Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Jun , 06:04 PM)</div>

Not me, I gotta run!

 

Three Mile Island again???
http://priuschat.com/index.php?s=&show...st&p=455518

Are we running out of places to post?

 

OK I'll do it.

hint: That's not snow, but sometimes "it" does.

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As a courtesy to all gamers here, here's a list of everything (in the order they were posted) identified to 7:00PM Pacific time, Aug 28 - hopefully this will reduce the duplicates (I lost count but there're several) ---

Statue of Liberty, NY
Devil's Tower, Wyoming
Sky Tower, Auckland, New Zealand
Arlington Cemetary, VA
Burning Man, Black Desert, NV
Washington Monument
Wrigley Field, Chicago
Cape Canaveral, FL
Seattle Space Needle, WA
Parthenon, Athens (submitted twice)
Former US Embassy, Tehran, Iran
Disneyland, Los Angeles
Opera House, Sydney
Olympus Mons, Mars
Three Mile island, PA (submitted twice)
Ship Rock, New Mexico, and Four Corners, USA
East 95th St. River Bridge, Chicago, featured in The Blues Brothers
Machu Picchu, Peru
Sugar Loaf, Rio de Janeiro
Cabo San Lucas Harbor, Baja California, Mexico
Half Dome, Yosemite
Hoover Dam, NV
The North Pole, Earth
Crop Circles, Sheffield, England
Petronas Towers, Kuala Lampur
Robben Island Prison, South Africa (Nelson Mandela)
Expo67 Buckminster Fuller geodesic globe Biosphere exhibit, Montreal
Iguazu Falls, Argentina/Brazil
North Korean Flag Pole adjacent to DMZ
Stonehenge
Tokyo Tower (Eiffel replica)
BB59 USS Massachussets, Fall River, MA
Monte Carlo Casino, Monaco
First McDonalds, San Bernardino, CA
C5 refueling from KC-135
Wildkow's House, Clovis, CA
Fiorano Test Track, Maranello, Italy
Daly Plaza, Chicago
Taj Mahal (submitted twice)
Google headquarters
Ephesus ancient Amphitheater (Paul preached, Acts XIX)
Lunar Crater, NV
Mount St. Helens, WA
Indianapolis, IN
Area 51, NV
Cristo Redentor, Rio de Janeiro
Christ of the Ozarks
Meigs Airfield, Chicago
Arecibo Radio Telescope, Puerto Rico
Mount Rushmore, South Dakota
International Peace Garden
Pashimeroi Valley, Idaho
United Nations, NY
Jumeirah Hotel Tower, Dubai
Baghdad International Airport
Edwards Air Force Base, Mojave, CA
Alcatraz, San Francisco Bay
Palace of Versailles, France
Tower Bridge, London
Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone Park
Dulles Saarinen International Airport Terminal, Wash DC
Piazza del Campidogl, Rome (commemorating Michaelangelo)
Spire of Dublin, Ireland
Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro ("The Girl From Ipanema")
Trinity Site, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico
The Red Sea
Minute Man National Historic Park, MA
Luxor Hotel Casino, Las Vegas
Everest Base Camp
Pikes Peak, Colorado
Cypress Point Golf Course, Monterey CA (Pebble Beach)
Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe, CA
Marin County Civic Center, CA (Frank Lloyd Wright design; Angela Davis trial)
Guantanamo Bay Concentration Camp, Cuba
Mt. Fuji, Japan
Smithson's Spiral Jetty, Great Salt lake, Utah
Forbidden City, Beijing, China
Fred's Pancake House, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Graceland, Memphis
World Trade Center site, NY
Pimlico Race Track, Baltimore (Preakness)
Alhambra Castle, Granada, Spain
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Vietnam Memorial, Wash DC
Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah (largest open pit in the world)
Kansai International Airport, Osaka, Japan
Toyota Factory, Japan
Vail Ski Resort, CO
Whisler Blackcomb Ski Resort, British Columbia, Canada
Anonymous Elephant Herd, Central Africa
Attu Island airport, Alaska
Pompeii ruins, Naples, Italy (repeated in Pic Tac Toe set)
Fernandina Island volcano, Galapagos Islands
Old Fort Niagara, New York (image withdrawn)
LAX airport terminal, Los Angeles CA
New volcanic island in South Pacific ocean near Tonga, preliminarily named "Face island"
Leaky Oil Pipeline, Prudhoe Bay, Alaska
Fort Monroe, VA
Callaway Gardens Golf Course, Pine Mountain GA
Diamond pit mine, Mirny, Russia
St Mark's square, Venice, Italy
Palo Duro Canyon, near Amarillo, Texas
Lake Gatun, Panama Canal, Panama
Baikonur Cosmodrome (Sputnik launch site), Tyruratam, Kazakhstan
Madurodam miniature city airport, Netherlands
Location reached by searching for "Red Herring" with entire world visible, then zooming close in.
Location reached by searching for "Wild Goose Chase" with entire world visible, then zooming close in.
Kit Kat (Chicken) Ranch brothel, Nevada
James Bond Island, Phang Nga Bay, Phuket, Thailand
City of the Dead (Qarafa), Cairo, Egypt
Hilton Head Island marina, South Carolina
Hibbing, Minnesota (Greyhound Bus Lines company founded there)
Ayers Rock, Australia (repeated)
USS Yorktown museum, Charleston, SC
Narssarssuag Airport, Greenland (Bluie West One)
Bunker Hill Memorial, Boston
Warren AFB, Cheyenne, Wyoming
Old Army Corps of Engineers River Control Structure, Mississippi and Atchafalya Rivers, Point Breeze, Louisiana
Philipsburg St. Maarten airport, Netherlands Antilles
South Georgia Island (Starting and ending site of great failed Antarctic expedition)
Plymouth Rock, Massachussetts (repeated)
Kill Devil Hill Wright Brothers Memorial, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Dealey Plaza Kennedy Assassination Memorial, Dallas, Texas
Wimbledon Tennis Courts, London
Fort independence, Boston
Zero-Zero, Prime Meridian intersection with the Equator, abut 500 miles off the west coast of Africa
Forth Railroad Bridge, Scotland
Denver Art Museum
Gowanus Canal and Bridge, Brooklyn (highest elevation on the NY subway system)
Penobscot State Bridge, Verona, Maine
Medicine Hat Hills (natural face profile), Alberta, Canada
Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona
New Chinese Submarine at Dalian, China
N. Roman Street, Arabi, Louisiana (devastated by Katrina)
Mount Ararat, Turkey (Noah parked his yacht there)
Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico
Louisiana State Capitol, Baton Rouge
Loch Ness, Scotland
Jackson Square, New Orleans, Louisiana
The Playboy Mansion, Los Angeles, CA
Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet (repeated)
Gota Canal, Sweden
Neverland Ranch (Michael Jackson's ranch), Santa Ynez, CA
Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii
Mt. Kilimanjaro summit, Tanzania
Summer Palace, Bejing, China
Location reached by searching for "United States" with entire world visible, then zooming close in.
The Louvre Museum, Paris
Crazy Horse Monument, South Dakota
Unidentified peninsula in Bulgaria
Avery Island, Louisiana
Waimea Canyon, Kauai, Hawaii
Chernobyl nuclear plant ruin, Ukraine
Manicouagan Impact Crater, Quebec province, Canada
Petra, Jordan
"The Big W" location from "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World", Palos Verdes, CA
Port Hueneme, CA (site of illegal radioactive waste burial)
La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, CA
Guadalcanal Airpoprt, Solomon Islands
Hitler's Tea House
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
Southernmost Island off the tip of South America
Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor, Honolulu
Jeddah airport, Saudi Arabia
Riyadh airport, Saudi Arabia
Erewhon Station, Otago, New Zealand (Lord of the Rings filming location)
Hearst Castle, San Simeon, CA
Underground nuclear test site, Nevada (repeated)
Challenger Deep, Marianas Trench, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean
Clifton Court Forebay, Byron, CA (pump station along the California Aqueduct)
Ft. Huachuca unmanned drone airstrips, Arizona
Disneyworld airstrip, Orlando, Florida
Mt. Everest summit, Nepal/Tibet
Lago de Nicaragua southern shore, at the border of Costa Rica
Six Flags Park, Longmeadow, Massachussetts
The Alamo, San Antonio, Texas
Lake Peigneur, Louisiana (drilling rig/mine disaster)
Al Uqsur, Nile River, Egypt
Sioux City Airport, Iowa (United Flight 232 blown number two engine)
National Cathedral, Washington DC
Hell, Michigan
Half Dome, Yosemite (repeated)
Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Biltmore Estate, Asheville, Tennessee
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Grace Cathedral, San Francisco CA
Naval Target Area Baker 17 airfield, Fallon, Nevada
Chappaquiddick Bridge, Matha's Vineyard island, Massachussetts
4-8-8-4 Big Boy Steam Locomotive, Holliday Park, Cheyenne, Wyoming
Google Headquarters (repeated)
Mono Lake, California
Harland & Wolff Shipyards, Belfast, Ireland (Titanic constructed here)
Niagara Falls, USA side, Buffalo, New York
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
Mont St. Michel, Normandy, France
GW Bush's ranch, Crawford, Texas
Independence Hall, Philadelphia, PA
Fort Sumter, Charleston, SC
Lewis & Clark Monument, Astoria, Oregon
Custer Memorial at the Little Big Horn, Montana
Kai Tak airport ILS visual approach checkerboard, Beacon Hill, Hong Kong
Murud-Janjira islet, off the coast of India near Mumbai
NORAD headquarters, Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado Springs
Empire State Building, Manhattan
Four Corners monument, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado (semi-repeat)
Laguna Seca motor racetrack, Monterey, CA
Ninoy Aquino airport, Manilla, Phillipines
Rainbow Bridge Monument, Lake Powell, Utah
Ulaanbaatar, capital of Mongolia
Ronald Reagan Missile Range, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands
Promenade de Anglais, Nice, France
Placencia Village, Belize
Congo Square in Louis Armstrong Park, New Orleans
USS Alabama Museum, Mobile
Trevi Fountain, Rome
The Ellipse, Washington DC
Air Force One's hangar, Andrews AFB, Maryland
CERN, Switzerland
North Platte, Nebraska railroad switching yard (largest one)
Grand Palace, Bangkok, Thailand
Nuremburg railroad station, Germany
Chunnel entrance, Calais, France
Bicycle speed track, Battle Mountain, Nevada
Badwater Monument, Death Valley, CA
Hollywood sign, Hollywood, CA
Toyota Stadium, Toyota City, Japan
Key West, Florida
Giant's Causeway, Ireland
Tacoma Narrows Bridge, Washington state
Mt. Vernon estate, Virginia
Middelfart and the New Little Belt Bridge, Denmark
Hotel "Rwanda", Kigali
Jefferson City, Missouri (Ford sworn into office while Nixon was above, Air Force One became SAM27000)
Hoosac Tunnel, Florida, Massachussetts
La Plata, Maryland (F4 tornado)
Edwards AFB auxiliary dry lakebed runway (semi-repeat)
Robert Mondavi Winery, Oakville CA
Sculptured House, Genesee Park, Colorado ("Sleeper" film location)
Ferndale, CA ("Majestic" film location)
Oklahoma City National Memorial
Ankor Wat, Cambodia
Columbus' landing site at Cayo Bariay, Cuba
Chandler, Arizona
Desolation Island, Kerguelen Archipelago, southern Indian Ocean
The southernmost tip of South Africa
Nurburbring motor racetrack, Germany
United States of America
Alang, India, ship breakers beach
Rottnest Island, off Perth, Australia
Loggerhead Island, Dry Tortugas, Gulf of Mexico
New Madrid, Missouri (earthquake fault)
Royal Canadian Mint, Manitoba
Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah
Akshardham Temple Noida Mor, New Delhi, India
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland
National Museum of the Marine Corps, Triangle, Virgina
Punchbowl National Memorial Cemetery, Hawaii
Location of next total solar eclipse in 2017
Mothballed fleet, James River, Virginia
Mothballed fleet, Suisun Bay, California
Fort Worth Water Gardens
Fiorano Ferrari test track near Maranello, Italy
FBI training facility, Quantico, Virginia
Khyber Pass, Afghanistan
The Sunshine Bridge, St. James Parish, Louisiana
Puerto Morro Redondo, off the coast of Baja California (Pic Tac Toe Upper Left: Desert, Island, Airport)
Pyramids and Sphinx at Giza, Egypt (Pic Tac Toe Upper Center, Desert, Monument)
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (Pic Tac Toe Upper Right, Desert, City, Shore)
Mackinac Island, Lake Michigan (Pic Tac Toe Center Left, Island, Lake)
Lake Havasu City, Nevada (Pic Tac Toe Center, Lake, City, Monument (London Bridge), Airport)
Chicago (Pic Tac Toe Center Right, Lake, Shore)
Hilo, Hawaii (Pic Tac Toe Bottom Left, Island, City, Volcano)
Pompeii Ruins, Naples, Italy (repeated) (Pic Tac Toe Bottom Center, Monument, Volcano)
Kona Airport, Hawaii (Pic Tac Toe Bottom Right, Volcano, Airport, Shore)
Lake within a lake, Manila region, Phillipines
Wright Patterson AFB Museum, Ohio
Volcano de Agua, south of Antigua, Guatemala
Olympia, Greece
Miniature Statue of Liberty, Paris
Buchenwald concentration camp, Hottelstedt, Germany
NAS Pensacola Museum, Florida
Malibu Pier, California
Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, California
General Motors proving ground, Milford, Michigan
Mt. Rushmore, Rapid City, South Dakota (repeated)
Boeing factory airport, Everett, Washington state
Las Vegas Motor Speedway

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sufferin' Prius Envy @ Jun 14 2007, 06:26 PM) [snapback]462029[/snapback]</div>

That gave it away - Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone National park, WY

Pretty bland picture compared to what that hot springs area really looks like up close - myriad wild and hot (literally!) colors.

OK, this should be an easy one ---- (extra credit for the exact name of the edifice depicted)

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Jun , 08:19 PM)</div>

Hint?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Dragonfly @ Jun 15 2007, 08:57 AM) [snapback]462351[/snapback]</div>

It's got something in common with this one

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OK first reaction is that it's a airport terminal (look at the top of the pic) or a warehouse. Since it has something to do with the Arch, (does common mean nearby?) then I'm guessing something to do with the Railroads since there are a ton of tracks going through Kansas City, MO. Good luck all I gotta go.

Wildkow

 

My thinking went like this:

OP's username is airportkid = Aviation theme
Picture looks like some kind of shipping hub

Gateway Arch = St. Louis
St. Louis = Home of McDonnell Douglas
McDonnell Douglas = Makers of MD-11
MD-11 = What FedEx flies

==> Picture must have something to do with FedEx hub in Memphis

But I couldn't see anything on the map around FedEx's hub in Memphis that looked like that.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(priusenvy @ Jun 15 2007, 11:07 AM) [snapback]462439[/snapback]</div>

You're on the right track.

Another hint: those aren't trucks.


But the term "Loading Dock" is certainly appropriate, especially these days

 

That's Washington Dulles International Airport, main terminal designed by Eero Saarinen, the architect responsible for the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.

LINK

Here's another for y'all. That last one was difficult, even though OP said it would be easy... This one, in my opinion, is easy, but we'll see if you beg for hints:

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Jun 15 2007, 11:53 AM) [snapback]462471[/snapback]</div>

Oh hell, I've even ridden on one of those things and I still didn't recognize it until the answer was given.

 

No guesses yet? Here's an obscure hint:

 

Well, that's a Hughes 500 Cayuse, for those who might make more of that hint than I can. Other prominent helicopter related names are Sikorsky, Bell, Piaseki and Hiller, in case the hint is more generic than the specific helo depicted.

That plaza is obviously commemorating someone VERY revered - but who? Statesman or scientist? Soldier or artist? Martyr or preacher? Athlete or god?

 

Oh, Doc, now that's being tricky. I've never heard of the Spire of Dublin - but there it is. This game would be impossible without Google to help out.

Alright - this one you WILL need to Google to help you out (unless you're a well traveled aviator with a good memory for otherwise unremarkable cityscapes).

Here's the vital clue: Elevator music staple.

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