Well known landmarks that you have visited

Post » Sat Jul 21, 2012 3:41 am

Newgrange, Colosseum, Eiffel Tower.


Does Disneyland count? :P
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Rik Douglas
 
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Post » Sat Jul 21, 2012 11:35 am

The Grand Canyon in Arizona.
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Marion Geneste
 
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Post » Sat Jul 21, 2012 4:53 am

As the crow flies, I live 2.5 miles from the winner of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_Phallic_Building_contest.

Maybe not that well known...but...now you know.
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Emilie Joseph
 
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Post » Sat Jul 21, 2012 9:34 am

As the crow flies, I live 2.5 miles from the winner of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_Phallic_Building_contest.

Maybe not that well known...but...now you know.

I was going to mention London's Gherkin, but no, it has nothing on that thing. What were its designers thinking? Unless they were having a good laugh, in which case I approve. :hehe:
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Chenae Butler
 
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Post » Sat Jul 21, 2012 2:35 pm

Nana Plaza in Bangkok and soi 6 in Pattaya.Was fun times for the boys :biggrin:
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Andrew
 
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Post » Sat Jul 21, 2012 3:59 pm

Empire State Builing
Twin Towers
Brooklyn Bridge
Disney World
DisneyLand
Grand Canyon
Shiloh National Military Park
Most of Washington DC (including the Smithsonian)

I'm sure there's more, but I'm drawing a blank, and short on time now. Gotta work to pay the bills, If I don't, then I'm homeless...or living with mom again, and I don't want to do that at my age. :no:
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Strawberry
 
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Post » Sat Jul 21, 2012 7:51 am

Pretty much everywhere in London:

- Buckingham Palace
- Westminster Palace (Big Ben)
- The London Eye
- The Cenotaph
- Downing Street
- St. Paul's Cathederal
- Tower Bridge
- Admiralty Arch
- Horse Guard's
- Trafalger Square

etc.
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Post » Sat Jul 21, 2012 9:15 am

Zion National Park
Hoover Dam
Statue of Liberty
Empire State Building
Colorado Rockies
16Th Street Mall
Washington D.C.
Ellis Island
L.A. X (though I fail to see how this is a tourist spot, it's an airport)

There's a ton more places.
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Post » Sat Jul 21, 2012 2:45 pm

I've been in the House of Commons and House of Lords. In the US I've visited the Seers/Willis Tower in Chicago and the Rio Grande on the Texas/Mexican border.
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Post » Sat Jul 21, 2012 8:55 am

Well, let's see here -- I've been to the Tokyo Tower, Sears Tower, Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Chateau Versailles, Eiffel Tower, Collosseum, the Duomo of Florence, Duomo of Milan, L'arc de Triomphe, Sacre-Ceour, Notre-Dame du Paris, all over Venice. I've also seen the Alps while going to Milan from Paris.
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Post » Sat Jul 21, 2012 4:24 am

-Hadrian's Wall
-Oxford and Cambridge universities
-Buckingham palace
-Edinburgh Castle, Windsor Castle and many others
-Champs Elysee
-Eiffel Tower
-Piazza San Marco and the basilica
-Doge's palace
-London eye
-Trafalgar square
-Temple of artemis
-Tower of London
-Rialto Bridge
-Sherwood forest
-Imperial war museum
-British Museum
-Baker's street monument (strangely the fire it was made to remember killed less people than it has)
-Cantebury Cathedral
-The Baths in Bath
-Cliffs at Dover
-Dunkirk and Sword Beach
-Tomb of the unknown soldier
-Arc de Triomphe
-Hampton Court
-The Louvre
-Nelson's cloumn
-Eden Camp
-Eden project
-Ephesus
-Angel of the North
-Blackpool Tower
-Anne Frank's Annexe
-Houses of parliament and the tower containing Big Ben,
-The Alhambra
-Glencoe
-The Giant's causeway
-Tower's Bridge
-Albert Dock
-Whitby Abbey
Probably more I can't remember.
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Post » Sat Jul 21, 2012 1:51 pm

I've been in the House of Commons and House of Lords. In the US I've visited the Seers/Willis Tower in Chicago and the Rio Grande on the Texas/Mexican border.
What about that one famous landmark in wiltshire?
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Post » Sat Jul 21, 2012 6:10 am

England:
Albert Dock area,
Liver Building,
Pretty much all the noteworthy places in Liverpool,
Eden Camp.

I haven't been to London unfortunately but I would like to see the landmarks there.

Spain:
That unfinished cathedral in Barcelona,
PortAventura
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Post » Sat Jul 21, 2012 2:32 pm

Among other things:

The Eiffel Tower (Paris)
Versailles (France)
Iguazu Falls (Argentina)
Casa Rosada (Buenos Aires)
Gastown (Vancouver)
Space Needle (Seattle)
Statue of Liberty (New York)
Ellis Island
Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco)
Piazza San Marco (Venice)
Sagrada Familia (Barcelona)
El Prado (Madrid)
Alhambra (Granada)
Uffizi Gallery (Florence)
Tower Bridge (London)
Edinburgh Castle
Loch Ness
Pula Arena (Croatia)

I visited Dublin but I don't remember the landmarks :ermm: I think I visited a very old college/university with an impressive library.
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Post » Sat Jul 21, 2012 8:11 am

Errrmmm...
  • Big Ben/Houses of Parliament
  • London Eye
  • Efiel Tower
  • Palace of Verseilles
  • Norwich Cathedral (legit counts, it's on the Aviva logo)
  • York Cathedral
  • St. Paul's Cathedral
  • Loch Ness
  • Angel of the North
  • Stonehenge (where the demons dwell...)
  • Glastonbury Tor
  • Giant's Causeway
  • Uffizi Gallery/Daumo/Ponte Vecchio in Florence
  • Leaning Tower of Piza
  • Dachau
  • A palace that I don't remember the name of in Munich
  • That big castle in Bavaria with the unspellable name that they based the Disney one off
  • Great Pyramids/Sphinx/Various Temples in Egypt
  • Grand Canyon
  • Monument Valley
Probably missing some, but meh - what my parents do with their disposable income.
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Post » Sat Jul 21, 2012 3:37 am

-Angel of the North

Oh yeah, that (even though it's just on a roundabout!)

Loch Ness

And that. And Land's End and John O'Groats, though there's not really much to see.

I'm sure there's various things I can't remember... but I can't remember.
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Post » Sat Jul 21, 2012 3:00 pm

What about that one famous landmark in wiltshire?
I assume you mean Stone Henge. I haven't been there.
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Post » Sat Jul 21, 2012 7:37 am

Well, let's see. Ok, so some are places, instead of Landmarks LOL Anyway, I'm sure I'm missing some.

England:
Buckingham Palace
Westminster Abbey
Tower of London
Tower Bridge
Big Ben

Scotland:
Loch Ness (is that a "land mark"? lol)
Edinburgh Castle
Eilean Donan Castle
Glen Coe

USA New York:
Empire State Building
World Trade Center or Ground Zero as it is now called (it was a sad experience)
Time Square
Broadway

USA San Francisco:
Golden Gate Bridge
Fisherman's Wharf
Lombard Street

USA Los Angeles:
Universal Studios
Venice Beach
Beverly Hills
Grauman's Chinese Theater
Hollywood Blvd
Malibu

Germany:
Berlin Wall (back when it still surrounded eastern Germany)
Brandenburger Tor (in Berlin)
Reichstag (in Berlin)
http://www.gedenkstaette-ploetzensee.de/index_e.html (in Berlin - site where Hitler executed the 1944 assassin - Graf von Stauffenberg - you could feel the horror and sadness at that place)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Westphalia (place where the peace negotiations took place to end the 30 year war between Catholics and Protestants 1644-1648)
Various Castles lol
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Post » Sat Jul 21, 2012 3:03 am

http://www.australianexplorer.com/photographs/other/coffs_harbour_big_banana.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Big_Merino,_Goulburn,_Moondyne.jpg/220px-Big_Merino,_Goulburn,_Moondyne.jpg
http://www.australianexplorer.com/photographs/other/20-7-05_bowen_big_mango.jpg
http://somewhereelse.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Big-Gumboot-Tully.jpg
http://www.tropicalnsw.com.au/aaa_site/album/town_pics/prawn2.jpg
http://blog.belleproperty.com/wp-content/uploads/962866-big-pineapple.jpg
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Post » Sat Jul 21, 2012 5:44 am

Not yet been to the USA. (I intend to one day.)

I've seen most of London and it's landmarks, Stonehenge, Whitby, Hadrian's Wall and Angel of the North, and lots of English castles and stuff due to re-enactment. In France I've been to Paris and associated landmarks, Disneyland Paris, and Calais on the North coast. In Spain I've seen some cathedrals and stuff, and on the Greek island of Zakinthos I saw http://www.theodora.com/wfb/photos/greece/shipwreck_beach_zakinthos_greece_photo_gnto.jpg, from the cliffs like the photo was taken. There's a platform there that stretches right out over the sea, with nothing supporting it underneath. It was really dodgy.

I'd like to go to Rome next summer for my 21st, so I hope to add to this rather short list of landmarks.
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Post » Sat Jul 21, 2012 11:03 am

Oh yeah, I've also been to the big Banana. Pretty cool.
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Post » Sat Jul 21, 2012 10:30 am

OK lets think back:
Bamburgh castle
Alnwick castle
Sherwood forest
Greenwich observatory
Palace of westminister (Houses of parliament)
Cologne Cathedral (I have been to germany twice)
Lindt HQ
Marksburg castle (I think that was the name)
Nottingham castle
Liverpool slavery museum
10 downing street (Viewed it not actually stood in it)
York minister
Whitby abbey
Eiffel tower (Been to paris once)
arc de triomphe
Disneyland paris
Natural history museum (UK)
National maritime museum (UK)
Buckingham Palace
RAF Duxford- Imperial War museum

And others I can't remember
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Post » Sat Jul 21, 2012 8:48 am

http://blog.belleproperty.com/wp-content/uploads/962866-big-pineapple.jpg
I don't know what I thought it'd be made of, but fibreglass was a massive disappointment.
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Post » Sat Jul 21, 2012 6:12 am

Oh yeah, I've also been to the big Banana. Pretty cool.
And surprisingly free of innuendo for a monument named Big Banana.
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Post » Sat Jul 21, 2012 6:46 am

I assume you mean Stone Henge. I haven't been there.
Lol yes. Neither have I but I'd like to. I just thought it may have been more likely for you to have been to Stone Henge as you live in Wiltshire. :shrug:
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