Interesting places near you

wolram

What sort of stuff have you found hypatia ?????

Kerrie

Some day I intend to explore this place, it's only 4 hours drive from where I live...

oregon vortex

wolram

Does Ivan know about this place ? looks cool, you will have to tell all
after you have been.

Integral

I hope to visit this in the near future. IIRC this is one of the last uncut drainages in Oregon.

hypatia

I have found pottery, grinding bowls, war hammers, bird points,arrow heads, copper bits. I plan to leave it as a collection to a Michigan tribal museum, along with the site layout map I've made.

Janus

Never been there, but have visited the exact same thing outside of Columbia Falls, MT...
House of Mystery

wolram

Did you find an explanation ??

motai

The Florida Paynes Prairie State Reserve Park is quite an interesting place. Coming from the interstate and from a local highway, the entire area is a flat freshwater swamp.

Quite beautiful, actually. I have to check it out later during a weekend.

rocketboy

Since my Dad used to work here for a Conservative Member of Parliament, I had a pass so that I could go anywhere. I felt so special. Beautiful building, if you ever come to Ottawa be sure to take a tour.

Janus

It's been years since I been there, But after a little research, it appears to just be a series of opitical illusions. What you need is a hill slope that has undergone some slippage such that the trees don't grow vertically. Then you place a bulding on this slope, which itself is tilted at an angle to the vertical.

This has the effect of confusing your visual perception of what direction "up" is. Since we rely so much on our vision, the visual clues tend to override our sense of balance clues. Thus when you stand in the building, it "feels'" like you have to lean away from vertical to maintain your balance.

Another effect is the board that people stand on appear to grow and shrink depending on which end they stand. Another opitical illusion, caused by one end of the board being closer to the viewer than the other. The board is placed in such a way on the slope and with the buiding in the background such that its placement hides this fact. (Again, the visual clues are carefully arranged to fool you in thinking that you are an equal distance from each end of the board)

matthyaouw

Look in skeptecism and debunking for a thread about the 'mystery spot'. It looks very similar to this.

matthyaouw

I always liked Spurn head. It's just so remote and fragile.
http://www.pbase.com/image/38178332
http://www.sln.org.uk/geography/enquiry/we5.htm

There is also Beverley Minster:
http://vrcoll.fa.pitt.edu/medart/ima...v-minster.html

And the humber bridge:
http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~torra/photog...ber_bridge.JPG

EnumaElish

Far away places nevertheless I can imagine myself visiting:
1. Grand Canyon
2. Statue of Liberty,
3. Eiffel Tower,
4. MOCKOBCKOE METPO

cefarix

I have the Minar-e-Pakistan here in Lahore where I study, plus the old inner city and gates etc from the Mughal empire. I've never actually been to many of the places unfortunately :( Back in Peshawar where I live, I've been up to the Khyber Pass which leads into Afghanistan. To the north there are the Karakoram and Himalaya ranges, plus the beautiful valley of swat, and places like kalam and malamjabba (you HAVE to see its so beautful !). Haven't gone past swat though...hopefully I get time to go sometime this year. There are also the ruins of the second oldest civilization in the world in Harappa, Moenjodaro, and Taxila, as well as other places. There's also stuff lying around from the invasions of Alexander, the Muslims, the British, and the Mongols.

Hmm...I've never seen any of them! Damn I need to make some time and go see em huh. You can see some good pics here: http://www.pakistanpage.net/gallery/main/ and just scroll down to the pics section

cefarix

Oh yes, and some good places I've been to:
Valley of Swat
Mecca (the Great Mosque + Kaaba)
Madina, the Mosque of the Prophet + his grave
Khyber Pass
Polo ground at Lahore
Faisal Mosque of Islamabad
Smokey Mountains of Tennessee
New York City (didnt go to the WTCs )
The Grand Canyon
San Diego Zoo
Meteor Crater
prolly some others I cant remember...

Place I really want to go:
All the scenic and historical places in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India
China
Malaysia
Sears Tower, Space Needle, KSC and NASA HQ, Empire State Building
Australia
Jerusalem
France
Germany
and I forgot to mention Egypt of course! (edit)

EnumaElish

Murphy's law of touristic attraction states that the attractiveness of a touristic site is directly proportional to the square of the distance between the person and the site.