giewont-tatras-zakopane

[lisab]

Is it named Giewont? That's the name of the jpeg on another Polish vacation site.

Aaaaww, I'm two minutes too late!

[turbo-1]

probably too easy

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/bridge-2.jpg

[Borek]

Yes, Giewont. It is probably most easily recognized mountain in Poland, as it is visible from virtually every point of Zakopane - and it is hard to visit Tatra Mountains not visiting the city.

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/8679885

[lisab]

Drawbridge at Portsmouth?

[Borek]

The Hawthorne Bridge

http://www.portlandbridges.com/00,0,16,0,1,0-portland-oregon.html

[turbo-1]

Drawbridge at Portsmouth?You got it. The center span rises to allow access for some pretty big boats. The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is upstream a bit.

[lisab]

Probably too easy, but lunchtime is almost over...no time to browse around the world.

http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/2555/landmark5ps3.jpg

[Borek]

So similar, yet different :frown:

[D H]

San Andreas Fault

http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/images/wsci_03_img0412.jpg

[lisab]

Yes...your turn.

[turbo-1]

So similar, yet different :frown:Yes. The one you suggested has an arched center span, though, and it appears that the control room for the bridge is actually on top of the center span. Must be a pain for the bridge operator when the span gets stuck in the "up" position.

[D H]

Yes...your turn.
I'm stuck at work for a while. I'll be able to get something posted in an hour or so -- or someone else can post one if you can't wait that long.

[D H]

http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/display/3dc80d59-d2d4-4749-afd1-3550a4f50bef.jpg

[mgb_phys]

Offices of the Viagra group at Pfizer?

San Jacinto Monument (apparently taller than Washington monument - I thought W. was the tallest)

[D H]

San Jacinto Monument is correct. Your turn.

[mgb_phys]

http://www.bishopmuseum.org/exhibits/pastExhibits/2001/xtreme/images/IRpictureofKeck.jpg

[Borek]

Looks to me like entrance to some tunnel, like Euro Tunnel.

[mgb_phys]

I hadn't thought of that - but no.
Ps it's a thermal camera image

[Borek]

That it's a thermal camera image was obvious to me, but it has to be a landmark at the same time.

[turbo-1]

Just a guess - Epping to Chatswood Rail Tunnel(s)?

[mgb_phys]

You're thinking inside out

[Andre]

Hawaii Keck observatory Mauna Kea?

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2005-157

[turbo-1]

Good one, Andre!!!!

[Andre]

I guess we'll continue tomorrow. It's rather late here.

[turbo-1]

I guess we'll continue tomorrow. It's rather late here.It's always late somewhere..... :tongue:

[mgb_phys]

We have a winner!

[Andre]

Thanks, the inside out tip did it. I guess you just have to pick up the details.

I have an upload ready but I'll wait a few hours, until America wakes up again.

It's always early somewhere :tongue:

[Borek]

Thanks, the inside out tip did it. I guess you just have to pick up the details.

Funny, it was similar problem to the craters on the Moon pictures - they are flipping :smile:

I have an upload ready but I'll wait a few hours, until America wakes up again.

They already have an advantage - there are more of them and they play when we are sleeping.

[Andre]

Let's go then. Could be easy or not?

http://i35.tinypic.com/bi81g3.jpg

[turbo-1]

At first glance, I thought you had reverted to Hopewell Rocks, NB, judging from the soft red stone and the conifers in the background, but I cannot find any rocks there that resemble this one.

[Andre]

No you'd have to travel farther to see this.

edit: and I checked if "balancing rock" or "stone table"/"rock table" would not show this on the first 20 pages.

[turbo-1]

Heck! Sandstone pillar doesn't bring it up either.

[Andre]

Hence it's obviously not in an english speaking environment.

Been there about a dozen times, it would take a several hours drive for me to get there.

[Andre]

Still trying? Two short plain english search terms, both common for natural landmarks, bring exactly this picture down to pag 1 for me in google images.

[turbo-1]

Still looking, off and on.

[Andre]

Is it so diabolically difficult, this natural miracle, I wonder?

[Borek]

Hinterweidenthal "Teufelstisch" or Devils Table

http://travel.webshots.com/photo/1410947355073538677yrhceu

It was surprisingly hard. I supposed it is in Germany, so I have tried many combinations like tischstein, pilzstein, steinpilz (that was not good idea :smile:) and so on. Devils table was an instant success, but I am not sure I will get there soon on my own.

[turbo-1]

Is it so diabolically difficult, this natural miracle, I wonder?I have looked at countless thousands of "hoodoos" "table rocks" "balanced rocks" "cap rocks" "sandstone pillars" today. Never managed to find that image.

Good going, Borek!

[Andre]

excellent Borek

Isn't it most remarkable that such an outstanding rock formation is so unknown?

[turbo-1]

excellent Borek

Isn't it most remarkable that such an outstanding rock formation is so unknown?Don't Germans have cameras?

[Andre]

Don't Germans have cameras?

Perhaps that most Germans have no time to look around in nature.

[turbo-1]

Perhaps that most Germans have no time to look around in nature.Darn! If that rock formation was in Maine, pictures of it would be plastered everywhere. Hikers and photographers swarm this state, especially in the summer months.

[Borek]

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark16.jpg

[D H]

Shibam, Yemen?

[Borek]

No, but close. Actually, I wonder if I should not accept this answer, as what I meant was type of building, not precise localization, and Shibam is accepted as World Heritage Site - while picture I have found is to some extent random.

Let's wait - if nobody will give more precise answer till you will get on line, feel free to post next question.

These building are interesting, as they are made out of mud bricks - so they are very easily destroyed by rain. But there are usually no rains in this part of the world.

[mgb_phys]

I thought Ait Benhaddou it's the most famous of these sort of cities - but they do all look the same

[neu]

Fisbury park mosque?

[turbo-1]

Wadi Dawan, Yemen?

Edit: Got it finally!!
http://www.traveladventures.org/continents/asia/wadidawan04.shtml

[Borek]

You got it. But that's only because DH have not posted new picture yet :wink:

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/14512600

[turbo-1]

Here's an easy one (I think).

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark-3.jpg

[Borek]

Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur India

http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/3425/golgumbaz5bx.jpg

[turbo-1]

Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur India

http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/3425/golgumbaz5bx.jpgCorrect. A search on "largest domes" or similar picks up links to it.

[Borek]

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark17.jpg

[mgb_phys]

Cleethorpes?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/humber/content/images/2005/08/10/sand_castle_and_pier_470x352.jpg

[matthyaouw]

Wow, one I know! The great mosque of Djenne!

[matthyaouw]

Here it is (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Mosque_of_Djenn%C3%A9)

Ok, here's mine:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/matthyaouw/untitled-2.jpg

edit- never mind!

[mgb_phys]

Sutton Hall near Chesterfield?

[matthyaouw]

Nope!

[matthyaouw]

Eh? really? I'm stumped then.
I know there's a replica in france, but the colour's wrong....

edit- did you delete a post borek? I'm confused

[matthyaouw]

Gonna be away for a while, so if anyone wants a go...

[Borek]

edit- did you delete a post borek? I'm confused

Yes, sorry, my uplink again does strange things and sometimes I don't know which post I am answering :uhh:

[neu]

Free go then? I've got one:

http://www.earthinpictures.com/world/france/paris/eiffel_tower.jpg

Anyone know it?

[Andre]

Free go then? I've got one:

http://www.earthinpictures.com/world/france/paris/eiffel_tower.jpg

Anyone know it?

Dost thou play the jester? :biggrin:

[D H]

Since matthyaouw passed and neu jested with the Eiffel Tower,

http://i38.tinypic.com/29bkol1.jpg

[neu]

Reservior Manicouagan.

That was pish easy.

here:
http://www.urbanlandscape.org.uk/mikes/facades/Gray%27s%20Inn%20Road.JPG

if you look at the filename you are a cheat

[D H]

An image from world of warcraft would not be legal. This is a real landmark.

[Borek]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manicouagan_Reservoir

[D H]

Got it. Your turn.

[neu]

Got it. Your turn.

No I got it. see post.

[cristo]

Reservior Manicouagan.

That was pish easy.

here:
http://www.urbanlandscape.org.uk/mikes/facades/Gray%27s%20Inn%20Road.JPG

if you look at the filename you are a cheat

That's not a landmark, it's just a street somewhere in london. It's about as easy to guess as it would be if I were to give you a picture of my house.

[D H]

Gray's Road Inn, London.

You have violated two of the rules of this thread:
The point is to pick things that aren't too easy but aren't too hard either and ideally images with some contextual clue from which the identity of the landmark can be deduced.
A picture of a lamppost does not provide contextual clues. The intent of the game isn't to stump everyone. I could have, for example, submitted a picture of a closeup of a person standing in front of the Taj Majal with but a tiny, tiny portion of the Taj Majal showing. Doing so wouldn't have made me look smarter than everyone. It would just have made me look like a donkey.

Even if the image is already the correct size you probably ought to upload it to Tinypic. This will anonymize it - make sure someone can't just look at the URL and find the original page the image is displayed on explaining what it is.

[Borek]

No I got it. see post.

You have edited your post. You did it before I posted, so you were first, but what I have seen when posting was your old post. Can't you play like everyone else?

I will pass this one.

[turbo-1]

For the record, I looked up the realtor's name. It seems that they have let a flat and a ground-floor room at 61 Gray's Inn Road in the past year or so. If, so this must be the back door to the building. Who would rent a dump with boarded-up windows?

[D H]

Moving on,

http://i38.tinypic.com/2qi7eop.jpg

[Borek]

Seattle, Farmers Market at Pike Place (or something like that) and pig name is Rachel.

Different riders, but obviously the same hack.

http://picasaweb.google.com/sugarbowl/AroundTheWorld#5203054748245234658

[D H]

Good enough. That's my boys standing next to / sitting on Rachel the Pig at Pike Place Market in Seattle. Your turn, Borek.

Edit
Hey! Now you're the one editing your posts. You did not specify Pike Place Market (or Rachel the Pig) in your first response.

I think we need a new rule: No editing of guesses except for simple typos. If you want to do something like change Seattle Farmer's Market to Rachel the Pig at Pike Place Market, make a new post.

[neu]

Gray's Road Inn, London.

You cheated and you still got it wrong tut tut tut. It's was Gray's Inn Road.

Turbo got it right. And he didn't cheat.

[turbo-1]

You cheated and you still got it wrong tut tut tut. It's was Gray's Inn Road.

Turbo got it right. And he didn't cheat.Oh, yes, I did. I looked at the file name because honestly who is going to correctly guess the back side of a boarded up building. When I googled the realtor's name, there was a list of recent rentals and 61 was on the list twice. I googled 61 and got an OK-looking front, so this picture of yours is evidently of the rear of said building.

[Borek]

I have put fast answer that was close enough, to make sure I am the first :wink: then - once I have located details - I have added link to picture and name of the pig. I must admit that's not the first time I am doing it, but I have never modified initial guesses - I am only adding more information.

But we can make no editing a rule, no problem. I just hate it when the information is scattered thorugh several posts instead of being combined in one place.

Edit: or perhaps we can make a rule that any editing must be marked as such.

[Borek]

These are not boarded, but nonetheless empty.

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark18.jpg

[mgb_phys]

Taiwan (simethign like san suu - remember it from an architecture program)

edit - found it it's San Zhi in Taipei, Taiwan

edit^2 - get lured by wiki! Apparently it isn't abandoned because of the usual 70s architectural reasons, like it being ugly, not designed for real people, leaking roofs, poor quality etc. A bunch of people died during construction accidents and customers decided it was haunted!

[turbo-1]

San Zhi outside of Taipei, Taiwan
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.notcot.com/images/0315sanzhi1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.notcot.com/tag/architecture&usg=__W4dkc2Cfxd8w0dMD8cBgZHxyYD4=&h=400&w=600&sz=55&hl=en&start=204&um=1&tbnid=3CbwZ2AxzEOBMM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dabandoned%2Bmodular%2Bapartments%26st art%3D200%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3D off%26sa%3DN

It would seem that the exact name is not as important as the location, so mgb_phys should post the next landmark.

[mgb_phys]

This might be too easy
http://i.pbase.com/o4/65/682165/1/63289269.lL8JPGQE.EPV0061.JPG
http://i.pbase.com/o4/65/682165/1/63289269.lL8JPGQE.EPV0061.JPG

Something is going weird, i fixed the link and can see it, then on reload it doesn't show.

[turbo-1]

Your image link is broken.

[Borek]

This might be too easy

Your image link is broken.

To make it more difficult :rofl:

[CaptainQuasar]

Something is going weird, i fixed the link and can see it, then on reload it doesn't show.

If you linked directly to the original web site you found it on, that web site may have measures in place to protect from "hot linking" like this. If it disappears again the problem might be solved by uploading it to http://www.Tinypic.com/.

LANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

[turbo-1]

When I find interesting pictures, I download them to my desktop, crop or resize if necessary, then upload to Photobucket. Hot-linking is usually not welcome by people running web sites with bandwidth limits.

[turbo-1]

To make it more difficult :rofl:Even more difficult than the back-side of a derelict brick building?

[turbo-1]

This might be too easy
http://i.pbase.com/o4/65/682165/1/63289269.lL8JPGQE.EPV0061.JPG
http://i.pbase.com/o4/65/682165/1/63289269.lL8JPGQE.EPV0061.JPG

Something is going weird, i fixed the link and can see it, then on reload it doesn't show.It's a site that forbids hot-linking. You can see it when you put up the picture because it's still in your cache after you viewed it, but we won't be able to see it unless you post in on a site that allows hot links.

[mgb_phys]

It's a link to pbase they and flikr are normally capable of handling the PF slashdot effect.
The URL was a little odd - it looks like I might have had the link to a particlular load balanced server.
I have included an http link for the image as well.

Edit - thanks turbo.

[turbo-1]

It's a link to pbase they and flikr are normally capable of handling the PF slashdot effect.
The URL was a little odd - it looks like I might have had the link to a particlular load balanced server.
I have included an http link for the image as well.

Edit - thanks turbo.You're welcome. That http link doesn't work either - it generates the generic "Forbidden" message.

[mgb_phys]

Ok I'm a moron - I could see the image in turbo's quote of my post because it's in my cache. Here is the result of my adventrues in photobucket land.
And now someone is going to get it in 10secs!

http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp185/mgb_phys/63289269lL8JPGQEEPV0061.jpg

[turbo-1]

That's the screw of the SS Great Britain

Edit: I don't know if it's still there, but it was drydocked at Bristol.

[mgb_phys]

Yes - the ship is restored at Bristol. The first ocean going propeller.

[turbo-1]

Here ya go.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark-4.jpg

[mgb_phys]

Fort knox ( the other one)

[turbo-1]

Yep! No gold here.

[mgb_phys]

I suppose if you are from New England then the other one is the 'other Fort Knox'

http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp185/mgb_phys/005.jpg

[Borek]

For the record, picture used in my latest question:

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/8668709

[matthyaouw]

Is that York Minster, post-fire?

[mgb_phys]

Correct.

[matthyaouw]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/matthyaouw/something.jpg

[mgb_phys]

I was going to use that building but it's very easy to google if you guess the fruit!

[turbo-1]

Yep! You just wouldn't expect the building to be in Scotland!

[matthyaouw]

I was low on inspiration. Couldn't think of anything else that wouldn't be either recognised instantly or so cryptic it was unfair. Who gets the next go then?

[turbo-1]

I'll take a swing at it matthyaouw. Here you go.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark-5.jpg

[turbo-1]

I didn't think this one would have lasted this long. If anybody is in need of a hint, I've got one that is sufficiently cryptic to be helpful, but not a give-away (I hope).

[mgb_phys]

Table mountain in SA (I didn't think it got snow)

[turbo-1]

Table mountain in SA (I didn't think it got snow)Nope! If you want I hint, I'll give it though.

[mgb_phys]

No, I have to get some work done!

[turbo-1]

This mountain is alpha AND omega.

[Borek]

Mount Katahdin (http://www.math.montana.edu/~nmp/materials/ess/mountain_environments/intermediate/appalachians/katahdin.html)

Edit: but I found it without your hint, you just hinted before I posted :smile:

[mgb_phys]

Turbo - have you read Bill Bryson's book about walking the Applachian trail ?

[lisab]

Borek, you are so good at getting turbo's landmarks...I bet you would be a great tour guide of "virtual" Maine.

[turbo-1]

Good job Borek. This the most-photographed mountain on the Appalacian trail and it makes a BIG difference if you're a through hiker whether you start or end here. Spring starts can be tough here.

mgb-phys, I have not read that book, but as a kid one of my favorite books was "Lost on a Mountain in Maine". I grew up in the north woods and I knew my way around (on foot) the region surrounding my town. I was pretty impressed with the protagonist's ability to survive with essentially no experience or training.

[Borek]

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark19.jpg

[Borek]

Borek, you are so good at getting turbo's landmarks...

That's not difficult, you just add Maine whenever you look for his landmarks :wink:

Especially when there are those pretty autumn trees visible.

[turbo-1]

The second picture in your link is the Knife-Edge, Borek. It's a fun trek, but some people have a bit of trouble hiking 1/2 mile or so (IIR) with sheer drops on both sides and a trail that is so narrow that you have to find places to stop and get aside to let people coming the other way pass.

[turbo-1]

That's not difficult, you just add Maine whenever you look for his landmarks :wink:

Especially when there are those pretty autumn trees visible.Bright autumn leaves and snow in high elevations..... hmm, I'll have to mend my ways.

[turbo-1]

If the angle is a bit off from what I've pulled up, this could be Gilbert Hill in Mumbai.

[Borek]

Wrong continent.

[CaptainQuasar]

It's not the back side of Ayer's Rock (http://archives.cnn.com/2000/fyi/news/08/30/aborigine/ayers.rock.jpg) in Australia, is it? The vegetation seems too thick.

LANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

[Borek]

Wrong continent again.

5 to go :rofl:

[fuzzyfelt]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuma_Rock ?

[Borek]

Yes :smile:

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/5232869

Uluru (Ayers Rock) is much more popular, Zuma seems to be surprisingly unknown.

[fuzzyfelt]

Yes :smile:

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/5232869

Uluru (Ayers Rock) is much more popular, Zuma seems to be surprisingly unknown.

Yay!
Yes, I wonder why that is, maybe because of the role it has in the Dreamtime myths and legends.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uluru

[fuzzyfelt]

Have to go, unexpectedly, anyone else like to take this turn?

[matthyaouw]

I'll play.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/matthyaouw/somethingelse.jpg

Should be alittle harder than the last.

[Andre]

http://www.worldofstock.com/closeups/TEI1760.php

http://www.worldofstock.com/slides/TEI1760.jpg

Malta Hagar Qim

[matthyaouw]

That was quicker than I'd imagined. Nice going.

[Andre]

I just googled megalithic stones and found it on page 6 or 7

Anyway, how about these?

http://i34.tinypic.com/28it0co.jpg

could be very easy. Two magic words makes it the first hit in google.

[mgb_phys]

Bologna - been there.
(Some family built a bell tower and the family next door wanted to go one better - then the first family added a bit... and so on)

[turbo-1]

The taller of the two is Asinelli Tower, Bologna, Italy

Edit: Darn! got beat out.

[Andre]

Fully correct, google "leaning towers" (http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=leaning%20towers&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi)

[mgb_phys]

All towers in Italy lean - I don't think the spirit level has reached there yet.
It's a useful tourist tip - the town of Pisa isn't as nice as a lot of others and it's tower is always covered in scaffolding or tourists. So just go to any town in northern Italy, it will have at least one tower that leans a bit!

[mgb_phys]

http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp185/mgb_phys/buildingl.jpg

[physics girl phd]

I found this (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1367/1159529404_50d0ce1fd4.jpg%3Fv%3D0&imgrefurl=http://www.flickr.com/photos/spazzclown/1159529404/in/set-72157601670679788/&usg=__2tHpKOM3VdmB4ACJZPct86irnCY=&h=375&w=500&sz=146&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=xGdGARuwSMDQBM:&tbnh=98&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtop%2Bheavy%2Bbuilding%2Bliverppol%2B street%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG):
"A top heavy building down liverpool street. cant quite work out whats going on. Have the desided to build the top first? I really think they should leave it as it is."

But I don't think that's a good enough response to warrant a win, since I don't know what the building actually houses or where it's actually located on Liverpool St... or even if it's the London Liverpool Street or a Liverpool Street somewhere else! :biggrin:

[turbo-1]

It's in London, physics girl. Look at the spiraling window glass at the right edge of the frame (shows better in the image you located). Well done!

[mgb_phys]

Well done - I left in the corner of the Gherkin to give you a clue.
It's actually a 60/70s office block they are demolishing. Since it's a core + cantilevered floors you can knock out the floors and take the core down last.

[leopard]

[QUOTE=CaptainQuasar;1949638]
Remember, you can't post an image unless you're the first to successfully guess the last one.

How long time does the person who answered correctly have to post a new pic?

[lisab]

[QUOTE=CaptainQuasar;1949638]
Remember, you can't post an image unless you're the first to successfully guess the last one.

How long time does the person who answered correctly have to post a new pic?

There's no time specified, but it's usually not too long. But it may take awhile...we all have jobs and/or school, family duties, etc. Patience is a virtue, ya know :biggrin: .

[CaptainQuasar]

Well, I have pinged physics girl phd without hearing back so I'm going to drop a deadlock-breaker, hopefully an easy one:

http://i36.tinypic.com/nyv03c.jpg

LANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

[turbo-1]

I can bring up a picture of this with "waterfall mouth" - first hit, but the guy who posted it doesn't know where it is. In his picture, there is an opening on either side of the front, numbered "1" and "2", making me think it might be a mini-golf place. Still can't find it though.

[Borek]

Wattens, Austria, at the Swarovski Crystal headquarters.

Edit: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Fountain_by_slonecker.jpg

[CaptainQuasar]

You got it (http://kristallwelten.swarovski.com/), Borek!LANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

[Borek]

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark20.jpg

[turbo-1]

Bulfinch Hotel, Boston Mass.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/10/09/travel/09check.1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://travel.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/travel/09check.html&usg=__BZL3t7xadoolUiU5Vnk627VPXHE=&h=260&w=184&sz=21&hl=en&start=32&um=1&tbnid=b8I8AI71yXIVRM:&tbnh=112&tbnw=79&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dflatiron-shaped%2Bbuilding%26start%3D20%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D 1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN

[CaptainQuasar]

Ha, I thought it might be in Boston. But adding that to my searches did not avail me.

LANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

[Borek]

Bullfinch Hotel it is.

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6060640

[turbo-1]

Here ya go, image seekers!

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark-6.jpg

[Borek]

Albany City Hall

Edit: http://www.albanyny.org/Government/CityHistory/CityHall.aspx

Edit2: http://www.planetnikon.com/forums/index.php?automodule=blog&blogid=11&showentry=137

[turbo-1]

Man! That was fast!

[Borek]

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark21.jpg

Time to bed (and it is not a hint, it is a 1 a.m. reality).

[turbo-1]

It's in Afghanistan, but I haven't nailed down the city yet.

http://www.travelblog.org/Photos/1593400.html

Edit: former presidential palace
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41545000/jpg/_41545920_parliment_203bbc.jpg&imgrefurl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolpda/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_4897000/4897406.stm&usg=__PDsx2CO3MP7U019c2g7PxZ2N5uo=&h=152&w=203&sz=12&hl=en&start=258&tbnid=SBGFKg8jQWWCfM:&tbnh=79&tbnw=105&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbombed-out%2Bbuilding%2BAfghanistan%26start%3D240%26gbv%3 D2%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN
Oops! Image tag says "parliament"

Darulaman Palace, Kabul

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://cache.virtualtourist.com/1/1894644-Kings_Palace-Afghanistan.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Asia/Afghanistan/Things_To_Do-Afghanistan-BR-1.html&usg=__vHmCIr2Y4nLYMhjggFAuqT7hP9s=&h=130&w=182&sz=6&hl=en&start=3&tbnid=8NzL8AN3mdagjM:&tbnh=72&tbnw=101&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpalace%2BAfghanistan%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3 Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG

Edit again: Found an identified image from the same vantage point.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.panoramio.com/photos/original/2283690.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.panoramio.com/photo/2283690&usg=__SahSnHGYGuFtQsmHnlV7Ci-8Kv8=&h=976&w=1600&sz=1327&hl=en&start=21&um=1&tbnid=PMa5KTdSYAfTuM:&tbnh=92&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3DDarulaman%2BPalace%26start%3D20%26nds p%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26rlz%3D1C1 CHMG_en-USUS291US303%26sa%3DN

[maze]

Wow nice one. I was off on the wrong track looking for tornado damaged buildings in colorado.

[turbo-1]

Thanks, maze. The bullet-holes and craters in the walls said "war zone" - it was just a matter of poking around after that. Borek is probably busy, so I'll just jump in with another one. Where is this fountain?

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark00.jpg

[Andre]

Depew fountain

Indianapolis

http://www.in.gov/iwm/images/df1_b.jpg

http://www.in.gov/iwm/2356.htm

[turbo-1]

Very good! That's the Indiana War Memorial in the background.

[Andre]

Staying with water, where is that bridge?

http://i34.tinypic.com/4g6gdx.jpg

[lisab]

Erasmus Bridge, Rotterdam...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmusbrug

[Andre]

Excellent Lisa

[Borek]

Back from the evening at the pub with my friends. Slightly intoxicated :smile:

Darulaman Palace, Kabul

Hmm, looks like there is some confusion around the place. Picture that I used:

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/1663507

And confirmation of the place name:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajbeg_Palace

But obviously your last picture was from the same place, just differently described.

[turbo-1]

Back from the evening at the pub with my friends. Slightly intoxicated :smile:



Hmm, looks like there is some confusion around the place. Picture that I used:

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/1663507

And confirmation of the place name:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajbeg_Palace

But obviously your last picture was from the same place, just differently described.Check the comment in your first link, Borek. It appears that someone else disagrees with the "Tajbeg Palace" name. :tongue:

[lisab]

Two views of this one. The first, I just like the photo...but the second gives some idea of scale.

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/3492/landmark6kd1.jpg

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/3208/landmark7ef5.jpg

[CaptainQuasar]

The Great Blue Hole of Lighthouse Reef in Belize!

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Photography/Images/POD/b/blue-hole-belize-reef-731526-sw.jpg&imgrefurl=http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/enlarge/blue-hole-belize-reef_pod_image.html&usg=__Zw-vQSRwNcB1yp9JSDIur3k3yYk=&h=600&w=800&sz=260&hl=en&start=5&tbnid=Y71x93u0jkPmvM:&tbnh=107&tbnw=143&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dblue%2Bhole%2Bbelize%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3 Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DG

LANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

[lisab]

The Great Blue Hole of Lighthouse Reef in Belize!

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Photography/Images/POD/b/blue-hole-belize-reef-731526-sw.jpg&imgrefurl=http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/enlarge/blue-hole-belize-reef_pod_image.html&usg=__Zw-vQSRwNcB1yp9JSDIur3k3yYk=&h=600&w=800&sz=260&hl=en&start=5&tbnid=Y71x93u0jkPmvM:&tbnh=107&tbnw=143&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dblue%2Bhole%2Bbelize%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3 Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DG

LANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

Yes indeed, Captain. Isn't it wild!?! I would love to dive it :!!) !!!

[CaptainQuasar]

It must be great for stories of hidden pirate treasure, not to mention sea monsters. Here's a new one:

http://i36.tinypic.com/2vx3ebk.jpg

This is a panoramic view looking down from the summit, so the actual landmark isn't visible in it:

http://i33.tinypic.com/15mcv49.jpg

LANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

[turbo-1]

Puy-de-Dome in central France.

Added link: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.guidex.com/images/Lyon_Auvergne/Puy%2520de%2520Dome%2520-%2520top.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.guidex.com/lyon_auvergne.htm&usg=__qcQHf0DMWHeducB8-fRtsua7efw=&h=600&w=450&sz=42&hl=en&start=31&um=1&tbnid=C0DSJd8WDfEKgM:&tbnh=135&tbnw=101&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522weather%2Bstation%2522%2Bsummit% 26start%3D20%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe %3Doff%26sa%3DN

[lisab]

South Butte (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://z.about.com/d/geology/1/0/k/9/1/southbuttefrommoat.jpg&imgrefurl=http://geology.about.com/od/geology_ca/ig/sutterbuttes/southbuttefrommoat.htm&usg=__y_PoeBsBNnR_dDSHf-p3Ilv57Q4=&h=417&w=500&sz=106&hl=en&start=7&sig2=-Icnn-my8lHkTMK-bAyFYQ&um=1&tbnid=hqfW7XyepbWIYM:&tbnh=108&tbnw=130&ei=LuIxScvTGZfysAODvIj9CA&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522south%2Bbutte%2522%2Bcalifornia% 26um%3D1%26hl%3Den), California?

[CaptainQuasar]

Sorry lisab, turbo's got it: it's Puy-de-Dôme in France. A volcano in France, whoda thunk.

Here's a close-up of the structure at the top. The stone ruins are a temple to Mercury evidently. (Though the tower and the building its attached to are a modern structure.)
http://www.guidex.com/images/Lyon_Auvergne/Puy%20de%20Dome%20-%20top.jpg

LANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

[turbo-1]

Let's stick with mountains! I'll take valleys for $500, Alex.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark-7.jpg

[turbo-1]

I didn't think this one would last an hour! Need a hint?

[turbo-1]

Come on, boys and girls. This is an installation on the summit of one of the most well-known mountains in the world.

[lisab]

Mt Washington summit....?

[turbo-1]

sorry, lisab

[CaptainQuasar]

Dean Kamen's house?

Mauna Kea in Hawaii with the telescope missing?

LANDMARK GAME RULES HERE

[turbo-1]

Dean Kamen's house?

Mauna Kea in Hawaii with the telescope missing?

LANDMARK GAME RULES HERESorry

[turbo-1]

Hint: The mountain on which this installation resides has probably been featured in more drawings and paintings than any other mountain in the world.

[lisab]

Summit of Mt Fuji (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://lh3.ggpht.com/_ZWbp6iAsAM8/SH7YA4flcyI/AAAAAAAAAfc/RckFi-V_a7w/2008_07_03_Japan0302.JPG&imgrefurl=http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/jMhEjdUAzdvouKEslJsI0Q&usg=__15alQSm-_AjHKTUrUxNnzHjYP0I=&h=1200&w=1600&sz=6&hl=en&start=14&um=1&tbnid=TX_M0hNgwLVTaM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfuji%2Bsummit%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa %3DN)

[turbo-1]

Summit of Mt FujiYep, that's an old dilapidated-looking weather station on what must be the most-photographed mountain in the entire world. Most photos concentrate on the shape of the cinder-cone, and from that far back, you can't make out the weather station.

[lisab]

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/6238/landmark6yn0.jpg

[Borek]

Cuba, October 1962.

[lisab]

Cuba, October 1962.

Yep. As seen from a U-2.

[Borek]

More precisely Los Palacios:

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/14.jpg

Now it will take at least half an hour before I will be able to post the question. But hopefully not more then about an hour :smile:

[Borek]

Shouldn't last long.

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark22.jpg

[mgb_phys]

Fortified harbour, Italian style churches, in the mediterranean from the sea - and they drive on the left.
Malta?

[epenguin]

Dubrovnik

[Borek]

Dubrovnik

Yes.

That's not my picture, I was too lazy to scan one I took back in nineties, but it was taken from more or less the same point. There is a special place to stop and take a picture on Jadranska Magistrala above Dubrovnik.

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/2356698

[Borek]

and they drive on the left

That's the only part you got wrong.

[epenguin]

He he I like this game.
I am just trying to work out how I put some saved image here without giving game away.

For anyone who doesn't know Dubrovnik was a maritime republic rather like Venice situated in present day Croatia, a jewel slightly damaged in the recent wars but pretty well restored I believe.

[mgb_phys]

The semi-circular boats houses on the harbour are exactly the same as the ones in crete - the venetians built that as well. I thought the cars were on the left ;-(

ps. You can either find an image on google images and post a link - we promise not to look at the address.
Or you can create a free account on photobucket and upload the image there, it will give you a tag starting with [img] that you can post here.

[turbo-1]

He he I like this game.
I am just trying to work out how I put some saved image here without giving game away.

For anyone who doesn't know Dubrovnik was a maritime republic rather like Venice situated in present day Croatia, a jewel slightly damaged in the recent wars but pretty well restored I believe.Find an image you like. Use "save as" to save it to your computer, changing the file-name in the process. "landmark" xxx works pretty well. Then upload to photobucket and link them to your post. You can Photoshop the pictures to take out titles, etc, before uploading to photobucket.

[epenguin]

Is this right or do you see the info about where it came from?

This is not Disney, this is real. It is like a place we had before but it is not the same place.http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/5973/wag2169bschlossneuschwajc8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Borek]

Neuschwanstein Castle

[turbo-1]

You didn't re-name the image, so yes - it can be identified NOW.

[Pythagorean]

I've decided that this thread makes me feel uncultured :(

[turbo-1]

I've decided that this thread makes me feel uncultured :(
You could post a picture of Palin's house.... :devil:

[Borek]

Honestly - who needs filename to asnwer that question?

http://images.google.com/images?imgc=color&imgtype=photo&hl=en&safe=off&rls=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=neuschwanstein&spell=1]see images

When I was a teenager I had a 300 pieces puzzle with the castle picture. Just for a short evening.

Edit: and when I was editor in chief of monthly computer games magazine back in nineties, Neuschwanstein Castle was an important place in "The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery" game that I happened to review.

[epenguin]

Neuschwanstein Castle

Right, Mad King Ludwig's.
You didn't cheat of course but next time I will make sure.
I use imageshack but I find it a pants method and am not very good at it, we shall see. Over to you meanwhile.

[epenguin]

I've decided that this thread makes me feel uncultured :(

Could that have been the point of it? :approve:

[Pythagorean]

You could post a picture of Palin's house.... :devil:

haha, I was actually considering posting Fort Abercrombie in Kodiak. I don't know how well known it is, but it was a defense station during WWII

[Borek]

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark23.jpg

[epenguin]

Whilst I think about that I'll fire off Prague again?

[turbo-1]

Is that St Vitus' in Prague?

[turbo-1]

epenguin got the location first.

[Borek]

You never know what will be easy and what will be difficult. I thought this one may be slightly too random. St Vitus it is.

[epenguin]

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/5510/towergc1.jpg Shot at 2008-12-01[/URL]

This should be a synch for ppl at this site

[Borek]

Einstein Tower, Potsdam

edit: http://images.google.com/images?imgc=color&imgtype=photo&safe=off&rls=en&q=Einsteinturm

[epenguin]

Yes!

[Borek]

If you will guess, feel free to continue. 1:46 a.m. here. That's the end for me.

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark24.jpg

[epenguin]

Would it be a point Christopher Columbus set sail from like Palos, Cadiz,...?

[Borek]

No. It is the end of the world (as we know it). Which makes it in a way similar to the point you mentioned.

[epenguin]

aka Finisterre?

[Borek]

Other end.

[mgb_phys]

Northcape/Nordkap Norway

[Borek]

Right.

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/654720

[mgb_phys]

Ok an easy one

http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp185/mgb_phys/caldpan.jpg

[turbo-1]

Looks like La Palma, Canary Islands.

[mgb_phys]

yes - I thought it was easy

[turbo-1]

Here's another one that will fall quickly.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/statue.jpg

[mgb_phys]

David Thompson monument at Invermere, BC

[turbo-1]

Yep! He may have surveyed more of North America than any other person. If he had actually managed to locate a Northwest Passage, his name would be a household word.

[mgb_phys]

http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp185/mgb_phys/statue.jpg

[epenguin]

We seem to be stuck so in brainstorming spirit can I psych Mexico City?

We need some extra clue.

[fuzzyfelt]

Tsim sha Tsui
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://yeinjee.com/travel/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/hong-kong-flying-frenchman.jpg&imgrefurl=http://yeinjee.com/travel/2007/the-flying-frenchman-hong-kong/&usg=__2PDRmPrRdYKrInCNAAu6jEmxWBg=&h=525&w=575&sz=175&hl=en&start=2&um=1&tbnid=1LAtljhJTjaOWM:&tbnh=122&tbnw=134&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhong%2Bkong%2Bscupture%26um%3D1%26hl% 3Den

[fuzzyfelt]

[URL=http://imageshack.us]http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/4893/p5310227sa0.jpg[/

Just in case that was correct. :smile:

[Andre]

Sure looks correct to me with identical pictures :approve:

[fuzzyfelt]

Heh! In which case shall I give a hint?

[Andre]

Heh! In which case shall I give a hint?

Well, there must be thousands of circular stone towers in google. But America is just waking up.

[epenguin]

Heh! In which case shall I give a hint?

Yes please.:smile: I am just guessing this has a higher probability of being in France than the fraction of ruined towers that are in France, a little bit from the style of the houses in background, and if it were in Britain it would be more likely to have a flag, and different style of weather vane, but these are very weak indicators. The ruin is rather completely ruined unless there is a part we do not see, looks like there was a wall extending towards us. The slits suggest a genuinely military and defence original function.

Should we know? It it historic, iconic, well known?

[turbo-1]

Well, there must be thousands of circular stone towers in google. But America is just waking up.There are, and I swear I have seen them all. My "tell" for this one is the off-center cupola on the top, but I haven't found it yet.

[Borek]

I think picture of this tower was used earlier, but it was retracted before anyone guessed.

[fuzzyfelt]

I think picture of this tower was used earlier, but it was retracted before anyone guessed.

I didn't think anyone had seen it! Is that ok? Here is a hint
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/p/pl)wa.gif
otherwise I'll change the picture.

[fuzzyfelt]

Yes please.:smile: I am just guessing this has a higher probability of being in France than the fraction of ruined towers that are in France, a little bit from the style of the houses in background, and if it were in Britain it would be more likely to have a flag, and different style of weather vane, but these are very weak indicators. The ruin is rather completely ruined unless there is a part we do not see, looks like there was a wall extending towards us. The slits suggest a genuinely military and defence original function.

Should we know? It it historic, iconic, well known?

Sorry epenguin, I missed this post. Good guess about the country, and it has a not very well known legend attatched to it.

[Borek]

NOW I am confused :bugeye:

[mgb_phys]

Another hint, borek should get it

[epenguin]

You mean a good guess but wrong? Your other post has given me a city.

[fuzzyfelt]

A good guess, and France is correct. I don't know what she is doing on Warsaw's Coat of Arms:smile:. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=k5NMXNE_8zA

[turbo-1]

Melusine tower in Vouvant, France

Man! that was a tough one. Could never have found that one without the hints.

Edit: http://www.lepoyenval.com/gallerypix/pix06.htm

[Andre]

:smile: Good one

I missed dinner looking for Syrenka towers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Warsaw) in Poland.

Then trying to be more flexible I switched to Copenhagen

[fuzzyfelt]

:smile: Good one

I missed dinner looking for Syrenka towers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Warsaw) in Poland.

Then trying to be more flexible I switched to Copenhagen

I'm so sorry you missed your dinner! I was trying to be a little trickier as Turbo was so quick to guess my last one.

[fuzzyfelt]

Melusine tower in Vouvant, France

Man! that was a tough one. Could never have found that one without the hints.

Edit: http://www.lepoyenval.com/gallerypix/pix06.htm

Well done, Turbo!

[turbo-1]

Since Fi is on the other side of the world, I'll post my picture now without waiting.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmarx.jpg

Edit: She's still around... :biggrin:

[Andre]

I'm so sorry you missed your dinner! I was trying to be a little trickier as Turbo was so quick to guess my last one.

Never mind, my own fault. It was an excellent hint After all the wiki page clearly states that it was a "Melusina".

Really nice one. :smile:

[fuzzyfelt]

Thanks!

[epenguin]

Melusine tower in Vouvant, France

Man! that was a tough one. Could never have found that one without the hints.

Edit: http://www.lepoyenval.com/gallerypix/pix06.htm

Never mind, my own fault. It was an excellent hint After all the wiki page clearly states that it was a "Melusina".

Really nice one. :smile:

Yes nice. My logical part was OK but then lateral thinking failed me. After looking for towers in Poland after the second hint I was looking for the ancestral (Hugenot) family home of Mendelssohn's wife!

Now this one looks like some industrial archaeology, smelting or something?

[turbo-1]

Yes nice. My logical part was OK but then lateral thinking failed me. After looking for towers in Poland after the second hint I was looking for the ancestral (Hugenot) family home of Mendelssohn's wife!Good thinking, though.

[fuzzyfelt]

Yes, nice thinking, and I wish I could have been that tricky!

[Borek]

Blast Furnace near Gulf Hagas

[turbo-1]

You got it, Borek. That is the furnace of the defunct Katahdin Iron Works.

[Borek]

Melusine tower in Vouvant, France

I was completely out of luck, as I am preprogrammed - in Polish Warsaw coat of arms has picture of "syrenka", obviously Siren, not Melusine (mermaid); I wasn't aware of the difference up to now. Besides, I thought that donjon is somehow related to Warsaw, for example through the Henry III de Valois. So I was completely on the wrong track from the very beginning.

[Borek]

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark25.jpg

I wonder if this one will be not too difficult. But previously my doubts lasted 15 minutes.

[turbo-1]

I was completely out of luck, as I am preprogrammed - in Polish Warsaw coat of arms has picture of "syrenka", obviously Siren, not Melusine (mermaid); I wasn't aware of the difference up to now. Besides, I thought that donjon is somehow related to Warsaw, for example through the Henry III de Valois. So I was completely on the wrong track from the very beginning.That got me for a while, too Borek. I was looking for stone towers near Polish rivers.

[fuzzyfelt]

Sorry Borek, I hadn't counted on the preprogramming. And Andre's thoughts of the Little Mermaid were nice too.

[Borek]

Sorry Borek, I hadn't counted on the preprogramming.

Don't be sorry, you are not obliged to select questions and hints especially for me :smile:

[turbo-1]

Well, this one is proving much tougher than I had expected. The stone cistern on the roof bound with hoops (bronze, maybe) made me think I could pull this one up pretty easily. Not yet!

[epenguin]

Looks like a much restored fort on the Mediterranean, e.g. Italy or Sardinia? It must be imagination that sees and doesn't see a device like a cross above the window on right and a small niche with a Saint at ground floor level - but that would surely not have been preserved, maybe it is a bird and there seems to be another one just under the window.

It does not look important enough for us to be expected to know without clues. :biggrin:

[turbo-1]

Looks like a birch tree on the left, though, suggestive of northern Europe.

[Borek]

Not a fort, not a cistern :smile:

[mgb_phys]

Looks like a brick kiln but I don't know where

[maze]

Maybe it is a kiln

EDIT: looks like i got beat to the punch

[epenguin]

Looks like a brick kiln but I don't know where

Which one are you talking about?

If you mean Borek's round structure in the middle surely a kiln woudn't be so wide or open at the top?
Maybe it is one of those ancient visual telegraphy houses?
Or a brewery?

[Borek]

Looks like a brick kiln but I don't know where

Very close. I was reminded about the place by Turbo's latest question. Been there on a school trip as a teenager.

With a correct selection of key words (four of them, just a logical phrase describing the place) it shows on the third page in google images. There is one important but: picture that shows was taken from different direction.

[CaptainQuasar]

See, what he's not letting on is that the four words happen to be Polish words. :tongue2: (Just kidding.)⚛

[Borek]

See, what he's not letting on is that the four words happen to be Polish words.

No, but searches in Polish are much more efficient :smile:

[epenguin]

Turbo's is the iron furnace, Davistown, Maine http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/2637/medalfullia5.gif :approve:smug


http://images.google.it/imgres?imgurl=http://www.davistownmuseum.org/BioPics/blastFurnaceEdited.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.davistownmuseum.org/publications/volume2.html&usg=__NYMTxaVAawRxdYkzvbVAOhREb7Y=&h=460&w=400&sz=34&hl=en&start=418&tbnid=3J_JBVhwwVeNvM:&tbnh=128&tbnw=111&prev=/images%3Fq%3DIRON%2BFURNACE%2BUSA%26start%3D399%26 gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D21%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

Never heard of place before. :redface:

I found many like that


http://www.mdmountainside.com/img.php?id=107
http://images.google.it/imgres?imgurl=http://www.visitindianacountypa.org/member_directory/graphics/effall2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.visitindianacountypa.org/member_directory/search.php%3Fq%3Dindianacountyparks&usg=__irW5bXFlZKKxOEIXak3QXikVZco=&h=204&w=256&sz=20&hl=en&start=320&tbnid=dieXzDTUpGJwXM:&tbnh=88&tbnw=111&prev=/images%3Fq%3DIRON%2BFURNACE%2BUSA%26start%3D315%26 gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D21%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN


but this is one of the best preserved, and most do not have the length of inner chimney emerging.

Edit. Sorry, this was already answered and I didn't recognise the answer, maybe above links still of interest though.

[fuzzyfelt]

I've had no joy with Borek's Landmark- actually that was just a turn of phrase, it has been interesting looking! An idea of limestone hasn't helped at all.

[Borek]

Wrong element :wink:

[Borek]

Nothing still? Mill it is.

[turbo-1]

Samsonów - Huta "Józefa"

Been at my lawyers' all afternoon preparing for trial and surprised to see this one still "alive".

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.panoramio.com/photos/original/3278170.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.panoramio.com/photo/3278170&usg=__rcLPlM_-D3LetAywarXWMyEprVA=&h=1873&w=4147&sz=1761&hl=en&start=8&um=1&tbnid=lDQKhP24OIVanM:&tbnh=68&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Druins%2Bmill%2Bpoland%26um%3D1%26hl%3 Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN

[turbo-1]

The mill hint did it Borek. I was fixated on "smelter" etc and was getting nowhere. To keep the game going for us US and later folks, here's my next one. It's not a photo, but a scan of a color postcard. What is that memorial and where is it?

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmarkxx.jpg

[Borek]

Samsonów - Huta "Józefa"

More like "Huta Józef". Józef is just a Joseph. "Huta Józefa" means "Joseph's still mill" and as far as I know it was never owned by any Joseph, so I suppose it was just given a name.

The mill hint did it Borek. I was fixated on "smelter" etc and was getting nowhere.

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/7925909

It is not a very well known place, but there was a steel mill at Samsonów since around 1600, furnace on the picture was built somewehere around 1817. It was hard to find mainly because pictures are usually described in Polish, not in English.

There were many iron ore deposits (mostly exhausted now) in the area of Góry Świętokrzyskie (Świętokrzyskie Mountains) so it was an important place of iron smelting for ages. Earliest signs of bloomery are dated to 1st century. One can see bloomeries (sp?) in action each year in Nowa Słupia during event called Dymarki Świętokrzyskie.

[Borek]

The mill hint did it Borek. I was fixated on "smelter" etc and was getting nowhere. To keep the game going for us US and later folks, here's my next one. It's not a photo, but a scan of a color postcard. What is that memorial and where is it?

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmarkxx.jpg

The Monument to the MAINE in Havana, Cuba.

http://www.spanamwar.com/mainemonumenthavana.html

Edit: looks like the eagle has flown away.

http://flickr.com/photos/matt_salmon/2538597729/

[turbo-1]

I knew you'd find it, Borek. I'll have to start branching out and selecting things that are not associated with Maine. :wink:

[Borek]

Sorry to keep you waiting, I had to leave. Twice. Something easy just to keep things going.

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark26.jpg

[Andre]

Radio tower Hamburg, Germany

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Heinrich-Hertz-Turm.jpg/450px-Heinrich-Hertz-Turm.jpg

Heinrich Hertz Turm

[Borek]

Hard to deny :smile:

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/9275

[Andre]

:smile: Well, been there.

I wonder how long this will last.

http://i35.tinypic.com/2vt4743.jpg

[lisab]

Pompeii (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.dogsofpompeii.com/images/pompeii_temple_of_jupiter.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.dogsofpompeii.com/tour.php&usg=__lREWRrQeXDjMvIYCLzjD_NjBXgc=&h=450&w=600&sz=33&hl=en&start=9&um=1&tbnid=DVr_3n7PDmuDIM:&tbnh=101&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpompeii%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN)

[Andre]

Pompeii (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.dogsofpompeii.com/images/pompeii_temple_of_jupiter.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.dogsofpompeii.com/tour.php&usg=__lREWRrQeXDjMvIYCLzjD_NjBXgc=&h=450&w=600&sz=33&hl=en&start=9&um=1&tbnid=DVr_3n7PDmuDIM:&tbnh=101&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpompeii%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN)

World record. Lisa

[lisab]

http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/4690/landmark9bq0.png

I'll post a hint (if needed) in a little bit...gotta go get some lunch.

Edit: This place is famous for something that happened there. Or maybe it didn't happen.

[epenguin]

[IMG]Edit: This place is famous for something that happened there. Or maybe it didn't happen.

Did it maybe happen somewhere else?
If it is famous for something that happened somewhere else that narrows it down.

[physics girl phd]

Gosh... it looks like an entrance to a cemetery (my first gut instinct was Arlington even though I knew it wasn't)... via your original statement, the entrance to the site of a concentration camp, or some building within?

P.S. -- sorry y'all for going AWOL at Thanksgiving on this thread. I still can't believe you tried to give me that as a win. If you're going to giv e me wins based on somewhat effective googling, I'm going to have to transfer all my digi-cam pics to my new laptop from my half-broken-down one! (should do anyway!)

[lisab]

Did it maybe happen somewhere else?
If it is famous for something that happened somewhere else that narrows it down.

No, it either happened there, or it didn't. Not everyone agrees...:wink:

[lisab]

Gosh... it looks like an entrance to a cemetery (my first gut instinct was Arlington even though I knew it wasn't)... via your original statement, the entrance to the site of a concentration camp, or some building within?

P.S. -- sorry y'all for going AWOL at Thanksgiving on this thread. I still can't believe you tried to give me that as a win. If you're going to giv e me wins based on somewhat effective googling, I'm going to have to transfer all my digi-cam pics to my new laptop from my half-broken-down one! (should do anyway!)

No, it's not an entrance to anything (that I'm aware of...I've never actually been there, but it's a place nearly everyone has heard of).

Edit: When the "famous something" happened (or not), I don't know if the structure was there.

[lisab]

The event connected with this place happened less than 50 years ago.

[Borek]

That rules Roswell out.

[Andre]

I was thinking the same, but Roswell looks totally different anyway.

Edit I don't recall any other unique legendary UFO event that may or may not have taken place less than 50 years ago. So which other type of famous events can be disputed? Not things like Woodstock or something. But in that time there was a lot of racism and during confrontations, the vision of the different parties, on what happened exactly, may be completely different. Dispute.

Of course, the I-have-a-dream speech of Martin Luther King could not be denied by anybody, could it? But there was this famous first school day of Afro American Ruby Bridges on a white school in Alameda in 1960. Is this the place where she may or may not have been harassed at that event?

No picture for backing up.

[J MAZURE]

"grassy knoll" across the street from the Texas Schoolbook Depository-Dallas TX.
Location filmed showing Police running toward shots heard during the JFK assasination sugesting a conspiracy that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone. Nov. '63

[lisab]

"grassy knoll" across the street from the Texas Schoolbook Depository-Dallas TX.
Location filmed showing Police running toward shots heard during the JFK assasination sugesting a conspiracy that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone. Nov. '63

Yes it is!

[J MAZURE]

Finally got one!!--had to re-register-new computer & provider & user name--go ahead and post one lisab-It'll take me awhile to learn this new laptop

[lisab]

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/9800/landmark8zk3.jpg

[lisab]

Just to state what is probably obvious: this is a monument.

Not so obvious: it marks the place where something very interesting was found.

[mgb_phys]

It's the prehistoric body Ötzi found on austria/swiss border.

( I think they are still argueing about which side of the border he was found on!)

[mgb_phys]

http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp185/mgb_phys/drill_winter.jpg

[Borek]

http://www.crazyhorse.org/carving.shtml

[lisab]

It's the prehistoric body Ötzi found on austria/swiss border.

( I think they are still argueing about which side of the border he was found on!)

Correct!

[Borek]

This is similar to the picture I took last week for the making music contest.

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark27.jpg

I wan't you to name streets that crossed behind my back.

And - crazy as it sounds - I think it may be too easy for the game veterans.

[mgb_phys]

Must be cold there - those musicians look frozen!

[J MAZURE]

have no idea about streets---is this in munich?

[epenguin]

Can't be S. Wyszynsklego surely? - he wouldn't have given us anything that hard to spell.

[Borek]

Skwer Wyszyńskiego - wrong part of the city. And don't whine - I have not asked you to pronouce that, so you can just copy and paste :rofl:

have no idea about streets---is this in munich?

You are new here, so it wasn't obvious for you, but most of those playing a little bit longer (and watching other threads on the forum, as most of them does) probably had no doubts - it is Warsaw. If you will spend few days with us you will learn such details (hint: Turbo questions are mostly related to Maine :wink:).

[epenguin]

Skwer Wyszyńskiego - wrong part of the city. And don't whine - I have not asked you to pronouce that, so you can just copy and paste :rofl:


Can't be Swietokrzyska then? I mean the two are not that far distant.

[Borek]

Nope, still wrong.

[turbo-1]

You Poles and your flowers! I have Googled images of every darned flower shop in Warsaw except THAT one!

[epenguin]

Nope, still wrong.
Oh dear, I must be completely on the wrong track. :redface:

[J MAZURE]

ok borek--I am new--but not that new--see post #701--had to rejoin just to answer-keep it going--this is better than National Geographic---n lovin it!!

[turbo-1]

Had to start googling the churches and found that the steeples in the background belong to a Neo-Gothic church in Praga. Is that close enough, or do you need to have the intersection?

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://bp3.blogger.com/_aol_7sD4gHg/RXSMVgdb0EI/AAAAAAAAABw/OZ3TWkvRcn0/s320/IMG_0830.jpg&imgrefurl=http://europeanadventure1.blogspot.com/2006/12/blog-post.html&usg=__NppMtZ9S9sMWUT0Ai1_xaUe2_yY=&h=320&w=240&sz=17&hl=en&start=117&um=1&tbnid=-0oXwOw5iRaIpM:&tbnh=118&tbnw=89&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwarsaw%2Bchurch%26start%3D100%26ndsp% 3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN

[Borek]

That's the track I expected to lead to the exact answer. Knowing the church you should be able to nail the monument position down in 5 minutes :wink:

[turbo-1]

It's called the Praga musicians sculpture and WikiMapia places it at Coordinates: 52°15'6"N 21°2'3"E

No street names yet, but I'll try.

[Borek]

You should switch to Google Earth now :smile:

[turbo-1]

Intersection of Ksiedza Ignacego Klopotowskiego and Florianska.

[Borek]

Told you this one is not difficult. When tooking the picture I have composed the background so that both towers of the cathedral are visible, they are very distinct.

[turbo-1]

Told you this one is not difficult. When tooking the picture I have composed the background so that both towers of the cathedral are visible, they are very distinct.Tough enough, though. Even once you know the name of the sculpture, Google gives very few hits, and keeps trying to redirect you to Prague.

[Borek]

Once you know the church name and position, Google Earth is enough, as there are many pictures of the sculpture shown if you have geographic web switched on. I have checked it before asking the question, to be sure it is doable. Perhaps selection of tools is slightly unorthodox for landmark question, but it is all about flexibility :smile:

2 a.m., off I go.

[turbo-1]

Yes, this is in Maine. Who was he and where is the statue?

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark-8.jpg

[epenguin]

What an uncanny resemblance to the well-known Hannibal Hamlin, I wonder if they are they by any chance related?

[turbo-1]

What an uncanny resemblance to the well-known Hannibal Hamlin, I wonder if they are they by any chance related?Good job! You're next. Pick a good one.

[epenguin]

Thank you.

I don't know if I have got the hang of tinypic postings, but first I wanted to say I know pigeons are an occupational hazard for statues but this is ridiculous!

http://i34.tinypic.com/5yvlti.jpg

[epenguin]

http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/6318/hotelphoto5arq7.jpg

I have to go now.
( If anyone proves he has got the right answer, continue.
I wonder if we need to do something to speed this game up while still keeping it worldwide? I don't now, like have two going at same time?)

[mgb_phys]

PF mentors private bar?

[epenguin]

PF mentors private bar?

You wish.
Not private.
Though a second you did have me wondering if there was an anagram inside that, but then I realised oh no there cannot possibly be.

[fuzzyfelt]

Wish I had more time to spend on this. More mermaids, or sirens, in the chanderliers! Maybe the Waldorf-Astoria?

[epenguin]

! Maybe the Waldorf-Astoria?

Maybe more iconic in its way.

[epenguin]

More mermaids, or sirens, in the chanderliers!


Yes, the chandeliers are remarkable, though this


http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/7594/detail1eo2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


which is in the same place was probably not what you most remarked when you saw it in a photo before, which I guarantee all or most of you did.

[epenguin]

Maybe the Waldorf-Astoria?

Maybe more iconic in its way.


Indeed a kind of legend, almost. :wink:

[Borek]

So far I have checked Savoy, Ritz, Hilton, Astoria, Excelsior, Plaza and some others. No luck, apparently they are not legendary enough :frown:

Searching for bar I have learnt who Bar Refaeli is and what she did with DiCaprio and searching for Hilton I have seen more pictures of Paris than earlier in whole my life. That's hardly a success, still it is better to watch these two then some republican politicians. That happened to me when I was looking for the Tierra del Fuego tree posted by turbo :rofl:

[turbo-1]

That's hardly a success, still it is better to watch these two then some republican politicians. That happened to me when I was looking for the Tierra del Fuego tree posted by turbo :rofl:I guess you were using "crooked" as a key-word. :biggrin:

[mgb_phys]

Is is a ship?
The pillars look elliptical rather than round (unless it's a lens distortion) which suggests they are metal rather than marble.

[epenguin]

I am pretty sure they are round, and it is definitely not a ship.

[Borek]

I have assumed that's lens effect. And I have tried several ships as well.

And no, it wasn't "crooked". That's beyond vocabulary allowed by my limited active English. In desperation I tried bush which was a suicidal idea :smile:

[epenguin]

Well, heard your stories, let me tell you about how I nearly got everything. Some I would have recognised like Pompeii and Gouda got away before I could get there. I am annoyed with self for not getting: the Maine – that just had by style had to be in Latin America and I thought some rather, well Latin American, commemoration of some country’s WW2 contributions; the Kennedy one I think I was getting there, after all not many things happened in US history in the last 50 years did they? :biggrin: though all the things that didn’t happen are harder to check up on, at any rate following an evident distraction there seem to be a lot of structures like that but not quite like that e.g. http://www.visitingmontgomery.com/header_attractions.jpg ; the kiln dammit I had seen and looked at for a moment. I was ready for a different angle; the trouble was in a small photo from a certain angle and rather in silhouette it is obscured that that structure is round. The first Prague one I got. I recognized those red flowers! But the second one I first thought was Prague too. However it is taken at an angle such that you do not see the other tower I would expect, you do not seem to be looking upwards as much as I would expect and above all a play of light has changed the colour of the tower if you compare with other photos. I somehow convinced myself the flower shop name was more Polish than Czech and what with everyone going on about Poles and Poland I well and truly lost myself ending up in Wroclaw! Whose Cathedral has two towers quite like that. That is where my street names came from! Eventually I saw the towers were not right and came back to Prague, but the street was a devil. Is that in Mala Strana?

Why am I telling you all this? Because REVENGE!:devil: I am enjoying this game and you not getting it despite my hints thinking you will kick yourselves when you do. :tongue: You have seen the lights, will you see the light? :rofl: And all these jokes about Poles! I suppose as well as a kind of legend of a kind you could also call it a kind of pole. :rofl: Another hint tomorrow if nec.

[Borek]

I somehow convinced myself the flower shop name was more Polish than Czech and what with everyone going on about Poles and Poland I well and truly lost myself ending up in Wroclaw! Whose Cathedral has two towers quite like that. That is where my street names came from!

This place is in Warsaw, which for most playing PFers was more or less obvious as I live in Warsaw. As you may guess from the place I live in I am Polish, that's why Poles and Poland are frequently mentioned around me.

Now the funny part: you have listed two streets (Skwer Wyszyńskiego and Świetokrzyska IIRC) that DO EXIST in Warsaw, so I thought you know it is Warsaw and you are on the right track :rofl:

[turbo-1]

Google is funny. Once I knew that the statues and flower-shop were in Praga, I had to specify every single search with "-Prague" or Google would flood me with links from Prague.

[Borek]

Cafe Metropole, Brussel.

Edit: or just hotel Metropole, description of some pictures is confusing.

Edit2: http://www.brusselspictures.com/tag/hotel-metropole/

Edit3: http://flickr.com/photos/jassy-50/2849054011/

[epenguin]

Right!

PF mentors private bar?


Though a second you did have me wondering if there was an anagram inside that, but then I realised oh no there cannot possibly be.


Indeed a kind of legend, almost. :wink: Metropolitan legend, geddit?
you could also call it a kind of pole. :rofl:

giveaway, eh? :biggrin:

On to next question.

But somebody say what has this got to do with us at this forum? Where did you see that other chandelier of #735 before? :smile:

[Borek]

2.10 a.m., time to bed.

Something (hopefully) easy for a change.

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark28.jpg

[epenguin]

Albert Memorial, London

http://images.google.it/images?hl=en&q=albert+memorial&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2

[mgb_phys]

They've cleaned it up a lot - when I lived in london it was still black with soot.

[epenguin]

I guess that was conclusive enough I can play?

Where is this hovel? I have to say goodnight too.

http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/5083/hovelxl5.jpg

[Borek]

For the record:

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/43713

[fuzzyfelt]

But somebody say what has this got to do with us at this forum? Where did you see that other chandelier of #735 before? :smile:

Nice!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvay_conference

[fuzzyfelt]

They've cleaned it up a lot - when I lived in london it was still black with soot.

Not sure how true this is, but I had heard it was painted black during WWII and was only recently restored.

[Borek]

Sanssouci

Edit: http://www.icpws15.de/excursion.htm

[epenguin]

Well I thought I would interject one relevant to the site! :biggrin:

There are other nice photos of the hotel at http://www.holidaycityeurope.com/metropole-brussels/photo.htm

The Solvay conferences apparently still go on there.

[epenguin]

Sanssouci

Edit: http://www.icpws15.de/excursion.htm

That's what it says on the label!


http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/8276/800pxbronzeletternsanssyz9.jpg

[Borek]

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark29.jpg

[lisab]

Plitvice Lakes (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://almavacation.com/destinations/plitviceLake.jpg&imgrefurl=http://almavacation.com/&usg=__15Hl8WMS1LouGNaCcs9IpAODBII=&h=423&w=284&sz=253&hl=en&start=13&um=1&tbnid=Y3pkqqwf7N5GEM:&tbnh=126&tbnw=85&prev=/images%3Fq%3DPlitvice%2Blakes%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%2 6sa%3DN)

[Borek]

Wow, I was afraid it will be a little bit too random :smile:

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/1718928

[lisab]

http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/4002/landmark10ly4.jpg

[epenguin]

Angkor?
http://www.traveladventures.org/continents/asia/images/angkor2.jpg

[lisab]

Angkor?
http://www.traveladventures.org/continents/asia/images/angkor2.jpg

Close...but that's not it.

[epenguin]

It's not Angkor or it's not the exact same structure there?

[Borek]

Preah Vihear?

edit: http://www.asiaexplorertravel.com/place_of_interest_list_all_002.html

[lisab]

Preah Vihear?

edit: http://www.asiaexplorertravel.com/place_of_interest_list_all_002.html

Yes, that's correct. There are two UNESCO World Heritage sites in Cambodia - Angkor, and Preah Vihear. They look similar...

[Borek]

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark30.jpg

[Andre]

Zespol poklasztorny zakonu kamedułów (http://www.suwalszczyzna.pl/eng_ver/eng12.htm) located on the banks of the Wigry Lake in the Suwalki District, Poland

http://powiatsuwalski.home.pl/powiat/img/klaszt1.jpg

I uncold turkeyed

[Borek]

Bingo :smile:

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/531048

And I was already working on hints.

That's a beautifull place, I was there somewhere in the summer of 1982 or 1983, when it was not as popular as it is now (it gained popularity after John Paul II visited it about 10 years ago).

[Andre]

http://i37.tinypic.com/8vr8cp.jpg

[Andre]

This one is so easy that you don't need your keyboard to find the place.

You'll know it, when you made it :uhh:but better put down the coffee first:biggrin:

[Jonathan Scott]

This one is so easy that you don't need your keyboard to find the place.

You'll know it, when you made it :uhh:but better put down the coffee first:biggrin:

Wasn't easy for me, but "grin" might be considered a clue considering one of the characters involved. I'm not sure about the keyboard clue, but something sticky might have been relevant.

I don't have the patience or imagination to think of somewhere else myself, so I'll leave it unsaid and let someone else guess.

[Andre]

I'm not sure about the keyboard clue

It's only three mouse clicks away.

[epenguin]

Kleve! http://images.google.it/imgres?imgurl=http://lh5.ggpht.com/_gtWHCBAjnWE/SCyRKE4U_1I/AAAAAAAAD4g/FQ-S0-zkEJI/P5140050.JPG&imgrefurl=http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/XIhcf0IdJYNwbKMHY1O0LQ&usg=__fdjdpho40Wp22GUi4NGzL25X-Jw=&h=1200&w=1600&sz=21&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=-VO8ueZ9YKzCKM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3DKleve%2BGermany%2Bfountain%2B-Cleveland%26imgtype%3Dphoto%26as_st%3Dy%26gbv%3D2% 26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

[Andre]

Right, that's where I live, it could have been found in three clicks on my profile.

[epenguin]

Right, that's where I live, it could have been found in three clicks on my profile.


That's how it was found! :approve:smug

[epenguin]

OK, the next one should be interesting for this site independent of the puzzle. Maybe it is already posted here, otherwise maybe it should be. I did not know of it till a day or so ago when researching my previous puzzle. Anyway, following Borek's fiendish find-the-street puzzle, here is a short film that will explain itself and I ask you to identify, hmmm, four Brussels landmarks in it. That's really three because one of them is so obvious. If that is looking to be too hard I'll reduce it to three tomorrow, gotta keep things moving.

But the film, the film is fascinating I found!

http://dailymotion.alice.it/video/x1iu7u_solvay-1927_events

[epenguin]

OK can anybody get three Brussels landmarks in the clip?

[Borek]

One is rather obvious:

Northern corner of Grote Markt.

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark_bruss1.jpg

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/5931104

This one looks like Palace of Justice

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark_bruss2.jpg

But for now that's about all I have.

[epenguin]

Both right, let's see what happens tomorrow. (i.e. today)


(Grote Markt = Grande Place for those who know it under that name).

[epenguin]

I know these guys had some arguments but I don't think they were at the Palace of Justice
to have it out in Court but rather because of the view you get from there, not that they spent much time on it.

They actually tell you one of the places in the film. But I am pretty sure they get it wrong.

[Gokul43201]

Fascinating video - I couldn't get myself to look for landmarks, but does the Solvay Institute itself count as one (or is that the obvious one that doesn't really count)?

Thanks for the video.

[epenguin]

That counts. The obvious one was the Grande Place.

Solvay Institute is good enough because it appears to be complicated; I thought I had it clear but am not so sure now. The Solvay Institute is difficult because in the clip they said the University of Brussels (ULB) which appears to be wrong. However years earlier than the conference that was part of the U of Brussels. And actually finding out where it was is complicated: as far as I can make out it was not the present prestigious Solvay Institute or Bibliotheque Solvay, where, confusingly, they now do have meetings but in a Physiological Institute, which is next to it on the same grounds. This later became a school, the Institut Jacqmain. However the stonework of the school does not correspond to the famous photo reproduced by Fuzzzyfelt's earlier post. Maybe they moved over to nextdoor for the photo.

These are two of three or more buildings in the Parc Leopold, just downhill now of the European Parliament. I am sure the trees you can see in the film are of there. I will post some links and pics later, have to go now.

There is another identifiable landmark in the film as I have hinted.

Decide how we should proceed now.

[Borek]

I have decided to ignore the beginning (assuming it is just University and it is too obvious to be listed), that gave me 6 possible places. Two were guessed earlier, these four are left - but could be that these pictures were taken at one of the places already listed, it is not clear to me.

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark_bruss3.jpg

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark_bruss4.jpg

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark_bruss5.jpg

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark_bruss6.jpg

I am a little bit busy these days, and next week will be probably similar, so not much time for Brussel.

[epenguin]

The fourth one is still 'top end' of the Grande Place

http://i38.tinypic.com/15dnvjo.jpg

The second does not offer much clue as it is mostly taken up by a lorry. I like to think it is transporting precious liqueurs as De Beukelaere is the name of a Belgian company that produces them, so I learnt this evening. But it could be many other things.

Where the soldiers are marching I am not at all sure. It might have been taken from the Palais des Congres or from the slope where the Central Station is. Someone expert of Brussels might be able to say - the looking down viewpoint limits it very much, but Streets and gardens have changed over the years.

As I said they probably went to the imposing Palais de Justice

http://i34.tinypic.com/29wjn9u.jpg

because from there you get a panoramic view, from the parapet you can see behind them. You can see another feature in that shot it might be possible to trace.

I am sorry if the pics are too big, I am not v. handy with these things and I clicked something that said 'for forums' but later I will reduce them. Meanwhile like that you get the idea of 'imposing', though with a slight Belgian touch. :smile:

I will complete about the Solvay Institute later. We have got several now and it's your game Borek, so decide if you want to take it up or what to do. :smile:

[Gokul43201]

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark_bruss4.jpg

This landmark is Pauli - the pillar of Physics! :biggrin:

[Borek]

I am an idiot - I have not recognized a lorry, I thought it was a sign of some kind... Like at the train station or something :grumpy:

[fuzzyfelt]

I have decided to ignore the beginning (assuming it is just University and it is too obvious to be listed)

Drats, I was going to say the University of Brussels.

[Borek]

OK, to keep things going, an easy one:

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark31.jpg

[Proton Soup]

panama canal?

[Borek]

Not THAT easy.

[epenguin]

Corinth Canal?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Corinth_Canal_2.jpg

[Borek]

Yes. Relatively short, deep and picturesque.

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/4275133

[HuuHao20]

http://i37.tinypic.com/8vr8cp.jpg
I think the father should be willing to join the Swan army, it is where his root belongs, very nice and moving picture by the way :cry:

[Borek]

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark_bruss3.jpg

epenguin - any ideas about that place?

[lonton]

I wish it was not picturesque for a better match. Another picture pleasssssssssse!!!!

[epenguin]

epenguin - any ideas about that place?

Yes, from the parapet for those looking out it is down on their right. From maps etc I am sure you would have got it soon! :biggrin: First, while looking for an image I found, if I understand right, that the parapet must have been a fairly new feature constructed not very long before they were there - here construction: http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images_v2/002/565/708/20070227/dyn001_original_533_329_pjpeg_2565708_26e410230bbe a1318f3f7a2675bdf190.jpg

http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images_v2/002/565/708/20070227/dyn001_original_568_315_pjpeg_2565708_d7b0bfee33c4 2e1e378a25c1d5177b3a.jpg

Anyway, it is the Couvent des Minimes, so called though it has not been a convent for a long time but a Church.

http://www.eurobru.com/minimes0.jpg

If you are ever in Brussels in August try and take in one of the very well attended concerts they hold there.

http://i38.tinypic.com/2mpajia.jpg

[epenguin]

I wish it was not picturesque for a better match. Another picture pleasssssssssse!!!!

I have not finished with Solvay yet, but meantime by public demand here is one rather different theme.

http://i33.tinypic.com/15rcqpy.jpg

[epenguin]

I think the father should be willing to join the Swan army, it is where his root belongs, very nice and moving picture by the way :cry:

Re Kleve (mostly known in England for Queen Anne of Cleves divorced by Henry VIII for being ugly) is there some legend or fairly tale? Grimm?

[Borek]

Sans-Souci Palace, Haiti

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Sans-Souci_Palace_back.jpg

[epenguin]

Yes, the hint was going to be we have sort of had this before or something.

I find this tinypic quite fiddly. Am now getting new things reasonably sized but have difficulty with the huge one still there, I can't modify it now, could post a new one but would be out of order. Nice like that though. :smile:

[Borek]

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark32.jpg

[epenguin]

Roughly same place as last or not far?

[Borek]

I will wait with hints to give others chance to try.

[epenguin]

I have seen that cloud before but I am letting the others have a try. o:)

[HuuHao20]

I wish it was not picturesque for a better match. Another picture pleasssssssssse!!!!

Sometimes I was being just that silly for an engineering course mainly on image processing that I love talking to me

[fuzzyfelt]

Are the trees eucalypts?

[Borek]

No idea, but quite possible.

[matthyaouw]

That's not part of the great dividing range in Australia is it?

[Borek]

Final (?) hint: one of the seven.

[epenguin]

I told you I'd seen it before!

http://i41.tinypic.com/2co20kp.jpg

[Borek]

No, not Pleiades.

[epenguin]

No, not Pleiades.

Oh yes pleaides. I pleiade not guilty. o:)
I meant brides for seven brothers.

[Borek]

You were homing so nicely on the target...

[Andre]

Re Kleve (mostly known in England for Queen Anne of Cleves divorced by Henry VIII for being ugly) is there some legend or fairly tale? Grimm?

Perhaps (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/346514/Lohengrin). Also, "Kleven" (Dutch) or "Kleben" (German) is sticking or glueing. There is a fairy tale Schwan kleb an (Schwan hold on). But no joy for an English translation.



It can't be the Siebengebirge in Germany, there are most definitely no Eucalyptus forests out there.

[Borek]

The lowest of the seven...

[ƒ(x)]

The lowest of the seven...

Technically speaking, "lowest" is a relative term when describing a location on a globe. But, assuming that you do mean lowest in the traditional sense, that would be Australia.

[lisab]

Mount Kosciuszko (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://lh6.ggpht.com/_cJpbACD5IY0/SBLvR30EFbI/AAAAAAAAMps/N02cKqANkqs/DSC06120.JPG&imgrefurl=http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/pSWjDbEImwZzekZXkJyA7w&usg=__bcHY3RhCcZ1w****HoUpLZu3zjA=&h=919&w=1600&sz=12&hl=en&start=31&um=1&tbnid=h0tlRkyd3y5wrM:&tbnh=86&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3DMount%2BKosciuszko%26start%3D20%26nds p%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN), which is in Austrailia.

[Borek]

You got it right :smile: Mount Kosciuszko is the highest peak in Australia. Seven continents, one highest peak on each.

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/9644761

Not that I have edited kangaroos out from the picture to make it a little bit harder :tongue2:

[Andre]

There is a problem though

Forest completely covering the summit:

http://i42.tinypic.com/1fz435.jpg

Bald summit:

http://www.climb.mountains.com/Photo_Gallery_files/Continent_files/Kosciuszko.htm
http://www.peakware.com/photos.html?pk=145

[lisab]

http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/7648/landmark9cp2.jpg

[maze]

Cafe Du Mode, New Orleans.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.eldoradonews.com/Blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/new_orleans_cafe_reopens_lajpg.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.eldoradonews.com/Blog/tag/cafe-du-monde/&usg=__nNkvEZsC-kPrp6z-cit9cop5IFY=&h=328&w=410&sz=98&hl=en&start=3&um=1&tbnid=ZQe982-aWUvvJM:&tbnh=100&tbnw=125&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dnew%2Borleans%2Bcafe%26um%3D1%26hl%3D en%26sa%3DN
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Cafe_du_Monde_New_Orleans.jpg&imgrefurl=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Cafe_du_Monde_New_Orleans.jpg&usg=__TzaT_sOZtGt2PrMPxpQlHmERqA8=&h=1168&w=1760&sz=836&hl=en&start=9&um=1&tbnid=N_C0JEGjruhtnM:&tbnh=100&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dnew%2Borleans%2Bcafe%26um%3D1%26hl%3D en%26sa%3DN

I got these weird senses that it was the disneyland new orleans section, and looked through images all over disneyland, disneyworld, etc. What do you know, its actually the real thing!

[maze]

http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/2108/landmark88cp6.jpg

[maze]

There is a problem though

Forest completely covering the summit:

IMG

Bald summit:

http://www.climb.mountains.com/Photo_Gallery_files/Continent_files/Kosciuszko.htm
http://www.peakware.com/photos.html?pk=145

From google maps of it, it looks like behind the main forested peak, there is a huge barren plateau only slightly lower. Perhaps that is what is in the other images?

[Borek]

There is a problem though

Yes, something is wrong.

This was one of the six pictures linked to Mount Kościuszko in Google Earth. In Panoramio it is described as Mount Kosciuszko National Park, so probably Google Earth information is misleading :frown:

[Borek]

http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/2108/landmark88cp6.jpg

Death Valley?

I know of several other places in the world that may look similar, so I am a little bit stabbing in the dark.

[maze]

Nope. Hint: what do the mountains look like?

[epenguin]

Death Valley?

I know of several other places in the world that may look similar, so I am a little bit stabbing in the dark.

There are some places not in the world that look similar too.

[Jonathan Scott]

There are some places not in the world that look similar too.

But not with a blue sky above them (yes, I agree it looks like some pictures of Mars).

[lisab]

Is that the Badlands (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.legendsofamerica.com/photos-southdakota/BadlandsNationalPark-3.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.legendsofamerica.com/SD-Badlands.html&usg=__g0E2GFP5YI-MGf3CulTiO6051ZM=&h=500&w=500&sz=251&hl=en&start=24&um=1&tbnid=us_suCnuJ8BZWM:&tbnh=130&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbadlands%26start%3D20%26ndsp%3D20%26u m%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN)?

[maze]

Nope. Hint: it's in Asia

[Borek]

Flaming Mountain (http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_focus/2005-09/13/content_72727.htm)?

[maze]

Yes! The Turpan Flaming Mountains.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming_Mountains

[fuzzyfelt]

Yes, something is wrong.

This was one of the six pictures linked to Mount Kościuszko in Google Earth. In Panoramio it is described as Mount Kosciuszko National Park, so probably Google Earth information is misleading :frown:

I'm no help, I have only seen it covered in snow, as a child, but wonder...

'Mount Kosciuszko is a mountain located in the Snowy Mountains in Kosciuszko National Park. With a height of 2,228 metres (7,310 ft) above sea level, it is the highest mountain in Australia (not including its external territories). It was named by the Polish explorer Count Paul Edmund Strzelecki in 1840, in honour of the Polish national hero General Tadeusz Kościuszko, because of its perceived resemblance to the Kościuszko Mound in Krakow.[1]'

-from Wiki, does it indeed resemble the mound in Krakow?

Nice to see some eucaplypts! :smile:

[Borek]

-from Wiki, does it indeed resemble the mound in Krakow?

Judge for yourself - http://www.panoramio.com/map/#lt=50.055072&ln=19.893665&z=0&k=2&a=1&tab=1

I think when you are THAT far from home and you crave to see Kraków, everything looks similar to some object in the city :wink:

[Borek]

OK, I have no time for something more difficult...

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark33.jpg

[epenguin]

Wenceslaus Square Prague

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenceslas_Square

[fuzzyfelt]

Judge for yourself - http://www.panoramio.com/map/#lt=50.055072&ln=19.893665&z=0&k=2&a=1&tab=1

I think when you are THAT far from home and you crave to see Kraków, everything looks similar to some object in the city :wink:

Hmmm, not an exact match, I'd say, but know the feeling well. My son calls it feeling Australia-sick.

[Borek]

Wenceslaus Square Prague

Exactly.

[epenguin]

not too difficult I think

http://i43.tinypic.com/21alh8k.jpg

[Borek]

Not easy either. Every second castle in Spain is similar.

[Borek]

Spain castles were noise that had to be filtered out.

Krak des Chevaliers, Syria

Edit: http://www.homsonline.com/EN/Citeis/slides/KrakDesChevaliers_ViewFromAdjacentHill1.htm

[epenguin]

Yes!

Not easy either. Every second castle in Spain is similar.

I have built so many.:redface:

Over to you!

I hope the Americans will be able to come back after the next Ice Age.

I must give the source for that photo:

http://www.flat3.co.uk/levant/pages/index_crac.htm

http://www.flat3.co.uk/index.htm

[Borek]

Easy one again.

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark34.jpg

[matthyaouw]

Easy indeed. That's the treasury at Petra, Jordan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra)

[Borek]

Hard to deny :smile:

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/880622

[matthyaouw]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/matthyaouw/somemountainsomewhere.jpg
So where is this?

[Borek]

Suilven from Lochinver

http://assynt.net/PhotoAlbums/album_1182244744/

[matthyaouw]

Yup :smile:

[Borek]

Sorry to keep you waiting.

I doubt you have heard it :wink: but I am sure you have heard about it.

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark35.jpg

[lisab]

Krakatoa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa)?

[turbo-1]

Is it Anak Krakatau (child of Krakatoa)?

Edit: That particular volcano is only about 80 years old.

[Borek]

Lisab answer is precise enough for me, that's the place, although Turbo is right - this particular volcano island started to grow many years after the 1883 explosion. And it still grows.

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/186200

[turbo-1]

Go, Lisab! Give us a good one.

[lisab]

Arg...having trouble with imageshack, I hope this works.

It's a bit...obscure.

http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/3246/landmark10tj2.jpg

[Borek]

Dutch Harbor.

http://home.nps.gov/aleu/historyculture/raid-dutch-harbor.htm

Edit: http://www.nps.gov/akso/cr/akrcultural/CulturalMain/2ndLevel/NHL/NHLDutchHarbor.htm

[lisab]

Dutch Harbor.

http://home.nps.gov/aleu/historyculture/raid-dutch-harbor.htm

Yes it is.

[Borek]

Sorry - it is 2:10 am and I am barely conscious. Turbo - you were so close with Anak Krakatau, feel free to ask next one. If there will be no question when I wake up, I will post something.

Yawn.

Good night.

[lisab]

Sorry - it is 2:10 am and I am barely conscious. Turbo - you were so close with Anak Krakatau, feel free to ask next one. If there will be no question when I wake up, I will post something.

Yawn.

Good night.

Nighty-night, Borek! Sweet dreams!

[turbo-1]

Ok, here's a practical give-away landmark.
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark-9.jpg

BTW, was I only "close"? I thought I had that one nailed!

[Andre]

http://flickr.com/photos/maleny_steve/2844421189/

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3224/2844420985_8e9111a505.jpg?v=0

A question of who happens to see it first, I guess

[turbo-1]

Give us a good one, Andre! I cheaped out on that one.

[Andre]

Trying,

Simple for some, hard for others perhaps

http://i41.tinypic.com/10motb5.jpg

[Andre]

:uhh: It's not always up there :uhh:

Actually I should say: it may or may not be there. :devil:

[Andre]

http://i43.tinypic.com/2dv38f5.jpg

[Borek]

It is an obvious amusement ride, but there are so many types that I am at loss. Vliegend tapijt doesn't help either :wink:

[turbo-1]

Vliegend tapijtThe English translation doesn't bring it up in Google, either.

[Andre]

last tip I think:

http://i41.tinypic.com/mr5jl4.jpg

[turbo-1]

Pagode observation tower.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e5/Pagodaday.jpg/260px-Pagodaday.jpg&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagoda_(amusement_park_attraction)&usg=__2xqj2Hyl_HLg2trNirWPsYuGD6s=&h=347&w=260&sz=14&hl=en&start=3&um=1&tbnid=EG9f93qgyLr8gM:&tbnh=120&tbnw=90&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpagoda%2Bamusement%2Bride%26um%3D1%26 hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN

[Andre]

Pagode observation tower.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e5/Pagodaday.jpg/260px-Pagodaday.jpg&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagoda_(amusement_park_attraction)&usg=__2xqj2Hyl_HLg2trNirWPsYuGD6s=&h=347&w=260&sz=14&hl=en&start=3&um=1&tbnid=EG9f93qgyLr8gM:&tbnh=120&tbnw=90&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpagoda%2Bamusement%2Bride%26um%3D1%26 hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN

You got it, but it's not a tower, it's a moving contraption, see the first hint. Sometimes it's up sometimes it's down.

The flying pagoda

WS5G7hK2UiY

in the Efteling (http://www.efteling.nl/home.aspx?LanguageId=2) amusement park

[turbo-1]

Here you go.
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark-10.jpg

[Andre]

Georgia state capitol

[lisab]

Vermont Capitol building (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.central-vt.com/web/sthouse/dome.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.central-vt.com/web/sthouse/index.html&usg=__LPiNR3TY7oSVCO7t7JNasFM_6_I=&h=291&w=200&sz=12&hl=en&start=1&sig2=gNRhiTXFPqsztGvFv9yaqw&um=1&tbnid=eCe4uP5ig0u8tM:&tbnh=115&tbnw=79&ei=HYZRSaLUJpfysAOpmZWdDQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgold%2Bdome%2Bvermont%26um%3D1%26hl%3 Den)

Actually, Vermont's State House

[Borek]

http://picasaweb.google.com/spericson77/NewEnglandJune2007#5086403170258960946

It doesn't make sense for me now to even try, I have to wait several minutes for each page to open :frown: Problem is, from what I hear other internet providers in my area are not necesarlilly better.

CU tomorrow.

[turbo-1]

lisab has it. I'll try to make them tougher in the future.

[lisab]

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/5585/landmark12th5.jpg

[lisab]

It's in the Southern hemisphere.

[lisab]

The lighter colored building material used in this building is an anagram of

"A Morose Tuna"

[Andre]

Yay!! Dunedin Railway Station (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kiwinz/2774275156/) New Zealand.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3070/2774275156_2fda0a68cc.jpg

( Oamaru stone) Whew!

[lisab]

Yes indeed!

[Andre]

For a bit of variation, a life landmark this time:

http://i40.tinypic.com/2a96veh.jpg

Definitely very simple

[turbo-1]

that's an oak in France that's got a chapel built into it. Chapel Oak Tree, strangely enough. Allouville-Bellefosse is the location.

[Andre]

The floor is yours, Turbo

Just for curiosity

[turbo-1]

Probably too easy, but I want to get back to chat.
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark-11.jpg

[Borek]

Pittsburgh Towers

edit: http://fat-old-artist.typepad.com/photos/pittsburgh_towers/towers3.html - but it doesn't look like that's the correct name.

edit2: and here http://flickr.com/photos/haikiba/2349002764/ it is called Skyward Tower, corner of 5th Ave and S. Bellefield Ave.

[turbo-1]

Close enough, Borek. You've got the location. The old tower is Bellfield, and the new building is the Community of Reconciliation Building.

[Borek]

That was the most stupid search I have ever tried, I assumed the tower was left after some reconstruction so I was googling for "tower left" while chatting - and it was on the 22nd page :rofl:

[Borek]

Probably too easy again...

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark36.jpg

[epenguin]

Hawamahal Jaipur

http://images.google.it/imgres?imgurl=http://k41.pbase.com/v3/64/556764/1/49013846.hawamahaljaipur.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.pbase.com/digitalfestival/image/49013846&usg=__lnVv40lP_F_jauFhY7ibi1lTLX0=&h=474&w=720&sz=108&hl=en&start=2&tbnid=AcBUnq1nygUzLM:&tbnh=92&tbnw=140&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhawamahal-jaipur.jpg%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

http://images.google.it/imgres?imgurl=http://www.timesofindiatravel.com/india-travel-times/hawamahal-jaipur.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.timesofindiatravel.com/rajasthan.html&usg=__2jjb6H9Pa0WGSkT_VjnUwb7j_GM=&h=401&w=581&sz=43&hl=en&start=12&tbnid=Wj3vpWzo4C44XM:&tbnh=92&tbnw=134&prev=/images%3Fq%3DPalaces%2Brajastan%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3De n%26sa%3DG

[epenguin]

If it's OK to post already


http://i40.tinypic.com/nqcnit.jpg

[Borek]

For the record: Hawa Mahal, also known as Palace of Winds.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/98819588@N00/355006809/

[lisab]

If it's OK to post already


http://i40.tinypic.com/nqcnit.jpg

I kept thinking it looked familiar...

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/622/vangoghchurchph6.jpg


Van Gogh's Church at Auvers

[epenguin]

Bravo! - I hoped that one would run more with everyone having seen the pic but not the photo. :smile:

[Andre]

Brilliant Lisa

http://www.fullerpro.com/photo%20albums/auvers/images/b%20-%20auvers%20church_jpg.jpg

[lisab]

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/9580/landmark12fv1.jpg

Some place I'd love to see someday.

[Andre]

Bahá'í-temple, Haifa Mt Karmal

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Haifa-Bahai_world_center_front.jpg

[turbo-1]

Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://terraces.bahai.org/photos/C_Dome_15.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.tomunity.com/2007_03_01_archive.html&usg=__vgGQsE_6gD7FxHpd_HWYD5zKVrA=&h=713&w=460&sz=465&hl=en&start=638&um=1&tbnid=sCvmNk4ZDF8VWM:&tbnh=140&tbnw=90&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgold%2Bdome%26start%3D620%26ndsp%3D20 %26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN

Edit: Durn! Beaten by a bear!

[Andre]

Sorry Turbo

Okay got to hit the road, so I post right away with a first hint

http://i44.tinypic.com/6tnwjc.jpg

anagram: ay basalt :devil:

[Borek]

I googled the image half an hour earlier, but google index is broken and the picture was not present on the page google linked to (it was blog written by Jew living in Israel, so I was pretty close).

[lisab]

Excellent, Andre!

Doesn't it look like quite a nice place?

[turbo-1]

Amarbayasgalant Khiid, Andre

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarbayasgalant_Khiid

It occurred to me that I wasn't paying enough attention to the landscape. I have an astronomer-friend from Mongolia and the landscape looks so much like Mongolia that I Wiki'd Buddhist temples in Mongolia and the first hit was "bingo". The Dharma wheel and the golden deer are too darned ubiquitious, and there must be many thousands of Buddhist temples. The landscape did it, with the utility poles in the background.

[Andre]

Hats off, Turbo,

Amarbayasgalant = "anagram ay basalt"
hence the :devil:

Indeed a beautiful place, Lisa

[lisab]

omg...

"anagram" was part of the anagram...! Whew, nice!

[turbo-1]

That was a mean one, Andre!!!

[turbo-1]

Too easy, but too interesting to pass up.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark-12.jpg

[lisab]

I was getting nowhere with "Satay Lab"

[Andre]

Racetrack Playa (national park of Death Valley, California)

http://mmmgroup.altervista.org/e-rocks.html

But Lisa, you knew what :devil: means.

[lisab]

Sliding rocks at Racetrack Playa - Death Valley National Park

http://geology.com/articles/racetrack-playa-sliding-rocks.shtml

[lisab]

You must have got me by seconds, Andre! Too funny!

[turbo-1]

You two are too quick! Now you know how it feels to be beaten out by a "feeble-minded" Pooh-bear, lisab! Andre is really good at this. He got me by 5 minutes.

[Andre]

Let's try another castle

http://i41.tinypic.com/2mcioeu.jpg

edit: no castle without a story

[turbo-1]

That lightest tower kinda looks like Pinocchio - no help though.

[Andre]

That lightest tower kinda looks like Pinocchio - no help though.

Oops, another deception. But it's not Pinocchio's castle

[Andre]

probably another useless hint

http://i40.tinypic.com/21o5xtv.gif

edit, on the more sober side, Lisa is now to her working place to hear whether or not she has a job next year :frown:

[Borek]

Bran Castle, Transylvania, Romania

[Andre]

I knew I could count on you, Borek

Dracula's castle. Hint was Stoker, Bram Stoker.

[turbo-1]

Darn you, Borek! I just found it and update the page and there you were. I've been getting edged out a lot recently, though I guess 9 minutes isn't all that close.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://crashingwaves.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/vladtepesbrancastle.jpg&imgrefurl=http://crashingwaves.wordpress.com/2007/07/&usg=__L2xdYXpKs-k6xdE0trMeZnhDg-k=&h=320&w=400&sz=54&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=RTiHyQ8mTDOA5M:&tbnh=99&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dvlad%2Bcastle%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa fe%3Doff%26sa%3DG

[lisab]

probably another useless hint

http://i40.tinypic.com/21o5xtv.gif

edit, on the more sober side, Lisa is now to her working place to hear whether or not she has a job next year :frown:

Next week, actually - I'm just starting to mentally prepare for the news now. Hopefully I won't end up like that the unfortunate fellow in that picture.

[Borek]

To be honest it was more luck than brain as we say in Polish.

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark37.jpg

Argh, uploading the picture took almost 40 minutes :mad:

Edit: fingers crossed, Lisa.

[turbo-1]

Next week, actually - I'm just starting to mentally prepare for the news now. Hopefully I won't end up like that the unfortunate fellow in that picture.Good luck, lisab!

[turbo-1]

Polish Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Warsaw.

edit: http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/Poland/Wojewodztwo_Mazowieckie/Warsaw-468976/Things_To_Do-Warsaw-The_Tomb_of_Unknown_Soldier-BR-1.html

[Borek]

That was too easy, but I can't browse the web to find something more difficult :frown:

We have spent two hours last night with Marzena and Junior taking pictures of the Warsaw. It was a little bit below freezing, streets were almost empty and the city is decorated with lights. I hope to share pictures with you later.

[turbo-1]

Here you go...

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark-13.jpg

[Borek]

Ignatius J. Reilly statue, New Orleans

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/2468756081/

Edit: feel free to post another one, I can't spend another hour trying to find and upload next question :grumpy:

[turbo-1]

Darn, Borek! You're good!

[Borek]

Looks like Turbo was either occupied, or missed my edit. Luckily, my internet works at the moment, so...

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark38.jpg

Shouldn't be difficult.

[epenguin]

Ruins of Zimbabwe (previous lot). http://images.google.it/imgres?imgurl=http://www.hopeunlimited.net/images/photos/zimbabwe-ruins.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.hopeunlimited.net/pages/africa/zimbabwe.html&usg=__6fw6VzavVNKCWUBr4FrQDnBhNQg=&h=452&w=480&sz=31&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=CcepsFhB76wWmM:&tbnh=121&tbnw=129&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dzimbabwe%2Bruins%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den% 26sa%3DG

[Borek]

Yes, so called conical tower of Great Zimbabwe.

[epenguin]

http://i39.tinypic.com/2e4gaq8.jpg

[Andre]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/136/325281171_321989d783.jpg?v=0

Mons Belgium

[epenguin]

Yes, house where Van Gogh lodged and I think where the Potato eaters ate potatoes.
How did you know? :smile:

[Andre]

Well since the Anviers church, I have the trick to test that ready at hand

[Andre]

This one should be touch but I have nice -not mean- but cooperative hints

http://i43.tinypic.com/s6i33p.jpg

[Andre]

This picture is from the blog of a Nobel prize winner

http://i40.tinypic.com/24nnuz4.jpg

[Andre]

That's the lady in blue

[turbo-1]

Oxford Dome

Edit: http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/news/item?gid=1171152000

The clue was a bit too informative.

[Andre]

Oxford Dome

Edit: http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/news/item?gid=1171152000

The clue was a bit too informative.

Sure but it also requires some knowledge

excellent

[turbo-1]

Here's one that will probably be too easy.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark-14.jpg

[turbo-1]

Gotta go deliver some soup and breads to a shut-in lady and her son. Back in a bit. If you ID this building feel free to post a new challenge - it's so distinctive that the ID will be iron-clad.

[Borek]

Himeji Castle, Japan

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himeji_castle

[epenguin]

Himeji castle, West of Kobe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himeji_Castle
http://www.himeji-castle.gr.jp/index/English/index.html

Edit: OK Borek got there first.:smile:

[turbo-1]

Borek can be quick.

Let's see what he has for us...

[Borek]

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark39.jpg

Very easy for some :wink:

[Andre]

Sorbonne Paris

http://www.philosophie.uni-freiburg.de/studium/erasmus/paris-sorbonne.jpg/image_preview

I think that Evo would have recognised it

[Borek]

Bingo :smile:

[Andre]

http://i43.tinypic.com/15wiaew.jpg

[Borek]

Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Edit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/purplespace/486262934/in/set-72157600176978896/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_Rosada

[turbo-1]

17 minutes to find that roccoco pile? You are a whiz, Borek!

[Andre]

But the flag was a dead give away I guess

[Borek]

"Pink building" was enough, especially as that's the name of the place. Honestly, I have not recognized the flag - blue strips were too light and I haven't spotted them before I knew it is Buenos Aires, and just orange spot in the middle was not enough.

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark40.jpg

Zeroing on that landmark should be dead easy.

[turbo-1]

It's gotta be at the prime meridian, perhaps at Greenwich, but I'll try to find a link in the meantime.

[turbo-1]

This building probably houses the meridian telescope, which is only adjustable in latitude, not right ascension. Combined with very accurate clocks, such a telescope could be used to create very accurate longitude maps for ship-captains to navigate with. And certainly at Greenwich.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.earthinpictures.com/world/great_britain/london/prime_meridian.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.earthinpictures.com/world/great_britain/london/prime_meridian.html&usg=__MQCAN1BjDLvhGYh4KAHhpcWTrFk=&h=640&w=480&sz=86&hl=en&start=54&um=1&tbnid=h--oWYFd2EV3rM:&tbnh=137&tbnw=103&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dobservatory%2B%2522prime%2Bmeridian%2 522%26start%3D40%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26 safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN

The problem of creating clocks accurate enough to use these charts and maps for navigation on board sailing ships was critical to the success of the British Empire. Captains could figure their latitudes easily enough, but longitude was a real bear.

[Borek]

It's gotta be at the prime meridian, perhaps at Greenwich

Thats it. I am not sure if it still looks exactly that way, but for sure that's how it looked some time ago.

Time for me. See you tomorrow.

[turbo-1]

Nighty-nite, Borek. Here's one that probably won't last long.
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark-15.jpg

[epenguin]

Sorbonne Paris

http://www.philosophie.uni-freiburg.de/studium/erasmus/paris-sorbonne.jpg/image_preview

I think that Evo would have recognised it

OMG, I thought that would be either the Academie Francaise or the Sorbonne and looked at pics of them and decided neither was quite right! :frown:

[Borek]

OMG, I thought that would be either the Academie Francaise or the Sorbonne and looked at pics of them and decided neither was quite right! :frown:

Probably because that's view from the internal court, not from the Place de la Sorbonne.

[Andre]

Probably because that's view from the internal court, not from the Place de la Sorbonne.

The first pictures were indeed from the Place but I focussed on the details of the dome only and decided that it was a hit. So I continued with googling Sorbonne

[lisab]

turbo, I think we're going to need a hint.

[turbo-1]

It was involved in heavy manufacturing. Specifically an alloy.

Sorry for the delay - I kind of lost track of the thread.

[Borek]

So far I even don't know what it is... Looks like either some kind of silo or industrial reactor, but both leads nowhere. I have tried to look in the Turbo's past, but to no avail :wink:

Edit: Turbo answered while I was composing.

[turbo-1]

It's a golden oldie from MoTown.

[turbo-1]

Take a heater.

[Andre]

http://daveayers.com/Modeling/images/Steel/DetroitSteel_BF_1.jpg

http://daveayers.com/Modeling/SteelGallery.htm

Detroit steel furnace

I think the reason why it lasted that long is because it seems to be the only picture of that thing on the net on a page with little text as caption, one or two wrong key words too many and the page is not selected.

[Andre]

A very special one :smile: :biggrin: :devil:

http://i40.tinypic.com/sgq17d.jpg

[Andre]

Okay, to you it may seem just another ordinary appartment building under construction, to me it's obvious that it must have a place in this forum.


That's intended as an honest hint; don't do pointless googles, think out of the box first

[turbo-1]

Detroit steel furnace

I think the reason why it lasted that long is because it seems to be the only picture of that thing on the net on a page with little text as caption, one or two wrong key words too many and the page is not selected.You're right, Andre. I did not test the key-words real well, except to find that "steel furnace" brought it up on page two of images and adding the word "Detroit" made it image number one.

Good going!

[turbo-1]

OK, Andre, does Greg live there in Minneapolis? I searched for the sign on the tower and found a Visage night club there.

[lisab]

OK, Andre, does Greg live there in Minneapolis? I searched for the sign on the tower and found a Visage night club there.

Me too - it looks like a strip club :blushing:.

[Andre]

OK, Andre, does Greg live there in Minneapolis? I searched for the sign on the tower and found a Visage night club there.

Sorry Turbo, Visage is French for face. Very common word. But I think that solving this one will be very rewarding.

[Andre]

On this one I'd like everybody to have a fair chance, so I plan to give a next hint at 6:00 pm UTC (GMT). (http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/gmt/).

[Andre]

That building; She has a name.

[turbo-1]

It looks a little different, now. Is it the Evo Tower?
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.kylefritz.com/Evo.jpg&imgrefurl=http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php%3Ft%3D87579&usg=__fgsBj2KXbE9CMx2KRiLAxNzC-R4=&h=480&w=385&sz=71&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=5tJaRVegTV6naM:&tbnh=129&tbnw=103&prev=/images%3Fq%3DEvo%2Btower%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26saf e%3Doff%26sa%3DG

[Andre]

Good thinking Turbo indeed they seem to have changed the design.

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=evo+-exchange&w=63922723%40N00&s=rec

[lisab]

That building; She has a name.

Dang...so that fact that the letters "e-i-n-s-t-e-i-n" are in this hint were a dead end!

[Astronuc]

Here's one that will probably be too easy.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark-14.jpg I've been inside Himeji-jo. It's quite impressive.
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/661/gallery/


I've also been in Osaka-jo.

[turbo-1]

Another one - much easier than Andre's

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark-16.jpg

[turbo-1]

I've been inside Himeji-jo. It's quite impressive.
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/661/gallery/


I've also been in Osaka-jo.Impressive walls/foundation.

[lisab]

Qutab Minar

[turbo-1]

Yes! Pick a good one. That was too easy, apparently.

[lisab]

Well I felt a bit rushed so this may not be a hard one.

http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/65/landmark13ap2.jpg

[Andre]

Looks a bit like the Strait of Facades at Petra in Jordan

[OmCheeto]

Looks a bit like the Strait of Facades at Petra in Jordan

That was my guess.

But it's the Nabataean Tomb in Madain Saleh, Saudi Arabia


Madain Salih (Al-Hijr) (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TahXQ2WiF0s/SLHskXSrJkI/AAAAAAAACq4/f1EQ1ppbOI8/s400/05%2Balhijr.jpg&imgrefurl=http://pictzz.blogspot.com/2008/08/7-man-made-wonders-new-heritage-sites.html&usg=__fGR31epuDowaEqqWJOlpYRg5SLg=&h=269&w=400&sz=24&hl=en&start=58&um=1&tbnid=eQPfDfvicREt_M:&tbnh=83&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3DNabataean%2BTomb%2Bin%2Bmadain%2Bsale h%2BSaudi%2BArabia%26start%3D40%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3 D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN), Saudi Arabia - The ancient city of Madain Salih is the largest conserved site of Nabataean civilization south of Petra in Jordan.

Built between the first century B.C. and the first century A.D., the city contains more than a hundred well-preserved monumental tombs, among other buildings. In July 2008 Madain Salih became the first location in Saudi Arabia to receive the UN's World Heritage designation.

Amazing how many pages of stone cut tombs I had to go through to find it.

[lisab]

That was my guess.

But it's the Nabataean Tomb in Madain Saleh, Saudi Arabia




Amazing how many pages of stone cut tombs I had to go through to find it.

You got it, Om. Your turn to post!

[OmCheeto]

You got it, Om. Your turn to post!

Oh my. Are natural formations ok?

I've only been on one vacation in the last 16 years. If you know where that was, this should be very easy.

http://home.europa.com/~garry/pf_landmark_1.jpg

[Borek]

cabo san lucas lover's beach

edit: http://vince123.com/Travel/2004/Mexico2/

edit2: http://vince123.com/Travel/2004/Mexico2/images/040623%20Cabo%20San%20Lucas%20(1).JPG (just picture)

[OmCheeto]

cabo san lucas lover's beach

edit: http://vince123.com/Travel/2004/Mexico2/

edit2: http://vince123.com/Travel/2004/Mexico2/images/040623%20Cabo%20San%20Lucas%20(1).JPG (just picture)

Correct!

How did you get that so fast?

[Borek]

Cleverness with a touch of black magic :wink:

Honestly - I don't remember details. Google for images of "white rock", adjusting keywords once you see something similar to the place in question.

Easy again:

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark41.jpg

[Newspeak]

That would be the Huashan Hiking Trail on the face of Mt. Hua.

[epenguin]

I am feeling dizzy.

[Borek]

Newspeak got it right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hua_Shan

Your turn.

[Newspeak]

Newspeak got it right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hua_Shan

Your turn.
Hello Borek! Thanks for posting the picture, I have added it to my places to go!

Here we go. I hope this is not too hard or easy.
http://www.ilovecapetown.com/tours/ipsen/Ipsen-A1%20Taalmonument.JPG

[Andre]

http://images.google.nl/imgres?imgurl=http://www.museums.org.za/TaalMon/images/afrtaal2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.museums.org.za/TaalMon/&usg=__DTGuMe7RWCmT3Cs2lkXqMRuW7Ec=&h=410&w=284&sz=20&hl=en&start=4&um=1&tbnid=0v1eY0_vZiCkUM:&tbnh=125&tbnw=87&prev=/images%3Fq%3DTaalmonument.%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa %3DG

http://www.museums.org.za/TaalMon/images/afrtaal2.jpg

Language monument, South Africa, Cape Town, Paarl Rock

[Newspeak]

http://images.google.nl/imgres?imgurl=http://www.museums.org.za/TaalMon/images/afrtaal2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.museums.org.za/TaalMon/&usg=__DTGuMe7RWCmT3Cs2lkXqMRuW7Ec=&h=410&w=284&sz=20&hl=en&start=4&um=1&tbnid=0v1eY0_vZiCkUM:&tbnh=125&tbnw=87&prev=/images%3Fq%3DTaalmonument.%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa %3DG

http://www.museums.org.za/TaalMon/images/afrtaal2.jpg

Taalmonument south Africa
Hello Andre! That is correct! This was suppose to last more than just 5 min :rofl:
I will have to do better next time.
Your turn.

[Andre]

Hello Andre! That is correct! This was suppose to last more than just 5 min :rofl:
I will have to do better next time.
Your turn.

I searched with "famous" that helped

[Andre]

We did not cover a lot of falls I think

http://i44.tinypic.com/2zq4q3c.jpg

[Andre]

hint

http://i41.tinypic.com/qq8p5j.jpg

[Newspeak]

Is it Victoria Falls?

[Andre]

Sorry no

[Newspeak]

Sorry no
Ohhh! It's Niagara of course!

[Andre]

Ohhh! It's Niagara of course!

not really, it's a bit more subtle
count

[Jonathan Scott]

not really, it's a bit more subtle
count

Come on, surely that is Niagara (the Canadian side, Horseshoe falls). It certainly matches the Wikipedia picture.

Or is the point that the hint is somewhere completely different?

Edit: OK, that is the point. Sorry. I've got it now after counting.

[Andre]

Come on, surely that is Niagara (the Canadian side, Horseshoe falls). It certainly matches the Wikipedia picture.

Or is the point that the hint is somewhere completely different?

The hint may be about Niagara, the original is NOT

and it's supposed to be an entertaining game :smile:

http://i44.tinypic.com/2zq4q3c.jpg

[lisab]

Kaieteur Falls?

[Andre]

Kaieteur Falls?

Right! Lisa. About Five times higher than the Niagara falls

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaieteur_Falls

[Borek]

Kaieteur?

Edit: late, as usual :frown:

[turbo-1]

Good job, there basil! I saw pictures of Niagara with the Maid of the Mist, and thought that "mist" somehow would figure in the search criteria. Duh!

[lisab]

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/8631/landmark14ir3.jpg

This small lake is pretty, isn't it? But it's in a place that's famous not for its beauty, but its creepy residents :eek: :devil:.

So I'm not looking for the name of the lake, per se, but the place where the lake is located.

[Borek]

Sounds like Crater Lake Monster. That'll put the place somewhere in California :rofl:

[Borek]

Seems like this crater lake is on Rapa Nui.

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rano_Raraku

Edit: Rapa Nui is Easter Island, for me it was obvious as I have read Heyerdahl book (Aku-Aku) many years ago, but I'm adding it just in case.

[lisab]

Seems like this crater lake is on Rapa Nui.

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rano_Raraku

Edit: Rapa Nui is Easter Island, for me it was obvious as I have read Heyerdahl book (Aku-Aku) many years ago, but I'm adding it just in case.

Yes, that's it...those rock statues have always given me the creeps!

[turbo-1]

Wow! I have spent a couple hours de-compressing from some legal complications, playing the Landmark forum game and never got close. I have to have some time before getting back to the quasar/cosmology thread because of the difficulty in sorting out "known" things from things which have not properly been examined with epistemology, and personal stuff has intervened. I don't want to question somebody's research with unwarranted criticism.

[Andre]

well I didn't play but my solution would have been El Junco lake (http://faculty.washington.edu/jsachs/lab/www/Research/EJ_Panorama_9-04.jpg) on the Galapalos islands, the creepy "residents" being the Galapalos dragons, creeping over the rocks

http://www.solarnavigator.net/animal_kingdom/animal_images/iguana_marine_galapagos_islands.jpg

Isn't that a coincidence?

[Borek]

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark42.jpg

[Andre]

Modlin Poland

http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/88/114588-004-6DC21C0C.jpg

[Borek]

Yes.

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/9885472

At first I planned to post this picture:

http://www.pbase.com/smok53/image/77402001

But I was afraid it could be too difficult, so I decided for the one with additional hints. Too many hints I guess :wink:

[Andre]

Yes.

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/9885472

At first I planned to post this picture:

http://www.pbase.com/smok53/image/77402001

But I was afraid it could be too difficult, so I decided for the one with additional hints. Too many hints I guess :wink:

Could have been. Actually the flat landscape limited the possible location while the building style was not from the Dutch German lowlands. So I googled river Poland and the Vistula looked promising. So I googled Vistula river Poland and there it was.

[turbo-1]

You guys are too good at this!

[Borek]

Funny. The building is an old granary seen from the tower of the Modlin stronghold, and there are two rivers visible - Vistula straight ahead and Narew to the left. Site is loaded with geography and history. Whoever selected this picture to depict just Vistula must have known nothing about the place :smile:

[Borek]

You guys are too good at this!

Actually, you are darn good too!

[Andre]

There we go

http://i41.tinypic.com/20gmvb5.jpg

[Andre]

True or false?

The general name of the area is made with zero a's :devil::biggrin:

[Andre]

True or false?

The general name of the area is made with zero a's

The statement is false if you read it straight like this
The statement becomes true if you solve the anagram

[hypatia]

Azores?

[epenguin]

Ah. Nothing to do with this then. Worth showing anyway. :smile:


http://i39.tinypic.com/35lf583.jpg

[hypatia]

Oppps me Bad!

[Andre]

Azores is the correct hint of the general location. Now we need the specific location there, for the game to end. Repeating it to avoid confusion with the pics that should not be here (see the rules)

http://i41.tinypic.com/20gmvb5.jpg

[Borek]

Looks similar to the rock at the very west end of Sao Miguel, close to Mosteiro, but al I was able to find so far was the view from the opposite side (http://www.flickr.com/photos/engenhocas/286824845/in/set-72157602219627674/) so I am not sure). But I have to leave for now, so I will be not able to try harder for at least half an hour.

[Andre]

Looks similar to the rock at the very west end of Sao Miguel, close to Mosteiro, but al I was able to find so far was the view from the opposite side (http://www.flickr.com/photos/engenhocas/286824845/in/set-72157602219627674/) so I am not sure). But I have to leave for now, so I will be not able to try harder for at least half an hour.

The island is very very close, the location is incorrect

[fuzzyfelt]

Tip of Ilheu (Islet) de Vila Franca?

[Andre]

Tip of Ilheu (Islet) de Vila Franca?

Good job Fuzzyfelt

http://picasaweb.google.com/Meiguimuga/SOMiguelAzoresAOres#5086878115586597202

[fuzzyfelt]

Thanks, Andre, but there were plenty of clues by the time I got to see it, thanks to Borek and Hypatia.

This could be quite easy.

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/6421/pc280153sj2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[lisab]

Somewhere in the Tower of London, maybe?

[fuzzyfelt]

In the sense that it is in England, yes, but not built for the purposes of keeping prisoners inside, however, the structure itself is a hint.

[fuzzyfelt]

Sorry the last post was written hurridly so I'll write more clearly.
It is in England. The structure itself is a hint about the site. This was not built for keeping prisoners inside, although another structure, that shares the same name, was.

[Andre]

Tower bridge?

(Tower of London was a prison but became the location of the Crown Jewels)

The bars show the shadow of the bars on the other side to the left of the picture. They can't be far away so it's a narrow walking bridge towards the building that could be one of the pillars.

[fuzzyfelt]

Good point, but it is not in London.

[fuzzyfelt]

The name of the body of water below, and the type of structure it is, together, help describe the location.

[epenguin]

All your clues are consistent bridge of sighs Cambridge, brickwork colour is wrong but all the views I can find are from one side - it still might just be.

[fuzzyfelt]

All your clues are consistent bridge of sighs Cambridge, brickwork colour is wrong but all the views I can find are from one side - it still might just be.

Yay!! Correct epenguin, well done, especially since you found the photo not only useless, but it seems, actually an obstacle!

[epenguin]

:shy: They might be cunningly misleading clues - 'name of the body of water below' Cam 'and the type of structure it is' bridge - together, help describe the location, 'not built for keeping prisoners inside, although another structure, that shares the same name, was' Bridge of sighs, Venice.


edit: hadn't seen your answer when I posted the above.

[fuzzyfelt]

:shy: They might be cunningly misleading clues - 'name of the body of water below' Cam 'and the type of structure it is' bridge - together, help describe the location, 'not built for keeping prisoners inside, although another structure, that shares the same name, was' Bridge of sighs, Venice.
great! The Bridge of Sighs, Cambridge, it is.

[Borek]

I am an idiot. I have located the bridge through the wikipedia list of bridges in England and decided it doesn't fit the picture.

[fuzzyfelt]

All your clues are consistent bridge of sighs Cambridge, brickwork colour is wrong but all the views I can find are from one side - it still might just be.

The bridge crosses from what I think is called the third court that is red brick, to the New Court, some of which is in the image I gave, but can be seen better here. I guess the different architecture was misleading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bridge_of_Sighs,_Cambridge.JPG

[Borek]

That's the image I have seen, but windows were different and I thought they should be similar in style.

[epenguin]

Then I will post this before that turns out to be a mistake. You sound like a bunch in which someone would know this. I have to close down for a good 12 h though.



http://i39.tinypic.com/6ye337.jpg

[fuzzyfelt]

That's the image I have seen, but windows were different and I thought they should be similar in style.

I see that it was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be, given that I selected a photo from the ones I had taken that didn't have friends in it, or give away too much about the situation, but I think the windows are in keeping with the rest of the New Court, Gothic Revival look, but hope this photo is more helpful still.
http://cache.virtualtourist.com/1/1759403-St_Johns_College-Cambridge.jpg

[Borek]

I see that it was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be

Don't worry, it wasn't that hard, I have just followed wrong path. It happens now and then and it makes the game more interesting :smile:

[epenguin]

I can see from your reactions that it is on the tips of your tongues and you don't want any hints. :approve:

[Andre]

it's a very clever one. It's obviously a mill or a plant and totally ungoogleable. Something like a yellow land mark on the Canary islands and try google Yellow canary

[epenguin]

Not mill or plant. :smile:

[Borek]

Moncada Garrison, Santiago de Cuba

http://www.pbase.com/miggy/image/35508052

Edit: it looks like a military building, but I was googling for a fort - to no avail. When I switched to yellow barracks, success was instant :smile:

[epenguin]

Bravo!
You are not an idiot after all.
I knew once you'd got it there wouldn't be any doubt. My next clue was going to be that there were contraindications of it being a mill etc. In fact that is the only clue in the pic is that it is military. Then it is a bit topical, my reason for putting it now.

This was where Castro launched his 1953 failed coup.

You can see 'Cuidad Escolar' on pics, in part on yours - it became or contained a dental school.

[Borek]

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark43.jpg

Intended to be difficult, so probably won't last long.

[OmCheeto]

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark43.jpg

Intended to be difficult, so probably won't last long.

Googling "one legged barn" gave nothing.

"Floating barn" yielded Krasnosilka Odessa Ukraine.

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/97671

My grandmother was born outside of Odessa back in 1898.

[Borek]

Yep. Your turn.

[OmCheeto]

http://home.europa.com/~garry/pf_landmark_2b.jpg

[OmCheeto]

Am I supposed to give clues if no one guesses in a few hours?

Here's one:

My dad was born within a hundred miles of this palace.

[turbo-1]

Mitchell, SD

I actually Googled this up, from another view, but the appearance of the corn and grain cladding changes from year to year. The flags were giving me fits, too. The striped flags looked like the Thai flag.
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/FIP/DS-00065-C~Corn-Palace-Mitchell-South-Dakota-Posters.jpg

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.postcardsfrom.com/cards/980813f.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.postcardsfrom.com/t1/980813.html&usg=__o2M_zXqnsviQkIIb2u5JBnjP-oA=&h=288&w=432&sz=26&hl=en&start=23&um=1&tbnid=MJJu90bcdcxsdM:&tbnh=84&tbnw=126&prev=/images%3Fq%3DPalace%2Bonion%2Bdomes%26start%3D20%2 6ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3D N

[OmCheeto]

Mitchell, SD

I actually Googled this up, from another view, but the appearance of the corn and grain cladding changes from year to year. The flags were giving me fits, too. The striped flags looked like the Thai flag.
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/FIP/DS-00065-C~Corn-Palace-Mitchell-South-Dakota-Posters.jpg

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.postcardsfrom.com/cards/980813f.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.postcardsfrom.com/t1/980813.html&usg=__o2M_zXqnsviQkIIb2u5JBnjP-oA=&h=288&w=432&sz=26&hl=en&start=23&um=1&tbnid=MJJu90bcdcxsdM:&tbnh=84&tbnw=126&prev=/images%3Fq%3DPalace%2Bonion%2Bdomes%26start%3D20%2 6ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3D N

Correct!

Since Borek picked one of my ancestor's hometowns, I decided to stick to that theme.

I've never been to South Dakota so I just googled: famous landmarks south dakota

When the Corn Palace popped up, I knew I had a keeper.

The image that came up looked so Russian, I just had to lop off the American flag on top. :devil:

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm36/kiviniar/Photo%20Pumpkin/corn-palace-1.jpg

[turbo-1]

Aerial view, this time.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/lanndmark.jpg

[epenguin]

Although there is a little bit of cultivation it has an air of abandon. There are indistinguishable details that could be crosses of tombstones which suggest an old abandoned cemetery. They are not very lively places at the best of times.

I am hard put to suggest what part of world. Terracing and vegetation suggest some way above sea level in a hilly and watered but not intensely populated part like pre-Alps, countries of ex-Yugoslavia but could be wide. :confused:

[turbo-1]

Hint: Google on what might be dominant features. It'll come up.

[Andre]

It could be the temple ruins of Poseidon on the Greek island Poros

[turbo-1]

Not, bad, but not right, though.

[turbo-1]

Very good guess, though.

[Borek]

It is getting frustrating. I am starting to wonder if my selection of key words is not limited by my English. I have tried countless combinations of - between others - terraces, dry walls, farming, orchards, olive trees, theaters, temples and gardens, throwing in human and god silhouettes (do you see it?), seasoned now and then with Greece or aerial view. So far nothing even remotely similar.

I have seen similar terraces in Croatia, so my first bet was Mediterranean Sea, but just to be sure I have also checked a little bit of South America (Mayan and Incan culture).

Luckily January is slow, not as hectic as December was. Less money, but more time.

[mgb_phys]

My guess would be a Roman/Greek amphitheatre that has had most of the stone robbed.

[turbo-1]

Some of your search terms (in the right combination) will pull up this one, Borek. Your instincts are good.

[turbo-1]

My guess would be a Roman/Greek amphitheatre that has had most of the stone robbed.When I first saw this image, I thought ampitheatre, too. Such structures (at least those built by the Romans and Greeks) seem to be SO symmetrical, and laid out with a geometric precision that seems lacking here.

[epenguin]

It is getting frustrating. I am starting to wonder if my selection of key words is not limited by my English. I have tried countless combinations of - between others - terraces, dry walls, farming, orchards, olive trees, theaters, temples and gardens, throwing in human and god silhouettes (do you see it?), seasoned now and then with Greece or aerial view. So far nothing even remotely similar.

I have seen similar terraces in Croatia, so my first bet was Mediterranean Sea, but just to be sure I have also checked a little bit of South America (Mayan and Incan culture).

Luckily January is slow, not as hectic as December was. Less money, but more time.

Trying to make something of Turbo's Delphic hints - oh hey wait a bit... comes back ofter 15 min er yes, as I was saying, I too thought somewhere like Croatia as much of the Med is too arid for all that greenery. I also tried the S. American. What I noticed is that agricultural terraces are usually part of a larger scale system and clearly better maintained than this abandoned-looking one. Best sounding suggestion so far is Roman amphitheatre because of elliptical shape, those walls would have been under the floor and where they kept gladiators, animals, etc. as you see in the one at Rome. But I haven't found it.

[turbo-1]

Croatia is not a bad thought. Combined with some of Borek's intuitions.....

[mgb_phys]

When I first saw this image, I thought ampitheatre, too. Such structures (at least those built by the Romans and Greeks) seem to be SO symmetrical, and laid out with a geometric precision that seems lacking here.
Well if you use non-union slaves.

[turbo-1]

Well if you use non-union slaves.Non-union slaves can be more easily "kept in line", thus the wonderful proportions of the Coliseum.

[mgb_phys]

Non-union slaves can be more easily "kept in line", thus the wonderful proportions of the Coliseum.

But sometimes you get a few mistakes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/images/pyramid_gallery_bent.jpg


ps. Not an entry, I've still no idea where the last one is

[Andre]

http://www.korculainfo.com/arhitecture/dry-stone-walls-meje-korcula.html

http://www.korculainfo.com/arhitecture/images/dry-stone-walls-meje-korcul.jpg

ancient Dry Stone Walls on the Island of Korcula

the google was: Croatia dry walls

Most impressive find, Turbo

Googling with "dry stone walls" would have produced it on page 6 (http://images.google.nl/images?ndsp=20&um=1&hl=nl&lr=lang_en&rlz=1T4GPEA_nlDE302DE304&q=dry+stone+walls&start=100&sa=N), but if you put in "ruin" you get nothing.

[Borek]

So I was just out of luck this time.

At least I have learnt what a "dry wall" is :smile:

Am I the only one to see a human silhouette? With huge halo around upper part of the body?

[Andre]

obviously, and I learned that too. Indeed language is clearly a factor.

I found a beaaauuuutiful one, but I'll wait until 13:00 UTC/GMT before posting, when America wakes up.

[epenguin]

Well I never! And I have been in Korcula, though long time ago before the wars, and this recalls nothing to me. I did see a couple of what I took from colour to be bougainville bushes but it put me in mind of the whole area, not specifically Korcula.

Am I the only one to see writing there ? - on a long rectangular element on the left there is what seems like a cross at the top, and lower down a distinct 'to' and two indistinct letters that might be 'it'. I wondered if they were trying to get a message to us.

[Andre]

http://i42.tinypic.com/2usvbk1.jpg

[Borek]

Monet's bridge?

Edit: I answered before googling, and while I can't find this particular view, I am pretty sure that's it: http://flickr.com/photos/anafeliciano/2569049949/

edit 2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bridge_Over_a_Pond_of_Water_Lilies,_Claude_Mo net_1899.jpg

[Andre]

Monet's bridge?

The title of the thread is Where's That Landmark?

[Borek]

In Monet's garden :tongue2:

Somewhere around 49°4'30"N and 1°32'0"E...

[Andre]

No, sorry

Hint:

http://i41.tinypic.com/1zxuxqf.jpg

[epenguin]

Giverny?

[turbo-1]

ancient Dry Stone Walls on the Island of Korcula

the google was: Croatia dry walls

Most impressive find, Turbo

Googling with "dry stone walls" would have produced it on page 6 (http://images.google.nl/images?ndsp=20&um=1&hl=nl&lr=lang_en&rlz=1T4GPEA_nlDE302DE304&q=dry+stone+walls&start=100&sa=N), but if you put in "ruin" you get nothing.Great job, Andre. I was interested in seeing if I could find some dry stone walls that would be distinctive enough to be able to differentiate - they show up in every culture, it seems. When I found this aerial shot, I was floored.

[Borek]

Grounds for Sculpture in New Jersey?

[turbo-1]

Andre, I didn't check Borek's coordinates, yet, but isn't that the Wisteria-draped Japanese bridge at Giverney?

[turbo-1]

Grounds for Sculpture in New Jersey?Ah, a re-creation, then?

[Andre]

Sorry, this particular one is in a completely different continent, solve the hint

[turbo-1]

Wisteria-covered Japanese bridge over Franco-Japanese lily pond, Mt. Hiei, Kyoto, Japan? It is far more overgrown-looking with more wisteria foliage and water-plants, but it could be a late-summer shot, as opposed to a spring (may?) shot when the wisteria are in bloom and the water lilies, etc are still developing.


http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3124/2740301121_bb318f662f.jpg%3Fv%3D0&imgrefurl=http://flickr.com/photos/40295335@N00/2740301121&usg=___FaigHcrDcWQ4M7oD0LR3InifAo=&h=375&w=500&sz=218&hl=en&start=97&tbnid=6fUqoIw2Lo1g_M:&tbnh=98&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwisteria%2Bbridge%26start%3D80%26ndsp %3D20%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN

[Andre]

Isn't it amazing how many fake monet bridges there are? Continue.

[turbo-1]

Witches Garden, Mitta Valley, Australia
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.thewitchesgarden.com/files/Monet%2520Bridge.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.thewitchesgarden.com/tours.php%3FD%3D6&usg=__aT7z7oTfUzPqSlFfEo8xkZ7C24U=&h=450&w=600&sz=99&hl=en&start=416&tbnid=F31vQy85DI5aiM:&tbnh=101&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwisteria%2Bbridge%26start%3D400%26nds p%3D20%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN

[Andre]

That's it. The Witches Garden (http://www.thewitchesgarden.com/tours.php?D=6)

The hint was: witches broom - broom = witches

Googling "witches Monet bridge" makes it the first hit.

This one was dedicated to Fuzzyfelt: Artist Australia

[turbo-1]

Here's one with fantastic hint potential, though it is so distinctive that hints will not be necessary.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark-17.jpg

[Borek]

Isn't it amazing how many fake monet bridges there are? Continue.

I thought you mean Turbo already guessed and it is his turn to post the question :uhh:

[Andre]

I thought you mean Turbo already guessed and it is his turn to post the question :uhh:

Sorry Borek, the English languague can be so confusing. It's just that I hate to say no.

[turbo-1]

I agree that it can be confusing, Borek, but Andre is usually careful to answer directly in the affirmative to a correct answer (and even add details about his hints, etc), so I took "continue" to mean "wrong, keep digging". I honed the search string a bit, and found the Aussie Monet bridge eventually.

[Borek]

Nah, no problem. Seems I have just one of those days when I should sit silently in the corner and pretend I am not home.

[turbo-1]

Like I said earlier, this building should be on any who's who list for hints. Just too many good ones to choose from. If you want one, let me know.

[Andre]

well unsuccessful googles so far:
UFO Building; unique design, unique architecture, unusual d, unusual a, post modern d + a, Lots and lots weird buildings but not this one.

[fuzzyfelt]

That's it. The Witches Garden (http://www.thewitchesgarden.com/tours.php?D=6)

The hint was: witches broom - broom = witches

Googling "witches Monet bridge" makes it the first hit.

This one was dedicated to Fuzzyfelt: Artist Australia

Wow! Thanks so much Andre, that is gorgeous and amazing!

I also saw the figure and writing in the dry stone wall, once mentioned. It is a great thread with great landmarks!

[turbo-1]

We are close to bed-time for our European participants. Does anybody want a hint, or should I hold off for a while? I've got some good ones!

[epenguin]

I'd say it is a modern concrete building with a lot of glass which narrows it down a lot. :cool:

[turbo-1]

Ok it's hint time!

Hint: hatchet tea.

[OmCheeto]

Great job, Andre. I was interested in seeing if I could find some dry stone walls that would be distinctive enough to be able to differentiate - they show up in every culture, it seems. When I found this aerial shot, I was floored.

Umm...... Where I'm from, there's no such thing as a dry anything.

If it weren't for dryers, we'd have no need for the word.

[lisab]

Umm...... Where I'm from, there's no such thing as a dry anything.

If it weren't for dryers, we'd have no need for the word.

That was a new term for me too, Om. Where you and I live, rock walls are never dry...more like slimy, algae covered walls.

[turbo-1]

Umm...... Where I'm from, there's no such thing as a dry anything.

If it weren't for dryers, we'd have no need for the word.Dry stone walls are those that are laid up with stones alone. No mortar or other binding materials to help them stay together, just clever laying-up, with the edges of the wall being bound together by cross-tie stones that are figured into the structure of the inner and outer layers. Where I live, intrusion by water and the destructive effects of freeze/thaw cycles can destroy dry stone walls in a few decades, even if they are well-made and well-capped. It just happens. I like dry-laid walls, even though they don't last all that long here.

[OmCheeto]

That was a new term for me too, Om. Where you and I live, rock walls are never dry...more like slimy, algae covered walls.

I was going to drop your name as a backup to the fact that there is no 'dry' around here, but I thought that would be rude and presumptive of me.

But have you seen the new landmark? I swear to god I live underneath it. Or at least, I've seen that photo in the last 30 years.

[lisab]

I was going to drop your name as a backup to the fact that there is no 'dry' around here, but I thought that would be rude and presumptive of me.

But have you seen the new landmark? I swear to god I live underneath it. Or at least, I've seen that photo in the last 30 years.

No we don't live underneath it, that's permanent cloud cover that you see :tongue2:.

But the vegetation in the pic doesn't look Pacific Northwestern to me...

And the hint...hatchet tea? An anagram for Hate The Cat. So cruel, turbo...I'm a cat person!

[signerror]

Here's one with fantastic hint potential, though it is so distinctive that hints will not be necessary.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark-17.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geisel_Library

Main library at Univ. of California at San Diego, designed by William Pereira.

[signerror]

This was relatively easy, as it was featured on wikipedia's article on brutalist architecture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist#Campus_Brutalism

I can't remember where, but there was a very nice article somewhere on the web, which looked at Le Corbusier's modernist ideas in urban architecture. In particular there was the idea about buildings flying above cities on concrete stilts (like Unite d'Habitation in Marseille), so that the ground level would be very open and human-focused. So that was my starting point for googling - substitute "brutalism" for "building on concrete stilts", and this building is on page 2.

(edit) It was probably physicist Clifford Johnson:

This is NOT a clue!
http://asymptotia.com/wp-images/2006/07/lecorbusier1.jpg

http://asymptotia.com/2006/07/28/unite-dhabitation/

[Borek]

Stilts... that's again limitation of my English. So far I was googling for various combinations of external carrying structure, cantilever, beam, support, raw concrete, ribs and cradle.

[signerror]

Here's my clue.

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/3027/mainphpg2viewcorert7.jpg

[signerror]

I think it pretty easily qualifies as a landmark.

First hint: Bard Billy.

I have more if needed.

[signerror]

Second hint: it is a thing.

[signerror]

Third hint:

http://images.usatoday.com/life/_photos/2005/01/20/inside-icecube.jpg

[Borek]

Clue? Or the question?

[signerror]

It's the question.

[turbo-1]

Stilts... that's again limitation of my English. So far I was googling for various combinations of external carrying structure, cantilever, beam, support, raw concrete, ribs and cradle.I had given hints related to the name of the man after whom the library was re-dedicated. Theodor Seuss Geisel. Hints included "who's who" (a who is a being so small that a whole civilization of them could live on a grain of dust) and "hint: hatchet tea" (anagram for the "cat in the hat"). Evil, I know, but I learned the technique from Andre. :devil:

BTW, the building is the library on the campus of UCSD.

[Andre]

I had given hints related to the name of the man after whom the library was re-dedicated. Theodor Seuss Geisel. Hints included "who's who" (a who is a being so small that a whole civilization of them could live on a grain of dust) and "hint: hatchet tea" (anagram for the "cat in the hat"). Evil, I know, but I learned the technique from Andre. :devil:

BTW, the building is the library on the campus of UCSD.

You are supposed to add the :devil: with the "cryptic" hints. Check mine. All hints without :devil: are honest and straight forward.

I have no idea what the question is, but I'm doing other things at the moment

[turbo-1]

You are supposed to add the :devil: with the "cryptic" hints. Check mine. All hints without :devil: are honest and straight forward.

I have no idea what the questions but I'm doing other things at the momentAh, I understand. I'll be good.

[OmCheeto]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geisel_Library

Main library at Univ. of California at San Diego, designed by William Pereira.

Ah ha! I knew I'd seen it before. I tried to enroll in UCSD back in 1983. They told me there was a 2 year waiting list. Argh.......

[Jonathan Scott]

No-one got it yet? I guessed two words which gave it quite easily in Google, although I don't understand the first "hint". At least it's scientific, and at a somewhat extreme location.

I'm leaving it for someone else because I have no ideas for landmarks and no time to play with images.

[Andre]

IceCube drill tower in the Amundsen Scott Camp, South Pole? searching for Neutrino's

http://icecube.wisc.edu/news/2008/images/04171.jpg

http://www.nsf.gov/od/opp/antarct/science/south_pole_prj0607.jsp

third hint, ice cube, excellent, first?

[signerror]

IceCube drill tower in the Amundsen Scott Camp, South Pole? searching for Neutrino's

http://www.nsf.gov/od/opp/antarct/sc...le_prj0607.jsp

You got it!

First hint was an anagram of "drill, baby", and had nothing to do with Shakespeare (I am devious too!)

Second hint referred to The Thing, which is a John Carpenter horror flick about an alien found buried in ice in Antarctica. IceCube is also buried in ice, in Antarctica. Two clues in one!

Andre got the third hint: Ice Cube is a rapper with the same name.

[Andre]

http://i43.tinypic.com/8zef7q.jpg

[Andre]

A tough one I guess, I will give a (cooperative) hint about the general location in another hour or two when I see everybody online.

[Borek]

Surprisingly hard for such a disctinctive place.

Looks like bark with photoshopped person :wink:

[turbo-1]

Surprisingly hard for such a disctinctive place.

Looks like bark with photoshopped person :wink:My initial reaction until I saw the person! Bark with shelf-fungii.

[Andre]

It's real. Been there, seen it from a distance. Still wondering why I did not post it earlier. Anyway the general area is the...
http://i40.tinypic.com/favcb6.jpg

[turbo-1]

Lanzarote - El Golfo Beach

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00011/lanzarote_11771t.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/holidays/sun-sea/lanzarote--if-apple-designed-islands-they-would-look-like-this-766074.html&usg=__bM5fmZknW4q-I2g1uR20d5dvumU=&h=345&w=294&sz=29&hl=en&start=11&um=1&tbnid=GwuQhiwnWnT83M:&tbnh=120&tbnw=102&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlanzarote%2Bcliffs%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den %26sa%3DN

[Andre]

Right, on the Canary islands, isn't it amazing?

[turbo-1]

Right, on the Canary islands, isn't it amazing?What's amazing is that it is so hard to find a picture of a place so distinctive. When you posted the image, I thought it would be a snap.

[turbo-1]

This one probably won't last long, but it's so fascinating, I had to include it.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark-18.jpg

[Andre]

Moray terraces Peru

http://www.rediscovermachupicchu.com/img-moray-01.jpg

Seen that many times looking for dry walls

[turbo-1]

Is that some kind of record-time? I had to include it because it is commonly believed to be an experimental agricultural station. A natural sinkhole was terraced, providing micro-climes for testing food crops.

Edit: Here's a mystery - there are lots of what appear to be VERY large stones in the image I posted that are not in Andre's image. Anybody got an idea why that might be?

[Andre]

looks like before and after tuning up

[Andre]

http://i44.tinypic.com/dxzyo.jpg

[turbo-1]

It appears that people have been repairing the terraces. My picture has evidence of a lot of water-caused erosion on the more distant side.

[signerror]

Golden Gate Park, San Franscisco.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2005/03/18/WBGIGBN2CJ1.DTL&o=0&type=travelbayarea

[turbo-1]

Queen Wilhelmina's Windmill

Interesting. She decided to keep her windmill in the Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

[turbo-1]

Darn! Edged out by signerror.

[signerror]

Assuming that is the correct windmill and not a replica, here's my puzzle:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Superph%C3%A9nix.jpg/800px-Superph%C3%A9nix.jpg

[signerror]

Hint 1:

http://www.popsci.com/files/imagecache/article_image_large/files/articles/delorean.jpg

Hint 2:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/Speedy_gonzales.jpg

Hint 3:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Phoenix_detail_from_Aberdeen_Bestiary.jpg

[Andre]

CERN Geneve?

[signerror]

Nope.

[mgb_phys]

The Superphénix fast breeder perhaps?

From a news story - a rocket attack was launched against the unfinished plant by an "eco-pacifist group", presumably a group desperately in need of dictionary.

[signerror]

A super pheonix fast breeder perhaps?

You got it! And you may have set a new record on time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superphenix#Operation

First hint was a silly numerical coincidence - Superphenix is rated at 1.21 "jigawatts", which could have made this hint very useful (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=1.21+GW+reactor&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=).

Second hint referred to the fast neutron spectrum (literally, the neutrons are moving fast - relativistically fast - they not slowed down by a moderator.) Superphenix is a "fast reactor", and the largest in the world. Speedy Gonzales (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedy_Gonzales) is the "Fastest Mouse in all Mexico", and a grating stereotype too.

Third hint is the mythological Phoenix, after which it is named.

By the way, there was a subtle joke in following a wind mill with a nuclear reactor. Bit too political perhaps.

[Borek]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superphenix

But it doesn't count, it was hidden in the file name. Although nuclear reactor was obvious without a hint.

[signerror]

But it doesn't count, it was hidden in the file name.

Yes, I'm lazy. :devil:

Although nuclear reactor was obvious without a hint.

Hence the hints to narrow it down - there are hundreds of reactors, but very, very few fast ones.

[signerror]

From a news story - a rocket attack was launched against the unfinished plant by an "eco-pacifist group", presumably a group desperately in need of dictionary.

:rofl:

[mgb_phys]

The delay was trying to remember how to spell Pheonix in french!

I didn't get the Back to the Future reference other than nuclear.

I visited the place once - it's near the swiss border. Most French nuclear power stations are along the Normandy coast where the wind blows toward England!
The British attempt at a fast breeder was at the very northern tip of Scotland - not that there was any doubt about the safety of course!


http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp185/mgb_phys/lc6a.jpg

[signerror]

I edited my post and explained all the silly hints. I'm bad at those.

[signerror]

Vandenberg missile launch, California?

[Andre]

http://englishrussia.com/images/space_ad.jpg

[signerror]

Where is that, Andre?

[Andre]

Where is that, Andre?

Baikonur

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.russianspaceweb.com/soyuz_lv_pad_2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.russianspaceweb.com/soyuz1.html&usg=__Uyd1mKIR-ChbznbZYLGlDQ4sgXA=&h=200&w=140&sz=7&hl=nl&start=9&tbnid=stLoh75Se4SegM:&tbnh=104&tbnw=73&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlv%2Bsoyuz%2Blaunch%2Bcomplex%26gbv%3 D2%26hl%3Dnl%26sa%3DG

[mgb_phys]

Vandenberg missile launch, California?

Nope, not Baikonur either

[signerror]

Woomera

[mgb_phys]

Woomera
Correct - thought it was suitably obscure?

I suppose there are only so many launch sites.

[signerror]

Wikipedia has a list of rocket launch sites. If you run through the orbital-capable platforms in reverse alphabetical order (as I happened to do), Woomera is the 2nd thing you'll look at.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_launch_site#Launch_sites_for_orbital_launch _vehicles

I figured Andre was already looking through them in forward alphabetical order, so...

Can you confirm it's actually Woomera? The only source of that image I could find was a questionable personal page. Additionally, Google maps shows Woomera as being far inland (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=woomera&sll=-30.884427,136.851988&sspn=1.228078,2.471924&ie=UTF8&ll=-31.128199,136.82373&spn=4.899006,9.887695&t=h&z=7), whereas your photo is clearly coastal.

[turbo-1]

Edged out again! I found it on a page about an eclipse expedition.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.the-adam.com/adam/aus-4l9/launchsite.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.the-adam.com/adam/aus-4l9/aus.htm&usg=__X_QkTtxUbW4WUl48kLXfaDK_lMA=&h=369&w=548&sz=68&hl=en&start=67&um=1&tbnid=afefh71htt38zM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=133&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlaunch%2Bsite%26start%3D60%26ndsp%3D2 0%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN

[Borek]

Funny. Both nuclear reactors and launch sites were already used earlier in the thread.

I am mostly out of my computer ATM, so no time to search, just to check every half an hour if you have posted (and solved) next one...

[signerror]

Have fun:

http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/8024/bma303qa5.gif

[Andre]

http://www.sewerhistory.org/images/bm/bma3/bma303.gif

Outlet of the Cloaca Maxima on the Tiber River, Rome

[signerror]

Outlet of the Cloaca Maxima on the Tiber River, Rome

Right again, Andre!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaca_Maxima

http://www.romanaqueducts.info/aquapub/tardieu_photos.htm

http://www.sewerhistory.org/grfx/wh_region/italy.htm

Mine's from the last link,
Source: Marion Elizabeth Blake, Ancient Roman Construction in Italy from the Prehistoric Period to Augustus (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1947), plate 15, figure 3

[Andre]

I recognised it. I also recognized the Lac Leman area but not the power plant. I guess that's Vanesch's working place.

[Andre]

Inside a famous landmark

http://i41.tinypic.com/15qezi1.jpg

[Andre]

either you recognise it or there are almost no visual hints to google for. Yet somewhere in the picture is an important hint about the construction of this very famous landmark.

[Andre]

If you would jot down the ten most famous landmarks in the world, it would most probably be on your list.

[Andre]

Actually I concealed the construction a bit by cropping the picture. Now it is unconcealed:

http://i41.tinypic.com/9ulsfl.jpg

[signerror]

Le Tour Eiffel

[mgb_phys]

I thought that looked like Gustav Eiffel but there isn't a museum there.
The bridge in the etching on the wall is famous but I can't find it ( Garabit viaduct? ) if it is Eiffel.

[Andre]

Le Tour Eiffel

Congrats! Well done, the Eiffel tower Paris

[Borek]

Blah, I recognized it immediately (I have similar picture somewhere, taken back in 1996), but it was already too late.

[Borek]

I thought that looked like Gustav Eiffel but there isn't a museum there.

There is one room with those figures on the top level of the Tour Eiffel.

[signerror]

Easy one.

http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200711/r206891_789190.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Secret_Intelligence_Service_building_-_Vauxhall_Cross_-_Vauxhall_-_London_-_24042004.jpg

[mgb_phys]

There is one room with those figures on the top level of the Tour Eiffel.
I never made it to the top, the lifts were being repaired.

Not the MI5 building in London, nothing to see here, move along....

[signerror]

Not the MI5 building in London, nothing to see here, move along....

Nope. Sorry, mgb_phys.

[mgb_phys]

Sorry meant MI6

[signerror]

Sorry meant MI6

You got it. :biggrin:

[turbo-1]

Congrats! Well done, the Eiffel tower ParisI thought you gave us a really tough one, and I found a picture of Valdemar Poulson (inventor of the wire recorder, which looks like the gizmo on the table) with a similar beard. I got sidetracked pretty badly tracking that down - what a maroon!

[mgb_phys]

Until they built this it used to be that MI6 didn't (officially) exist. MI5 is counterespionage so that's OK. But MI6 is spying on people - which is naughty and not the sort of thing a gentleman would do.
Some genius built this place so it had nice sunny views of the river with gardens so that the workers could have their lunch outside - in view of all the tourists on boats on the Thames.

Funnily enough their old headquarters was next door to my dept at UCL, because it was top secret it didn't even have a street number and didn't appear on maps. This was slightly spoiled by the big sign outside telling you that it was a secret place and photography was not permitted!

[mgb_phys]

http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp185/mgb_phys/r1.jpg

Hint
http://i410.photobucket.com/albums/pp185/mgb_phys/r2.jpg

[epenguin]

Rockall Island. http://images.google.it/imgres?imgurl=http://www.travel-images.com/rockall1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.travel-images.com/rockall.html&usg=__nO_HtvbZ-kTAPEJWWgrgoZ3EReQ=&h=450&w=600&sz=62&hl=en&start=4&tbnid=HHNEa-4Kwqh1uM:&tbnh=101&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3DRockall%26imgtype%3Dphoto%26as_st%3Dy %26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

Sentries are posted to stop anyone stealing it.

[mgb_phys]

Correct

[epenguin]

http://i43.tinypic.com/2whr2hw.jpg

I have to log off now but when you get it there won't be any doubt. And I know at least one probably more here soon will.

[Andre]

http://www.origin-life.gr.jp/2903/2903143/Fig2b.gif

http://www.origin-life.gr.jp/2903/2903143/2903143.html
Kekulé's statue is standing in front of the old chemistry building along the Meckenheimer Allee, Bonn Germany without champagne bottle this time


With the help of a little birdie

[epenguin]

:approve: I was expecting you! Damn - you have done me out my clues!

The least tortuous of them would have been to suggest the bottle was not part of it but after all not all that inappropriate.
(Because on the one hand a bottle is reasonable for a chemist, and on the other a bottle like in the photo suggests a University.)

I suppose that is an old chemist's furnace at his feet?

Because of association with Kekule I had imagined that it must be a strong Chemistry Department at Bonn. But not strong enough to keep open, and it made a bit of an impression about ten years ago when it was closed.

I've tried to include some landmarks related to forum interests or deriving from those, though I guess we don't want too many statues of scientists.

[epenguin]

http://i43.tinypic.com/swfhmq.jpg

As another German said "Fantastic places, these colleges!" :biggrin:

[OmCheeto]

I've tried to include some landmarks related to forum interests or deriving from those, though I guess we don't want too many statues of scientists.

I don't know about that. I'd never heard of Kekulé. I think I must have looked at about 1000 bronze statues statues before giving up.

I thought the following was the most interesting part of his life:

Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_August_Kekul%C3%A9_von_Stradonitz)
Of the first five Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, his students won three: van 't Hoff in 1901, Fischer in 1902 and Baeyer in 1905.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/44/Kekuleelek.jpg/150px-Kekuleelek.jpg

I wonder if that's a record?

[lisab]

I don't know about that. I'd never heard of Kekulé. I think I must have looked at about 1000 bronze statues statues before giving up.

I thought the following was the most interesting part of his life:



http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/44/Kekuleelek.jpg/150px-Kekuleelek.jpg

I wonder if that's a record?

Another interesting part of Kekule's career: in a daydream, he thought of the structure of benzene as snakes (or by some accounts, one snake) in a circle, biting each other's tail. That's what gave him the idea that benzene is a ring structure.

Hooray for daydreaming!

[epenguin]

Another interesting part of Kekule's career: in a daydream, he thought of the structure of benzene as snakes (or by some accounts, one snake) in a circle, biting each other's tail. That's what gave him the idea that benzene is a ring structure.

Hooray for daydreaming!That could have been part of a clue if nothing else worked. :smile:

[Andre]

Actually it's not that difficult

Obviously the figure is most typical 19th century. So I googled 19th century scientist, and got sidetracked with Charles Darwin, James Joule and Lord Kelvin. Then 19th century politician, nothing, Then 19th century physicist, nothing, Then 19th century astronomer, nothing, Then 19th century chemist, and on page 4:
http://images.google.nl/images?ndsp=20&um=1&hl=nl&q=19th+century+chemist&start=60&sa=N

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:hEtcUh2bn7tbOM:http://www.geocities.com/amusingnaturalscience/images/chemis1.jpg

and it turned out to be him. Except that I overlooked that picture, probably because of the improper distribution of hair and I lingered on. However, then I got help from Fuzzyfelt who just miracurously seemed to have recognized him. No credit for me.

edit inserted the name.

[Andre]

Sorry it's the only picture I could find of this landmark. So it's going to be tough but plenty of hints

http://i43.tinypic.com/1z6qvsk.jpg

the top view of the complex as visible in Google maps

http://i39.tinypic.com/2mwxxyt.jpg

It looks that the picture is made from the west side


This landmark is dedicated to the person who recognized Kekulé

[Andre]

And that person is....Fuzzyfelt. That's a hint to music and/or art

[Borek]

Obviously the figure is most typical 19th century. So I googled 19th century scientist, and got sidetracked with Charles Darwin, James Joule and Lord Kelvin. Then 19th century politician, nothing, Then 19th century physicist, nothing, Then 19th century astronomer, nothing, Then 19th century chemist

19th century... I was on the similar track, but missing this 19th century idea. Once searches for university/campus statue/monument chemist/physicist combinations were futile I tried with famous chemists lists and Emil Fisher and Julius Lothar Meyer seemed promising, with similar beards and bald heads, but no hit. Then I moved to much more comprehensive list with 300 names but no pictures, just names and links - and with my internet it would take ages to check them all. So instead of weakening my eyes further I went to sleep.

[Andre]

That place is absolutely romance

[epenguin]

19th century... I was on the similar track, but missing this 19th century idea. Once searches for university/campus statue/monument chemist/physicist combinations were futile I tried with famous chemists lists and Emil Fisher and Julius Lothar Meyer seemed promising, with similar beards and bald heads, but no hit. Then I moved to much more comprehensive list with 300 names but no pictures, just names and links - and with my internet it would take ages to check them all. So instead of weakening my eyes further I went to sleep.
At that point you needed to ask for a hint.
There are not many names with "ek" in them. :biggrin:

And not many with "Bore"! :rofl:

[epenguin]

Just to be able to say later, maybe, that I was on right track, your verbal hints all point me to one place but I cannot find anything corresponding to your photos nor very many buildings that venerable there. Your photo reminds me a bit of another place in the same national ballpark where I have been, particularly the one from on top, but I cannot find a pic of your "West side".

[Andre]

Just to be able to say later, maybe, that I was on right track, your verbal hints all point me to one place but I cannot find anything corresponding to your photos nor very many buildings that venerable there. Your photo reminds me a bit of another place in the same national ballpark where I have been, particularly the one from on top, but I cannot find a pic of your "West side".

As I said the west side is the only picture on the net I could find. If you are correct then you are able to find the address of the landmark and with google maps you should land dead on the satellite pic.

[Andre]

hint

http://www.faversham.org/upload/images/Clubs%20&%20Societies%20-%20Arts%20&%20Crafts/oare%20string%20orchestra.jpg

[Andre]

That place is absolutely romance

Of course, you've noticed that there is an anagram in there. The name of the city.

[Borek]

Cremona, Via Palestro, but I still have no idea what it is... More googling needed.

Edit: Palazzo Affaitati

Edit: http://wiki.worldflicks.org/palazzo_affaitati.html

[Andre]

Cremona, Via Palestro, but I still have no idea what it is... More googling needed.

Edit: Palazzo Affaitati

Excellent but what about:

http://www.faversham.org/upload/images/Clubs%20&%20Societies%20-%20Arts%20&%20Crafts/oare%20string%20orchestra.jpg

[epenguin]

Excellent but what about:


Well Cremona was and still is the greatest Centre for production of fine stringed instruments, Stradivarius was there I think.

However from a previous clue where you said dedicated to the one whe discovered previous answer who was in fact yourself I had been looking at Santander (Saint Andre') but it is all too modern.

[Andre]

Indeed, the part we were looking for is the Stradivarius museum (http://www.planetware.com/cremona/stradivarius-museum-i-lo-crprs.htm), which is located there.

The orginal picture was found here (http://images.google.nl/imgres?imgurl=http://old.comune.cremona.it/doc_comu/mus/mus-stradivariano.jpg&imgrefurl=http://old.comune.cremona.it/doc_comu/mus/mus_ala_ponzone.html&usg=__r8ChKqgNodVuUuupBsHqq3vyAM4=&h=169&w=258&sz=15&hl=en&start=31&um=1&tbnid=C5NNji7LCFRhgM:&tbnh=73&tbnw=112&prev=/images%3Fq%3DMuseo%2BStradivariano%26start%3D20%26 ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN). But the site doesn't work nicely

Obviously Cremona = Romance

But Borek found it anyway, well done.

[Borek]

I thought you just refer to the fact that there were many famous luthiers in Cremona, and there are luthiers on Via Palestro in adjacent buildings, so I haven't delved deeper after locating Palazzo name.

I need two hours break now, will post something new once I am back.

[Borek]

Sorry, it took much longer then expected.

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark44.jpg

[lisab]

Maunsell forts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunsell_Forts

[Borek]

Yes. I was fascinated by the waterworldishness of the structures :smile:

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/180565

[lisab]

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/2637/landmarkw11di3.jpg

[signerror]

7 mile

http://www.florida-keys-fishing.org/florida-keys-bridge-fishing.htm

[lisab]

7 mile

http://www.florida-keys-fishing.org/florida-keys-bridge-fishing.htm

Right...lol...way, way too easy. Wish I had more time to search for something more challenging...but I'm at work...:redface:

[signerror]

http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/7068/landmarkuk9.jpg

[signerror]

Hint 1: There is a wacky worshiper.

[signerror]

Hint 2: There's an international border in the photo.

[signerror]

Hint 3: The city is buried.

[Borek]

Buried city and close to the border sounds like Zakopane, but I don't remember anything similar in Tatra Mountains. Am I right seeing building(s) at the top and other building slightly below?

[Borek]

Geez... Kasprowy Wierch.

Edit: I was there many times, just never seen it from that perspective.

[signerror]

Geez... Kasprowy Wierch

Right!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasprowy_Wierch

[signerror]

Hint #1 was an anagram: "wacky worshiper".

Hint #2 is literal: this mountain is adjacent to the Polish-Slovakian border.

Hint #3, as Borek points out, refers to the adjacent Polish city of Zakopane, which I think roughly translates as "buried"?

[Borek]

Hint #3, as Borek points out, refers to the adjacent Polish city of Zakopane, which I think roughly translates as "buried"?

Not roughly, exactly. Perhaps there are some slightly different connotations, but using "zakopane" (it) "zakopana" (she) and "zakopany" (he) to translate "buried" you will be perfectly understood in Poland.

[Borek]

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark45.jpg

[signerror]

Fort Christiansvaern

[signerror]

http://www.stcroixtourism.com/fort.htm

Looks correct.

Easy enough: it's the first image result for "yellow fort". :tongue2:

[signerror]

http://i41.tinypic.com/eew53.jpg

Here's an isolated group of strange-shaped rocks.

http://i44.tinypic.com/vwvnzk.jpg

Isolated group? No, they are part of a giant mountain! Somewhere in the middle of a vast forest, it seems.

http://i41.tinypic.com/2h8al5k.jpg

Oh no, look, it's actually on the seaside. Maybe some island?

http://i39.tinypic.com/k36r1z.jpg

Seaside? That's not an ocean, it's a river!

:rofl:

[Andre]

Omarama Clay Cliffs, New Zealand?

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_NhFXTwFZ0CI/R-B88nNBoqI/AAAAAAAABKE/coxpGGwccQA/s640/P1000474.JPG

[signerror]

Omarama Clay Cliffs, New Zealand?

Nope.

[Borek]

Looks like one of the great Siberian rivers to me. But I can't search images again, too slow connection... Signed new contract today, but I don't expect new uplink to work earlier than on Wednesday.

[fuzzyfelt]

And that person is....Fuzzyfelt. That's a hint to music and/or art

Thanks Andre, shame I haven't had the time to participate in this thread lately. I'm looking forward to being more free after next week.

[Andre]

Well it's still here so I bump it with another guess, somewhere along the Kotujkan river in the Ural mountains in Russia/Siberia

[signerror]

Well it's still here so I bump it with another guess, somewhere along the Kotujkan river in the Ural mountains in Russia/Siberia

Nope.

[signerror]

Hint: the river is huge - easily visible from space.

[Andre]

Pinnacles of the Lena

or Pillars of Lena Nat'l park

http://www.scwp.info/newsyakutiaaug2007.shtml
http://www.accessexcellence.org/BF/bf02/lipps/bf02c3.php
http://www.sakha-info.ru/index.php?news=2109

http://www.scwp.info/img/YakutiaConference_Aug07/MechanicKulibinLenaPillars.JPG

http://www.accessexcellence.org/BF/bf02/lipps/slides/40cliff.jpg

[signerror]

Pinnacles of the Lena

or Pillars of Lena Nat'l park

You got it!

[turbo-1]

Tough one, signerror! Even when Andre posted links, I couldn't find images equivalent to yours.

[signerror]

http://www.nhpfund.org/nominations/lena_pillars.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Pillars

[Andre]

Incredible how many limestone pinnacles there are on Earth

The next one is dedicated to Nilequeen who helped me solving an anagram (http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=2012556) in the past.

http://i39.tinypic.com/a2dqpy.jpg

[signerror]

Union Terminal, Cincinnati OH

[signerror]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Cincimuseum.jpg/300px-Cincimuseum.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Museum_Center_at_Union_Terminal)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Museum_Center_at_Union_Terminal

[Andre]

Right, nowadays housing the Natural History Museum of Cincy where she studies geology.

[signerror]

Easy one next.

Tropical paradise:

http://i39.tinypic.com/34s01uo.jpg

(The landmark is the beach)

[signerror]

Hint:

http://i44.tinypic.com/idybv9.jpg

[Borek]

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2009/Bids/Brisbane

[signerror]

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2009/Bids/Brisbane

You got it!

Streets Beach is an artificial beach and lagoon next to the Brisbane river, in Brisbane.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Bank_Parklands,_Brisbane

The clue is a Flying Fox, a bat endemic to Australia and southeast Asia. The South Bank parklands is infested with them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteropus

[Borek]

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark46.jpg

[Andre]

http://global-warming.accuweather.com/entrance1-thumb.jpg

Svalbard global seed vault (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault)

[Borek]

Yes. This building seems funny to me, like tower PC buried in snow :smile:

Junior configured our new net yesterday. So far so good :rofl:

[Andre]

It's remarkable indeed.

Next, something to burn up that new bandwidth. I like idyllic (no hint):

http://i40.tinypic.com/1g3y3p.jpg

[Andre]

Hint :wink::devil:

http://i40.tinypic.com/dxbtx3.jpg

[Borek]

Down under.

http://www.pbase.com/image/25919829

[Andre]

Got that fast

Hint was:

amanitas = Tasmania

Upon reflection, the :devil: could have been omitted as it was redundant. Since Amanitas are already poisonous.

[Borek]

I wasn't aware of the hint till I posted the answer.

And so far new provider seems to work OK :smile:

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark47.jpg

[matthyaouw]

Is that Nouadibou Bay, Mauretania?

[Borek]

Wow, and I was afraid it will be a little bit too random...

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/15005980

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/14533021

[turbo-1]

Darn! I kept thinking of the shrinking Aral Sea and deliberate beachings around Bangladesh so that ships could be scrapped... Tough one. "beached cargo ship" "grounded cargo ship" "beached merchant vessel" and a dozen other variations failed to dredge up this one.

Congrats, matt!

[matthyaouw]

I have to confess, I had heard about this place before so I hada bit of an advantage.

Continuing with a theme:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/matthyaouw/289299_62ad2aaa.jpg

[Andre]

http://nanadu.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/p8102937.jpg

Plassey Shipwreck, Inishere, Aran Islands, Ireland

[Borek]

I have already tried Scotland :smile:

[Andre]

But Ireland is renowned for the "dry stone walls" :smile:

[epenguin]

But Ireland is renowned for the "dry stone walls" :smile:

We are back to dry stone walls. But I knew in England the Cotswolds and Yorkshire as renowned for them. But you made me reflect and wonder - when did they start having any other kind of stone walls? :confused: When did cement or mortar come in anyway? Acc wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_stone#Historydry dry stone walls go back to the Neolithic, and even some extant ones are traceable back millenia. And they even have them in the US!

[Andre]

This one is dedicated to LisaB, a place to go once and to scuba dive.

http://i42.tinypic.com/2vip204.jpg

[Borek]

Phang-Nga Bay?

Edit: http://www.traveladventures.org/continents/asia/phang-nga-bay01.shtml

Can't see the golden gun.

[Andre]

Yes, known as the James Bond Rock or James Bond Island

Not intended to be difficult, just a beautiful place.

[Borek]

What about this one:

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark48.jpg

Hopefully random enough to survive till the night.

Trick is, I though the same about the previous landmark.

[matthyaouw]

You guys are too good. I didn't even get chance to give cryptic clues related to Father Ted (which the ship appears on the opening credits of)

[Laska]

Old Library at Warsaw University, Poland
http://www.eastersealstech.com/Regional-Assistive-Technology-Centers.aspx?id=0&sid=0&pid=27

That was hard, but then I found out you were from Poland :P
My turn? :D

http://i42.tinypic.com/11l0oc3.jpg

[Borek]

Hard to deny.

It was supposed to be difficult! :frown:

Are you from Poland too?

[Laska]

No, I am not from Poland, although my username could be misleading :)

[The Dagda]

Old Library at Warsaw University, Poland
http://www.eastersealstech.com/Regional-Assistive-Technology-Centers.aspx?id=0&sid=0&pid=27

That was hard, but then I found out you were from Poland :P
My turn? :D

http://i42.tinypic.com/11l0oc3.jpg

Looks Russian. I would of said Angkor Wat but it's too white.

It must be an Orthodox building though? hmmm...

[epenguin]

This looks to be it, a white temple in Myanmar. http://www.elisasjourneys.com/Myanmar%20Pictures/60WhiteTemple.jpg
"Hsinbyume Pagoda built in 1816" - more info and pics here http://www.asiaexplorers.com/myanmar/myatheindan_hsinbyume_pagoda.htm
Have you been there?

[The Dagda]

This looks to be it, a white temple in Myanmar. http://www.elisasjourneys.com/Myanmar%20Pictures/60WhiteTemple.jpg
"Hsinbyume Pagoda built in 1816"

Damn I said Angkor Wat soooooo close!! :smile:

[Laska]

This looks to be it, a white temple in Myanmar. http://www.elisasjourneys.com/Myanmar%20Pictures/60WhiteTemple.jpg
"Hsinbyume Pagoda built in 1816" - more info and pics here http://www.asiaexplorers.com/myanmar/myatheindan_hsinbyume_pagoda.htm
Have you been there?

That's the one. I have been to Mandalay but not sure if I've been to that one.. forgot

[epenguin]

That's the one. I have been to Mandalay but not sure if I've been to that one.. forgotyeah, I mean who would remember a thing like that....?

[Laska]

yeah, I mean who would remember a thing like that....?

I was young! and there's a lot of pagodas in that country! Anyway, post your landmark mister :mad:

[epenguin]

I think this is easy :smile:

http://i42.tinypic.com/35nbwy1.jpg

[Laska]

St Pancras International Train Station
http://www.spinsterzine.com/?p=66
__________________________________________________ ____

http://i41.tinypic.com/353b5v6.jpg

Tried to make it a little harder

[epenguin]

Yes this will soon be one of the the most seen and easiest recognised statues in the world.
A debatable poet, not for an intellectual avant-garde, but of him it has been said "Betjeman's poetry provides the reader with a skeleton key to a long lost past which he will instantly recognise even if he were never there." - wikepedia"

[Borek]

Greenbrier Resort Hotel and Spa

edit: as seen here: http://www.4seasonstoursandtravel.com/motorcoach_tours.htm

edit2: seems like there are at least two similar entrances to the hotel, main one is much larger, this one is on the north side of the building: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/14027307

[Laska]

Wow Borek! Nice. I was hoping that using the rear entrance would be tricky. Haha

[Borek]

Sheer luck. Good it is back.

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark49.jpg

[Laska]

Cagsawa Church Bell Tower, Philippines

http://www.flickr.com/photos/crispyparty/2598316040/
http://www.travelblog.org/Photos/2037448.html

________________________________________________

http://i41.tinypic.com/iee421.jpg

[Borek]

Roanoke City Fire Station #1

http://picasaweb.google.com/elliott400/RoanokeTrains#5188778677507074082

Edit: just for the record, in my previous question I used picture from http://www.panoramio.com/photo/380429

[lisab]

Roanoke City Fire Station #1

http://picasaweb.google.com/elliott400/RoanokeTrains#5188778677507074082

Edit: just for the record, in my previous question I used picture from http://www.panoramio.com/photo/380429

Don't know if you're going to get a confirmation, Borek...we may have lost Laska. But Googling "Roanoke City Fire Station 1" clearly shows you got it....

[Borek]

I was almost sure, but I prefer to not ask another question before getting confirmation. But it is over 48 hours now...

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark50.jpg

Hopefully random enough to last over 30 minutes :wink:

[Andre]

http://www.opoka.org.pl/biblioteka/Z/ZK/wit228.jpg

http://www.opoka.org.pl/biblioteka/Z/ZK/styl_witkiewicza.html

Jaszczorowka vicinity of Zakopane

[Borek]

Beautiful place, isnt' it? Called Kaplica na Jaszczurówce (Jaszczurówka Chapel).

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/13584934

[Andre]

Absolutely. Had another little birdie right here this time who translated "highlander house". I'm buying him a beer.

http://i39.tinypic.com/1z2370l.jpg

[turbo-1]

Canary Islands, yet again!
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Wind_sculpture_Manrique.jpg&imgrefurl=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wind_sculpture_Manrique.jpg&usg=__oGcgueq_bKAT4fW9w5JUNZYklps=&h=1024&w=1024&sz=60&hl=en&start=5&um=1&tbnid=47HLIJa9UEzvYM:&tbnh=150&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwind%2Bsculpture%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%2 6safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN

[Andre]

Enough for me. It's one of the first "windspiele" by the legendary late Cesar Manrique at his very remarkable domicile, on the same island Lanzarote on the Canaries on walking distance (long walk) from the El Golfo formation posted earlier. On the background is indeed a ~350 years old volcano. There are many more remarkable landmarks over there.

[turbo-1]

Probably won't last too long...

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark-19.jpg

[turbo-1]

If you can determine the purpose of the building AND guess the location, it's hits #2 and #4 on Google Images. I had to make sure the image was poor enough so that the writing over the entrance was illegible.

[Andre]

Solon elementary school

http://www.msad74.org/solon/

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mecsolon/images/solonelem.JPG

A little birdie wispered "elementary school" and I found Boreks creatively addressed postcard back.

[Borek]

http://www.msad74.org/solon/

Edit: beaten by one minute :smile:

[turbo-1]

Solon elementary school

http://www.msad74.org/solon/

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mecsolon/images/solonelem.JPG

A little birdie wispered "elementary school" and I found Boreks creative addressed postcard back.That's it, Andre. Such a tiny town spending so much money on architects, etc... for a building to house a handful of school-kids. Judging from the number of vehicles in the parking lot on school days, there's at least one adult there for every 3-4 kids.

[Andre]

A good one Turbo Hopefully once the school will need it's capacity once

Anyway the next:

http://i44.tinypic.com/21kdulf.jpg

[Laska]

Sorry, I hadn't checked in a while but now I'm back

[turbo-1]

http://www.msad74.org/solon/

Edit: beaten by one minute :smile:I had you pegged for this one, Borek, because I look to local landmarks a lot. FWIW, I had never had an urge to visit Poland, but after seeing the shots that you and the lovely and talented Mrs. Borek post, I would love to visit Warsaw.

Perhaps I could fly once again if I could be hermetically sealed with a dedicated air supply...

[Borek]

I was almost sure it is Solon from the very beginning, but I started googling for "tower" "clock tower" and so on. And I haven't noticed your hint for a long time, as I was occupied with other things. Then I came back to the thread, read your hint, entered "solon school" and lo, it was down on the first page. But it was already seconds too late :smile:

You may consider going to Europe by boat, small enough that you won't have to take any passengers :wink: And if you will get here, I can probably borrow you a scent free car. At least I am not aware of any reason why our cars could be dangerous for you.

Marzena invites you cordially, although she asked me to warn you that she will be able to communicate only hand waving :rofl:

[Borek]

A good one Turbo Hopefully once the school will need it's capacity once

Anyway the next:

http://i44.tinypic.com/21kdulf.jpg

http://picasaweb.google.com/muraliadiga/AjantaAndEllora#5060221115672196306

Kailash temple, Ajanta & Ellora (whatever that means, I don't know yet :wink: )

[Andre]

Right, the Ellora caves, it's on the UNESCO heritage list (http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/243), and could have been a favorite choice of Lisab, to whom this one was dedicated. Without her I would never have guessed that the previous depressing dark building was to be an elementary school, which in Holland are bright and light and glassy.

[Borek]

Yep, it didn't look like a school to me as well, but for different reasons. Schools in Poland have completely different windows style - they reflect huge class rooms behind.

Probably easy:

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark51.jpg

[Andre]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mmBw3uzPnJI/Rt25jN5XYCI/AAAAAAAAIJA/rSZrC7Z2d80/s1600/swallows_nest_08.jpg


Castle Swallows Nest Lastochkino Gnizdo (http://images.google.nl/images?hl=nl&lr=lang_en&rlz=1T4GPEA_nlDE302DE304&sa=3&q=Lastochkino+Gnizdo+&btnG=Afbeeldingen+zoeken) Yalta Ukraine

[fuzzyfelt]

Well done Andre, I didn't even get close, which is probably good since I have to go now!

[turbo-1]

Right, the Ellora caves, it's on the UNESCO heritage list (http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/243), and could have been a favorite choice of Lisab, to whom this one was dedicated. Without her I would never have guessed that the previous depressing dark building was to be an elementary school, which in Holland are bright and light and glassy.As you and Borek have both alluded, the school is an eyesore with insufficient natural lighting and hokey-looking bell-tower. If you could see this rustic little town, you'd shake your heads in wonder, saying "What WERE they thinking?"

[Andre]

Got to go in a while so how about this?

http://i43.tinypic.com/25unsjk.jpg

[Borek]

Swallows nest it is.

http://englishrussia.com/?tag=swallows-nest

As you and Borek have both alluded, the school is an eyesore with insufficient natural lighting and hokey-looking bell-tower. If you could see this rustic little town, you'd shake your heads in wonder, saying "What WERE they thinking?"

To be honest with you, when I was thinking what could be a good search for google images I came with "architectonical disaster".

[Andre]

Hint
Like one of the previous, this is in walking distance of another landmark in this thread

[Laska]

This one is harder than it looks first glance, Andre

[Andre]

Not for all those people over there. Perhaps give that previous hint more than a fleeting thought, because masses of people actually do walk it.

[turbo-1]

This one is harder than it looks first glance, AndreTrue-dat! How many pavilions have you looked at so far?

[Andre]

Before calling it a day, really try the hints, and somewhere in the hints is hidden a single word anagram.

[Laska]

Bah, I probably won't get it before I have to go. Looks tensile + pavilion. And it looks really similar to the West German Pavilion, but that's really old.

[Borek]

Entrance to Efteling.

http://www.shotsbyme.com/index.php?id=8

[Borek]

OK, I don't like to post questions without confirmation, but this time I will post next one not waiting for Andre. I have my reasons :devil:

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark52.jpg

[Andre]

:tongue2: Working on your next nomination for best humor, Borek? :biggrin:

Around the corner here:

Kleve (http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Kleve_neuer_tiergarten.jpg&filetimestamp=20060429161955)

http://www.museumkurhaus.de/images/000024image.jpg

[Andre]

To finish the previous landmark.

The related earlier landmark was the flying pagoda (http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=2011954&highlight=efteling#post2011954)

The anagram:

Perhaps give that previous hint more than a fleeting (Efteling) thought, because masses of people actually do walk it.

[Borek]

Yes, that's Kleve :smile:

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/3758691

As everyone else had several hours to try, they can't say they were given no chance :tongue2:

[turbo-1]

Efltling? What kind of place-name is that?!!!

[Andre]

the new one,

http://i40.tinypic.com/2exu5ur.jpg

__________________________________________________ ___
unrelated: For Turbo

The Efteling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efteling) is the name of the amusement park, which is much more famous than it's location (Kaatsheuvel) in the Netherlands.

[matthyaouw]

Castle Lichtenstein, Germany
http://www.flickr.com/photos/41547529@N00/393796264/

[Andre]

You got it, Matthaouw,

Interesting note, many novels take place at existing castles and places like that, however this Castle was (re)build after the publication of a novel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichtenstein_(novel)) about it.

[matthyaouw]

What an intersting place. I would love to see some of those castles someday :smile:

Next one:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/matthyaouw/landmark.jpg

[matthyaouw]

No one? Let me know when it's time for a clue.

[turbo-1]

No one? Let me know when it's time for a clue.This is a mean one! I have looked at thousands of brick and stone buildings and thousands of statues. This type of pose shows up on Roman coins, and is very similar to the George Washington statue in Trafalgar square (apart from the military gear).

[mgb_phys]

I'm guessing a British/Victorian school / university and the guy is a famous alumnus

[turbo-1]

I'm guessing a British/Victorian school / university and the guy is a famous alumnusBut look at the short pants. 1700s probably - not Victorian. Unless the founders of the school wanted to honor someone who left a nice endowment.

[mgb_phys]

The statue looks like the one of Joseph Priestley - but it's in Birmingham town centre
The building looks like every other C19 university building

[turbo-1]

Wilberforce Hall in Hull.

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wilberforce

[matthyaouw]

Nice work Turbo. What gave it away? I had planned to come back with a few clues as the building itself doesn't give you too much to go on (being a hell of a lot older than most would guess for a start. It was actually built in 1656).

[turbo-1]

I figured that it had to be a statue of a statesman because of the pose, and it had to be from the 1700s at the latest, though the house looked older. I had wasted a LOT of time looking for statues of poets, scientists, mathematicians, etc. Eventually, I found another view of the statue, accompanying a screed about abolishing slavery.

[turbo-1]

Here's one that I like. It won't last too long, but it's interesting.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark-20.jpg

[Borek]

Gauss & Weber Statue

Edit: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goe.Gauss.Weber.Denkmal.Wall.Bürgerstr.detail .02.JPG

[turbo-1]

That's it, Borek. Pretty fast.

[Borek]

Try this one :wink:

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark53.jpg

[Laska]

Looked a lot like the Faraglioni.. oh why do all these rocks have to look the same..

[fuzzyfelt]

I don't really see an image that matches Borek's, but is it Aphrodite's Rock, Cyprus?
http://www.jacarandavilla.com/250x188-008.jpg

[Borek]

No :devil:

[fuzzyfelt]

Inspiring possibility, though :smile:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Birth_of_Venus.jpg

[Andre]

How about Lake Baikal


http://www.ponty.dk/bajk01a.jpg

Olkhon Island (http://www.ponty.dk/bajk-eng.htm)

I observed the :devil: :biggrin:

[Borek]

Yep, so called Shaman rock.

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/518728

My Mom was in Irkutsk back in eighties (some kind of bussines trip, these things were very convoluted then in this part of the world) and she brought home - apart from memories and stories to tell - an album with pictures of the Baikal Lake. Incredibly beautifull place.

The only problem - 10 months of winter. But then there is (wide hand waving) Summer and Summer and Summer!

That's one of the sayings she brought from the trip :smile:

[epenguin]

Number of Poles went there in history, not quite of their own accord. But at least in those times more benign than later they were able to make it a nice place.

[Andre]

It was a challenging one indeed.

Now this one:

http://i41.tinypic.com/fyg6mg.jpg

[Borek]

Number of Poles went there in history, not quite of their own accord.

You don't have to tell me... Some of their descendants still live there.

[Andre]

Bumping because I edited my last post with the picture

http://i41.tinypic.com/fyg6mg.jpg

[Andre]

Geographic location:
from all the regular posters I know, here this landmark is the closest too Lisab

[lisab]

Geographic location:
from all the regular posters I know, here this landmark is the closest too Lisab

Thought I recognized the stone...and the tree in back looks like a Madrona.

...Craigdarroch Castle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigdarroch_Castle)

[Borek]

http://i40.tinypic.com/1g3y3p.jpg

Would you believe it? I just got a random postcard from postcrossing.com - and it is picture of this bridge. What a coincidence :smile:

[Andre]

Those things seem to happen, Borek

Very nice catch, Lisa.

[turbo-1]

Did Lisa forget "part two" of the game?

(bump)

[Andre]

Did Lisa forget "part two" of the game?

(bump)

I don't think so. I think that she has higher priority business to attend to momentarily. Please, give her a few hours.

[Borek]

OK, as we have some time:

Andre question:
http://i40.tinypic.com/1g3y3p.jpg

My postcard:
http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/tasmania_bridge.jpg

[Andre]

Then again, Borek, perhaps that a secret admirer knows that you are here and selected that postcard carefully after you found it.

[lisab]

I'm so sorry everyone...as Andre mentioned, I'm away from home, in a hotel, attending to some difficult family matters. But the real problem is the internet connection here - I only have limited access, and get bumped several times an hour.

Andre, I'm going to have to turn it back to you, since you posted that last landmark.

Sorry everyone (and I hope this gets sent before I get booted again....)!

[Andre]

Ok, this is for Lisa. Fitness first!

http://i43.tinypic.com/2nq8lqq.jpg

[Borek]

Spazio, Zoetermeer, The Netherlands

Edit: http://www.evero.nl/architectuur.htm

[Andre]

Right and you know what. If I jump out of the window here from my 14th story bedroom and pull the parachute to survive, I would land exactly on the spot where the picture was taken. Perhaps I should have covered the fittness sign, but it was for Lisa.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2140/1560448368_318c0ca41e.jpg?v=0

See the part of the appartment building most to the left

Also try to imagine how the thing would have been named locally. "UFO" would not have been illogical and UFO fitness makes it the first hit.

[Borek]

And UFO fitness was my search :smile:

Keeping with the UFO theme:

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark54.jpg

:tongue2: :devil:

[Laska]

Spodek, Katowice, Poland
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Katowice_Spodek_00001.jpg
http://www.katowiceadventure.com/index.htm

By the way, was that Borek sign edited in by yourself or was it there already :P

[Laska]

http://i40.tinypic.com/29bg9xz.jpg

A UFO docking port perhaps? :smile:

[Borek]

By the way, was that Borek sign edited in by yourself or was it there already :P

Edit. This one was intented as a hint that not everything that you can read on the picture was there before :devil:

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/104880

[turbo-1]

Edit. This one was intented as a hint that not everything that you can read on the picture was there before :devil:

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/104880You are mean! Ottawa? Borek?

[mgb_phys]

Edit. This one was intented as a hint that not everything that you can read on the picture was there before :devil:
Curses.
I knew it wasn't in Ottawa - but I assumed that news of the ottawa blues festival wouldn't spread far.

[Borek]

I could not left Rawa Blues festival sign unretouched as it always takes place in Spodek.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawa_Blues_Festiwal

What I did was I googled for "blues festival" - and Ottawa was not only between first hits, but even ended with "awa"... It was no-brainer :rofl: but evidently highly effective.

[Borek]

Armenian Genocide memorial

http://www.truthandgrace.com/Armenianholocaust.htm

[epenguin]

:frown: I had put 'Holocaust Memorial" into google images and I think ten pages didn't give it to me. Still it is good to know that it communicates something even to someone who does not know what it is.

I am looking forward to the next of your landmarks that is not in Poland or similar. :biggrin:

[Borek]

Probably two reasons. First, holocaust is usually reserved for extermination of Jews during WWII, second, there are hundreds of holocaust memorials.

[mgb_phys]

there are hundreds of holocaust memorials.
And they are normally rectangular block to represent the temple of Solomon.

I thought from the spire it was a monument to a air crash, it also has a look of Soviet war memorial about it.

[Borek]

OK, to not stop the game (as it is 1:32 a.m. here and I plan to go bed)

http://www.bpp.com.pl/IMG/landmark55.jpg

That'll be probably my last question for now, I am leaving for a week on Sunday morning.

[Laska]

Err... a cabin on one of 1000 islands in the St. Lawrence River?

[Andre]

Ängsö Stockholm archipelago

http://hem.bredband.net/sim1/swe/stockarea/angso/angso_01.html

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y41/sim1travels/swe_np_angso/3372693-A_small_island_just_big_eno.jpg

Looked primary for sim1 rather than the cabin

[Borek]

And I forgot to remove this copyright. But the picture was selected to make someone guess 1000 islands :smile:

[Andre]

An interesting one

http://i41.tinypic.com/2vvjn9c.jpg

[Borek]

It is a solution to a fancy engineering problem :smile:

[Andre]

Excellent hint Borek :smile:

[Borek]

This particular contruction was made in April 1974 :wink:

[Andre]

It was built by some students in 1974

[Borek]

Funny, we have posted exactly the same information at exactly the same time.

Looks like we both know where it stands :wink:

Edit: and it is almost exactly 160 km from one of this weeks earlier landmarks.

[Andre]

Indeed we did, I heared that some toys were developed from this concept, so I thought it was useful to indicate where and when the idea originated.

[Andre]

The thing is in the Netherlands and has no name!

[Laska]

And I forgot to remove this copyright. But the picture was selected to make someone guess 1000 islands :smile:

Borek you devil :rolleyes: I thought Sim 1 was an edit

[mgb_phys]

And it's called a tensegrity scultpure

[Laska]

And it's called a tensegrity scultpure

On the campus of this university? http://www.utwente.nl/

[Andre]

On the campus of this university? http://www.utwente.nl/

Yes but no picture?

Google "the thing" in Dutch

[Borek]

Ah, I thought HD is the name of the object :smile:

[epenguin]

Ding ding! :biggrin:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Universiteit_Twente_Het_Ding_20050628.jpg

[Andre]

Right, I just removed the car for esthetical purposes.

[epenguin]

Whose turn is it now? :confused:

[The Dagda]

Whose turn is it now? :confused:

Yours, now get on with it. :smile:

[epenguin]

Not the ship, the dockside establishments, the church but the other big thing. :smile:



http://i44.tinypic.com/1p9de8.jpg

[Borek]

Wow, that's so cryptic I am happy I am leaving :wink:

[epenguin]

Maybe this will make it more credible.
I also replaced previous version with closer shot. It is not so appealing without the clouds but they are not much of a clue. (That is not a clue.)


http://i44.tinypic.com/hvrxuc.jpg

[Andre]

Have to find the land mark yet but both churches, also the disappeared one, seem to match:

http://quaylargo.com/rkm/images/wexford.jpg

Wexford Ireland

edit
and it looks like the Opera house (http://www.iol.ie/~wexfordtransformed/links9.htm)

http://www.iol.ie/~wexfordtransformed/Wexford%20Opera%20House1.jpg

[fuzzyfelt]

Good one, Andre!
It looks a nice combination of old and new, epenguin. I've googled to discover more, and why landmarky, so a better match is here.
http://wexfordoperahouse.ie/about-us/about-the-house

[epenguin]

Right. I am not surprised no one has seen it - it is so new that I think no one is allowed to look at it as all views are copyright. :biggrin:

I thought it deserved to be made known as it is the only purpose-built opera house in the Irish Republic, just completed and opened for performances last October, apparently the internals are really something, and holds a festival worth bearing in mind perhaps.



http://i43.tinypic.com/1zdsv29.jpg

[Andre]

It is indeed an impressive contrast, good for the photo contest "something old something new".

The next one:

http://i43.tinypic.com/1zzqnir.jpg

[Andre]

Hint:

Which day is it today?

[Andre]

hint:

http://i40.tinypic.com/2rqdrhh.jpg

[Andre]

It sure looks like the previous hint would need a good ...

http://www.greenthinkers.org/blog/lawnmower.jpg

... job.

[fuzzyfelt]

I suspect I should be able to get this, but cannot think of which it is!

[lisab]

Lawn Hill Gorge (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://lh3.ggpht.com/_kEZfFihbkOw/RpsYKDWn7FI/AAAAAAAAAJI/wDrcsXzQDsU/P1000222.JPG&imgrefurl=http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/BsTeRug7dR9Dt5fsKOruSA&usg=__TCtEdjbD-i0jaBNAQiW3VloIdbw=&h=750&w=1000&sz=28&hl=en&start=21&um=1&tbnid=VNmTb5ZGUfYBFM:&tbnh=112&tbnw=149&prev=/images%3Fq%3DLawn%2BHill%2BGorge%26start%3D20%26nd sp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN)

[Andre]

Right Lisa

Hint one was Australia day

Hint two was supposed to depict "lawn hill" but obviously you could think of meadow hill, grassy hill etc. so the third hint was trying to make sure it was Lawn, not meadow or grassy.

[mgb_phys]

Hint one was Australia day
So think monday and searching for lakes called moon-something wasn't going to help then !

[Andre]

So think monday and searching for lakes called moon-something wasn't going to help then !

That's why I bumped the Australia day thread in GD. One has to pay attention. But perhaps I should have excluded Monday.

[lisab]

OK, we'll start with a difficult (at least I think so) shot of this place. Hints coming soon, if needed.

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/9848/landmarkw12mo0.jpg

[epenguin]

Have to find the land mark yet but both churches, also the disappeared one, seem to match:
Wexford Ireland

edit
and it looks like the Opera house.

I come back to congratulate you Andre. Intrigued to know what process led you there - apparently even without the Opera House in the first place? Clearly a very distinctive landmark yet if you don't know it not very obvious to guess.

[lisab]

Obviously, it's too cropped to show any important characteristics. The site is pretty big, actually, so this is just a small piece of it.

First I'll give an hint regarding where it's not: it's not in Greece. But the this post has some Greek influence. Here's the :devil: hint:

A τ :wink:


PS Thanks for the source, Redbelly!

[Andre]

Intrigued to know what process led you there.

It was the ship (http://i44.tinypic.com/1p9de8.jpg). I recognized it as a Dutch type fishing vessel, a cutter or trawler. So I found this list (http://www.aandc.org/research/fishing_ports.html). And I eliminated the Dutch fishing ports first. Then the second picture made the registration letters on the bow slightly clearer. It looked like it could be "WD" and jackpot.

A τ?

[lisab]

It was the ship (http://i44.tinypic.com/1p9de8.jpg). I recognized it as a Dutch type fishing vessel, a cutter or trawler. So I found this list (http://www.aandc.org/research/fishing_ports.html). And I eliminated the Dutch fishing ports first. Then the second picture made the registration letters on the bow slightly clearer. It looked like it could be "WD" and jackpot.

A τ?

Amazing detective work!

And yes...

A τ :wink:

[Andre]

Tiwanaku (http://gosouthamerica.about.com/od/bolivi1/ig/Tiwanaku-Photo-Gallery/Walls-at-Tiwanaku.htm)

Anagram of "A τ :wink:" .... "a tau wink" :wink: :biggrin: :rofl:

http://z.about.com/d/gosouthamerica/1/0/0/f/tiwanaku2.jpg

The second wink did it:

...
A τ?
...
And yes...

A τ :wink:

Great game Lisa. :biggrin:

[fuzzyfelt]

Right Lisa

Hint one was Australia day

Hint two was supposed to depict "lawn hill" but obviously you could think of meadow hill, grassy hill etc. so the third hint was trying to make sure it was Lawn, not meadow or grassy.

Aaagghh!!! I really wasn't thinking well!

[lisab]

You got it, Andre! :approve:

[Andre]

Now I have to find some creative hints

http://i39.tinypic.com/a0ayxh.jpg

[Andre]

Hint
http://i44.tinypic.com/vo4hlf.jpg

[Andre]

Look again very closely at the landmark picture, but now as hint:

http://i43.tinypic.com/152c9jq.jpg

[Andre]

So nobody spotted the differences between the two landmark pictures?

Anyway it was a crop. This is the complete picture, revealing something about the climate of that place:

http://i42.tinypic.com/2qwegls.jpg

[lisab]

Igaliko (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.panoramio.com/photos/original/397590.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.panoramio.com/photo/397590&usg=__QVx2bu-ayN3lz5FIUN9m8ZseRcY=&h=800&w=1200&sz=265&hl=en&start=26&tbnid=0OLNcqiaQfr18M:&tbnh=100&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgreenland%2Bruins%2Bviking%26start%3D 20%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN), Greenland

[Andre]

Exactly, I thought that discovering my editing the first picture slightly, would have helped enough, see the small patch of snow directly under the table.

And it's Eric the Red (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_the_Red) whom is attributed to have founded the Viking settlement.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Eric_the_Red.png/250px-Eric_the_Red.png

[lisab]

Shoot, I had the hardest time finding something. The funny thing is, in my searching for an appropriate landmark, I've come across several places that have already been in this contest!

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/9977/landmarkw13fm7.jpg

[turbo-1]

tacoma glass museum
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://lh6.ggpht.com/_EAXn0dW03yg/Rj03LEAgMoI/AAAAAAAADYw/Hq8oENld3dg/Glass%2BMuseum%2B(1).jpg&imgrefurl=http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Yh0zlRXAWiHHYA-_sEbwnw&usg=__51E7Kq-yji0kZS6_7M0SDr3cQ00=&h=1067&w=1600&sz=11&hl=en&start=3&um=1&tbnid=GJl0UX41m_GIHM:&tbnh=100&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtilted%2Bcone%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa fe%3Doff%26sa%3DN

Edit: "tilted cone" brings it up (photo and drawing) in the top row.

[lisab]

tacoma glass museum
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://lh6.ggpht.com/_EAXn0dW03yg/Rj03LEAgMoI/AAAAAAAADYw/Hq8oENld3dg/Glass%2BMuseum%2B(1).jpg&imgrefurl=http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Yh0zlRXAWiHHYA-_sEbwnw&usg=__51E7Kq-yji0kZS6_7M0SDr3cQ00=&h=1067&w=1600&sz=11&hl=en&start=3&um=1&tbnid=GJl0UX41m_GIHM:&tbnh=100&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtilted%2Bcone%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa fe%3Doff%26sa%3DN

Edit: "tilted cone" brings it up (photo and drawing) in the top row.

You got it, turbo!

[turbo-1]

Here's a quaint-looking place.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x318/turbo-1/landmark-21.jpg

[fuzzyfelt]

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/display/21ccb6fb-2e36-43be-870b-667374124a33.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM3HN4&usg=__DgXzGcwJTRBjfY1l7I7NVNQ8WgY=&h=300&w=400&sz=37&hl=en&start=85&tbnid=u734kAYflkPScM:&tbnh=93&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbell%2Bentrance%26start%3D80%26gbv%3D 2%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN ?

[turbo-1]

That was fast, fi! Silver City Museum.

[fuzzyfelt]

Yay!
[URL=http://imageshack.us]http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/3840/p7120253kw7.jpg[/

[fuzzyfelt]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zhMAf3yXx7k

[turbo-1]

Oh, you! I knew you had posted that image before - with no attribution. I'm going to find that sucker!

[fuzzyfelt]

:biggrin::smile:

[Andre]

My bet is for the Notre-Dame de Reims (http://images.google.de/images?hl=da&q=notre+dame+reims&btnG=S%C3%B8g+i+billeder)

http://www.dkimages.com/discover/DKIMAGES/Discover/previews/1052/405607.JPG

inspired by the hint
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_de_Machaut

[fuzzyfelt]

Correct, Andre:smile:. Machaut composed music to represent the Cathederal, and also for Charles V's coronation there, and there is stained glass by Chagall, too.

[Andre]

A very nice one, Fi :smile:

Amazing:

http://i44.tinypic.com/jhbvpx.jpg

[epenguin]

"The Church of the Transfiguration (built in 1714) on the Kizhi Island, 18th-century wooden churche. The Kizhi open-air museum cultural history and architecture is located on one of the many islands in Lake Onega, in Karelia"

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/architecture_and_buildings/architectural_detail/1764750-wooden-domes-on-church-of-the-transfiguration.php?id=1764750

[Andre]

Nice job, Epenguin

[epenguin]

Your last one had me foxed Andre. First I looked for dolmens, then I realised there is an indefinable something about the place that is wrong for a dolmen even before I thought nothing Neolithic is that flat and that structure would not have stood up for thousands of years. I saw the snow but thought that hardly limited it. From your first hint the letters are not very legible; I thought maybe it was Arthur, aha King Arthur’s table. Turns out there are quite a lot of them! But this is not one. Then from your second hint looking carefully I saw some letters strewn about on the stones, but they are not saying anything.

:redface: Now to find anything Andre wouldn't know it would have to be so obscure as to be impossible.
Mmm maybe I've got it - a lot of scientists might know this evening chances, give me a few minutes.

OK I think this gives everyone some chance, not a very revealing view for the moment.

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/7792/landmark23bx5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[fuzzyfelt]

I think this might be it
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.panoramio.com/photos/original/7780759.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.panoramio.com/photo/7780759&usg=__ij-bnUs7V2NxR6KjyLXrKjc_Qpc=&h=960&w=1280&sz=301&hl=en&start=35&um=1&tbnid=QoRktVMijwD7AM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcastello%2Bmiramare%26start%3D20%26nd sp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

[epenguin]

Absolutely, congratulations; here it is in a more romantic presentation.
Miramar villa, Trieste, built for and home for a short time to the future Emperor Maximilian of Mexico.
I thought it would be known among a community of physicists as it is a short walk from the International Centre of Theoretical Physics, Trieste so anyone who goes there would surely visit it.

http://i41.tinypic.com/34qqkuf.jpg

[fuzzyfelt]

Then that would explain what it has to do with science! Looks a lovely place to visit.
Like my last, this may be familiar.
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/5926/pb240112rj5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[fuzzyfelt]

The person for whom this was probably written moved his official residence to this landmark.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=U47hIpB4s94

[Andre]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_The_Wise

Louvre Paris

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/38/95725865_f45fca5c8b.jpg

http://flickr.com/photos/scottliddle/95725865/

[turbo-1]

Rats! I got fixated on John of Luxembourg, Bohemia, etc. He served the Dauphin years after John's death.

[fuzzyfelt]

:smile: Yes!
Botticelli's frescoe of Venus and the Three Graces.

I should say I didn't choose the avatar for any reasons of significance, it just happened to be something I had and liked, and my clues have been a bit repetitive, I'm afraid.

[Andre]

Thanks Fi, for revealing the secret of your avatar, very nice one

And now for a real landmark :wink:

http://i40.tinypic.com/2e1si3d.jpg

[Andre]

my clues have been a bit repetitive, I'm afraid.

No problem Fi, I liked the sequel idea.

Anyway, a :wink: is a hint and this one is simple. This is the first real landmark in this thread. It marks land.

[epenguin]

And now for a real landmark :wink:



The place can sure do with one. :frown:

[turbo-1]

From the hints, it sounds like Andre is following up with his viking theme, and I'm thinking Labrador. Still can't find a picture of the monument, though.

[Andre]

Not Labrador, Turbo, but the hemisphere is right

[Andre]

Hint

http://i41.tinypic.com/2q8y9ts.jpg

[Andre]

From the hints, it sounds like Andre is following up with his viking theme,

Not really, but vikings were here most probably in the past.

Other than that, the UNESCO considered this to be important.

[lisab]

Hammerfest Meridian Monument (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.fig.net/hsm/news/norway_2006/degraeve_smith_3105_600.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.fig.net/hsm/news/struve_norway_2006.htm&usg=__8Fawf-DANgtRvbCuXrHZ0Iyr564=&h=600&w=450&sz=216&hl=en&start=3&um=1&tbnid=ic9zfdiPqjGJDM:&tbnh=135&tbnw=101&prev=/images%3Fq%3DHammerfest%2BMeridian%2BMonument%26um %3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN)

[Andre]

Hammerfest Mer