# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/21 "2018-01-14T02:05:58Z")
Yeah the first windmill in my city ! ☹ The mayor was so excited about this that the city did very little research on how it would bother some people ! I can see the windmill but I am not close enough to have it drive me nuts like it does to other people,. The sunlight bounce off the blades and into people homes so the windmill is shut off certain times of the day. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/22 "2018-01-14T02:15:39Z")
I can see ships waiting to enter the Panama Canal from my window. I used to be able to see the top part of ships in the canal itself before they built a hi-rise that blocked the view. We could see the Empire State Building from the house where I grew up in the Bronx even though it was 10 miles away. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/23 "2018-01-14T02:18:37Z")
Technically, no, but if I were able to get on top of maybe a 10’ tall ladder on my roof, I could see the downtown Chicago skyline (and I live about 9 miles from downtown). Yes, Chicago really is that flat. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/24 "2018-01-14T02:28:37Z")
My front room picture windows looks out at Goat Hill … meh … fucking goats … ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/25 "2018-01-14T02:29:35Z")
I can see some of the tallest buildings in San Francisco, including [555 California Street](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_California_Street) and the [Salesforce Tower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesforce_Tower). I can also see [Mount Davidson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Davidson_(California)) in the other direction. ---
**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 14, 2018, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/26 "2018-01-14T02:34:02Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > My front room picture windows looks out at Goat Hill … meh … fucking goats … If we could do “fixed that for you” on this forum, this is where I would have deleted your second “h.” ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/27 "2018-01-14T02:35:55Z")
From my house, no. Trees block the view of the cityscape, but I can walk a very short distance to get [this](http://collings.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/28 "2018-01-14T02:40:17Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > 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. [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_Rock_(Ada_County,_Idaho)) is the Table Rock visible from where I live ---
**Author:** ![FinsToTheLeft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finstotheleft/32/2930_2.png) [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/29 "2018-01-14T02:43:30Z")
I can see the [CN Tower](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CN_Tower) from my bedroom. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/30 "2018-01-14T04:08:59Z")
I live right next to the Erie Canal. It’s not visible from my house but only because there are some woods behind my house. And, obviously, the canal is below ground level. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/31 "2018-01-14T04:20:38Z")
Is “the Las Vegas Strip” one landmark or a bunch of landmarks? ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/32 "2018-01-14T04:33:05Z")
Dunno if it’s a landmark, but I can see Seaworld’s Skytower and one of its rides from my balcony. A bit more iconic (but still arguable for this thread) I can look the other direction and see the Magic Kingdom’s nightly fireworks. ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/33 "2018-01-14T05:21:56Z")
From my old place in Dubai I could see the Burj Khalifa being built. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/34 "2018-01-14T05:25:12Z")
I enjoy a panoramic view of the Chicago skyline. Not quite high enough up to also see Lake Michigan, though. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/35 "2018-01-14T05:29:39Z")
If I were to stand on the roof I can see the state Capitol building. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/36 "2018-01-14T11:47:48Z")
The Sandia Mountains, the volcanoes, and the Darth Vader building. ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/37 "2018-01-14T12:26:25Z")
The Caribbean Sea is visible from my house… and not a whole lot else. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/38 "2018-01-14T13:38:52Z")
Little Rock Central High is a couple miles from my house. The National Park Service runs it now. I think the exit off the interstate may be visible from my roof. I drive past that exit several times a week. Never bothered visiting. It’s in a run down neighborhood. It apparently is still a school. I doubt the students use the original building that people see in old photos. They’ve added other buildings ( on the property) since 1957. [http://schools.lrsd3.org/?q=content/central-high-home](http://schools.lrsd3.org/?q=content/central-high-home) ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/39 "2018-01-14T14:09:40Z")
I lived in three different houses in the French Quarter, where I could look out the door and see, umm, The French Quarter. In one of them, from my doorstep, I could see St. Louis Cathedral. I lived in two houses from which I had an unobstructed view of the Pacific Ocean out the window. I once lived in a house from which I could see a total solar eclipse. From my present house, I can see the moon. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573/40 "2018-01-14T14:38:36Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Little Rock Central High is a couple miles from my house. The National Park Service runs it now. > > I think the exit off the interstate may be visible from my roof. I drive past that exit several times a week. Never bothered visiting. It’s in a run down neighborhood. > > It apparently is still a school. I doubt the students use the original building that people see in old photos. They’ve added other buildings ( on the property) since 1957. > [http://schools.lrsd3.org/?q=content/central-high-home](http://schools.lrsd3.org/?q=content/central-high-home) I visited the museum in 2013 which is down the block from the school. They said folks could not go into the school building because it was still in active use. Brian [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-landmarks-visible-from-your-house/806573.md?page=3)