Where Was This Picture Taken?

[ducati]

Let's play a little game.

Post some pictures you've taken around town or on your travels, and let's see if we can figure out where or what they are.

No, not your yard or basement, or a tepui in Venezuela.
Give us a fighting chance of having been there or at least seen it on the Discovery Channel!

Let's not make it too obvious, either. Cable cars or the Empire State Building make it too easy, but maybe inside the ESB, or a particular museum or attraction.

I'll start with...

Location 1
Location 2
Location 3
Location 4
Location 5

[blondebear]

My guess for #1 is "The view from Stone Mountain".

Here's one of mine: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/phot...eat=directlink

[L. G. Butts, Ph.D.]

2 is Cumberland Island in Georgia. My wife went there last year.

[Robot Arm]

Originally Posted by blondebear

Here's one of mine: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/phot...eat=directlink

Looks like ruins somewhere along the east side of Death Valley, looking towards the west.

[Snerky Snerk]

Location 4 looks like...

SPOILER:

http://sanfrancisco.about.com/od/pho...t-Cemetery.htm

[Darryl Lict]

3 looks like Sutro Baths.

[Darryl Lict]

Originally Posted by Robot Arm

Looks like ruins somewhere along the east side of Death Valley, looking towards the west.

I agree. It looks like Cook Bank in Rhyolite.

[Robot Arm]

Originally Posted by Darryl Lict

I agree. It looks like Cook Bank in Rhyolite.

Bingo. Compare to this picture.

[Darryl Lict]

Try this one (heh).

7. http://i.imgur.com/yeKZPG2.jpg

[buckgully]

Originally Posted by Darryl Lict

3 looks like Sutro Baths.

Yeah, the Wikipedia page has an almost identical picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sutro_baths_pic2.jpeg

Was that ruined bank building in the movie "Six String Samurai" or am I misremembering?

[DataX]

Originally Posted by Darryl Lict

Try this one (heh).

7. http://i.imgur.com/yeKZPG2.jpg

Angel Falls?

[Darryl Lict]

Originally Posted by DataX

Angel Falls?

Yeah, I threw that one in there because of the comment about a tepui in Venezuela.

Here's some pretty tough ones. (Hint: all different continents)

8. http://i.imgur.com/OwfLqQw.jpg

9. http://i.imgur.com/QtDVDH9.jpg

10. http://i.imgur.com/uxLVw12.jpg

11. http://i.imgur.com/Fbxx2FN.jpg

12. http://i.imgur.com/aE8IsSG.jpg

[Simplicio]

Originally Posted by Darryl Lict

8. http://i.imgur.com/OwfLqQw.jpg

Great Salt Lake.

[Robot Arm]

Originally Posted by Darryl Lict

8. http://i.imgur.com/OwfLqQw.jpg

The Spiral Jetty near Rozel Point on the Great Salt Lake.

[GuanoLad]

Originally Posted by Darryl Lict

10. http://i.imgur.com/uxLVw12.jpg

Yay, one I can answer. That's Cradle Mountain in Tasmania.

[Darryl Lict]

Originally Posted by Simplicio

Great Salt Lake.

Originally Posted by Robot Arm

The Spiral Jetty near Rozel Point on the Great Salt Lake.

Yup, when I heard that Robert Smithson's magnificent earthworks reappeared after being submerged for 30 years due to The Great Salt Lake's level rising, I wanted to check it out. It's remote as hell, but at least you can check out Golden Spike National Historic Site ( meeting place of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads ) while you are there.

Originally Posted by GuanoLad

Yay, one I can answer. That's Cradle Mountain in Tasmania.

Good one! I'm not sure if I'd recognize it off the bat, and I've been there!

[Darryl Lict]

Originally Posted by buckgully

Was that ruined bank building in the movie "Six String Samurai" or am I misremembering?

Looks like it.

Is that movie any good? I've seen the Red Elvises.

[GuanoLad]

Originally Posted by buckgully

Was that ruined bank building in the movie "Six String Samurai" or am I misremembering?

I'm pretty sure it was also in Michael Bay's The Island.

[Desert Nomad]

Originally Posted by Darryl Lict

11. http://i.imgur.com/Fbxx2FN.jpg

Namib Desert

[SmellMyWort]

#5 looks like a resort on Maui.

[blondebear]

Originally Posted by Robot Arm

Looks like ruins somewhere along the east side of Death Valley, looking towards the west.

Originally Posted by Darryl Lict

I agree. It looks like Cook Bank in Rhyolite.

Bingo! If you squint, in the distance you can see snow in the Sierras almost 100 miles away.

[Giles]

I'll offer a few of my pictures:
Picture 13
Picture 14
Picture 15
Picture 16

(All taken in large cities, on four different continents.)

[hogarth]

Four reasonable ones...
http://imgur.com/ZvDlytT
http://imgur.com/RHaxnEz
http://imgur.com/oMuHBY6
http://imgur.com/GGuyghX

...and one that's probably impossible.
http://imgur.com/sXaYaiv

[GuanoLad]

Originally Posted by Giles

Picture 15

That's Circular Quay in Sydney.

[Gray Ghost]

Originally Posted by Giles

I'll offer a few of my pictures:
Picture 13

13's an overhead of Chicago, USA, looking south from just north of Belmont Harbor.

14 looks like London, with the red double-decker buses everywhere.

16's somewhere where they write in Cyrillic. If I could read Cyrillic, that would help... I'll guess Kiev.

[Robot Arm]

Originally Posted by Gray Ghost

13's an overhead of Chicago, USA, looking south from just north of Belmont Harbor.

If I had to guess, I'd say looking out a left side window on approach to 27L at O'Hare.

[GuanoLad]

Originally Posted by Gray Ghost

14 looks like London, with the red double-decker buses everywhere.

Looks like where Euston Rd meets Tottenham Court Rd. It must be from quite some time ago as Euston Tower was completed in 1970, and it seems that block in the bottom right is entirely different now.

[Giles]

Originally Posted by Gray Ghost

13's an overhead of Chicago, USA, looking south from just north of Belmont Harbor.

14 looks like London, with the red double-decker buses everywhere.

Yes and yes.

Originally Posted by GuanoLad

Looks like where Euston Rd meets Tottenham Court Rd. It must be from quite some time ago as Euston Tower was completed in 1970, and it seems that block in the bottom right is entirely different now.

Yes, it was taken in 1969.

Originally Posted by Gray Ghost

16's somewhere where they write in Cyrillic. If I could read Cyrillic, that would help... I'll guess Kiev.

No, there would not be any Cyrillic in the picture, so it's not in Russia or the Ukraine.

[kenner116]

Originally Posted by Darryl Lict

9. http://i.imgur.com/QtDVDH9.jpg

Mt. Popa in Myanmar. I considered visiting but I was too cheap to get a taxi from Bagan.

[Butterscotch]

Originally Posted by hogarth

Four reasonable ones...
http://imgur.com/ZvDlytT
http://imgur.com/RHaxnEz
http://imgur.com/oMuHBY6
http://imgur.com/GGuyghX

...and one that's probably impossible.
http://imgur.com/sXaYaiv

That first one looks like the Hamman in Istanbul.

[kenner116]

Originally Posted by Giles

Picture 16

This could be any number of Chinese cities, probably in the 1990's.

[kenner116]

Originally Posted by Butterscotch

That first one looks like the Hamman in Istanbul.

It is at Chichen Itza. I was recently there.

[GuanoLad]

Originally Posted by kenner116

This could be any number of Chinese cities, probably in the 1990's.

I was going to guess Shanghai, though I don't have strong evidence for it.

[Giles]

Originally Posted by kenner116

This could be any number of Chinese cities, probably in the 1990's.

Yes, 1996 to be precise. It's also about 10 km north of the city centre, taken from my room in the hotel where I stayed.

Originally Posted by GuanoLad

I was going to guess Shanghai, though I don't have strong evidence for it.

No, not Shanghai.

[kenner116]

Originally Posted by Giles

Yes, 1996 to be precise. It's also about 10 km north of the city centre, taken from my room in the hotel where I stayed.


No, not Shanghai.

Beijing? 10 km north of Tiananmen would place it near where the Olympic Park is today.

Originally Posted by hogarth

...and one that's probably impossible.
http://imgur.com/sXaYaiv

Nanjing Pearl Spring Scenic Area!

Picture 22
Picture 23
Picture 24
Picture 25
Picture 26
Picture 27
Picture 28
Picture 29

[hogarth]

Originally Posted by kenner116

Nanjing Pearl Spring Scenic Area!

Okay, not so impossible obviously.

Yes, the other picture was Chichen Itza.

[GuanoLad]

Originally Posted by Giles

Yes, 1996 to be precise. It's also about 10 km north of the city centre, taken from my room in the hotel where I stayed.

Originally Posted by kenner116

Beijing? 10 km north of Tiananmen would place it near where the Olympic Park is today.

Aha! It's from the Crowne Plaza Hotel, near where the Birds Nest is now.

[hogarth]

Originally Posted by kenner116

Picture 29

Hong Kong Cemetery. Wikipedia has a very similar picture:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...g_Cemetery.jpg

[Labrador Deceiver]

Originally Posted by SmellMyWort

#5 looks like a resort on Maui.

I was going to say Kapalua.

[Darryl Lict]

Originally Posted by kenner116

Picture 26

Angkor Wat?

[Darryl Lict]

Originally Posted by Desert Nomad

Namib Desert

Yup, Sossusvlei in particular, site of that awful jLo flick The Cell.

Originally Posted by kenner116

Mt. Popa in Myanmar. I considered visiting but I was too cheap to get a taxi from Bagan.

I splurged for the cab, and it was completely worth it, although the monkeys and third world staircases were pretty scary.

[kenner116]

Originally Posted by hogarth

Hong Kong Cemetery. Wikipedia has a very similar picture:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...g_Cemetery.jpg

That's it. I walked up to the Peak then along the ridge and down into Happy Valley, where this cemetery is located.

Originally Posted by Darryl Lict

Angkor Wat?

Very close.

[Colophon]

Originally Posted by kenner116

Very close.

Ta Prohm. Part of the Angkor complex.

try picture 30.

(if I have the numbering right!)

[Colophon]

Originally Posted by hogarth

Four reasonable ones...
http://imgur.com/ZvDlytT
http://imgur.com/RHaxnEz
http://imgur.com/oMuHBY6
http://imgur.com/GGuyghX

The last one looks like Chuquicamata copper mine in Chile.

[Colophon]

Originally Posted by kenner116

Picture 22
Picture 23
Picture 24
Picture 25
Picture 26
Picture 27
Picture 28
Picture 29

22 looks like SE Asia, obviously, and somewhere with French-influenced architecture. Indochina - Laos maybe?

28 looks like a Thai temple, somewhere in the north?

[pravnik]

Originally Posted by hogarth

http://imgur.com/ZvDlytT

This is the only one I've known so far (and was too slow on), the Observatory at Chichen Itza.

[hogarth]

Originally Posted by Colophon

The last one looks like Chuquicamata copper mine in Chile.

That's not it; I've never been to South America. It was one of the stops on a coach tour my wife and I took.

[Darryl Lict]

Originally Posted by Colophon

22 looks like SE Asia, obviously, and somewhere with French-influenced architecture. Indochina - Laos maybe?

I think 22 is Yangon, Myanmar.

I don't actually remember that building, but it's deteriorating condition made me think of Myanmar. I eliminated Laos because Vietienne is a major shithole and I don't recall any decent looking colonial architecture.

I eliminated Vietnam because I have a huge fascination with bicycles and the typical pedicabs in Vietnam have two front wheels with a seat between them. I'm pretty sure I have a picture somewhere of a Myanmaran (sp?) bicycle.

Plus, the cars in the picture are right hand drive and most of the cars in Myanmar are imported from Japan (right hand drive) even though they drive on the right, which is completely fucked up and classically Myanmar.

[Darryl Lict]

Originally Posted by hogarth

http://imgur.com/GGuyghX

I'm guessing Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah.

[hogarth]

Originally Posted by Darryl Lict

I'm guessing Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah.

That's a good guess!