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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Dragonfly @ Jun 14 2007, 07:59 PM) [snapback]462012[/snapback]</div>
    3-mile Island nuclear facility

    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&...p;z=15&om=1

    Someone else please take my spot...still at work.
     
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    Not me, I gotta run!
     
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    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
     
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    <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(paulccullen @ Jun 14 2007, 05:56 PM) [snapback]461975[/snapback]</div>
    Oui! C'est le Chateau de Varsailles!

    Home of French royalty, including Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. My wife and I toured the palace on our "real" honeymoon and it was interesting to see just how much the French people (including our guide) still hate the old monarchy.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(airportkid @ Jun , 08:19 PM)</div>
    Hint?
     
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    <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.

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Jun 15 2007, 12:48 PM) [snapback]462415[/snapback]</div>
    Except the arch is in St.Louis


    And there's that tower/statue thing in the mid/lower area of the image...that's gotta be key.
    I originally thought this was a shot of the ground zero reconstruction site, but it's gotta be some sort of port or warehouse with all those trucks/loading docks.
    Don't know what made you thing this would be an easy one, it's too generic to be 'easy.
     
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    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.
     
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    <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 ;)
     
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    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.
     
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    No guesses yet? Here's an obscure hint:

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    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?
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Ichabod @ Jun 15 2007, 02:46 PM) [snapback]462503[/snapback]</div>
    Found it, mostly by luck.... I thought it looked like the Spanish Steps so I went to Rome, just happened to spot it not far from the Coliseum.
    Piazza del Campidoglio
    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&...p;z=17&om=1
    But I don't know what the place is (wiki here I come) or what it has to do w/ the chopper.



    Ah, Michelangelo designed the project...and had the original idea for a helicopter.
     
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    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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