VirtualGlobetrotting: Maps Submitted On: 2008-01-25

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Indra Nooyi's house
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Indra Nooyi is the chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo.

Steve Wozniak's House
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The computer engineer and the co-founder of Apple Computers (now Apple Inc.), with Steve Jobs, lives here.

Colonel Tom Parker's home (former)
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"Colonel" Tom Parker (born Andreas Cornelis (Dries) van Kuijk on June 26, 1909 – January 21, 1997), was a Dutch entertainment impresario known best as the manager of Elvis Presley. For many years Parker claimed to have been U.S. born, but it eventually emerged that he was born in Breda, Netherlands to Dutch parents. His management of Elvis Presley re-wrote the role of the manager and was seen as central to the astonishing success of Presley's career. He displayed a ruthless devotion to his client's interests, took 50% of his earnings, and piloted Elvis to global superstardom. Presley said of Parker: "I don't think I would have been very big with another man. Because he's a very smart man."

Michael Jeffries's house
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Michael S. Jeffries is the current CEO of Abercrombie and Fitch.

Tobey Maguire's House
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The actor planned to live here. He was staying in a home owned by actor Leonardo DiCaprio that is also featured on this site. As of late 2016 no home has been built.

John Mack's house
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The CEO and Chairman of the Board of investment bank Morgan Stanley live here.

Dan Reeves' House
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The former professional football player and head coach lives here. He currently covers NFL games as a color analyst (teamed with play-by-play man Bill Rosinski) for the second Sunday afternoon game on Westwood One radio network.

Ginger Alden's House
The actress/model, who is best known as being the former fiancée of Elvis Presley, lives here.

William Berkley's house
William R Berkley is the founder and current CEO of WR Berkley for 40 years

Steve Wozniak's House (former)
The computer engineer and the co-founder of Apple Computers (now Apple Inc.), with Steve Jobs, lived here until 2004 and the property is up for sale again according to the link below.

John Leguizamo's House
The comedian, actor and producer lives here.

Neighborhood from the movie 'Edward Scissorhands'
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Alan George Lafley's house
The CEO, President, and the Chairman of the Board of Procter & Gamble lives here.

'Joe's Truck Stop' (ouch!)
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Joe's Truck Stop is a simple four foot thick wall placed at the bottom of a steep mountain road in Fort Payne, Alabama aka "sock capital of the world." The structure is reinforced with wire, pipe and the chassis from two Dodge trucks.
After one too many run ins, or perhaps a better term is run overs, of his front yard, ol' Joe Faulkner decided he had had enough and went about to put the brakes on these free wheeling good buddies who had whipped out every tree on his property.
The name Joe's Truck Stop was coined by local kids amused by the incidents. In 1950 alone, 13 rigs rolled through his humble domain. Every kind of truck from fruit to circus has taken a dump in Joe's yard.

John Easterling's House
The founder and CEO of Amazon Herb Company owns this home. He is married to singer Olivia Newton-John. Their main residence nearby is also featured on this site.

Lew Frankfort's house (Former)
Lew Frankfort, the Chairman and former Chief Executive Officer of Coach, lives here.
Sold in 2016

Marty Schottenheimer's House (former)
The former professional football coach lived here. Over his career, he has served as head coach of the Cleveland Browns, Kansas City Chiefs, Washington Redskins, and San Diego Chargers. His main home in La Jolla (CA) is also mapped on this site.

Harold Messmer's house
The CEO of Robert Half Intl lives here.

Tupperware World Headquarters
In late 1951, inventor Earl Tupper bought a thousand acres of cow pasture and swamp in Kissimmee, just outside the quiet farm town of Orlando, Florida. There he and his new vice president and general manager, Brownie Wise, broke ground for the Tupperware Home Parties Inc. headquarters. Twenty years before Disney would transform central Florida into a booming vacation spot, Orlando and Kissimmee were small communities whose largest export was Brahmin cattle. The arrival of Tupperware Home Parties was big news.

Carl Robert Henrikson' house
Carl Robert Henrikson is Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of MetLife, Inc

Giant Rattlesnake on the median

Giant baseball bat at Yankee Stadium

Jennifer Garner's House (former)
This was the first LA area home the Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe- and SAG Award-winning actress ever purchased. Her Timberlake Trust paid $790K in October 1999 for the 2,854 sq ft house and she sold it in October 2002 for $900K. Some of her current and former real estate with actor husband, Ben Affleck, is also featured on this site.

Desert of Maine
Geologists have established that a glacier that slid through the area 11,000 years ago-at the end of the last Ice Age or Pleistocene Period - left behind the sand and mineral deposits that today comprise the Desert of Maine.
Scientists and writers the world over have attested to the Desert's authenticity. The natural phenomenon has been accorded recognition by such notables as Walter Winchell in his New York Daily News column and in Ripley's Believe It or Not. Also featured in Deserts of America, a Universal documentary.

Shell World
Now celebrating its 26th anniversary, Shell World is one of the world's largest retailers of exotic seashells, nautical supply, and tropical gifts. Visitors will find over 1 million sea shells gathered from around the world, as well as shell and coral jewelry, and a wide variety of shell novelties, nautical collectibles, and tropical decorative items. Shell World regularly hosts over a quarter of a million visitors each year.

Big Bamboo Lounge
The legendary after-hours hang-out for the Disneyworld 'cast members.' Decorated with Disney cast offs.
Due to the Hurricanes of 2004 they have never re-opened.

'Boulter House' by Frank Lloyd Wright
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Southgate Shopping Center
Featured in the movie 'Edward Scissorhands.'

Santa's Village - annual event at Richardson Civic Center

Remains of Masterpiece Gardens

Sunken Garden
The Sunken Gardens are 4 acres (1.6 hectares) of well-established botanical gardens located at 1825 4th Street North, in the center of St. Petersburg, Florida, USA. The Gardens were a commercial tourist attraction for many years, but are now operated by the city and maintained with the help of volunteers. Sunken Gardens are open to the public every day of the week (half days on Sunday); admission is charged.
Sunken Gardens retains their historical interest as an important example of a 1930s Florida roadside commercial attraction, and is probably the oldest commercial tourist attraction on Florida's west coast. The Gardens are open to the public for educational programs, tours, and special events, particularly weddings which have taken place for decades on the Wedding Lawn, and in the banquet facilities in the Garden Room overlooking the unique garden setting.

DeSoto Caverns Park
DeSoto Caverns are a series of geologic caves and a tourist attraction located near Childersburg, Alabama.
Located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, it is touted as "Alabama's Big Cave".
In addition in the caves, the park offers various other attractions, including The Lost Trail Maze, a three-quarter acre maze, panning for gemstones, wall climb, and amusement park style rides.
Several events and festials such as the Native American Dance and Crafts Festival and the Holiday Light and Water shows are held throughout the year.
Before being commercialized as DeSoto Caverns, the cave was well known locally as Kymulga Cave. There were local legends about the cave being used by Native Americans and as a source of minerals used in the Civil War. It was also said that during WWII, there was a dancefloor and honkey-tonk in the huge main room. Another legend held that the cave system went miles - from near Childersburg to Talledega, Alabama. However, some teenagers climbed, shinnied up, slid on their bellies and crawled through every nook and cranny of the cave and they found only one significant place where the cave continued for any distance beyond the main room. This continuation was on the left side, at the end of the main room, opposite the entrance (which at that time was only a four foot high by eight foot wide hole in the side of the hill). The cave ends at a blank wall and a small pool of water about two or three hundred yards beyond the main room. With the possible exception of an underwater exit through this pool, to their knowledge and experience, there are no other unexplored routes in the cave.

San Francisco 49ers' at their Training Camp

Five Arleigh Burke class destroyers
The Arleigh Burke class of guided missile destroyers, one of the destroyer classes of the United States Navy, is built around the Aegis combat system and the SPY-1D multi-function phased array radar. The first ship was commissioned on 4 July 1991. After the decommissioning of the last Spruance-class destroyer, USS Cushing, on September 21, 2005, the Arleigh Burke class ships became the U.S. Navy's only active destroyers.
The class is named for Admiral Arleigh "31-Knot" Burke, the most famous American destroyer officer of World War II. Admiral Burke was alive when the class leader was commissioned, and his words to the plankowners echo in the class' distinguished service to date: "This ship is built to fight; you had better know how."

Tail of an airplane sticking out of a building
Popeye's Ice House

'Westcott House' by Frank Lloyd Wright
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the link makes the place look like it's seen better days

'Cross Garden' by William C Rice (folk art)

Dick's Shoe Repair

Zippo Lighter Museum

Giant Chain - 'Neverbust' by Blue Sky
Sky conceived and installed "NEVERBUST" in 2000, commissioning and funding the entire project himself. The chain is comprised of true welded steel, with the words "NEVERBUST" emblazoned across the center links. The idea was preceded by Sky's installed exhibit "Space Lace" at the Columbus Museum circa 1972. A chain ten feet in height, "Space Lace" ran vertically and appeared to hold the roof onto the building.
Fearing censorship by the city but with the approval of the owners of both buildings he surreptitiously installed "NEVERBUST" early on a Sunday morning. Because it chains two historic buildings together and hovers over city property, the city of Columbia's Landmarks Commission ultimately held a hearing to determine its fate. It was unanimously approved by the committee due to the artist's international reputation as a mastermind of public art - and because they liked it.
When asked why he put the chain there, Sky replied,
"One building looked like it was leaning a little bit."
Because public safety was a concern of the artist, he hired an experienced professional welder, Dewayne Rice to implement the welding and install the finished piece. Two thousand pounds of hydraulic pressure were required to complete the linkage.

'Unity Temple' by Frank Lloyd Wright
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Lake Placid Tower
At the Time of construction (1960) it was the world's tallest concrete masonry structure. It was built with more than 70,000 pounds of reinforcing steel and nine million pounds of concrete. Back then it was called "Placid Tower" and featured a small zoo.

Two Ticonderoga class cruisers
The Ticonderoga-class of missile cruisers is a class of warships in the U.S. Navy, first ordered and authorized in FY 1978. The class use phased-array radar; the increased combat capability offered by the Aegis combat system and the AN/SPY-1 radar system justified the changing of the classification of Ticonderoga and Yorktown from DDG (guided missile destroyer) to CG (guided missile cruiser). Vincennes and Valley Forge may or may not have been authorized as DDGs; regardless, the DDG sequence continued with USS Arleigh Burke as DDG-51.
Of the “Ticos”, at least eight (Ticonderoga, Cowpens, Anzio, Yorktown, Valley Forge, Bunker Hill, Antietam and Princeton) share names with World War II aircraft carriers. Only one, Thomas S. Gates, is not named for a battle.

Huge Pair of Legs
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Uncle Remus Museum

40 foot long Muskie at the National Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame

'Big Peach' and giant peach

Steam Railroading Institute

New Buffalo Depot Museum

Pic du Midi Observatory

Ford Amphitheatre
The Ford Amphitheatre is the first outdoor concert facility in the Tampa Bay Area. The Ford Amphitheatre's capacity is around 20,000.

American International Rattlesnake Museum

Giant can of paint

Peace Candle of the World
From Wikipedia (but in other places on the web I find info saying Nixon wouldn't light it and the Governor did it instead.):
One of the more positive moments took place in 1970 when President Nixon came to town to light the "Peace Candle." He was still enormously popular with the less afluent and and this was before he became a convicted felon for his part in Watergate. The event took place on what was previously a farm owned by the Scharf family. Brocks bought the propery and built a candle factory there which was quite successful. As a way of drawing attention to their enterprise, they ran a natural gas line up through the center of an existing silo on the property and put thousands of gallons of wax on the outside of the silo. President Nixon used his famous quote, "There shall be peace in our time," as he lit the flow of natural gas. A freak gust of wind blew the flame back towards the president and his eyebrows were partially singed. Ever the trooper, he continued undaunted with the ceremony. Ironically, the intention was for the candle to be "eternal", but when the natural gas bills started to come in, the candle became "terminal".

Giant bowling pin

'Tribute to Ether' by John Quincy Adams Ward

Giant thimble - 'Uniform Measure/Stack' by Stephen Cruise

Edison Depot Museum
Opened on February 11, 2001, the Thomas Edison Depot Museum was the second satellite facility to open of what is now known as the Port Huron Museums. It is housed inside the historic Fort Gratiot depot built in 1858 by the Grand Trunk Railway, and is the actual depot that Thomas Edison worked out of as a news butcher between 1859 and 1863. Trains connecting here carried people and freight between Port Huron and Detroit, Point Edward/Sarnia (Ontario), and other destinations, linking Port Huron to the world.
The exhibits portray Edison's multi-faceted story of creativity, family support, adversity, perseverance, and ultimate triumph as the greatest inventor of our times. Re-created period environments and hands-on inter actives invite visitors to become participants in this inspiring story and encourage them to apply their own creativity and ingenuity as they learn about Edison's life and his inventions.

Monument of States (made from rocks from all 48 states)
Begun in 1942 after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, the Monument of States was the vision of Dr. Charles Bressler-Pettis, a local tourism booster, who wanted a physical symbol of American unity in the dark days of early World War II. He wrote letters to every governor and to President Franklin D. Roosevelt to send him local rocks. (No clue where the President got his rock.) The donations arrived in a variety of formats -- blocks of native granite, chunks of quartz, small boulders, fossils, hunks of old buildings. One contributor even sent a human skull.
By 1943 the Doctor had a complete set from the then-lower-48, and had them mortared into a 50-foot-tall pseudo-pyramid of garishly-colored concrete slabs that weighed 30 tons. Each slab had a rock embedded in it, and was inscribed with the donor's name and location: "Idaho, Chase A. Clark Gov. 1941-42," "Lottie Lawler," "Wisconsin Dairy Land," "Harvard Medical School." The pile was dedicated as The Monument of States that year.

Combine City
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Tractor Version of Cadillac Ranch

Sponge-o-Rama
Founded in 1982, Spongeorama's sponge factory boast the Worlds largest selection of natural sea sponges. Visit the World Famous Spongeorama museum and learn about the rich history of Tarpon Springs, the Sponge Docks, and the Sponge Industry. Find out just what a sponge is and where they come from while relaxing in our air conditioned movie theater. The museum and movie are both FREE attractions and are a perfect introduction to the Tarpon Springs Sponge Docks. After the movie you can enjoy shopping in our sponge and gift shop. Pick up all of those must have unique Florida and Greek gifts and souvenirs.

Saginaw Railway Museum

Jungle Gardens

Caboose in a park
Old caboose that has been converted into an ice cream and refreshment stand.

Lake Superior Railroad Museum at the St. Louis County Heritage and Arts Center

Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate
The Oliver Hazard Perry class of frigates were purchased by the U.S. Navy in the 1970s and 1980s as general-purpose escort vessels capable enough to do most jobs adequately, yet cheap enough to be bought in large quantities to replace aging World War II-era destroyers.
They are named after Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (a distant relative of mine!)

Minnesota Transportation Museum

Giant flower on the roof of a building

Bird in flight

St. Petersburg Museum of History

Shell Factory

Giant branding iron

Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary
Founded in 1971 by zoologist Ralph T. Heath Jr, the Sanctuary is world renowned for its innovative rehabilitation techniques, and it was the first facility to breed Eastern Brown Pelicans in captivity. The Sanctuary is staffed by experienced professionals and dedicated volunteers. Similar to a human hospital, it is equipped with emergency facilities, a surgical center, recovery areas, and an outdoor recuperation area.
Display areas feature permanently injured birds that have been given a home at the Sanctuary. Any offspring they produce are released into their natural environment. At any given time, the visitor can view in excess of 600 wild birds.

Twin City Model Railroad Museum

Titan I missile on 'Confederate Air Force Pad No. 1'