# Any landmarks visible from your house? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 13, 2018, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573 "2018-01-13T23:33:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2018, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/1 "2018-01-13T23:33:08Z")
I was looking at a site about federal holidays (thanks to a question in IMHO) and the header image to the page was [this](https://unitedstates-publicholidays.stackpathdns.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/US_South-Carolina_1920_800.jpg) really nice photo of [Table Rock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_Rock_State_Park_(South_Carolina)). If I walk to the end of my driveway, walk another couple of hundred feet down the road, and look down the length of my next-door neighbor’s field, I can make out Table Rock (from pretty much the same angle as that photo) on the horizon around 30 miles away. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2018, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/2 "2018-01-13T23:40:50Z")
Wrigley Field from my apartment building although my own apartment doesn’t have a view Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2018, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/3 "2018-01-13T23:42:25Z")
The Gulf of Mexico. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2018, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/4 "2018-01-13T23:44:24Z")
I can see the [Cathedral of Saint Paul](https://www.cathedralsaintpaul.org/) from my window, but you can probably see it from any top-floor apartment or window in the city; kind of why they built it there. I can also see La Cucaracha, which is not likely to be as famous. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/5 "2018-01-14T00:09:07Z")
I can see “The Cube” atop Mt Umunhum and Lick Observatory on Mt Hamilton from my driveway. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/6 "2018-01-14T00:27:12Z")
I can’t think of any landmarks close to me. Naval Air Station Patuxent River is about 20 miles away, and Point Lookout, the southernmost point of the state, is about 35 miles away. But nothing in my immediate area - heck, mostly what I see from my house are my neighbors’ houses and trees. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/7 "2018-01-14T00:34:28Z")
No, but you can see rocket launches from here. At night when they were doing shuttle launches, I’d say that counted as a landmark since you could see the distinctive Shuttle silhouette clearly illuminated by the flames even from more than 20 miles away. But a rocket just looks like a rocket. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/8 "2018-01-14T00:38:36Z")
We’re in Building C. From the roof of Building A and _maybe_ Building B, you can see part of Diamond Head. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/9 "2018-01-14T00:45:37Z")
15ish yrs ago, I could sit on my couch and look just above the tv out the window and see the Hollywood sign. Now, not quite from my house, but I can go down to the corner and see the Warner bro water tower where the animaniacs live. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/10 "2018-01-14T01:19:27Z")
Is Lake Superior a landmark? If so, I can see it from that one window in the upstairs bathroom in the winter, when the leaves are off the trees. ---
**Author:** ![ctnguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@ctnguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ctnguy)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/11 "2018-01-14T01:26:22Z")
I can see [Table Mountain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_Mountain) from my house, but the same can be said by virtually everyone in this city… ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/12 "2018-01-14T01:26:48Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > I can see “The Cube” atop Mt Umunhum and Lick Observatory on Mt Hamilton from my driveway. That makes sense: Meridian and 280. I can see the Cube from my bedroom (it’s on the 2nd floor). I should be able to see Lick, but my neighbor’s house is in the way. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/13 "2018-01-14T01:34:57Z")
I was originally going to opine that lakes and oceans are not landmarks, but famous ones literally are: shared geographic knowledge one can easily use to navigate. You can tell someone “if you hit the ocean you’ve gone too far” and they’ll know what you mean. By that reckoning, I’ve spent 2-3 years on a shoreside house on Lake Erie when I was young. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/14 "2018-01-14T01:35:32Z")
Domino’s ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/15 "2018-01-14T01:40:55Z")
Depending upon time of day, day of month, & cloud cover, I can see the sun, moon, & some constellations; do they count? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/16 "2018-01-14T01:44:59Z")
Can’t quite see it from my place, but [Grandfather’s House](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather%27s_House) is a short walk away. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/17 "2018-01-14T01:47:32Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > I can see “The Cube” atop Mt Umunhum and Lick Observatory on Mt Hamilton from my driveway. Have you ever been up there? I haven’t. Am curious. ETA: > [@John\_Mace](#): > > That makes sense: Meridian and 280. I can see the Cube from my bedroom (it’s on the 2nd floor). I should be able to see Lick, but my neighbor’s house is in the way. You too, John, have you? ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/18 "2018-01-14T01:49:50Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Domino’s > ☹ What is even worse is that \*they \* can see \*you. \* ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/19 "2018-01-14T01:50:25Z")
> [@Athena](#): > > Is Lake Superior a landmark? If so, I can see it from that one window in the upstairs bathroom in the winter, when the leaves are off the trees. You betcha it is! Well actually, it is a watermark. :)Jeez, I crack myself up. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/20 "2018-01-14T01:51:17Z")
I never looked, but a workman I hired knew where my road was by a dead 'coon that was near. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573.md?page=2)