VirtualGlobetrotting: Maps Submitted On: 2008-07-15

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Barry White's House (former)
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This was the final home of the record producer, songwriter and singer, who died in 2003.

Pete Rose's House
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The former player and manager in Major League Baseball lives here. The 6-bed, 5-bath, 4,719 sq ft home was built in 1999 and valued at nearly $1.5M. His former home in Cincinnati (OH) is also featured on this site.

Jeanne Zelasko & Curt Sandoval's House
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The sports commentator for the FOX network, and the sports anchor & reporter for ABC-owned KABC-TV in Los Angeles, live here. They also own condominium units in Colorado and Florida.

Frankie Valli's House
The musician, most famous as frontman of "The 4 Seasons", lives here.

Harlan Ellison's House
The prolific writer of short stories, novellas, teleplays, essays, and criticism, lives here. His literary and television work has received many awards. He wrote for the original series of both "The Outer Limits" and "Star Trek"; edited the multiple-award-winning short story anthology series "Dangerous Visions"; and served as creative consultant to the science fiction TV series "The New Twilight Zone" and "Babylon 5".

Entrance to Burlington - Cold War Underground City
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A 35 acre subterranean Cold War City that lies 1000 feet beneath Corsham. Built in the late 50s this massive city complex was designed by Government personnel in the event of a nuclear strike. A former Bath stone quarry the city, code named Burlington, was to be the site of the main Emergency Government War Headquarters - the hub of the Country's alternative seat of power outside London.
Over a kilometre in length, and boasting over 60 miles of roads. Blast proof and completely self-sufficient the secret underground site could accommodate up to 6,000 people, in complete isolation from the outside world, for up to three months.
An underground lake and treatment plant could provide all the drinking water needed whilst 12 huge tanks could store the fuel required to keep the four massive generators, in the underground power station, running for up to three months. And unlike most urban cities, above ground, the air within the complex could also be kept at a constant humidity and heated to around 20 degrees. The city was also equipped with the second largest telephone exchange in Britain, a BBC studio from which the PM could address the nation and an internal Lamson Tube system that could relay messages, using compressed air, throughout the complex.

Lily Tomlin's House
Although not her main residence (which is also featured on this site), the actress, comedian, writer and producer, who has won several Tony Awards and Emmy Awards, plus a Grammy Award, owns this home.

Richard Serra's House
The minimalist sculptor and video artist, known for working with large scale assemblies of sheet metal, lives here.

The Villages of Florida - world’s largest retirement community
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It’s nearly twice the size of Manhattan, gated, and with a population that will top 110,000. Kids can visit, but they’re given guest passes that time out much like international visas.

SEAL diver training tower
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Natasha Henstridge's House (former)
The fashion model turned actress sold this home is 2009. Her most notable roles include "Species" and "Species II".

Chick Hearn's House (former)
This was the final home of the late sportscaster.

'Opdahl House' by Edward Killingsworth
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Restored to its grace by musician Andreas Stevens aka Greyboy

Sherilyn Fenn's House (former)
The Emmy Award- and Golden Globe Award-nominated actress lived here.

Richard Gluckman's House
The art world architect lives here. He is the man responsible for buildings such as the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and the Museo Picasso Malaga in Spain.

Reese Forbes' House
The professional skateboarder lives here.

Steve Tyrell's House
The jazz musician lives here.

Elizabeth Peyton's House
The mid-career art star is selling her weekend getaway.

Dordoy Bazaar - built from shipping containers
Dordoy Bazaar is a large wholesale and retail market in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. It is one of Asia's greatest public market places, comparable to Bangkok's Chatuchak weekend market or Tehran's Grand Bazaar.f Kyrgyzstan.
Most of the market is built of double-stacked shipping containers. Typically, the lower container is used as a shop, while the upper one is used for additional storage. According to a 2005 newspaper report, there were some 6,000 to 7,000 containers in the bazaar; around 20,000 people worked there (as vendors, security, service personnel).
The containers, organized in dozens of rows, form streets and plazas of a sort. Smaller buildings between the blocks of containers house restaurants, administrative offices, toilets, hotels, and other ancillary structures.

Lou Henson's House
The former collegiate basketball coach lives here. He retired as the all time leader in victories at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with 423 victories and New Mexico State with 289 victories. Overall, he had 779 victories, good for 6th place on the all-time list. He also has a home in Champaign (IL), where he Summers, and it is also featured on this site.

Washington Monument cell phone tower
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This one-third scale model of the monument in Washington, DC, will be moved in the future as an I-55 interchange will be built in this location.

'Connie' the life-size sperm whale
"Conny" is a life-size, 60-foot, ferro-cement model of a male Sperm Whale -- the only one of its kind anyplace in the world. It was built over a year's time in 1975-76 with 5,000 hours of volunteer labor by the Connecticut Cetacean Society (now Cetacean Society International -- CSI) on the grounds outside the Science Center of Connecticut, at 950 Trout Brook Drive, in West Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

Hartford Motor Speedway
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1/2 mile clay oval track. This track has gone through several phases since being created in 1951 at the old Van Buren County Fairgrounds. It was originally a dirt oval track and was paved in 1971. The paved track was used for about 11 years. In 1995, a new high banked clay track was created. The track was previously named Hartford Raceway Park.
Stock cars and modifieds race on Friday nights with occasional visits by sprint cars. A 1/8 mile oval track along the front stretch is used on Tuesday nights for mini-sprints, 4 cylinder cars, ATV's, and karts.

FEMA Multi-Radio Van (MRV)
The MRV is a 30-foot long communications van mounted on a Kenworth chassis with a total weight of 44,000 pounds. The rear section of the roof opens to reveal a 2.4 meter satellite antenna, while the rest of the roof contains antennas for use with its radio suite. The inside of the van houses the MRV's screen room that contains its communications equipment and a small office/work area in the front.
The truck has two built-in 20 kW generators which provide self-contained power for the entire operation. There is also a Second Antenna System (SAS) that is mounted on another truck which can be connected to provide a second satellite link. An MRV is assigned to each of the FEMA Mobile Emergency Response Support (MERS) Detachments.
The MRV provides an interface to a variety of communications medium. It contains High Frequency (HF) Radios; Very High Frequency (VHF) Radios and Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Radios, all with telephone interface capability. It also contains a Ku band satellite system which can provide connectivity for telephones, Local and Wide Area Network (LAN/WAN), compressed video teleconferencing, and Broadcast Video. There are also computers with scanning, printing, copying and facsimile capabilities. The MRV also has a small telephone switch to provide limited telephone support.
The MRV provides a mobile communications platform that can quickly deploy to provide the initial means of communications for the disaster response team and/or the Disaster Field Office (DFO) until permanent communications mediums can be restored to the area.
The MRV will normally be deployed in response to disasters as part of FEMA's initial response. When authorized, the MRV can also be deployed to support other special events and exercises.

Berlin Raceway
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.438 mile paved oval track. It was originally a dirt oval track when it was created in 1950. It was paved after the 1965 season. In addition to it's weekly Saturday night program of stock car racing, it often hosts touring series, such as ARCA, ASA, and Auto Value Super Sprints. NASCAR driver Johnny Benson raced here early in his career and still competes here when his schedule allows. Demo derbies, school bus races, rollover contests, and burnout contests are also on the schedule.

Wake County Fire/Rescue Training Center
The Fire/Rescue Training Center serves as a training facility for fire and rescue department personnel in Wake County. Classrooms are available at this facility as well as a live burn building, training tower and flammable/combustible liquid pits.

Samantha Harris' House (former)
The "Dancing with the Stars" co-host and her husband, Michael Hess, paid $1.6M to buy this 4-bed, 4-bath, 2,950 sq ft Spanish-style home just west of the Century City area in early 2007. They sold the property in 2009.

Playboy bunny on the runway at Rittenhouse Army Heliport

NASA's Mobile Launch Platform
The Mobile Launcher Platform or MLP is a two-story structure used by NASA, along with the Crawler-Transporter, to transport the Space Shuttle stack from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to either Launch Pad 39-A or 39-B at the Kennedy Space Center, as well as serve as the vehicle's launch platform. NASA's three MLPs were originally constructed for the Apollo Program to launch the Saturn V rockets in the 1960s and 1970s, and have remained in service to this day, with substantial alterations.

Tai Babilonia's House (former)
The figure skater (partner of Randy Gardner) lived here. In 2008, she and Gardner announced their retirement from professional figure skating due to a neck injury suffered by Gardner, and their advancing ages.

FEMA Emergency Operations Vehicle (EOV)
The Emergency Operations Vehicle (EOV), assigned to the FEMA Mobile
Emergency Response Support (MERS) Detachment in Denton, Texas is an
82 foot long tractor/trailer weighing 92,000 pounds. A section of the trailer
sides expands to form a work area capable of housing a 20-25 person
Federal Response Team. The remainder of the trailer houses the MERS
Operations and Communications Centers, a Reception area, and a small
office for the Team Director (Federal Emergency Management Agency,
2005).

Boeing 747 Large Cargo Freighter (LCF) 'Dreamlifter'
The Boeing 747 Large Cargo Freighter (LCF), known as the Dreamlifter, is a modified Boeing 747-400 used exclusively for transporting aircraft parts to Boeing from suppliers around the world.

'Penn/Crowell House' by Raymond Kappe
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A local favorite by the founder of SCI-ARC

Digital tags remaining in imagery

Tesla Roadster Prototype
The Tesla Roadster is a fully electric sports car, and is the first car produced by electric car firm Tesla Motors. The car can travel 220 mi (350 km) on a single charge of its lithium-ion battery pack and accelerate from 0-60 mph (97 km/h) in 3.9 seconds with the development transmission.

Seventh-Kilometer Market - Shopping mall built from shipping containers
Most of the shops here on the airport road outside Odessa are neither buildings nor stalls. They are shipping containers, stacked two high in rows long enough to be called streets, though these are little more than overcrowded alleys.
When founded as an Odessa flea market in 1989, it was expelled to an area outside of the city's limits at the seventh kilometer of the Odessa-Ovidiopol highway, thus acquiring its name. As of 2006, the market covers 170 acres (0.69 km²) and consists largely of steel shipping containers, which rent for up to USD 6,000 (EUR 4,700) or more per month, as well as an increasing number of ordinary shops in buildings. It has roughly 6,000 traders and an estimated 150,000 customers per day. Daily sales, according to the Ukrainian periodical Zerkalo Nedeli, were believed to be as high as USD 20 million in 2004. With a staff of 1,200 (mostly guards and janitors), the market is also the region's largest employer. It is owned by local land and agriculture tycoon Viktor A. Dobriansky and three partners of his.

House in the Clouds
The House in the Clouds was originally built in 1923 as a water tower to receive water pumped from Thorpeness Windmill and was designed to improve the looks of the water tower by disguising it as a weatherboarded building more in keeping with Thorpeness' mock-Tudor and Jacobean style. The original capacity of the water tank was 50,000 imperial gallons, however after the tank was hit by gunfire from anti-aircraft guns during WW2, the capacity was reduced to 30,000 imperial gallons after repairs. In 1979 the main water tank was removed to fully convert the building into a house. The building currently has five bedrooms and three bathrooms; it contains a total of 85 steps from bottom to top and is around 70 feet high.

Truck accident (March 8, 2005)
A fertilizer truck, driven by Jose Flores of Tangent, overturned at 10 a.m. Tuesday while turning onto Oak Street from Denny School Road near Lebanon, according to the Linn County Sheriff's Office. The truck may have been transporting lime. The Lebanon Police Department and Oregon Department of Transportation assisted.
Thanks to Michael L at Google Sightseeing.)

'Kimpson-Nixon House' by Raphael Soriano
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Armed SAM Site
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Very clear imagery of this site. Appears to be the SA-2 configuration. Comments welcome. Vehicle compound just to the north shows 5 trucks without trailers.

Museum being built from shipping containers for 'Ashes and Snow'
The 45,000-square-foot structure was expressly built to display "Ashes and Snow," a show of 200 large-scale photographic works by the artist Gregory Colbert.
It's not just the show that's going out on the road. The entire museum is to be packed in 37 of the 148 cargo containers that form its checkerboard walls. The temporary structure is composed largely of recyclable materials: the roof and columns are made of paper tubes, the steel containers stacked 34 feet high are used, and a handmade curtain to be suspended from the ceiling is made of one million pressed paper tea bags (used, with the tea leaves removed).

'Alabam-U' by Kosso Eloul

'Newton' by Eduardo Paolozzi

Band in a Bubble
Band in a Bubble is a round-the-clock live broadcast, during which a band spends an extended period of time inside a "bubble" writing and recording an album. The Band in a Bubble concept was the creation of Paul Curtis, band manager, tour promoter, owner of Valve Records and visual artist based in Australia. The concept was developed in conjunction with Regurgitator and XYZ Networks.
Endemol's first staging of the Band in the Bubble took place in New York City featuring pop-punk band Cartel. The show was developed in a partnership with MTV, Dr Pepper, and Epic Records, the band's label. The show launched on May 24, 2007.
The bubble is set up at Hudson River Park's Pier 54. As in the first instance, fans can stop by the bubble and watch the band through the building's windows. Twenty-three webcams have been set up around the bubble, which can be viewed via MTV.com and www.drpepperbubble.com. MTV is also broadcasting four half-hour specials. During the series, Cartel is recording the follow-up to their 2005 album Chroma.
The bubble was created using 55,000 pounds of steel truss and quarter-inch-thick fireproof rigid fiberglass. The bubble contains a two-thousand-square-foot recording studio, as well as a kitchen, dining room, lounge area, and bathroom. The band's sleeping area is on the top level, which is held nine feet in the air with airplane hanger cables.

Carousel
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Store built from 85' tall pile of shipping containers
Freitag, the messenger bag company founded by Markus and Daniel Freitag in Zurich.
The store is in a new building that is bold yet perfectly compatible with the neighborhood. It sits beside an elevated highway and railroad tracks (by the hip restaurant Rosso) and is made of 17 rusted shipping containers in a pile 85 feet high — which, in Zurich, ranks as a tall building.

Mykolaev (Nikolayev) Zoo
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Three bears at a Ukrainian zoo tore a man "limb from limb" after he fell into their enclosure, local media reports.
The 22-year-old man was drunk and trying to take close-up shots of the Siberian Brown bears at Mykolaev city zoo when he lost his footing, witnesses said, acording to Channel 5 television.

Museum built from shipping containers for 'Ashes and Snow' by Gregory Colbert
The 45,000-square-foot structure was expressly built to display "Ashes and Snow," a show of 200 large-scale photographic works by the artist Gregory Colbert that ran March 5, 2005 through June 6, 2005 before traveling to California and the Vatican.
It's not just the show that's going out on the road. The entire museum is to be packed in 37 of the 148 cargo containers that form its checkerboard walls. The temporary structure is composed largely of recyclable materials: the roof and columns are made of paper tubes, the steel containers stacked 34 feet high are used, and a handmade curtain to be suspended from the ceiling is made of one million pressed paper tea bags (used, with the tea leaves removed).

Hard Hangar Cammo
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At least 16 hard hangars plus several underground structures, along with painted taxiways & aprons at the east and west end of this airbase. No aircraft visible.

Flock of birds

Underground Access
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Tunnel Entrance east of Chifeng Air Base. Also appears to be another access to south of nearby round ramp. Another entrance 0.6 km north of this site also joins taxiway to Air Base. No aircraft visible. Covered work areas visible on this apron.