Can You Guess This Mystery Location?

[davidpbrown]

I don't know if you've seen this game before.

Simple rules: The one who guesses, posts a new game.
Protip: Post your own photos to avoid simple matching with tineye.com.

Where is this?
http://i.imgur.com/KzFFQ.jpg

[Roo St. Gallus]

The former Roman hippodrome in Valencia, Spain?

[davidpbrown]

Nope.. it is Roman.

[Roo St. Gallus]

Is in Italy, yes?

The silted port of Ostia?

[davidpbrown]

It is Italy but not Ostia.

[Roo St. Gallus]

Is it a section of the Via Appia? Just south of Rome, perhaps?

[davidpbrown]

You are getting very close but not the Via Appia.

[Roo St. Gallus]

Circo Massimo? Circus Maximus?

[davidpbrown]

Well done.. yes.

3D Panoramic (http://www.panoramicearth.com/315/Rome/Circus_Maximus_%28Circo_Massimo%29) for those who want a closer look.

[mood2]

blimey

[Roo St. Gallus]

Now...If I could just get a pic that didn't have all sorts of info in the URL.

[Barefoot Bree]

Do you have a photobucket or other pic-storage site account, Roo? Just copy whatever pic you want to use into your own account (you may have to download it first, then upload it again) and name it whatever you want.

[MattShizzle]

If I guessed one right I wouldn't have anything of my own to post. I haven't been out of my home state since 1992.

[Roo St. Gallus]

Okay...Let's try this:

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj53/wellingtonkd/shed/P1020997.jpg

[Politesse]

I don't suppose that's the London eye poking out from behind a corner?

EDIT: Never mind, half the people here would recognize it if it was in London, huh. Well, it does look like a Ferris Wheel in any case.

[munnki]

Sorry I mean 'Old Town' square in Prague... not Wencelas Square... is it?

[munnki]

I don't suppose that's the London eye poking out from behind a corner?

EDIT: Never mind, half the people here would recognize it if it was in London, huh. Well, it does look like a Ferris Wheel in any case.

I thought so, briefly, but London doesn't have trams and there are tram lines. I know that Prague has trams and that place seems very familiar... but I could well be wrong as several European cities have tram systems - it's certainly not Russian as it's way too tidy and it's too old to be an American city. So it's a European city with tram lines and an open square in or close to the centre.

[Politesse]

If not Prague then Vienna maybe?

[munnki]

No it's Berlin...

[Roo St. Gallus]

Not Prague, not Vienna, not Berlin.

Right continent, but not that elevated.

[rog]

Is it: Bordeaux?

[munnki]

St Peter's Square...?

[rog]

Outside the opera house in Bordeaux.

[munnki]

That looks right to me Rog.... I just google imaged it... how did you work that out?

[rog]

That looks right to me Rog.... I just google imaged it... how did you work that out?

The statue on the column :)

[Roo St. Gallus]

Heh...I thought that the column and the Ferris wheel would be the giveaways...

Rog has it.

It's at the south end of Place de la Comedies, in front of the Grande Theatre, looking toward the Place des Quincones, with its column and wheel. In Bordeaux.

[rog]

http://www.picvalley.net/u/2624/61533542313480611481302531132Y1fmJneJ6EublFHqkEg9. JPG

From street view.

[Roo St. Gallus]

Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain?

[rog]

Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain?

Nope.

[munnki]

It looks kinda like a sports stadium and seems to be in the states... judging by the road signs and the driving side...

[Roo St. Gallus]

Hmmm...no, it doesn't look Gehry enough for the Bilbao Guggenheim.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, US?

(That being the Great Lakes Science Center to the left and the Cleveland Browns Stadium in the background.)

[rog]

Hmmm...no, it doesn't look Gehry enough for the Bilbao Guggenheim.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, US?

(That being the Great Lakes Science Center to the left and the Cleveland Browns Stadium in the background.)

Bingo!

[munnki]

Ooh i was about to say the Great Lakes Center...although that was only by googling the Rock and Roll center... :P

[Roo St. Gallus]

Sorry, guys...I had to wait again until I got home and could upload some untitled pix.

So...Here I am. Yes, that white speck at the base of the red carpet is me.

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj53/wellingtonkd/shed/46280396.jpg

[MattShizzle]

Looks like somewhere in Egypt to me.

[Roo St. Gallus]

You're in the right hemisphere.

[rog]

Uyghur Mosque- Turfan, Xinjiang, China ?

[Roo St. Gallus]

Uyghur Mosque- Turfan, Xinjiang, China ?

*Puts hands on hips and quizzically looks at rog with knit brow*

That's quite right. Been there, done that, have you?

It's Emir Minaret and Emir Mosque in Turpan. The minaret is Uyghur style. Minaret and mosque are made entirely of mud brick and the complex is as old as the United States. The extreme aridity keeps it together. 99.44% or more of their water comes in underground from the Tian Shan to the north.

Tallest minaret in China.

Yours again, rog.

[rog]

http://www.picvalley.net/u/1837/18086217897984698531302580339gXND9rKtiKVB6r5JDEcZ. JPG

[Roo St. Gallus]

Somewhere in or around Washington, DC?

[davidpbrown]

Royal Albert Hall, London, mid June 2008?.. or is that too obvious??

I think if you put the answer in the photo, perhaps you have to go again?

[Silly Sausage]

Royal Albert Hall, London, mid June 2008?.. or is that too obvious??



So you googled 'Strictly Gershwin - 13-22 June too then? :p

[Roo St. Gallus]

My eyes weren't that good....It took squinting quite closely to make out the 'Strictly'. But double-checking assures that it is indeed Royal Albert Hall in 2008.

[rog]

Royal Albert Hall, London, mid June 2008?.. or is that too obvious??

I think if you put the answer in the photo, perhaps you have to go again?

:)

Your go!

[davidpbrown]

Royal Albert Hall, London, mid June 2008?.. or is that too obvious??

I think if you put the answer in the photo, perhaps you have to go again?

:)

Your go!

Very kind.. ok. If noone else jumps in, I'll post one later.

[davidpbrown]

http://i.imgur.com/TV4YP.jpg

No clues for this one.

[munnki]

Ben Nevis?

[davidpbrown]

No.

[munnki]

Loch Ness?

[davidpbrown]

Do you see a monster? No.

[Roo St. Gallus]

Above Reindeer House Center (Loch Morlich), Cairngorms NP, Scotland?

[davidpbrown]

No.

[Silly Sausage]

The Lake District - Scafell Pike or somewhere close?

[neilstone40]

Loch Rannoch or Loch Ba maybe?

[Politesse]

Is it in Scotland?

[davidpbrown]

The Lake District - Scafell Pike or somewhere close?

Somewhere equally famous.

[Barefoot Bree]

Is that a 360 pan, David? Just curious. I've no guessies.

[Politesse]

Ben Lomond?

[Roo St. Gallus]

The Lake District - Scafell Pike or somewhere close?

Somewhere equally famous.


That's subjective. To my SO, the "Lake District" means something vague, indeterminate, and not at all referencing a region of the northwestern England. Scafell Pike might as well not exist, so far as I'm concerned. I've never heard of it.

It looks totally denuded of timber, like parts of Scotland. The Lake District, as I remember it, is fairly forested.

Where is it that you Limeys go strolling that would be equally as famous for strolling as the Lake District, yet look as though it is perpetually above timberline?

[munnki]

Loch Lomond?

[Roo St. Gallus]

Isle of Skye?

It seems too high.

[munnki]

It's surely not the Mull of Kintyre...

[Roo St. Gallus]

Llyn Conwy, Snowdonia NP, Wales?

[davidpbrown]

Is that a 360 pan, David? Just curious. I've no guessies.

Yes, it's a 360 pan.. so you can already see all the clues.


The Lake District - Scafell Pike or somewhere close?

Somewhere equally famous.

That's subjective.

Orders of magnitude.. if you've heard of Scafell Pike, you will very likely have heard of its similar and equally well known neighbours.

[Silly Sausage]

To continue my vagueness then, how about the Peak District. (The only place I can think of in the PD right now is Mam Tor)

[davidpbrown]

No, you're were in the right district before.

[Silly Sausage]

My geography is terrible, this is hard for me to guess. How about Windermere?

[davidpbrown]

My geography is terrible, this is hard for me to guess. How about Windermere?

No.

It's a famous route to walk and a place; so not just the name of the lake (by reduction you'll get that, naming all of them!).


As with all of these, the answer needs to be useful - If you wanted to meet someone there, where would you suggest they go?

[Roo St. Gallus]

Skiddaw?

[davidpbrown]

No.

[munnki]

The Peak District - The High Peak Trail...

[davidpbrown]

Still not the The Peak District.

As suggested above, it is in the Lake District, equally famous as Scafell Pike, and could be suggested as a neighbor to both Scafell Pike and Skiddaw.

[munnki]

Lord's Seat?

[davidpbrown]

No.

[Roo St. Gallus]

It's Helvellyn.

[davidpbrown]

No it's not.

Bet you wish now Rog had done another.

[neilstone40]

Buttermere Fell?

[davidpbrown]

Frustratingly.. No.

[Roo St. Gallus]

No it's not.

Bet you wish now Rog had done another.

Yep...I'm ceasing to even care, and losing interest fast.

It's probably one of these

# Great End, 910 m (2,986 ft)
# Bowfell, 902 m (2,960 ft)
# Great Gable, 899 m (2,949 ft)
# Pillar, 892 m (2,926 ft)
# Nethermost Pike, 891 m (2,923 ft)
# Catstycam, 889 m (2,917 ft)
# Esk Pike, 885 m (2,903 ft)
# Raise (Lake District), 883 m (2,896 ft)
# Fairfield, 873 m (2,863 ft)
# Blencathra, 868 m (2,847 ft)
# Skiddaw Little Man, 865 m (2,837 ft)
# White Side, 863 m (2,831 ft)
# Crinkle Crags, 859 m (2,818 ft)
# Dollywaggon Pike, 858 m (2,815 ft)
# Great Dodd, 857 m (2807 ft)
# Grasmoor, 852 m (2,795 ft)
# Stybarrow Dodd, 843 m (2,772 ft)
# St Sunday Crag, 841 m (2,759 ft)
# Scoat Fell, 841 m (2,759 ft)
# Crag Hill, 839 m (2,753 ft)

Why is it that at under a thousand meters, it looks so desolate and uninviting?

Here, we have timber to two thousand meters, at least.

[davidpbrown]

It's Cat Bells (http://www.trekkingbritain.com/catbellsfromskelgill.htm) by Derwent water! Google Earth kmz (http://www.trekkingbritain.com/060401-catbellsfromskelgill/gpsdata/catbellsfromskelgill.kml).


So, this time an easier one - something you might be able to Google for without mapping lake+forest+valleys!


No.7
http://i.imgur.com/7tl4E.jpg

[toker]

Hey, that's on Terra somewhere, isn't it?

I hate this game. :(

[Politesse]

Is that the Spaceguard centre?

[davidpbrown]

No. Though that has me wondering again about going to that Scottish sky park.. clear sight of the sky with no background city light.. if I can find that again.

[davidpbrown]

If you want to play this in parallel, feel free to post another but number it. That might help it stalling.. those who give up can post instead of not caring.

Game above is No.7
If parallels appear, name the one you're answering.

[Roo St. Gallus]

Is #7 at Findhorn?

[Barefoot Bree]

I do like that pic for #7. If you absolutely MUST add something to the center of a stone circle, a reflective sphere is absolutely perfect. Anything else would be just.... cheesy. :D (Opines the Yank. Don't mind me, just passing through. Tourists, you know.)

[davidpbrown]

Is #7 at Findhorn?

No.. "Your angel for today is: Harmony"! (http://www.findhorn.org/) :yay:

[Roo St. Gallus]

Heh...I did note that there are no faeries in the picture.

It looks distinctly coastal, because of the conifers in the background.

Esalen Institute at Big Sur?

(I think it unlikely, as it looks far too unkempt for a big bucks outfit like Esalen, but I thought I'd throw it out there.)

[davidpbrown]

No. Looks are deceptive. I suspect the trees are just for cover.

[rog]

7 http://www.rollrightstones.co.uk/ ?

[davidpbrown]

Yes. It's also known as The Kings Men stone circle with "Turning the World Inside Out" by Anish Kapoor in the centre.

[rog]

http://www.picvalley.net/u/1540/13350309773844388101302802619SQxMHergwWYXU359MNiY. JPG

Probably too easy.

[munnki]

Is that the base of the Eiffel Tower? Nevermind... silly answer...

[rog]

Is that the base of the Eiffel Tower? Nevermind... silly answer...

I said it was too easy, your go.

[davidpbrown]

lol

[munnki]

Okay...

http://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z445/munnki/balghalgaasdf.jpg

[davidpbrown]

balghalgaasdf.jpg

-> Balaghal, Afghanistan?

[Berthold]

Shwedagon Pagode, Burma.

[Politesse]

balghalgaasdf.jpg

-> Balaghal, Afghanistan?

Is that even a real place?

[munnki]

Nice Skills Berthold... I'm only about a two hundred miles away from there right now... I took that photo on my last visit a few years back...

[Berthold]

Oh, it's shown in books of the sort, "Most famous/beautiful buildings of the world".

[munnki]

Berthold... it's now up to you to do a posting... I'd suggest that if you can't you drop one of the others on this forum (since I've just gone) a message and they'll do a posting (Roo, Rog or David...perhaps)...

I did mine by renaming that photo and hosting it on photobucket... which was, actually, a pain in the arse as I'm on a very unstable dial-up...

[Berthold]

Sorry, I was in a hurry catching the bus, and I'm not online every day.

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u173/Berthold_photos/For_SC.jpg

Nice little old town, worth a visit in its own right. However, nearly all members surely know its name in a certain context. Just, which? :)

Manipulating pics is a pain in the arse, especially if one uses photobucket rarely, and they have changed the layout in the meantime.

[munnki]

That looks like Salzburg to me...

'the hills are alive with the sound of music...'....

No?

[Berthold]

That looks like Salzburg to me...
You guess way too big. :)

[davidpbrown]

It's Hallsatt, Austria but I'm not sure what 'Invierno' is that's apparently an equivalent name for it.

http://www.wayfaring.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/hallstatt-in-winter-austria-1024x768.jpg

[davidpbrown]

http://i.imgur.com/zXAsW.jpg

I might give a clue to this one if it proves too hard.

These are very old, and very deliberate but where are they and why?

[Berthold]

Nuraghe, Sardinia?

Invierno is just Spanish for "winter". :)

[davidpbrown]

Ah.. thanks. :)


Not Sardinia.

[Berthold]

Proto -Trulli (http://www.google.at/imgres?imgurl=http://facileblog.it/files/15/files/2010/03/Trulli4.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.viaggiandofacile.it/de/2010/03/03/i-trulli-di-alberobello/&usg=__ABiEmrsu6RHLJI0aLK6F7VDYcjI=&h=360&w=480&sz=57&hl=de&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=JBkX1Tp-xA7MvM:&tbnh=117&tbnw=156&ei=SZSpTaGFFM-SOsGs_KQJ&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dtrulli%26hl%3Dde%26sa%3DG%26rlz%3D1T4 GGLL_deAT343AT344%26biw%3D1899%26bih%3D937%26tbm%3 Disch%26prmd%3Divnsufdm&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=311&vpy=234&dur=7731&hovh=194&hovw=259&tx=132&ty=133&oei=SZSpTaGFFM-SOsGs_KQJ&page=1&ndsp=64&ved=1t:429,r:12,s:0) (e. g. used as barns) of the Alberobello district in Apulia?

[davidpbrown]

No.

[Berthold]

This shape seems to be an archaic universal. :)

Cairns somewhere in Scotland?

[davidpbrown]

Not Scotland.

Another clue then, as they are rather generic looking.

http://i.imgur.com/88vbX.jpg

[Berthold]

Now the sky looks even more ominous.

Is it in the Bretagne?

[davidpbrown]

No.

[munnki]

Around Newgrange in Ireland?

[davidpbrown]

No.

[Roo St. Gallus]

Northumberland?

Shepherd huts?

[davidpbrown]

No. They are just piles of rock - big ones.

[Barefoot Bree]

Is the wall in the foreground a clue? If so, how big is it? (Can't tell.)

[davidpbrown]

The wall is likely a far more recent addition and could equally not be there.

The piles of rock are roughly 4m tall and if it helps they are set out in roughly a line.

[Berthold]

... if it helps they are set out in roughly a line.
Suggests that they have something to do with ancient mining; you said they are very old, so I exclude anything industrial; old tunnel vents look different, anyway.

ETA: Is it somewhere in Cornwall?

[davidpbrown]

Not Cornwall and nothing remotely to do with mining.

There is nothing on the inside of them and you can see all of them.

[Jack Willsson]

Are they cairns on one of the Scottish islands?

[davidpbrown]

No.

[Roo St. Gallus]

Are they in Iceland?

[davidpbrown]

No.

[Roo St. Gallus]

It looks to me as though they are placed in some place where the elements are such that little in the way of vegetation reaches above a few inches in height. Lots of pebbles and shards in the surface soil.

Structures of 4 m high, made of good sized, heavy stone.

It doesn't look as though it were done for clearing to plant, as the soil after the piling of the stone pillars is still unworkable.

I'm not too sure how many pillars, but it seems a lot of human labor far from any habitated area. Of course, the camera angle could be artfully done.

Is it known what purpose they served when built? An observatory, or a marker?

Is it north of the Arctic Circle?

[davidpbrown]

"There is nothing on the inside of them and you can see all of them."

Not the Arctic Circle.


There is a very good suggestion of what they were built for but strictly it is just a theory. They are old enough that there's a gap in written history. They were marked on 18C maps but are thought to be much older.


Google what you see. ;)



Edit: Incidentally, your thought that "where the elements are such that little in the way of vegetation reaches above a few inches in height" is not off topic, as the weather helps their function.

[neilstone40]

Is it Bunratty?

[davidpbrown]

No.

[Rodney Dobson]

Nine standards rigg

[davidpbrown]

Yes.. did you search "nine cairns"? :)

Nine Standards Rigg (http://www.visitcumbria.com/pen/nine-standards.htm)

They are thought to have been built as a deterrent to the marauding hoards of barbarians or whatever the equivalent was is times past uk. In bad weather, especially, they could be mistaken for army approaching or camped as lookout.


So, your turn..

[Rodney Dobson]

Did I look it up? Nope - in my youth I walked and/or cycled near those fells and dales. That particular sight is in the "once seen ne'er forgotten" category.

Being a newby I had to seek help posting a picture (thankyou Bree) so the result is a fairly easy offering. Thanks also to Google Earth!

http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/45981516.jpg

[davidpbrown]

I'm stumped. I was looking to remote but significant crossings of man made navigation lines, like Arctic circle crossing the Antimeridian, but none worked. I don't know if there is a significant magnetic outpouring that's stable enough to build for.

[davidpbrown]

For the record I found an easy way to hack the answer from that url, as you posted direct to its source! I won't cheat though. ;)

Using imgur.com is an easy way to reupload.

[Rodney Dobson]

For the record I found an easy way to hack the answer from that url, as you posted direct to its source! I won't cheat though. ;)

Using imgur.com is an easy way to reupload.

For the records - I was warned of that possibility but was in a hurry. I'll find a way round it in future.
Myself I've never been to my posted place but a helicopter runaround plus a lot of zooming was used in the introduction to a BBC series about the redevelopment of the area after the local industries died - distinctly memorable.

There's a clue if anybody's interested.

[Roo St. Gallus]

:blink:

[davidpbrown]

This one might be more 20 questions, I suspect.

[Jack Willsson]

I've only just noticed that the base is probably hexagonal. :o

Umbrella shaped?

http://d30opm7hsgivgh.cloudfront.net/upload/7796932_s4RaVmde_b.jpg

Probably no central column!

[Rodney Dobson]

Yes, six legs and no central column: think harvestman rather than spider. If you bring the overhead view down to the point where it's losing focus then the base might be hexagonal but the overwhelming impression is circular. Looking at the various photos on G_Earth I'm unable to decide if the buttresses are connected to the legs (and if there are any locals decently holding back then I would love to know).

If it's any further help - it's roughly 500yds away from what is claimed to be the biggest earth sculpture in Europe.

[Jack Willsson]

Dunno what it is but here's another one ....

http://www.megalithic.co.uk/a558/a312/gallery/scotland/Angus/P6220082.JPG

I wonder if "flying buttress" is a clue?

[munnki]

The Highpoint Observatory at Parc Penallta...

Damn that was hard... I had to use your clue...

[munnki]

The other one is The Queen's Well at Glenmark in Scotland (one led to the other via a blog called Concrete Ammonite)....

[munnki]

Imma need City and Building for this one... if you've been there you'll get it immediately... You might even be able to name the room...

http://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z445/munnki/marghfaghasdf.jpg

[Roo St. Gallus]

Hermitage in St. Petersburg. Yes, I've walked through the room, but wouldn't know which it is.

[munnki]

Hermitage in St. Petersburg. Yes, I've walked through the room, but wouldn't know which it is.

Nice skills... I figured either somebody would have been there or somebody would have seen the excellent Russian Ark...

It's the entrance room to the throne room... depicting the various high-ranking noblemen, previous kings and other important types (mostly in what seemed to me to be hunting poses or military gear...)... and very red...

I understood why the Romanovs were knocked off when I saw the Hermitage.... nice, nice, house...

[Roo St. Gallus]

Hermitage in St. Petersburg. Yes, I've walked through the room, but wouldn't know which it is.

Nice skills... I figured either somebody would have been there or somebody would have seen the excellent Russian Ark...

It's the entrance room to the throne room... depicting the various high-ranking noblemen, previous kings and other important types (mostly in what seemed to me to be hunting poses or military gear...)... and very red...

I understood why the Romanovs were knocked off when I saw the Hermitage.... nice, nice, house...


Oh, yeah...I was transfixed with the building. My compatriots kept looking at the art festooned about, but I was fascinated with the floors, the ceilings, the trim...the real artists were the unnamed and unknown craftsmen who built the buildings....which, of course, gave Lenin an excellent rationale for saving it all.

So....how about this one?

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj53/wellingtonkd/shed/46280208.jpg

I'll need the city, at minimum, but the structure in the center has an odd fame and might be known to Brits.

[Berthold]

Funny - looks to me like a hybrid of Ottoman bathhouse and fortress.

[davidpbrown]

Similar to trading domes or 'Chorsu' in Bukhara (http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Toki-Zargaron), Northern India.

[davidpbrown]

Is it the Ark fortress (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:Ark_fortress_in_Bukhara.jpg) in Bukhara, Uzbekistan?

[Roo St. Gallus]

No, it is not the Ark.

[Politesse]

Hermitage in St. Petersburg. Yes, I've walked through the room, but wouldn't know which it is.

Nice skills... I figured either somebody would have been there or somebody would have seen the excellent Russian Ark...

It's the entrance room to the throne room... depicting the various high-ranking noblemen, previous kings and other important types (mostly in what seemed to me to be hunting poses or military gear...)... and very red...

I understood why the Romanovs were knocked off when I saw the Hermitage.... nice, nice, house...
You can visit the Hermitage virtually through Google Museum now, among others.

[Roo St. Gallus]

Well, that slowed things down...

How about I tell you that it is in Bukhara and the photo was taken from atop the Ark?

3, 2, 1....it's a race to the Bukhara maps.

[davidpbrown]

The Zindan or the old prison?

[Ozymandias]

According to this page (http://www.greatmirror.com/index.cfm?navid=866&picturesize=medium), it is indeed the Zindan, as davipbrown said.

[davidpbrown]

Thanks FUBG.. I'd not seen as much detail of it as that.


I'll throw this open for someone else to post another challenge, as it'll be a while before I can and might be too busy to reply promptly.

[Roo St. Gallus]

The Zindan or the old prison?

Yes, the Zindan. Site of the infamous 'Bug Pit' of the stories of Stoddart and Conolly.

[Roo St. Gallus]

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj53/wellingtonkd/shed/46280248.jpg

[Politesse]

I'm sure I've seen that mall somewhere before, but damned if I remember where.

[munnki]

It is one level on the Hitman Contracts Game... and in the game it's in Kowloon, Hong Kong...but I'm not so sure...

[Roo St. Gallus]

No, so sorry...not Hong Kong.

[munnki]

Yes, the skyline is waaaaayyyy too low for Hong Kong and the buildings look more Japanese to me... but then you cannay trust Hitman Contracts to be an accurate representation of the real world.... that or I need to be put away for over 70 'silent' kills...

[Politesse]

Taipei?

[Roo St. Gallus]

No...Not Taipei.

How about we turn around and take a picture the other way:

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj53/wellingtonkd/shed/46280250.jpg

[davidpbrown]

Zoom, enhance, invert eyeball.. ah there's a name.. China Shaanxi Xian Bell Tower Square (http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Asia/China/Central/Shaanxi/Xian/photo961956.htm). Too easy!

[davidpbrown]

http://i.imgur.com/HvJX8.jpg

[Roo St. Gallus]

Lycian tombs, Dalyan, Turkey.

[rog]

Lycian Tombs, Tuekey?

[Roo St. Gallus]

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj53/wellingtonkd/shed/P1010058.jpg

[davidpbrown]

Too easy for you!..

[davidpbrown]

Vancouver's Capilano Reservoir?

[Roo St. Gallus]

Vancouver's Capilano Reservoir?

No, sorry.

[Roo St. Gallus]

Too easy for you!..


Heh...I just Googled it. Carved rock cliffs.

[Barefoot Bree]

Crown Point Vista House, Columbia River Gorge, Oregon.

[davidpbrown]

There was me looking north of Vancouver. Well done.

[Roo St. Gallus]

Crown Point Vista House, Columbia River Gorge, Oregon.

This is Crown Point Vista House.

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj53/wellingtonkd/shed/P1010061.jpg

It is where the previous photo was taken, looking eastwards up the west end of the Columbia River Gorge, a National Scenic Area. So, I'm giving the win to Bree. In the distance is Beacon Rock, reputed to be the second largest freestanding megalith in the world (Gibraltar being the first). It stands at the edge of the river on the north, Washington state, side. That is not a reservoir on the chain of dam reservoirs up the Columbia River, but the first of the last 'free flowing' river below Bonneville Dam, which is just out of sight. This is the most radioactive river in the US, if not the world, thanks to the presence of Hanford Nuclear Reservation just 200 miles to the ENE.

This is my country. This is at the heart of Cascadia.

Your pix, Bree.

[Barefoot Bree]

That's what I meant, actually, that the pic was taken from there. Got carried away with the excitement of actually knowing one. Sorry! :D

But I thought that was Rooster Rock in the distance? Or is that a local name for it?

Try this one:

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j210/BarefootBree/MysteryLocation.jpg

Not a real great pic, I'm afraid. Try this one, too:

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j210/BarefootBree/MysteryLocation3.jpg

There! Took me about six tries to get the right pic here. That's not a fly on your screen, I smudged out the huge sign on the right. No easy answers for you! :p

[Roo St. Gallus]

That's what I meant, actually, that the pic was taken from there. Got carried away with the excitement of actually knowing one. Sorry!

But I thought that was Rooster Rock in the distance? Or is that a local name for it?

No apologies necessary; that's exactly what I figured. Rooster Rock is another, much smaller, monolith. It is directly below Crown Point Vista (down and to the left of my first Gorge picture), on the south side of the river. Beacon Rock is another ten miles up river.

I'm having a helluva time with your faux covered bridge....I can't help but wonder what it was built for.

[Barefoot Bree]

:D

Another view, and a hint: back in my long-distance truck driver days, I drove under it at least once a week.

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j210/BarefootBree/MysteryLocation4.jpg

[Silly Sausage]

Blimey Bree, I've been searching for this one for ages today and I still haven't found it yet...

[Roo St. Gallus]

It's a pedestrian bridge whose primary purpose is to announce one's arrival at that destination?

Those are stylized birds on the peaks of the end supports?

[Silly Sausage]

Its the Great Platte River Road Archway Monument in Buffalo County, Nebraska.

(Thank you Bridgehunter.com)

[Roo St. Gallus]

There's a bridgehunter.com?

:banana:

I went to the site...man, talk about schmaltz. They built a museum over the highway....They don't even explain WTF those metallic things on the roofline are. It's got the second longest escalator in Nebraska!!! OMD!

If you were long hauling, you must have seen shiploads of this kind of 'roadside attraction' doohicky, huh?

I can hardly wait for Silly's pic.

[Silly Sausage]

After several hours of trying different things, I googled "modern bridge over road usa" and the second result was 'bridgehunter.com'. And then from there, I think I typed something similar into the search function (although I really can't remember what right now - damn alcohol!) and then just scrolled down until I saw a pic of it.


Don't get your hopes up too high Roo, I'm not that well travelled :)
Looking for something now though.....

[Barefoot Bree]

Good job SS!

I never did get a chance to stop and go inside the thing, tho I wished I could. I do like museums, even kitschy ones like that.

[Silly Sausage]

Ok, here we go (this won't be as hard as Bree's mystery location):

http://i844.photobucket.com/albums/ab6/Silly_Sausage_2010/Mysterylocationamended1.jpg

It is a real castle, in a real place.

[Rodney Dobson]

Are you prepared to give one tiny clue - is it "real"? [my first reaction was 'disneyland' but people did put up a lot of vanity projects]

[Rodney Dobson]

Are you prepared to give one tiny clue - is it "real"? [my first reaction was 'disneyland' but people did put up a lot of vanity projects]

APOLOGIES - I take it all back!!!

Caerlaverock?

[Silly Sausage]

Told you it was easy, lol. Be honest, did you use TinEye? I tried repeatedly to amend and hide the location, but it just wouldn't take. Nevermind, its your go :)

[Rodney Dobson]

Just Google - scottish castles: sounds silly but I was originally looking amongst the islands. I'd only seen the place from the other side where the water is almost invisible.
It's going to take me an hour or two to post something - I got caught above with an exposed url

[neilstone40]

Not fair that I missed this one. I recognised it straight away and was there last year. Typical that the first place I actually recognise and I miss it...

While we were there they had a medieval event with jousting, bow making, pottery, etc.

Myself and the kids had a shot at 'shoot the running Knight with bow and arrow' type thing. It was a guy dressed as a Knight with real bow and arrows (albeit with points removed and replaced with tennis balls).

First shot I hit him in the throat right under his visor (oops). Second shot hit a bit lower, quite literally below the belt :evil: (mostly because he ran backwards as he saw it coming) and dropped the poor guy to his knees... I gave up shortly after that!

[Rodney Dobson]

This might be a bit easy too, but it's a marvellous picture

http://imgur.com/mLvhc

If it works....it didn't work very well but if you right-click the little image you can get at it: I'll be back on this one...............

[Barefoot Bree]

This might be a bit easy too, but it's a marvellous picture

http://imgur.com/mLvhc

If it works....

I'm not seeing the image at all, there's just blank space between your two lines of text - are we having trouble with pics on imgur?

ETA: copied it to my photobucket, in case I'm not the only one it's disappearing on:

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j210/BarefootBree/Imgur.jpg

[Silly Sausage]

Not fair that I missed this one. I recognised it straight away and was there last year. Typical that the first place I actually recognise and I miss it...

While we were there they had a medieval event with jousting, bow making, pottery, etc.

Myself and the kids had a shot at 'shoot the running Knight with bow and arrow' type thing. It was a guy dressed as a Knight with real bow and arrows (albeit with points removed and replaced with tennis balls).

First shot I hit him in the throat right under his visor (oops). Second shot hit a bit lower, quite literally below the belt :evil: (mostly because he ran backwards as he saw it coming) and dropped the poor guy to his knees... I gave up shortly after that!

I was there a few years back. A couple of my ex-friends were getting married in Gretna Green and we travelled round southern Scotland for a little while checking out 'haunted' castles.

[Rodney Dobson]

This might be a bit easy too, but it's a marvellous picture

If it works....

I'm not seeing the image at all, there's just blank space between your two lines of text - are we having trouble with pics on imgur?

ETA: copied it to my photobucket, in case I'm not the only one it's disappearing on:



Thanks: I thought I'd done the right thing! A bit more reading seems to be required.

[Barefoot Bree]

No, you did the right thing, as far as I can see - I think we have trouble sometimes with pics hosted on certain sites. Going to check with our tech guru.

[Roo St. Gallus]

This might be a bit easy too, but it's a marvellous picture

http://imgur.com/mLvhc

If it works....

I'm not seeing the image at all, there's just blank space between your two lines of text - are we having trouble with pics on imgur?

ETA: copied it to my photobucket, in case I'm not the only one it's disappearing on:

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j210/BarefootBree/Imgur.jpg

I'm going to guess it's Hat Rock.

[MattShizzle]

Yeah, the initial pic for me is a red x.

[Rodney Dobson]

Hat Rock? I don't think so....

I can tell you its name, where it is and so forth but I haven't found a translation of that name

[davidpbrown]

No, you did the right thing, as far as I can see - I think we have trouble sometimes with pics hosted on certain sites. Going to check with our tech guru.

You need to use the .jpg link. The one used above was just [imgur.com/mLvhc] rather than the [i.imgur.com/mLvhc.jpg] link.

imgur suggests multiple flavours of link for a variety of uses.

:cool:

[Roo St. Gallus]

Hat Rock? I don't think so....

I can tell you its name, where it is and so forth but I haven't found a translation of that name

Ah, thanks...Where I come from, anything like that gets named "Hat Rock"....or "Table Rock".

I take it that it is not in North America, thanks.

[Berthold]

In Spanish, "table" is mesa. :)

And it's green, but that didn't help me a lot.

[Barefoot Bree]

Somewhere in Mesa Verde National Monument?

[Berthold]

That's what I thought of, but the vegetation doesn't look right (too cool and humid).

[Rodney Dobson]

Sorry - I thought Roo had ruled out N.America But as a freeby you can rule out S.America at the same time. If there are caves they are probably legendary - legend, for want of a better word, has it that a giant stepped out of the mountain - and that the giant with his iron pole is on the country's coat of arms. Is that too obscure to be called a clue?

[Roo St. Gallus]

Mt. Lomagnupur, in Iceland?

[Rodney Dobson]

Obviously too good a clue. I thought that would fox everybody. I Bow humbly.

All yours

[Roo St. Gallus]

Too helpful a clue, but a good stumper pix, none the less.

I too was looking for something in a more arid climate. My problem was that I assumed the clear water was fresh, rather than salt. I thought that the peak had been riparian in erosional formation, so I would looking for rivers with hairpin turns and redoubts created as a result. The scale also fooled me, as I initially thought it to be a smaller structure and 'insular', rather than the headland of a peninusular finger.

I found it with the Giant clue....I'd figured it was in the Scandinavian quarter, with the vegetation and the rimrock. I'd even looked around Iceland, but I didn't know where to look.

[Roo St. Gallus]

An easy one:

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj53/wellingtonkd/shed/46280075.jpg

[Rodney Dobson]

Do we need to take the Golden Road? Samarkand?

[davidpbrown]

The Madrasa, Registan Square, Samarkand, Uzbekistan. (https://photosofuzbekistan.wordpress.com/2006/10/20/registan-square-samarkand-uzbekistan-central-asia-silk-road/) [2] (http://www.flickr.com/photos/_grin/4171334270/)

Not from Rodney's suggestion incidentally .. I mistook it as a tomb, then mosque, then madrasa.


If it's right, again wide open for someone else to have a chance.

[Roo St. Gallus]

Do we need to take the Golden Road? Samarkand?

Silk Roads.

Yes...Samarkand.

[Rodney Dobson]

I think I may have it wrong. If you wiki "samarkand" there is a picture of a mosque right at the top right. At the right hand side there is part of a larger building that has similar domes and ?towers? at either side.
However, there is a better picture in Pesaretabrizi - Architecture of Iran - but the bl***y set of pictures has no labels nor a useful url!

I'm still searching..........

So I post it and then - ah well I certainly didn't get there first but if nobody else posts within a reasonable time then I'll have another shot.

"Golden Road" was trying to be clever - James Elroy Flecker - I'll take the Golden Road to Samarkand: I think it's from Hassan but I'm too lazy to look it up

[Roo St. Gallus]

The Madrasa, Registan Square, Samarkand, Uzbekistan. (https://photosofuzbekistan.wordpress.com/2006/10/20/registan-square-samarkand-uzbekistan-central-asia-silk-road/) [2] (http://www.flickr.com/photos/_grin/4171334270/)

Not from Rodney's suggestion incidentally .. I mistook it as a tomb, then mosque, then madrasa.


If it's right, again wide open for someone else to have a chance.

It's mostly right. As noted, yes, it's Samarkand. You've taken it the next step and correctly identified it as one of the three Registan Ensemble madrassahs. In this case, it is the Sher-Dor Madrassah, on the eastern side of the Registan.

I don't have any readily available pix, so somebody else will have to do the honors.

[Roo St. Gallus]

Okay...I do have this, which should be a snap.

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj53/wellingtonkd/shed/P1000116.jpg

Let's make it a trifecta.

Name the mountain, name the city, name the location of the photographer.

[Preno]

Ararat, Yerevan, dunno?

[davidpbrown]

Mount Seymour; Vancouver; somewhere just SW of the General Hospital?

[Barefoot Bree]

I was going to say Mt Hood from Portland, but I can't place that stadium-looking structure. In case I'm wrong about being wrong, perhaps Washington Park?

[Barefoot Bree]

Au contraire! C'est Mt Ranier from the Seattle Space Needle!

[Roo St. Gallus]

Au contraire! C'est Mt Ranier from the Seattle Space Needle!


Bingo!

Over to you, Bree.

[Barefoot Bree]

I think you're gonna have to go to the second tier of Cascadian sights to get one past me, Roo. After all, I lived in Portland for a couple of years, and I'd loooove to move back if I could. :D (I'm feeling cocky tonight, two for two!)

Let's try this one. Two views of the same place. And a freebie hint: it ain't the new world.

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j210/BarefootBree/Myst1.jpg

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j210/BarefootBree/Myst3.jpg

[Berthold]

In east-central Europe, although it's neither the Wawel nor the Hrajin?

[munnki]

That's Prague Castle... methinks...

[Berthold]

I miss this tower in this total picture (http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Prague_panorama_at_castle.jp g&filetimestamp=20101217153722) of it.

[Ozymandias]

I think that is the Abbey on Mont Saint Michel.

Given away by the distinctive spire with spikes:

http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Mont_Saint_Michel_2008_PD_32_1_s.jpg

[munnki]

http://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z445/munnki/101_0891sdf.jpg

Also not in the New World...

[Barefoot Bree]

I think that is the Abbey on Mont Saint Michel.

Given away by the distinctive spire with spikes:

http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Mont_Saint_Michel_2008_PD_32_1_s.jpg

Guy wins!

The tough part was finding a pic that didn't include the distinctive silhouette. Though I was going to bring this one in for the next hint:

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j210/BarefootBree/Myst2.jpg

[munnki]

Oh I'm sorry... I thought berthold had meant I had got it right...

Sorry... I'm unusually more stupid than the normal daft today... please ignore my image and continue on... FUBG your post...

[Barefoot Bree]

Bad munnki! Go spank yourself!



Did I just say that out loud? *hangs head in shame*

[Barefoot Bree]

Question for those of you who follow pic links - are the other pics on my photobucket viewable when you do that? Are there any settings I'm missing to make them invisible?

[Ozymandias]

Please feel free to continue with Munnki's as it would take me a while to find a worthy image and I am a bit tied up right now.

[Ozymandias]

Question for those of you who follow pic links - are the other pics on my photobucket viewable when you do that? Are there any settings I'm missing to make them invisible?

No, I get "403 Forbidden". Having said that, I am on an iPad which might be different.

[Roo St. Gallus]

http://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z445/munnki/101_0891sdf.jpg

Also not in the New World...

So...Is it in Dublin, or London?

Or, somewhere else entirely?

[davidpbrown]

The taxi could well be Irish but I can't find anything pointing to a simple solution.

That the building is in the state it is, I would guess perhaps it's a simple place of historic consequence.. birth place of famous someone etc. searching for Edwardian houses with red doors didn't get anywhere quickly :dunno:

[Roo St. Gallus]

The meeting place of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?

Mick Jagger's boyhood home?

[Roo St. Gallus]

What?

Munkee is so busy flinging poo that he can't come give a clue?

[munnki]

Right... it's in Dublin... that much I'll give you and it's part of a very historically important building (for both the English and Irish - who will be familiar with it)... DMB may help here...she may have been there

[Roo St. Gallus]

Is it the back of Leinster House?

[munnki]

No... tis more scholarly than that.... but geographically it's very close to Leinster House...

[Roo St. Gallus]

You mean Trinity College?

[munnki]

Maybe... but which part of said college...

[Roo St. Gallus]

It's the view into the Trinity College Dublin campus from Grafton Street, near the intersection with Suffolk and Nassau Streets, on the southwest corner of the College grounds.

I haven't the damnedest the name of the structure, as no Google map will produce it, and evidently TCD doesn't post up a campus directory map.

Is it the Dean's abode, or something? Where Dean Swift lived? Or, where they store the Book of Kells?

[munnki]

Point's yours Roo I made it too hard I think... the others seemed to easy.. it's the Provosts' House of Trinity College Dublin... and right across from my bus stop when I'm in Ireland...

[Roo St. Gallus]

I finally found an interactive map, so I have to retract the slur I made upon Trinity College Dublin's reputation. My Google search kept wanting to take me to some Trinity College in Chapel, Ireland, off in the Wexford area.

There certainly seem to be a buttload of tourista busses.

I dunno what it was, but my first impression was...'Dublin'. I was there in 1980, and I'm sure I walked right down Grafton Street.

I've got to rummage around. I'm running short on photos I've taken.

[Roo St. Gallus]

Ah, here...

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj53/wellingtonkd/shed/P1020781.jpg

[Silly Sausage]

Is it in Europe? (Are we allowed a little clue?)

[Barefoot Bree]

That wouldn't happen to be Carcassonne in southern France, would it?

[Roo St. Gallus]

That wouldn't happen to be Carcassonne in southern France, would it?


Indeed, it is Carcassonne.

And, yes, it is in Europe.

I think Bree has broken into my picture files....

(Mad skillz, Bree. Have you been there, too?)

[Barefoot Bree]

Yes, I have, several years ago. I can't for the life of me say why I thought of Carcassonne, the pic just reminded me of it somehow. Honestly, it was a stab in the dark! :D (I think we had our picnic lunch just there on the right, though....)

Going to have to think a bit for my next one.... back soon.