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Chartwell Estate - Beverly Hillbillies Mansion
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The Chartwell Estate is a Chateauesque mansion in Bel-Air, California. Built in 1933, it is best known for its role as the Clampett family home in the 1960s television sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies. It was the most expensive home for sale in the United States in 2018.
The house was designed by Sumner Spaulding in 1933 in the style of a French chateau. It was built for engineer and contractor Lynn Atkinson, who commissioned the property for his wife. She found it "pretentious", so the couple never lived there. The house, located on 10 acres, with gardens designed by Henri Samuel, later was owned by Arnold Kirkeby and then Jerry Perenchio.
In 2019, the mansion was reported to have been sold to Lachlan Murdoch for about $150 million, which was the highest sale price for any house in California history.

USS Arizona (BB-39) Memorial
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Oak Island
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Location of the Money Pit. Haven for treasure hunters.
Siet of "The Curse of Oak Island", a reality television series in the United States on the History Channel.

Gilligan's Island - HI
Coconut Island or Mokuoloe located in Oahu's Kaneohe Bay. It is the island shown in the opening credits.

Nissan Stadium
Home of the Tennessee Titans - NFL

Taipei 101 (tallest building in Taiwan)
TAIPEI is mnemonic for Technology, Art, Innovation, People, Environment, and Identity. 101 represents the concept of striving for beyond perfection.
Taipei 101's pinnacle reached full height on Oct. 9, 2003.
The multi-use structure will house retail facilities on Levels 1-4; a fitness center on Levels 5-6; offices on Levels 7-84; restaurants on Levels 86-88; observation decks on Levels 89, 91, and 101; and communication facilities on Levels 92-100.
There is a station for the Taipei Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) beneath the building awaiting the eventual construction of the Hsinyi line.
On December 15, 2004, Toshiba installed the world's two fastest elevators. With top speeds of 1010 m/min, observation deck visitors can whiz from Level B1 to 89 in 39 seconds.
A 900-ton tuned mass damper is installed on the 87th floor to counter earthquakes and typhoons. It will be available for public viewing from the restaurant levels and observation deck.

Bondi Beach

Whitechapel - Jack the Ripper
The Whitechapel/Aldgate area where the Jack the Ripper murders took place in 1888.

Hampton Court Palace
Home of Henry VIII and others.

Hampton Court Maze
Hedge maze on the grounds of Hampton Court Palace

Source of the Mississippi River, Lake Itasca
The headwaters of the Mississippi River come from Lake Itasca in Minnesota.

New Scotland Yard
Home of the Metropolitan Police or "the Met".
Best view in Google Earth but still can't see the revolving triangle sign.

Sydney Opera House

Mercedes-Benz - Alabama Plant
Build location of the M-class and R-class Mercedes SUV's.

WestWorld - Barrett-Jackson Auction site
Home of the classic car auctions. The largest of which is held in January and covered on Speed TV.

Stonefridge
An artist's (and I use that term loosely) recreation of Stonehenge. Apparently a monument to America's waste which is, instead of being aligned with lunar and solar activity, aligned with Los Alamos since the artist is a nuclear critic.

Bandimere Speedway
NHRA Dragstrip

Aqua Park Kuwait
Aqua Park was inaugurated in 1995, in Kuwait City. It is the first and the biggest water Park in the Arab Gulf Region spread over a total surface area of 60,000 m3 and is situated on the Arab Gulf Street adjacent to the Kuwait towers.
• Separate mosques for ladies and gents
• Separate changing rooms for ladies and gents
• Boxes
• 'Sprinklers' for cool showers

Pink Palace Museum
Mansion and now museum originally built by the founder of Piggly Wiggly in the 20's.

Parthenon - Nashville, TN
Full size recreation of the Greek Parthenon

Giant Mexican Flag - Laredo
164ft X 94ft flag on a 320ft tall pole just on the Mexican side of the border.

Shinnecock Hills Golf Club
Located on Long Island and has hosted the US Open four times; as recently as 2004 when Retief Goosen took the title.

Sydney Harbour Bridge

AutoZone Park
Home of the Memphis Redbirds, farm team to the Cardinals.

Peabody Hotel
Luxury Hotel in Memphis where ducks walk the red carpet.

Copper Horse on Snow Hill, The
Statue of George III on Snow Hill at the end of the almost 3 mile tree lined Long Walk leading to Windsor Castle.

Rock Island Arsenal

Panama Canal with cargo ship
Ship Transiting Pacific side lock

Stadio Olimpico Torino
Location of the Opening Ceremonies

Murrayfield Stadium
Home of Scottish Rugby. Seats 67,500.

University of Memphis
Formerly known as Memphis State University

Coober Pedy
Opal Capitial of the World. In South Australia

Airplane approching Millington NAS
Millington NAS is NE of Memphis, TN

Good News Garage - Car Talk
Home shop of Tom and Ray from NPR's Car Talk show

Southland Greyhound Park
Run the dogs in West Memphis, AR

Brine Ponds
2 million barrel capacity ponds for pumping LPG's to the northeast. Brine specific gravity 1.2

Galapagos Island Beach
Crater/Beach formation

Argentina Grid Lines
Not Nazca lines, but interesting. Each small square is about 1/4 mi. The large ones on the diagonal are 3/4 mi.

"Thuderbird" B-17 at Lone Star Flight Museum
This is not a static display. This bird flys regularly. The Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston holds a free airshow every year.

KC-135s at Key Field - 186th Air Refueling Wing
Home of aerial refueling. Al and Fred Key devised a way to perform air to air refueling.

Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge - Bat Home
The Congress Avenue bridge in downtown Austin is the spring and summer home to some 750,000 bats with up to 1.5 million bats at the peak of the bat-watching season. It's the largest urban bat colony in North America.

Airplane leaving Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport

Lake Ouachita Dam

Redstone Golf Club
Home of the PGA's Shell Houston Open

Old I-55 Bridge and rail bridges

Waugh Bridge Bat Colony
Home of Houston's Mexican Freetail bat colony. They live here year round, not migrating to Mexico in the winter.

Antiquers Aerodrome
Fly in community near Palm Beach

Roberston Stadium - U of Houston
Home of the Cougars

Orange Show, The
Center for Visionary Art. Quite an eclectic place. Like and Art Car for houses.

Yanggakdo Football Stadium
Located in P'yongyang on Yanggak Islet in the middle of the Taedong River. Looks like it has seen better days. Like maybe when the USSR had money.

Texas Raiders B-17G
Currently under repair by the Gulf Coast Wing of the CAF in Houston.

Oil Cargo Ship leaving Freeport, TX

Quad City Int'l Ariport - MLI

George Observatory
36" telescope in Brazos Bend State Park outside of Houston

Two Barges on the Mississippi