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    This is related[attachmentid=11012]
     

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Aug 29 2007, 05:08 PM) [snapback]503988[/snapback]</div>
    This vehicle was built and the location was started in the same year .
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Aug 29 2007, 07:53 PM) [snapback]504033[/snapback]</div>
    That is the GM Proving Ground

    Heres one
     

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    [attachmentid=11017] Wider view

    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Aug 29 2007, 08:05 PM) [snapback]504064[/snapback]</div>
    Theres relatively few landings but there are airlines represented from the world over.
    Also, this place is in the Guinness Book of Records.
     

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Aug 29 2007, 06:14 PM) [snapback]504064[/snapback]</div>
    Just from the hint you'd have to assume it was the field where freshly painted Boeing or Airbus jetliners take off from for delivery to customers.

    Found it, Boeing factory in Everett, WA.

    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&...p;z=15&om=1
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(priusenvy @ Aug 29 2007, 08:33 PM) [snapback]504076[/snapback]</div>
    My next hint was that you wouldnt find any French airlines.
    Good job.
    BTW its the worlds largest building.
     
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    Hopefully this is not a repeat.
     

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    Whew - I just updated the list right through to Boeing's airstrip.

    This is it.

    I haven't sorted the entries by category - perhaps some enterprising player might pull the list into Excel and do that for us.

    An especially enterprising player might pull in a picture of the whole earth and Photoshop a red dot at every location - that'd help the searches for fresh landscapes immensely.

    But, anyway, there IS a full list to consult before putting up new (or not so new) images, and save you from having to wade through the nearly 1,000 posts in this game.

    Evan - any chance you can open my post #166 so anyone can edit it?

    MB
     
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    No idea how to do that.

    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(priusenvy @ Aug 29 2007, 08:44 PM) [snapback]504082[/snapback]</div>
    Las Vegas Motor Speedway
    First guess...the street level thing helps narrow down and the desert terrain made it pretty easy.


    Not a trailer home
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Aug 29 2007, 10:34 PM) [snapback]504102[/snapback]</div>
    This baffled me at first. It appeared to be a tall building with a large overhang. Almost like a bridge abutment going nowhere. Then it stuck me this is the Clinton Presidential Library. When it was built, it was suppose to represent a bridge to the 21st century, but I remembered it as a bridge to nowhere.

    Clinton Library

    It is late and I will be unable to post so it is open.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(bestmapman @ Aug 29 2007, 10:11 PM) [snapback]504127[/snapback]</div>
    Very good, I love it when people post their thought processes on how they arrived at the solution. It seems amazing to me that we, collectively, do so well identifying random obscure landmarks.


    this might be challenging...
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Aug 29 2007, 07:34 PM) [snapback]504102[/snapback]</div>
    Well, SOMEBODY knows how, 'cause they added the Las Vegas Speedway to post #166! Thanks - but how was it done?

    MB
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Aug 30 2007, 09:45 AM) [snapback]504281[/snapback]</div>
    Oh I know how to do it myself, but you asked me to make it editable by everyone...that's what I dont' know how to do. I added my own LV Speedway to the list. Perhaps, b/w the two of us, we can try to keep it updated.

    How about a clue to my image...
    Everyone will be green with envy at whomever is capeable of solving it.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Aug 30 2007, 08:09 AM) [snapback]504294[/snapback]</div>
    Excellent! Thanks!

    Because that list is in posting sequence, which at nearly 300 entries makes looking things up difficult, I'm going to alphabetize it - that'll help some.

    Meanwhile, below is a categorized list - with lots of duplication because many items have multiple categories, but should aid quite a bit, I think, the check for prior posting.

    Very interesting, to see what we've focused on around the world. Airports turn out to not have been as frequent as other categories, although they fekt that way ---

    Airbase Air Force One's hangar, Andrews AFB, Maryland
    Airbase Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona
    Airbase Edwards AFB auxiliary dry lakebed runway, Mojave, CA (semi-repeat)
    Airbase Edwards AFB, Mojave, CA
    Airbase Ft. Huachuca unmanned drone airstrips, Arizona
    Airbase NAS Pensacola Museum, Florida
    Airbase Naval Target Area Baker 17 airfield, Fallon, Nevada
    Airbase Ronald Reagan Missile Range, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands
    Airbase Warren AFB, Cheyenne, Wyoming
    Airbase Wright Patterson AFB Museum, Ohio

    Airport Attu Island airport, Alaska
    Airport Baghdad International Airport
    Airport Boeing factory airport, Everett, Washington state
    Airport Disneyworld airstrip, Orlando, Florida
    Airport Dulles Saarinen International Airport Terminal, Wash DC
    Airport Guadalcanal Airpoprt, Solomon Islands
    Airport Jeddah airport, Saudi Arabia
    Airport Kai Tak airport ILS visual approach checkerboard, Beacon Hill, Hong Kong
    Airport Kansai International Airport, Osaka, Japan
    Airport Kill Devil Hill Wright Brothers Memorial, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
    Airport Kona Airport, Hawaii (Pic Tac Toe Bottom Right, Volcano, Airport, Shore)
    Airport LAX airport terminal, Los Angeles CA
    Airport Madurodam miniature city airport, Netherlands
    Airport Meigs Airfield, Chicago
    Airport Narssarssuag Airport, Greenland (Bluie West One)
    Airport Ninoy Aquino airport, Manilla, Phillipines
    Airport Philipsburg St. Maarten airport, Netherlands Antilles
    Airport Puerto Morro Redondo, off the coast of Baja California (Pic Tac Toe Upper Left: Desert, Island, Airport)
    Airport Riyadh airport, Saudi Arabia
    Airport Sioux City Airport, Iowa (United Flight 232 blown number two engine)

    Architecture Akshardham Temple Noida Mor, New Delhi, India
    Architecture Alhambra Castle, Granada, Spain
    Architecture Ankor Wat, Cambodia
    Architecture Biltmore Estate, Asheville, Tennessee
    Architecture Clinton Library, Little Rock, Arkansas
    Architecture Denver Art Museum
    Architecture Empire State Building, Manhattan
    Architecture Expo67 Buckminster Fuller geodesic globe Biosphere exhibit, Montreal
    Architecture Grace Cathedral, San Francisco CA
    Architecture Grand Palace, Bangkok, Thailand
    Architecture Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
    Architecture Hearst Castle, San Simeon, CA
    Architecture Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
    Architecture Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
    Architecture Hitler's Tea House
    Architecture Independence Hall, Philadelphia, PA
    Architecture Jumeirah Hotel Tower, Dubai
    Architecture Louisiana State Capitol, Baton Rouge
    Architecture Louvre Museum, Paris
    Architecture Marin County Civic Center, CA (Frank Lloyd Wright design; Angela Davis trial)
    Architecture Monte Carlo Casino, Monaco
    Architecture Mt. Vernon estate, Virginia
    Architecture Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
    Architecture National Cathedral, Washington DC
    Architecture Opera House, Sydney
    Architecture Palace of Versailles, France
    Architecture Parthenon, Athens (submitted twice)
    Architecture Petra, Jordan
    Architecture Petronas Towers, Kuala Lampur
    Architecture Playboy Mansion, Los Angeles, CA
    Architecture Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet (submitted twice)
    Architecture Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland
    Architecture Sculptured House, Genesee Park, Colorado ("Sleeper" film location)
    Architecture Seattle Space Needle, Washington state
    Architecture Sky Tower, Auckland, New Zealand
    Architecture Spire of Dublin, Ireland
    Architecture Taj Mahal (submitted twice)
    Architecture Tokyo Tower (Eiffel replica)
    Architecture Tower Bridge, London
    Architecture United Nations, NY
    Architecture University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
    Architecture Wildkow's House, Clovis, CA
    Architecture Wimbledon Tennis Courts, London
    Architecture Wrigley Field, Chicago

    Bridge Forth Railroad Bridge, Scotland
    Bridge Gowanus Canal and Bridge, Brooklyn (highest elevation on the NY subway system)
    Bridge Middelfart and the New Little Belt Bridge, Denmark
    Bridge Penobscot State Bridge, Verona, Maine
    Bridge Sunshine Bridge, St. James Parish, Louisiana
    Bridge Tacoma Narrows Bridge, Washington state
    Bridge Tower Bridge, London
    Bridge Toyota Stadium, Toyota City, Japan

    Cemetary Arlington Cemetary, VA
    Cemetary City of the Dead (Qarafa), Cairo, Egypt
    Cemetary Punchbowl National Memorial Cemetery, Hawaii

    Church Akshardham Temple Noida Mor, New Delhi, India
    Church Ankor Wat, Cambodia
    Church Grace Cathedral, San Francisco CA
    Church Mecca, Saudi Arabia
    Church National Cathedral, Washington DC

    City Al Uqsur, Nile River, Egypt
    City Chandler, Arizona
    City Chicago (Pic Tac Toe Center Right, Lake, Shore)
    City Dubai, United Arab Emirates (Pic Tac Toe Upper Right, Desert, City, Shore)
    City Ferndale, CA ("Majestic" film location)
    City Forbidden City, Beijing, China
    City Hilo, Hawaii (Pic Tac Toe Bottom Left, Island, City, Volcano)
    City Indianapolis, IN
    City Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro ("The Girl From Ipanema")
    City Key West, Florida
    City Lake Havasu City, Nevada (Pic Tac Toe Center, Lake, City, Monument (London Bridge), Airport)
    City Mont St. Michel, Normandy, France
    City Placencia Village, Belize
    City Pompeii Ruins, Naples, Italy (submitted twice) (Pic Tac Toe Bottom Center, Monument, Volcano)
    City Promenade de Anglais, Nice, France
    City Ulaanbaatar, capital of Mongolia

    Fort Fort Independence, Boston
    Fort Fort Monroe, VA
    Fort Fort Sumter, Charleston, SC
    Fort Murud-Janjira islet, off the coast of India near Mumbai
    Fort NORAD headquarters, Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado Springs
    Fort Old Fort Niagara, New York (image withdrawn)
    Fort The Alamo, San Antonio, Texas

    Fountain Fort Worth Water Gardens
    Fountain Trevi Fountain, Rome

    Geologic Landmark Ayers Rock, Australia (submitted twice)
    Geologic Landmark Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico
    Geologic Landmark Challenger Deep, Marianas Trench, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean
    Geologic Landmark Devil's Tower, Wyoming
    Geologic Landmark Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe, CA
    Geologic Landmark Four Corners monument, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado (semi-repeat)
    Geologic Landmark Giant's Causeway, Ireland
    Geologic Landmark Half Dome, Yosemite (submitted twice)
    Geologic Landmark Iguazu Falls, Argentina/Brazil
    Geologic Landmark Khyber Pass, Afghanistan
    Geologic Landmark La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, CA
    Geologic Landmark Lago de Nicaragua southern shore, at the border of Costa Rica
    Geologic Landmark Lake Gatun, Panama Canal, Panama
    Geologic Landmark Lake within a lake, Manila region, Phillipines
    Geologic Landmark Lunar Crater, NV
    Geologic Landmark Manicouagan Impact Crater, Quebec province, Canada
    Geologic Landmark Medicine Hat Hills (natural face profile), Alberta, Canada
    Geologic Landmark Mt. Ararat, Turkey (Noah parked his yacht there)
    Geologic Landmark Mt. Everest Base Camp, Nepal
    Geologic Landmark Mt. Everest summit, Nepal/Tibet
    Geologic Landmark Mt. Fuji, Japan
    Geologic Landmark Mt. Kilimanjaro summit, Tanzania
    Geologic Landmark Niagara Falls, USA side, Buffalo, New York
    Geologic Landmark North Pole, Earth
    Geologic Landmark Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone Park
    Geologic Landmark Palo Duro Canyon, near Amarillo, Texas
    Geologic Landmark Pikes Peak, Colorado
    Geologic Landmark Rainbow Bridge Monument, Lake Powell, Utah
    Geologic Landmark Ship Rock, New Mexico, and Four Corners, USA
    Geologic Landmark Smithson's Spiral Jetty, Great Salt lake, Utah
    Geologic Landmark Southernmost Island off the tip of South America
    Geologic Landmark Southernmost tip of South Africa
    Geologic Landmark Sugar Loaf, Rio de Janeiro
    Geologic Landmark Unidentified peninsula in Bulgaria
    Geologic Landmark Waimea Canyon, Kauai, Hawaii
    Geologic Landmark Zero-Zero, Prime Meridian intersection with the Equator, abut 500 miles off the west coast of Africa

    Golf Callaway Gardens Golf Course, Pine Mountain GA
    Golf Cypress Point Golf Course, Monterey CA (Pebble Beach)

    Incident Chappaquiddick Bridge, Matha's Vineyard island, Massachussetts
    Incident Columbus' landing site at Cayo Bariay, Cuba
    Incident Dealey Plaza Kennedy Assassination Memorial, Dallas, Texas
    Incident Jefferson City, Missouri (Ford sworn into office while Nixon was above, Air Force One became SAM27000)
    Incident La Plata, Maryland (F4 tornado)
    Incident Lake Peigneur, Louisiana (drilling rig/mine disaster)
    Incident Mt. Ararat, Turkey (Noah parked his yacht there)
    Incident N. Roman Street, Arabi, Louisiana (devastated by Katrina)
    Incident Neverland Ranch (Michael Jackson's ranch), Santa Ynez, CA
    Incident New Madrid, Missouri (earthquake fault)
    Incident Oklahoma City National Memorial
    Incident Plymouth Rock, Massachussetts (repeated)
    Incident Port Hueneme, CA (site of illegal radioactive waste burial)
    Incident Sioux City Airport, Iowa (United Flight 232 blown number two engine)
    Incident South Georgia Island (Starting and ending site of great failed Antarctic expedition)
    Incident Three Mile island, PA (submitted twice)
    Incident Trinity Site, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico
    Incident Wildkow's House, Clovis, CA
    Incident World Trade Center site, NY

    Industry Alang, India, ship breakers beach
    Industry Avery Island, Louisiana
    Industry Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah (largest open pit in the world)
    Industry Boeing factory airport, Everett, Washington state
    Industry Chernobyl nuclear plant ruin, Ukraine
    Industry Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, California
    Industry Diamond pit mine, Mirny, Russia
    Industry First McDonalds, San Bernardino, CA
    Industry Google Headquarters (submitted twice)
    Industry Harland & Wolff Shipyards, Belfast, Ireland (Titanic constructed here)
    Industry Hibbing, Minnesota (Greyhound Bus Lines company founded there)
    Industry Hoover Dam, NV
    Industry Leaky Oil Pipeline, Prudhoe Bay, Alaska
    Industry Port Hueneme, CA (site of illegal radioactive waste burial)
    Industry Robert Mondavi Winery, Oakville CA
    Industry Royal Canadian Mint, Manitoba
    Industry Three Mile island, PA (submitted twice)
    Industry Toyota Factory, Japan

    Infrastructure Clifton Court Forebay, Byron, CA (pump station along the California Aqueduct)
    Infrastructure Old Army Corps of Engineers River Control Structure, Mississippi and Atchafalya Rivers, Point Breeze, Louisiana

    Island Alcatraz, San Francisco Bay
    Island Attu Island airport, Alaska
    Island Desolation Island, Kerguelen Archipelago, southern Indian Ocean
    Island Fernandina Island volcano, Galapagos Islands
    Island Guadalcanal Airpoprt, Solomon Islands
    Island Hilo, Hawaii (Pic Tac Toe Bottom Left, Island, City, Volcano)
    Island James Bond Island, Phang Nga Bay, Phuket, Thailand
    Island Key West, Florida
    Island Kona Airport, Hawaii (Pic Tac Toe Bottom Right, Volcano, Airport, Shore)
    Island Loggerhead Island, Dry Tortugas, Gulf of Mexico
    Island Mackinac Island, Lake Michigan (Pic Tac Toe Center Left, Island, Lake)
    Island Mont St. Michel, Normandy, France
    Island Murud-Janjira islet, off the coast of India near Mumbai
    Island New volcanic island in South Pacific ocean near Tonga, preliminarily named "Face island"
    Island Puerto Morro Redondo, off the coast of Baja California (Pic Tac Toe Upper Left: Desert, Island, Airport)
    Island Robben Island Prison, South Africa (Nelson Mandela)
    Island Rottnest Island, off Perth, Australia
    Island South Georgia Island (Starting and ending site of great failed Antarctic expedition)

    Mansion Biltmore Estate, Asheville, Tennessee
    Mansion Hearst Castle, San Simeon, CA
    Mansion Hitler's Tea House
    Mansion Playboy Mansion, Los Angeles, CA

    Maritime Alang, India, ship breakers beach
    Maritime BB59 USS Massachussets, Fall River, MA
    Maritime Cabo San Lucas Harbor, Baja California, Mexico
    Maritime Harland & Wolff Shipyards, Belfast, Ireland (Titanic constructed here)
    Maritime Hilton Head Island marina, South Carolina
    Maritime Malibu Pier, California
    Maritime Mothballed fleet, James River, Virginia
    Maritime Mothballed fleet, Suisun Bay, California
    Maritime New Chinese Submarine at Dalian, China
    Maritime USS Alabama Museum, Mobile
    Maritime USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor, Honolulu
    Maritime USS Yorktown museum, Charleston, SC

    Monument 4-8-8-4 Big Boy Steam Locomotive, Holliday Park, Cheyenne, Wyoming
    Monument Al Uqsur, Nile River, Egypt
    Monument Alhambra Castle, Granada, Spain
    Monument Arlington Cemetary, VA
    Monument Ayers Rock, Australia (submitted twice)
    Monument Badwater Monument, Death Valley, CA
    Monument Bunker Hill Memorial, Boston
    Monument Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico
    Monument Chernobyl nuclear plant ruin, Ukraine
    Monument Christ of the Ozarks
    Monument City of the Dead (Qarafa), Cairo, Egypt
    Monument Crazy Horse Monument, South Dakota
    Monument Cristo Redentor, Rio de Janeiro
    Monument Custer Memorial at the Little Big Horn, Montana
    Monument Dealey Plaza Kennedy Assassination Memorial, Dallas, Texas
    Monument Devil's Tower, Wyoming
    Monument Fort Independence, Boston
    Monument Fort Monroe, VA
    Monument Fort Sumter, Charleston, SC
    Monument Four Corners monument, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado (semi-repeat)
    Monument Graceland, Memphis
    Monument International Peace Garden
    Monument Kill Devil Hill Wright Brothers Memorial, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
    Monument Lake Havasu City, Nevada (Pic Tac Toe Center, Lake, City, Monument (London Bridge), Airport)
    Monument Lewis & Clark Monument, Astoria, Oregon
    Monument Miniature Statue of Liberty, Paris
    Monument Minute Man National Historic Park, MA
    Monument Mont St. Michel, Normandy, France
    Monument Mt. Rushmore, Rapid City, South Dakota (submitted twice)
    Monument Oklahoma City National Memorial
    Monument Petra, Jordan
    Monument Punchbowl National Memorial Cemetery, Hawaii
    Monument Pyramids and Sphinx at Giza, Egypt (Pic Tac Toe Upper Center, Desert, Monument)
    Monument Rainbow Bridge Monument, Lake Powell, Utah
    Monument Ship Rock, New Mexico, and Four Corners, USA
    Monument Spire of Dublin, Ireland
    Monument Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor
    Monument Stonehenge
    Monument Taj Mahal (submitted twice)
    Monument USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor, Honolulu
    Monument Vietnam Memorial, Washington DC
    Monument Washington Monument, Washington DC

    Movie Erewhon Station, Otago, New Zealand (Lord of the Rings filming location)
    Movie Ferndale, CA ("Majestic" film location)
    Movie Hotel "Rwanda", Kigali
    Movie James Bond Island, Phang Nga Bay, Phuket, Thailand
    Movie Sculptured House, Genesee Park, Colorado ("Sleeper" film location)
    Movie The "Big W" location from "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World", Palos Verdes, CA
    Movie East 95th St. River Bridge, Chicago, featured in "The Blues Brothers"

    Museum BB59 USS Massachussets, Fall River, MA
    Museum Denver Art Museum
    Museum Fort Independence, Boston
    Museum Fort Monroe, VA
    Museum Fort Sumter, Charleston, SC
    Museum Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
    Museum Hearst Castle, San Simeon, CA
    Museum Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
    Museum Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
    Museum Independence Hall, Philadelphia, PA
    Museum La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, CA
    Museum Louvre Museum, Paris
    Museum Mt. Vernon estate, Virginia
    Museum Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
    Museum NAS Pensacola Museum, Florida
    Museum National Museum of the Marine Corps, Triangle, Virgina
    Museum Old Fort Niagara, New York (image withdrawn)
    Museum Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland
    Museum USS Alabama Museum, Mobile
    Museum USS Yorktown museum, Charleston, SC

    Observatory Arecibo Radio Telescope, Puerto Rico
    Observatory CERN, Switzerland
    Observatory Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii

    Palace Akshardham Temple Noida Mor, New Delhi, India
    Palace Alhambra Castle, Granada, Spain
    Palace Ankor Wat, Cambodia
    Palace Forbidden City, Beijing, China
    Palace Grand Palace, Bangkok, Thailand
    Palace Palace of Versailles, France
    Palace Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet (submitted twice)
    Palace Summer Palace, Bejing, China
    Palace Taj Mahal (submitted twice)

    Plaza Congo Square in Louis Armstrong Park, New Orleans
    Plaza Daly Plaza, Chicago
    Plaza Dealey Plaza Kennedy Assassination Memorial, Dallas, Texas
    Plaza Jackson Square, New Orleans, Louisiana
    Plaza Piazza del Campidogl, Rome (commemorating Michaelangelo)
    Plaza St Mark's square, Venice, Italy
    Plaza The Ellipse, Washington DC

    Politics Former US Embassy, Tehran, Iran
    Politics Guantanamo Bay concentration camp, Cuba
    Politics GW Bush's ranch, Crawford, Texas
    Politics Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
    Politics Hitler's Tea House
    Politics Hotel "Rwanda", Kigali
    Politics Independence Hall, Philadelphia, PA
    Politics Louisiana State Capitol, Baton Rouge
    Politics Mt. Vernon estate, Virginia
    Politics North Korean Flag Pole adjacent to DMZ
    Politics United Nations, NY

    Prison Alcatraz, San Francisco Bay
    Prison Buchenwald concentration camp, Hottelstedt, Germany
    Prison Guantanamo Bay concentration camp, Cuba
    Prison Robben Island Prison, South Africa (Nelson Mandela)

    Racetrack Bicycle speed track, Battle Mountain, Nevada
    Racetrack Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah
    Racetrack FBI training facility, Quantico, Virginia
    Racetrack Fiorano Ferrari test track near Maranello, Italy (submitted twice)
    Racetrack General Motors proving ground, Milford, Michigan
    Racetrack Laguna Seca motor racetrack, Monterey, CA
    Racetrack Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Nevada
    Racetrack Nurburbring motor racetrack, Germany
    Racetrack Pimlico Race Track, Baltimore (Preakness)

    Railroad 4-8-8-4 Big Boy Steam Locomotive, Holliday Park, Cheyenne, Wyoming
    Railroad Chunnel entrance, Calais, France
    Railroad Forth Railroad Bridge, Scotland
    Railroad Gowanus Canal and Bridge, Brooklyn (highest elevation on the NY subway system)
    Railroad Hoosac Tunnel, Florida, Massachussetts
    Railroad North Platte, Nebraska railroad switching yard (largest one)
    Railroad Nuremburg railroad station, Germany

    Ruin Al Uqsur, Nile River, Egypt
    Ruin Chernobyl nuclear plant ruin, Ukraine
    Ruin Ephesus ancient Amphitheater (Paul preached, Acts XIX)
    Ruin Machu Picchu, Peru
    Ruin Olympia, Greece
    Ruin Parthenon, Athens (submitted twice)
    Ruin Petra, Jordan
    Ruin Pompeii Ruins, Naples, Italy (submitted twice) (Pic Tac Toe Bottom Center, Monument, Volcano)
    Ruin Pyramids and Sphinx at Giza, Egypt (Pic Tac Toe Upper Center, Desert, Monument)
    Ruin Stonehenge

    Sculpture Christ of the Ozarks
    Sculpture Crazy Horse Monument, South Dakota
    Sculpture Cristo Redentor, Rio de Janeiro
    Sculpture Lewis & Clark Monument, Astoria, Oregon
    Sculpture Miniature Statue of Liberty, Paris
    Sculpture Mt. Rushmore, Rapid City, South Dakota (submitted twice)
    Sculpture Olympia, Greece
    Sculpture Piazza del Campidogl, Rome (commemorating Michaelangelo)
    Sculpture Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor
    Sculpture Stonehenge
    Sculpture Vietnam Memorial, Washington DC

    Spacecraft Baikonur Cosmodrome (Sputnik launch site), Tyruratam, Kazakhstan
    Spacecraft Cape Canaveral, FL

    Spectacle Alang, India, ship breakers beach
    Spectacle Anonymous Elephant Herd, Central Africa
    Spectacle Area 51, NV
    Spectacle Burning Man, Black Desert, NV
    Spectacle C5 refueling from KC-135
    Spectacle Crop Circles, Sheffield, England
    Spectacle Hollywood sign, Hollywood, CA
    Spectacle Location of next total solar eclipse in 2017
    Spectacle Pashimeroi Valley, Idaho

    Spire Bunker Hill Memorial, Boston
    Spire Empire State Building, Manhattan
    Spire Jumeirah Hotel Tower, Dubai
    Spire North Korean Flag Pole adjacent to DMZ
    Spire Petronas Towers, Kuala Lampur
    Spire Seattle Space Needle, Washington state
    Spire Sky Tower, Auckland, New Zealand
    Spire Spire of Dublin, Ireland
    Spire Tokyo Tower (Eiffel replica)
    Spire Washington Monument, Washington DC

    Tourism Disneyland, Los Angeles, CA
    Tourism Disneyworld airstrip, Orlando, Florida
    Tourism Kit Kat (Chicken) Ranch brothel, Nevada
    Tourism Luxor Hotel Casino, Las Vegas
    Tourism Monte Carlo Casino, Monaco
    Tourism Six Flags Park, Longmeadow, Massachussetts
    Tourism Vail Ski Resort, CO
    Tourism Whisler Blackcomb Ski Resort, British Columbia, Canada

    Volcano Fernandina Island volcano, Galapagos Islands
    Volcano Mt. St. Helens, WA
    Volcano New volcanic island in South Pacific ocean near Tonga, preliminarily named "Face island"
    Volcano Volcano de Agua, south of Antigua, Guatemala

    War Arlington Cemetary, VA
    War BB59 USS Massachussets, Fall River, MA
    War Bunker Hill Memorial, Boston
    War Custer Memorial at the Little Big Horn, Montana
    War Fort Independence, Boston
    War Fort Monroe, VA
    War Fort Sumter, Charleston, SC
    War Guadalcanal Airpoprt, Solomon Islands
    War Hitler's Tea House
    War Minute Man National Historic Park, MA
    War Mothballed fleet, James River, Virginia
    War Mothballed fleet, Suisun Bay, California
    War National Museum of the Marine Corps, Triangle, Virgina
    War North Korean Flag Pole adjacent to DMZ
    War Old Fort Niagara, New York (image withdrawn)
    War Punchbowl National Memorial Cemetery, Hawaii
    War The Alamo, San Antonio, Texas
    War Underground nuclear test site, Nevada (submitted twice)
    War USS Alabama Museum, Mobile
    War USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor, Honolulu
    War USS Yorktown museum, Charleston, SC
    War Vietnam Memorial, Washington DC

    Waterway Al Uqsur, Nile River, Egypt
    Waterway Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe, CA
    Waterway Gota Canal, Sweden
    Waterway Gowanus Canal and Bridge, Brooklyn (highest elevation on the NY subway system)
    Waterway Hoover Dam, NV
    Waterway Iguazu Falls, Argentina/Brazil
    Waterway Lago de Nicaragua southern shore, at the border of Costa Rica
    Waterway Lake Gatun, Panama Canal, Panama
    Waterway Lake Havasu City, Nevada (Pic Tac Toe Center, Lake, City, Monument (London Bridge), Airport)
    Waterway Lake within a lake, Manila region, Phillipines
    Waterway Loch Ness, Scotland
    Waterway Mono Lake, California
    Waterway Niagara Falls, USA side, Buffalo, New York
    Waterway Old Army Corps of Engineers River Control Structure, Mississippi and Atchafalya Rivers, Point Breeze, Louisiana
    Waterway Red Sea

    Wordplay Fred's Pancake House, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
    Wordplay Hell, Michigan
    Wordplay Location reached by searching for "Red Herring" with entire world visible, then zooming close in.
    Wordplay Location reached by searching for "United States" with entire world visible, then zooming close in.
    Wordplay Location reached by searching for "Wild Goose Chase" with entire world visible, then zooming close in.
    Wordplay Madurodam miniature city airport, Netherlands
    Wordplay Middelfart and the New Little Belt Bridge, Denmark
    Wordplay North Pole, Earth
    Wordplay Olympus Mons, Mars
    Wordplay United States of America
    Wordplay Wildkow's House, Clovis, CA
     
  16. mojo

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Aug 30 2007, 10:09 AM) [snapback]504294[/snapback]</div>
    http://maps.google.com/maps?q=15.111111,-2...mp;z=8&om=1
    I never knew there were so many volcanoes in the world.
    BTW Google maps doesnt have a closeup image of Fogo, Cape Verde.Its only on Google Earth.

    Heres another.This location has been fictionalized in a lot of movies.[attachmentid=11030]
     

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Aug 30 2007, 08:49 AM) [snapback]504322[/snapback]</div>
    Holy crap, Kow! I am stunned by the amount of time that must have taken! You, sir, are an altruistic, kind, helpful lunatic! I am very greatful that there was someone out there mad enough to attempt this Sisyphean task, particularly with such amazing results!

    We are not worthy of such benevolent insanity!
     
  18. airportkid

    airportkid Will Fly For Food

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mad Hatter @ Aug 30 2007, 11:26 AM) [snapback]504409[/snapback]</div>
    Not Kow, airportkid. But Kow is due eternal thanks anway for what I still regard as THE most imaginative, evil, diabolical and stumpifying post of all - the toy airport in the Netherlands.

    MB


    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Aug 30 2007, 11:14 AM) [snapback]504403[/snapback]</div>
    This is EXACTLY what I warned against several posts back. I respectfully submit that all future images either be Googlemaps images directly, or be CHECKED first that Googlemaps matches or betters the original resolution.

    MB
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Aug 30 2007, 01:14 PM) [snapback]504403[/snapback]</div>
    That little square in the bottom of the 2nd image is what this place is famous for.Some famous people have their signatures there.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Aug 30 2007, 02:14 PM) [snapback]504431[/snapback]</div>
    Sorry, my bad.... :(