VirtualGlobetrotting: Maps Submitted On: 2010-03-07

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Google Car stopped by Police
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Stephen Schwarzman's house
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Stephen A. Schwarzman is a billionaire American businessman and investor and the chairman and co-founder of the Blackstone Group, the private-equity and financial advisory firm owns this house. His net worth is over $7 billion. As of 2007, The Blackstone group is the 4th largest private equity firm in the world, behind The Carlyle Group, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, and Goldman Sachs. Among other things, they own Hilton Hotels.

Ossie Ardiles' House
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The former Tottenham Hotspur footballer and World cup winner with Argentina lives here.

'Casa Bianchi' by Mario Botta
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By: pmoore66.
1971-73
for friends Carlo and Leontina Bianchi, Botta first post-graduate house.

Marv Albert's house (former)
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By: neotrix.
The American television and radio sportscaster owned the house that he built until 2008. Honored for his work as a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, he is commonly referred to as "the voice of basketball." From 1967–2004, he was also known as "the voice of the New York Knicks."

Mayan ruins of Tikal
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Tikal (or Tik’al according to the modern Mayan orthography) is one of the largest archaeological sites and urban centres of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is located in the archaeological region of the Petén Basin in what is now modern-day northern Guatemala. Situated in the department of El Petén, the site is part of Guatemala's Tikal National Park and in 1979 it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Aron Govil's house
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By: neotrix.
The Bollywood film producer Aron Govil lives here. He is currently trying to sell the 15-room Colonial, 8,900-square-foot home with six bedrooms and 6½ bathrooms.

Cahokia Mounds
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Cahokia is the site of an ancient indigenous city (ca 600–1400 CE) near Collinsville, Illinois. In the American Bottom floodplain, it is across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri. The 2,200-acre (8.9 km2) site included 120 man-made earthen mounds over an area of six square miles, although only 80 survive. Cahokia Mounds is the largest archaeological site related to the Mississippian culture, which developed advanced societies in eastern North America centuries before the arrival of Europeans.
It is a designated site for state protection and a National Historic Landmark. In addition, it is one of only twenty World Heritage Sites designated in the territory of the United States. It is the largest prehistoric earthen construction in the Americas north of Mexico.

Indian Mounds Park
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As many as 37 burial Mounds were constructed by the Hopewell culture approximately 2000 years ago, one of several Native American Mound builders. The dead were buried with artifacts, indicating a religious tradition. The Hopewell culture built distinctive mounds, including burial of the deceased's ashes. Later the Dakota Indians used the same site to bury their dead after wrapping the bodies in animal skins.

Dunns Pond Mound
The Dunns Pond Mound is a historic Native American mound in northeastern Logan County, Ohio, United States. Located near Huntsville, it lies along the southeastern corner of Indian Lake in Washington Township. In 1974, the mound was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a potential archeological site, with much of its significance deriving from its use as a burial site for as much as nine centuries.

Mayan ruins of Mayapan
Mayapan is a Pre-Columbian Maya site a couple of kilometers south of the town of Telchaquillo in Municipality of Tecoh, approximately 40 km south-east of Mérida and 100 km west of Chichen Itza; in the state of Yucatán, Mexico. Mayapan was the political and cultural capital of the Maya in the Yucatan Peninsula during the Late Post-Classic period from the 1220s until the 1440s.
Mayapan is today a large archaeological site measuring approximately 4 square kilometers in area and containing over 4000 structures. The bulk of the site is surrounded by a substantial defensive stone wall pierced by several gates. The wall is about 9 km long and is roughly ovate in plan view. The ceremonial center of the site is located at the focus of the wide, western end. The ceremonial center is occupied by a tightly packed cluster of pyramid-temples and colonnades.

Angel Mounds
Angel Mounds State Historic Site is located on the Ohio River in Vanderburgh and Warrick Counties eight miles southeast of Evansville and just upriver of the confluence of the Green and Ohio rivers. Administered by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Indiana State Museums and Historic Sites, it is one of 16 state museums and historic sites. In 1964 this major complex of earthworks was designated a National Historic Landmark because of its significance. It is named after the Angel family who in the early 1800s owned the property on which it is located along the Ohio River.

Mayan ruins of Kaminaljuyu
Kaminaljuyu is a Pre-Columbian site of the Maya civilization that was primarily occupied from 1500BC to 1200AD. Kaminaljuyu has been described as one of the greatest of all archaeological sites in the New World by Michael Coe, although its remains today - a few mounds only - are far less impressive than other Maya sites more frequented by tourists. When first mapped scientifically (by E. M. Shook over a period of decades from the 1930s on), it comprised some 200 platforms and pyramidal mounds, at least half of which were created before the end of the Preclassic period (AD 250).

Norwood Oval
Norwood Oval (currently Coopers Stadium) is a multi-purpose stadium in Norwood, an inner eastern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It has been used for a variety of sporting events, but its main use is as the home ground for the Norwood Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).
The stadium has a capacity of 22,000 people, with seating for up to 3,900. Its record crowd is 20,280 attending a SANFL match between Norwood and Port Adelaide in 1971. Large light towers illuminate the entire pitch with TV standard lighting making the venue a regular fixture for Friday night matches in the SANFL.
Norwood has also hosted Baseball since circa 1960 with the South Australian Baseball team being tenants until 1989 then followed by the Adelaide Giants in the Australian Baseball League (ABL) from 1989 till its folding in 1999. From 2009 Baseball will once again be played at Norwood hosting home South Australia games in the Claxton Shield 2010.

Criel Mound
The Criel Mound is a Native American burial mound located in South Charleston, West Virginia, USA. The mound was built by the Adena culture, probably around 250-150 BC, and lay equidistant between two “sacred circles”, earthwork enclosures each 556 feet in diameter. It was originally 33 feet high and 173 feet in diameter at the base, making it the second-largest such burial mound in the state of West Virginia. (The Grave Creek Mound in Moundsville is the largest.)

Mayan ruins of Yaxchilan
Yaxchilan (also sometimes historically referred to by the names Menché and City Lorillard) is an ancient Maya city located on the bank of the Usumacinta River in what is now the state of Chiapas, Mexico. In the Late Classic Period Yaxchilan was one of the most powerful states along the course of the Usumacinta, with Piedras Negras as its major rival. Architectural styles in subordinate sites in the Usumacinta region demonstrate clear differences that mark a clear boundary between the two kingdoms.

Sterling Hill Mining Museum
The Sterling Hill Mine, now known as the Sterling Hill Mining Museum, is a former iron and zinc mine in Ogdensburg, New Jersey. It was the last working underground mine in New Jersey when it closed in 1986. It became a museum on 1989. Along with the nearby Franklin Mine, it is known for its variety of minerals, especially the fluorescent varieties. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

Johnson Tunnel 1979
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agv9l0vD_q0

Eisenhower Tunnel 1973
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Vexcon animal and pest control
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Shown on A & E's 'Billy The Exterminator' and previously featured on Discovery Channel's 'Dirty Jobs'

Oriole Park
Oriole Park is the home of the Auburn Baseball Club in New South Wales, Australia.

Mayan ruins of Nakbe
Nakbe is one of the largest early Maya archaeological sites, rivaled by El Mirador. Nakbe is located in the The Mirador Basin, in El Petén region of Guatemala, approximately 13 kilometers south of the Largest Maya city of El Mirador. Excavations at Nakbe suggest that habitation began at the site during the Early Formative period (circa 1400 BC) and continued to be a large site until its collapse during the Terminal Formative period (100-200 BC). The fall of Nakbe and El Mirador took place at roughly the same time.

Spiro Mounds
Spiro Mounds is one of the most important pre-Columbian archaeological sites in the United States. Located in Eastern Oklahoma near the modern town of Spiro, it is under the protection of the Oklahoma Historical Society and open to the public. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Growden Memorial Park
Growden Memorial Park is an outdoor baseball park in Fairbanks, Alaska, United States. It is used for summer collegiate and high school baseball, and has been the home field for the Alaska Baseball League's Alaska Goldpanners since 1960. It's also home to the Athletes in Action Fire. It was also home to the defunct North Pole Nicks, before the Nicks relocated to Newby Field. Famous players who played there include: Tom Seaver, Dave Winfield, Rick Monday, Terry Francona, Bob Boone, Bret Boone, Jason Giambi and numerous others.
It also has played host to the Alaska School Activities Association state baseball championships over the last few years.
It has an artificial turf infield and a natural grass outfield. It contains several dozen box seats salvaged from Seattle's Sick's Stadium. The Carlson Center is located nearby.
The ballpark holds 3,500 people and has the distinction as the northern-most baseball park in the world and the unique summer Midnight Sun Game.

Emerald Mound Site
The Emerald Mound Site is a Plaquemine Mississippian period archaeological site located on the Natchez Trace Parkway near Stanton, Mississippi, United States. The site dates from the period between 1200 and 1730 CE. The platform mound is the second-largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in the country, after Monk's Mound at Cahokia, Illinois. The mound covers eight acres, measuring 770 by 435 feet at the base and 35 feet in height. Emerald Mound has a flat top with two smaller secondary mounds at each end. Travelers in the early 19th century noted a number of adjoining mounds and an encircling ditch that are no longer present. Emerald Mound was stabilized by the National Park Service in 1955. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989.

Moorabbin Oval
Moorabbin Oval, also known by its sponsorship name of Linen House Oval, is an Australian Rules Football ground based in Linton Street, Moorabbin, Victoria, Australia.
The ground is notable for being a former VFL/AFL match venue and the home of the St Kilda Football Club.

LeBron James
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Mayan ruins of Becan
Becan is an archaeological site of the Maya civilization in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Becan is located near the center of the Yucatán Peninsula, in the present-day Mexican state of Campeche, about 150 km (93.2 mi) north of Tikal. The Maya sites of Balamku, Calakmul, Chicanna and Xpuhil are nearby. The name Becan was bestowed on the site by archaeologists who rediscovered the site, meaning "ravine or canyon formed by water" in Yukatek Maya, after the site's most prominent and unusual feature, its surrounding ditch.
Archaeological evidence shows that Becan was occupied in the middle Pre-Classic period (see: Mesoamerican chronology), about 550 BCE, and grew to a major population and ceremonial center a few hundred years later in the late Preclassic. The population and scale of construction declined in the early classic (c 250 CE), although it was still a significant site, and trade goods from Teotihuacan have been found.

Wilkes-Barre Wyoming Valley Airport
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ROKS Dokdo (LPH 6111)
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The LPX project was the Republic of Korea Navy's new amphibious landing ship project for which Hanjin Heavy Industries has provided the general design package. The ROK Navy's requirements for the new amphibious landing ships were to enhance Korea's current amphibious operation capability, both in terms of assault and military operations other than war (MOOTW) type operations.
On 12 July 2005, ROKS Dokdo (LPH 6111), the lead ship of her class, was launched at the shipyard of Hanjin Heavy Industries & Constructions Co. in Busan. The ship was named after the Dokdo islets. She was commissioned into the ROK Navy on 3 July 2007.

Belmore Sports Ground
Belmore Sports Ground, formerly known as Belmore Oval, is a multi-purpose stadium in Belmore, New South Wales, Australia. The park covers 22 acres (89,000 m2) and from 1951 has contained the Belmore Bowling Recreation Club green. It is close to the Belmore railway station.
The stadium has a capacity of 25,000 people and was built in 1920.

Impossible triangle a la Escher
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'Ito Pavilion' by Toyo Ito
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ATV x3

Mayan ruins of Chunchucmil
Chunchucmil was once a large, sprawling pre-Columbian Maya city located in the western part of what is now the state of Yucatán, Mexico.
Although the famous explorer and author John Lloyd Stephens traveled within a few kilometers of Chunchucmil during his historic journey across the Yucatán Peninsula (he even met with the owner of the nearby Haciendas), the archaeological site went relatively unnoticed by Maya scholars for more than a century because virtually no monuments (stelae) or other grand sculptures have been found there. The lack of royal monuments, combined with other archaeological data (see below), may indicate that Chunchucmil was not a city ruled by a single divine king, as most other Maya polities. Instead, it may have been a commercial center, organized by various lineages and focused upon funneling goods between regions—such as the trade between the Gulf of Mexico and the interior of the Yucatán Peninsula.

World Museum of Mining

Öskjuvatn Crater Lake
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'Vouksenniska Church' by Alvar Aalto
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'LOVE' by Robert Indiana
1995
in Nishi-Shinjuku

Police Dodge Charger

Haig Colliery Mining Museum
Haig Colliery Mining Museum is a rapidly growing visitor attraction situated high on the cliffs above Whitehaven in Cumbria, with magnificent views across the Solway Firth to Scotland and the Isle of Man.
It is an independent, volunteer-led project to provide a permanent archive of the local mining history and community resource within the remaining winding engine house, which is now a scheduled ancient monument. One of the two massive steam winding engines has been returned to working order, and many artifacts are on permanent display to help describe the life of the local miners and the social history of the area.
Coal mining in Whitehaven dates back to the thirteenth century when the monks from St Bees Abbey supervised the opening of coal mines at Arrowthwaite. This long history ended abruptly in March 1986, when Haig Pit, Cumbria's last deep coal mine, finally closed.
During this time, the gassy nature of the mines caused many violent explosions. Over 1200 men, women, and children were killed in the Whitehaven pits while mining coal in workings up to four miles out beneath the Solway Firth. Haig itself had a terrible record of methane explosions in the 1920s. Fourteen miners are still entombed in the workings to this day.

Western Museum of Mining & Industry
The Western Museum of Mining & Industry is a museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado, dedicated to the mining history and industrial technology of the western United States. The museum was founded in 1970, and has been accredited by the American Association of Museums since 1979. It is open to the public Mondays through Saturdays.
The museum building houses antique mining equipment and steam engines. Some of the pneumatic machines are connected to compressed air so that they can be viewed in actual operation. The museum also includes a recreation of an old assay office and scale models of mines and mills.
Outdoor exhibits include live burros, a steam shovel, and an operating stamp mill for gold ore.
The museum maintains a research library on mining topics, available by appointment.
Other activities at the museum include lectures, rotating exhibits, and a twice-weekly farmers’ market.

Unicycle
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By: adrbr.

Tunnel- 7 min, Frisco- 25 min, Vail- 50 min

National Coal Mining Museum for England
The National Coal Mining Museum for England (an Anchor Point of ERIH, The European Route of Industrial Heritage) is based on the site of the old Caphouse Colliery at Overton in West Yorkshire, England.It opened in 1988 as the Yorkshire Mining Museum, it was granted national status in 1995. This mine was worked from at least 1789 until the seam was exhausted in 1985. Following the UK Miners' Strike (1984-1985) work was started to convert it into a museum. The miners were transferred to Denby Grange Colliery at nearby Netherton.

Melbourne Ballpark
The Melbourne Ballpark is home to baseball and softball in Victoria, Australia. It was built in 1990, with a seating capacity of about 5000, although in recent years seats along the base lines have been removed and replaced with standing room area leaving the only seating in the main grandstand.

Baseball Park
Baseball Park is home to Baseball in Western Australia, Australia. It was built in 2004, with a seating capacity of about 500 and standing room for a further 3,500. This is the first baseball-exclusive stadium in Perth since the demolition of Parry Field in the mid 1990s. Baseball Park was the venue of the 2007 Claxton Shield, which ran from January 19 to January 27, 2007.

Scottish Mining Museum
The Scottish Mining Museum was created in 1984, to preserve the physical surface remains of Lady Victoria Colliery at Newtongrange, Midlothian, Scotland. The colliery, sunk by the Lothian Coal Company in 1890, came into production in 1894. It was nationalised in 1947 with the formation of the National Coal Board, and had closed in 1981.

Mini Cooper club meeting x36

Chevrolet Corvette x4

Peak District Mining Museum
The Peak District Mining Museum is located at Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, England. The museum has a mockup of a lead mine in which children may safely experience and explore how the miners, and in particular how children, were used in this dangerous aspect of our industrial past.

Old classic motorcycle

Mining Museum Příbram
Mining Museum Příbram is a large open air museum of mining with historical buildings and expositions of mining history and mineralogy. It is located in Příbram's Březové Hory quarter, former important Czech mining centre. It is one of the biggest museums in the Czech Republic. It was founded in 1886.

Magic tap sculpture I
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Looks Like Santa Claus

Escher's triangle, the original

Helicopter in flight
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By: adrbr.

Duplicate

Camera man

Western Mining and Railroad Museum
The Western Mining and Railroad Museum is a railroad museum and mining museum located in Helper, Utah, 120 miles southeast of Salt Lake City.
The museum is housed in the Old Helper Hotel building, built in 1913–1914.

Google car

'Sports School' by Weil Arets

Magic tap sculpture II