# Where Was This Picture Taken? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 8, 2013, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344 "2013-03-08T03:27:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/121 "2013-03-12T17:59:30Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > I don’t think this one has been done. My first instinct was Tallinn - looks like one of the defensive towers in the walls, but then I realised that it’s in another part of Estonia. Kuressaare Castle - I stayed for a couple of nights at a guesthouse on an island in the moat 10 years or more ago! Great call! It’s one of the more obscure castles I’ve been to, hence its inclusion in this quiz. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/122 "2013-03-12T18:06:55Z")
> [@Darryl\_Lict](#): > > Great call! It’s one of the more obscure castles I’ve been to, hence its inclusion in this quiz. Yes, I’m amazed that anyone on here has been there too! I went to Estonia in 2001 and pretty much looked at the map and thought, that island looks quite interesting, and got the bus out there from Tallinn. I’m pretty sure [this](https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Kuressaare,+Kuressaare+linn,+Estonia&hl=en&ll=58.248298,22.480999&spn=0.002625,0.004989&sll=51.48931,-0.08819&sspn=0.397618,0.63858&oq=kuressa&t=h&hnear=Kuressaare,+Saaremaa,+Estonia&z=17&layer=c&cbll=58.248298,22.480999&panoid=AY88Q_Z2CBOlCZjwR-U1Hg&cbp=12,137.16,,0,-7.51) is the house I stayed in, right in the moat of the castle. Saaremaa island is also home to a rather small [meteor crater](https://ssl.panoramio.com/photo/14125676). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/123 "2013-03-12T18:14:45Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > :: Rubs hands together with glee :: I have managed to wrangle Google into giving me [this!](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:West_Baden_Springs_Hotel_dome_at_dawn.jpg) The [West Baden Springs Hotel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Baden_Springs_Hotel) in Indiana. That one was bugging me. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/124 "2013-03-12T18:22:04Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > Yes, I’m amazed that anyone on here has been there too! I went to Estonia in 2001 and pretty much looked at the map and thought, that island looks quite interesting, and got the bus out there from Tallinn. I’m pretty sure [this](https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Kuressaare,+Kuressaare+linn,+Estonia&hl=en&ll=58.248298,22.480999&spn=0.002625,0.004989&sll=51.48931,-0.08819&sspn=0.397618,0.63858&oq=kuressa&t=h&hnear=Kuressaare,+Saaremaa,+Estonia&z=17&layer=c&cbll=58.248298,22.480999&panoid=AY88Q_Z2CBOlCZjwR-U1Hg&cbp=12,137.16,,0,-7.51) is the house I stayed in, right in the moat of the castle. > > Saaremaa island is also home to a rather small [meteor crater](https://ssl.panoramio.com/photo/14125676). 🙂 I was there around August 2001. Did I see you? ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/125 "2013-03-12T18:45:28Z")
> [@Darryl\_Lict](#): > > I was there around August 2001. Did I see you? No, I was there in May, IIRC. Here’s a new one. [Number 60](http://i47.tinypic.com/350otog.jpg), I think? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/126 "2013-03-12T18:46:21Z")
1. [Where in the World?](http://i.imgur.com/qHdk0m8.jpg) 2. [Where in the World?](http://imgur.com/XSGkw9L) 3. [Where in the World?](http://imgur.com/TfuqJgE) 4. [Where in the World?](http://imgur.com/fT9zqnq) 5. [Where in the World?](http://i.imgur.com/9howFyE.jpg) Bonus (probably impossible to get exactly right) [Bonus](http://i.imgur.com/xnZ9NFi.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/127 "2013-03-12T19:12:21Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > 1. [Where in the World?](http://i.imgur.com/qHdk0m8.jpg) > 2. [Where in the World?](http://imgur.com/XSGkw9L) > 3. [Where in the World?](http://imgur.com/TfuqJgE) > 4. [Where in the World?](http://imgur.com/fT9zqnq) > 5. [Where in the World?](http://i.imgur.com/9howFyE.jpg) > > Bonus (probably impossible to get exactly right) > [Bonus](http://i.imgur.com/xnZ9NFi.jpg) Jumping in ahead of Siam Sam, 64 is one of the temples at Ayutthaya in Thailand. 61 looks familiar. South of France, Nice maybe, taken from the hills behind? The pine trees look Mediterranean. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/128 "2013-03-12T19:14:29Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > Jumping in ahead of Siam Sam, 64 is one of the temples at Ayutthaya in Thailand. I’m kind of glad you got in there, ahead of Sam, since that would be a slam dunk for him. Or anybody that was a big fan of the movie version of Mortal Kombat. And 61 is not the South of France. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/129 "2013-03-12T19:17:06Z")
> [@L. G. Butts](#): > > 2 is Cumberland Island in Georgia. My wife went there last year. That was my immediate guess, but then I said “Naw, couldn’t be.” ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/130 "2013-03-12T19:19:46Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > And 61 is not the South of France. Am I in the right ballpark with Mediterranean? And is the flag on 63 a red herring? It doesn’t look like the UK to me. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/131 "2013-03-12T19:27:02Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > Am I in the right ballpark with Mediterranean? No > [@](#): > > And is the flag on 63 a red herring? It doesn’t look like the UK to me. Yes ---
**Author:** ![CatherineZeta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@CatherineZeta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatherineZeta)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/132 "2013-03-12T19:32:59Z")
Is 63 Gibraltar? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/133 "2013-03-12T19:48:16Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > Check this out: [http://i.imgur.com/Fg71iTa.jpg](http://imgur.com/Fg71iTa) It reminds me of Toronto, the area around Finch and Yonge maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/134 "2013-03-12T19:53:39Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > …61 looks familiar. South of France, Nice maybe, taken from the hills behind? The pine trees look Mediterranean. I read **ShibbOleth** ’s comment, but I agree, it does look like the South of France. To me, it looks a lot like the view from Jack’s Peak, or from somewhere on Holman Highway in Monterey, California, but I don’t think it is. Some of the trees sure do look like Monterey Cypresses though. I can’t think of any two story Mickey D’s off hand. Particularly ones with such…eclectically dressed clientele. It would help if I could read the language on the door at the top of the stairs and the menu. Wild shot in the dark: the McDonalds at 2011 Mission Street in San Francisco, CA? It looks like it’s two stories, from Google Street View. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/135 "2013-03-12T19:53:58Z")
> [@CatherineZeta](#): > > Is 63 Gibraltar? No. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/136 "2013-03-12T19:55:20Z")
> [@Gray\_Ghost](#): > > I can’t think of any two story Mickey D’s off hand. Particularly ones with such…eclectically dressed clientele. It would help if I could read the language on the door at the top of the stairs and the menu. > > Wild shot in the dark: the McDonalds at 2011 Mission Street in San Francisco, CA? It looks like it’s two stories, from Google Street View. No, and it’s NOT in San Francisco. Also, it’s usually not so “festive”. I was sort of awestruck by the whole scene when I took that shot. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/137 "2013-03-12T20:07:52Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > 1. [Where in the World?](http://i.imgur.com/qHdk0m8.jpg) > Are those Monterey Cypress? > [@](#): > > Bonus (probably impossible to get exactly right) > [Bonus](http://i.imgur.com/xnZ9NFi.jpg) WAG: It’s got a Berlin Love Parade vibe to it and there is a 3 story McDonald’s in Berlin. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/138 "2013-03-12T20:18:30Z")
Not sure the type of tree, but I don’t think that they are. > [@Darryl\_Lict](#): > > WAG: It’s got a Berlin Love Parade vibe to it and there is a 3 story McDonald’s in Berlin. You’re getting warmer, but not in Berlin. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/139 "2013-03-12T20:24:29Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > You’re getting warmer, but not in Berlin. Amsterdam? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344/140 "2013-03-12T20:37:17Z")
> [@Darryl\_Lict](#): > > Cheating on this one. > City of Bath, Somerset, England. Why cheat? I recognized it immediately, even though I was last there in 1976. 🆒 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-this-picture-taken/652344.md?page=8)