How Do You Choose the Perfect Obscure Landmark for an Online Guessing Game?

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The discussion revolves around a game where participants identify unique and intriguing landmarks using online tools like Google Images and Google Earth. The challenge lies in selecting landmarks that are interesting yet not overly famous or easy to identify, as these can detract from the game's appeal. Participants suggest using random search terms to uncover lesser-known landmarks, though some results can be too literal or obvious. The conversation also touches on the difficulty of finding the right keywords to locate these landmarks effectively. Overall, the focus is on sharing and discovering landmarks that balance uniqueness with the challenge of identification.
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It may be known that we are having an interesting game https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=270543 , trying to find interesting, funny, impressive, incredible, twisted and misleading landmarks to guess it's location and name, by using the tools on internet like image google and google-earth

Many of the most interesting, funny, impressive, incredible are hardly useable because they are too famous or far too easy to identify. So how do you select such a landmark? For instance by typing in random search terms and see what emerges. Sometimes the result is too literal though, and therefore unusuable. For instance, this is what you find if you search for baby and tower:

http://www.ripleys.com/assets/img/upload/bions/baby%20tower2.jpg

So how many seconds would it take to think of search words to find this landmark back?

Post here your interesting, funny, impressive, incredible landmarks that are too obvious for the game.
 
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