Cities along the gulf coast bid against each other and pay big bucks to have these ships sunk off their coasts. The sandy bottoms of the Gulf of Mexico along the Panhandle are not great fish breeding grounds. The sunken ships provide a breeding ground for fish that are then commercialy caught.
Farmers place cattle feed in round metal fences that the cows can eat out of. The cattle scar the earth around the feed enclosures. The farmers move the enclosures around (I'm guessing to spread the manure and reduce the scarring in one place.)
I think there are four sets of images merging at the hotel. look at all the different perspectives in the four areas to the NE, SE, NW and SW. The buildings are all pointing in different directions. It is neat how seamless the merges are here.
Are you sure its a military camp? I'm not saying it isn't but military camps usually have scattered U-shaped earth berms sort of like fox-holes. These look like waste oil ponds one of which was burned off at some time.
I used to live in Pozzuoli just to the west. It is safe out in the crater. There are tours out into the crater where there are large holes in the floor with bubbling sulfurous mud. The heat coming up is so hot that paper held out over the vats ignite.
One disturbing thing the guides do is drop a big bolder from shoulder height. The vibrations in the ground make you want to run for "solid ground."
The whole area smells stongly of sulfur at many times of the...
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These pictures are often commissioned by news agencies. Maybe there was a ship stranded or something and a news agency commissioned the pictures.
I checked lists of lightships and this doesn't seem to be one. They are much smaller anyway.
http://www.visitpensacola.com/oriskany/
http://www.thesunrunner.com/Stories/AmboyCrater/amboycrater.html
http://www.hansajet.de/frames/mainsouvenirs.htm
I'd list it as a building or create an archeological site category. Whatever you usually categorize a castle as.
http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_menu/stadium_list/100000.shtml
http://www.evilshell.net/euro/Berlin/images/berlin3_jpg.jpg
http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_pictures/europe/poland/mazowieckie/warszawa_polskiego.shtml
Legia Warszawa is the tennant (a team?)
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http://www.warsaw-life.com/warsaw/where_to_play/entertainment_details/11-Sluzewiec_Racetrack
One disturbing thing the guides do is drop a big bolder from shoulder height. The vibrations in the ground make you want to run for "solid ground."
The whole area smells stongly of sulfur at many times of the...