# Can you identify all the landmarks in this CGI picture? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 30, 2009, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-all-the-landmarks-in-this-cgi-picture/483739 "2009-01-30T17:47:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-all-the-landmarks-in-this-cgi-picture/483739/1 "2009-01-30T17:47:29Z")
Here’s the [picture](http://www.wallcoo.net/cartoon/Platinum_Conception_Studio_Pictures_01/wallpapers/1280x800/Conception_Design_platinum_26.html)I mean (entirely safe for work). How many can you identify? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-all-the-landmarks-in-this-cgi-picture/483739/2 "2009-01-30T18:00:35Z")
At first glance I could name eight and recognise nine. Sydney Opera house. St Paul’s Cathederal. Eiffel Tower. Kaula Lumpur Tower (not sure if that’s the name) (Lobsang you idiot: It’s the Petronas Tower. That should have been easy) Statue of Liberty. Tower Bridge. Colluseum. Freedom Tower (not built yet). The one I can’t name is the one that looks a bit like the space needle with a ball on top. ---
**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 30, 2009, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-all-the-landmarks-in-this-cgi-picture/483739/3 "2009-01-30T18:09:53Z")
I only got seven…I feel dumb… Eiffel Tower CN Tower Collesium Statue Of Liberty Opera House Tower Bridge Giant Atom (in Belgium) I am sure there are others on there that I know, but I just can’t see. There’s also things I think I know, but aren’t sure (This is now my wallpaper…cool find **Sklad**!!!) ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-all-the-landmarks-in-this-cgi-picture/483739/4 "2009-01-30T18:13:15Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > I only got seven…I feel dumb… > > Eiffel Tower > CN Tower > Collesium > Statue Of Liberty > Opera House > Tower Bridge > Giant Atom (in Belgium) > > I am sure there are others on there that I know, but I just can’t see. There’s also things I think I know, but aren’t sure > > (This is now my wallpaper…cool find **Sklad**!!!) Beware of the website that comes from, for it is full of time-wasting distractions. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-all-the-landmarks-in-this-cgi-picture/483739/5 "2009-01-30T18:21:54Z")
The ones I could name: Eiffel Tower Statue of Liberty Giant Atom Coliseum Tower Bridge Petronas Towers Sydney Opera House CN Tower ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-all-the-landmarks-in-this-cgi-picture/483739/6 "2009-01-30T18:32:30Z")
Okay, breaking the horizon from left to right are the Bank of China building in Hong Kong, the CN Tower, the Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower, a TV tower that I want to say is the Oriental Pearl Television Tower in Shanghai, but it isn’t (possibly it’s in Dubai?), plus the Petronas Towers. There’s the Atomium, as others have mentioned. I think the large square building to the upper left of the Atomium is the royal palace in Stockholm. Also: the Coliseum, the Sydney Opera House, Tower Bridge. ---
**Author:** ![1stFusilier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/58956e/32.png) [@1stFusilier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1stFusilier)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-all-the-landmarks-in-this-cgi-picture/483739/7 "2009-01-30T21:01:56Z")
By-passing my urge to peek at everyone else’s answers, I got this: 1.Sydney Opera House 2.Ivory Pearl Tower, Shanghai. 3. Damn there’s another thing there from Shanghai but I don’t know it’s name 4.The Roman Coliseum 5.Tower Bridge 6.Notre Dame 7.Eiffel Tower 8.Statue of Liberty 9.Sears Tower, Canada 10.A very tiny Whitehouse (?) 11.Versailles 12.Watergate Hotel (?) 13.The Dubai twin tower thingummy… ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-all-the-landmarks-in-this-cgi-picture/483739/8 "2009-01-30T21:26:18Z")
I stayed at this hotel… ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-all-the-landmarks-in-this-cgi-picture/483739/9 "2009-01-31T00:03:40Z")
What is that bizarre cube thing with the balls on each corner? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-all-the-landmarks-in-this-cgi-picture/483739/10 "2009-01-31T00:06:39Z")
It’s called the Atomium - it’s in Belgium ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-all-the-landmarks-in-this-cgi-picture/483739/11 "2009-01-31T02:47:47Z")
I’ve been in most of them. ---
**Author:** ![Huvudtvatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Huvudtvatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huvudtvatt)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-all-the-landmarks-in-this-cgi-picture/483739/12 "2009-02-02T02:10:05Z")
Actually, most of the picture seems to be of Stockholm, with some international landmarks pasted on top of it, so if there are many buildings you don’t recognise that’s probably why. Here is a small picture of stockholm where you can see the royal castle, the parliament buildeing(riksdagen) and the house on the little island on the bridge (strömsholm): [http://www.idea.int/about/images/stroms.jpg](http://www.idea.int/about/images/stroms.jpg) the island to the right seems to be riddarholmen in stockholm, with the Sidney opera house on top. ---
**Author:** ![Huvudtvatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Huvudtvatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huvudtvatt)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-all-the-landmarks-in-this-cgi-picture/483739/13 "2009-02-02T02:32:25Z")
Another stockholm picture, covering the right part of the CGI picture. [![](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stockholm_old_town_2002.jpg) ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stockholm_old_town_2002.jpg) The “space needle” with the ball looks the TV-tower (Fernsehturm) in east Berlin. ---
**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:** [February 2, 2009, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-all-the-landmarks-in-this-cgi-picture/483739/14 "2009-02-02T03:29:54Z")
Where’s Notre Dame? ---
**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:** [February 2, 2009, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-all-the-landmarks-in-this-cgi-picture/483739/15 "2009-02-02T03:41:29Z")
(And no one better say “Paris” or “South Bend”) ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-all-the-landmarks-in-this-cgi-picture/483739/16 "2009-02-02T03:45:19Z")
“Dammit! I requested a view of the ocean.” ---
**Author:** ![stucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@stucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stucky)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-all-the-landmarks-in-this-cgi-picture/483739/17 "2009-02-02T03:49:47Z")
Yes ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-all-the-landmarks-in-this-cgi-picture/483739/18 "2009-02-02T04:32:17Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Here’s the [picture](http://www.wallcoo.net/cartoon/Platinum_Conception_Studio_Pictures_01/wallpapers/1280x800/Conception_Design_platinum_26.html)I mean (entirely safe for work). How many can you identify? Let’s see : Berlin tower Eiffel tower Liberty statue Toronto tower ???I’m familiar with the shape of the tower to the left, but can’t identify it Colosseum Sydney opera house Atomium in Brussels The rest I’m unable to identify. ETA : And I didn’t notice the right part of the picture, with tower bridge and an unidentified tower. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-all-the-landmarks-in-this-cgi-picture/483739/19 "2009-02-02T04:40:38Z")
> [@Huvudtvatt](#): > > Another stockholm picture, covering the right part of the CGI picture. > > [File:Stockholm old town 2002.jpg - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stockholm_old_town_2002.jpg) It looks quite nice. ---
**Author:** ![straight\_man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/straight_man/32/3027_2.png) [@straight\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straight_man)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2009, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-all-the-landmarks-in-this-cgi-picture/483739/20 "2009-02-02T05:09:14Z")
The tower with the ball is the [Fernsehturm](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernsehturm). I had to check the spelling myself. Oh, BTW, it’s the CN Tower (in Toronto), not the Sears Tower, which is in Chicago and a lot uglier than the CN Tower. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-all-the-landmarks-in-this-cgi-picture/483739.md?page=2)