VirtualGlobetrotting: Maps Submitted On: 2005-10-26

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Texas Motorplex
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Site of the NHRA O'Reilly Fall Nationals

Deception Island
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From Wikipedia:
Deception Island is an island in the South Shetland Islands off the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica. It is notable for having one of the safest harbors in Antarctica, and for being an active volcano, whose eruption in 1970 caused serious damage to the scientific stations there.
Deception Island has several colonies of chinstrap penguins, and it is possible to make a warm bath by digging into the sands of the beach, so it has become a popular tourist stop in Antarctica.

Forsyth Park
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Historic Savannah’s largest, most popular park is Forsyth, bordered by Whitaker St. on the West, Drayton St. on the East, Gaston St. on the North, and Park Avenue on the South. The park covers 20 acres, and Savannah’s dedicated preservationists have fought and won the battle to keep it as close as possible to its original design.
Designed in the 1850’s, the park was named for former Georgia Governor John Forsyth (1780-1841), and was created in the style of the French Empire. It’s magnificent fountain is said to be a copy of the fountain in the Place de la Concorde and was renovated in 1961 by CarstenTiedeman. A plaque was installed to commemorate his father, Judge G. W. Tiedeman.
In one section of the park is the Fragrant Garden for the Blind; in others are monuments and memorials to various historical figures.
The fountain and the park have been seen in a number of movies, including Forest Gump and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
(www.savannahbest.com)

Palace of Auburn Hills
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Wheelabrator Baltimore Waste-to-Energy Facility
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This used to be the RESCO Baltimore plant. It has a 315 foot (96m) tall smokestack that has "BALTIMORE" painted on the southern side. You can't miss it on I-95.
From www.wheelabratortechnologies.com:
the Wheelabrator Baltimore waste-to-energy facility provides dependable, environmentally safe disposal of municipal solid waste for the City and County of Baltimore, Maryland while generating clean electricity for sale to the local utility. The Baltimore facility, designed, constructed, owned and operated by Wheelabrator Technologies Inc., processes up to 2,250 tons per day of municipal solid waste. At full capacity, the plant can generate more than 60,000 kilowatts of electrical energy for sale to Baltimore Gas & Electric Company. This is the equivalent of supplying all of the electrical needs of 50,000 homes. Steam is also supplied by the plant to Trigen Baltimore Corporation for the downtown heating loop.

Fort McHenry Tunnel, North Entrance
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The world's widest, underwater-vehicular tunnel opened to traffic in November 1985. It connects the Locust Point and Canton areas of Baltimore, crossing under the Patapsco River just south of historic Fort McHenry. The tunnel was designed as a vital part of the East Coast's most important interstate route: I-95. Along with the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel and the Francis Scott Key Bridge, the Fort McHenry Tunnel is part of a network of Baltimore harbor crossings that provides a high level of convenient transportation service to local and interstate traffic.
The 1.5-mile, eight-lane Fort McHenry Tunnel handles a daily traffic volume of more than 115,000 vehicles. During the past fiscal year, nearly 42.1-million vehicles used the facility.

Detroit & Windsor Tunnel (Detroit side)
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This is the north (U.S.) entrance to the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, the only automotive underwater border crossing in the world.

Very Large Adit Into Mountain Adjacent Iran's Isfahan Nuclear Processing Facilities
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Baltimore Harbor Tunnel, North Entrance
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The 1.4-mile, four-lane tunnel handled its first vehicles in November 1957 and is part of a 20-mile system of approach roadways and ramps. Designated I-895, the facility connects the major north/south highways and many arterial routes in Baltimore City's industrial sections. Traffic at the Harbor Tunnel during the past fiscal year totaled nearly 23.6-million vehicles.

Site of Enormous Detonation
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There are a number of very large bunkers at this site scattered with bomb craters. A handful of the bunkers evidently contained large amounts of explosives, as evident by blast patterns like this one.

Strange Markings at the Savannah River Site
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Shhhh, top secret U.S. Department of Energy activity in the Palmetto State.

Baltimore Harbor Inspection Tugboat
From www.cr.nps.gov:
Baltimore is the oldest operating steam tugboat in the United States. Built by Skinner Shipbuilding of Baltimore, Maryland, in 1906, the tug spent its entire career in and around Baltimore, Maryland, moving barges and workboats, breaking ice and carrying city and harbor commissioners and other VIPs for harbor inspection tours.
Baltimore is an inspection tug, a variant form of harbor tugboat, designed to operate in several roles as a municipal tug, an auxiliary fireboat, an icebreaker during the winter months, and a VIP launch for harbor commissioners to view harbor improvement work sites. Inspection steamers were intended to transport harbor officials to work sites and other areas where decisions might be
affected by local conditions.
As a municipal tug Baltimore helped welcome new arrivals to the port and helped tow city barges and other vessels when required. One notable special visitor welcomed to Baltimore was the German blockade running cargo submarine Deutschland in July 1916 before the United States entered the war. This vessel was the first submarine to cross the Atlantic solo, eluding British and French patrols that might have caught a surface ship. Baltimore, and the city quarantine tug, Thomas F. Timmins, patrolled the area around the submarine to assure that American neutrality would not be broken. After Deutschland exchanged cargoes, the two city tugs escorted the sub out of Baltimore waters for the return trip to Germany.
Baltimore has been berthed at a pier behind the Museum of Industry since her return from oblivion. After eight years of work, a dedicated group of highly skilled volunteers and helpful companies have restored the tug back to operating condition and continue to improve her condition and appearance. The Maryland Historical Trust financed hull repair expenses and holds a preservation lien upon the tug. Baltimore is licensed to carry guests and she steams about Chesapeake Bay three or four times a year.
Also see www.steamtug.org and scard.buffnet.net/tugbaltimore/.

Baltimore Harbor Tunnel, South Entrance
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The 1.4-mile, four-lane tunnel handled its first vehicles in November 1957 and is part of a 20-mile system of approach roadways and ramps. Designated I-895, the facility connects the major north/south highways and many arterial routes in Baltimore City's industrial sections. Traffic at the Harbor Tunnel during the past fiscal year totaled nearly 23.6-million vehicles.

Grayson Stadium
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A gem of southern minor league ballparks, this stadium opened in 1941 and is currently the home of the Savannah Sand Gnats, the South Atlantic League (Class A minor league) affiliate of the Washington Nationals.

Detroit & Windsor Tunnel (Windsor side)
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This is the south (Canadian) entrance to the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, the only automotive underwater border crossing in the world.

Augusta Regional Airport

Daniel Field Airport

Exposed Wells Over Aquifer Carrying Water Into Town Downhill From Nuclear Complex
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The large facility to the north west is Iran's Isfahan Nuclear Fuels Processing Complex

Muskegon Corectional Facility
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Thunder Falls Family Water Park
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Trimaran

Eugene Talmadge Memorial Bridge
Part of U.S. Highway 17 over the Savannah River.

Houses on Islands
In Anchor Bay.

Fort McHenry Tunnel, South Entrance
The world's widest, underwater-vehicular tunnel opened to traffic in November 1985. It connects the Locust Point and Canton areas of Baltimore, crossing under the Patapsco River just south of historic Fort McHenry. The tunnel was designed as a vital part of the East Coast's most important interstate route: I-95. Along with the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel and the Francis Scott Key Bridge, the Fort McHenry Tunnel is part of a network of Baltimore harbor crossings that provides a high level of convenient transportation service to local and interstate traffic.
The 1.5-mile, eight-lane Fort McHenry Tunnel handles a daily traffic volume of more than 115,000 vehicles. During the past fiscal year, nearly 42.1-million vehicles used the facility.

Khatamin Air Base

Red Oaks Waterpark

Stars and Stripes in Iran

SD Warren Co 1 coal burning cogeneration plant

Contrail over Savannah & the Savannah River
About a mile east of downtown.

Martin Dragway