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George Frankfort's House
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George Frankfort is a Toronto based property developer.

Mohamad Punjani's House
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Mohamad Punjani was born on the Pakistan-Indian border and emigrated at a young age to Uganda where he built an automotive parts empire.
Reports have estimated the 23,000 sqft house with its 18 bedrooms and top-of-the-line features – with a sauna in each of its 15 baths, and a driveway which melts snow off it in winter – was built for $10M, not including the cost of the land.

Austin Mahone's Childhood Home
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Austin Mahone is an American pop singer. Mahone was chosen as one of the opening acts of Taylor Swift's Red Tour and Bridgit Mendler's Summer Tour with selected dates. He is currently signed to Young Money Entertainment, Cash Money Records and Republic Records preparing his debut album.

Arnold Kondrat's House
Arnold Kondrat is the principal founder of Delrand Resources as well as the founder and Executive Vice President of Banro Corporation, a gold mining company based in the DRC, founder of Loncor Resources Inc., an exploration company in the DRC and Director and President of privately-held Sterling Portfolio Securities Inc., a Toronto-based venture capital company.

Andrew Mellon's House (Former)
Andrew Mellon was an American banker, businessman, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector, and United States Secretary of the Treasury from March 4, 1921 to February 12, 1932.

Kris and Margaret Isberg's House (Former)
Mr. Isberg runs K.P. Isberg Construction and Mrs. Isberg is the former president of bond-manager PIMCO Canada.
Built in 1931, the 15,000-square-foot home was designed by architect John Lyle for industrialist Frederick Cowan.

W. Bernard Herman's House (Former)
W. Bernard Herman was the founder of Citipark which grew into Canada’s largest parking company and later became Citicom, a real-estate development company.

Hovan Tchaglassian's House
Hovan Tchaglassian is President at Hovan Homes.

Welcome to Pitcairn Island
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Adamstown is the only settlement on, and as such, the capital of, the Pitcairn Islands.
Adamstown has a population of 48, which is the entire population of the Pitcairn Islands: all the other islands in the group are uninhabited. Adamstown is where most residents eat and sleep, while they grow food in other areas of the island.
The hamlet currently holds the record for being the smallest capital in the world. It has access to television, satellite internet, and a telephone. The main means of communication is still the ham radio. According to Google maps, the only named road in the capital is called "The Hill of Difficulty".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamstown,_Pitcairn_Islands

Adamstown (smallest capital in the world)
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By: Mike1989.
Adamstown is the only settlement on, and as such, the capital of, the Pitcairn Islands.
Adamstown has a population of 48, which is the entire population of the Pitcairn Islands: all the other islands in the group are uninhabited. Adamstown is where most residents eat and sleep, while they grow food in other areas of the island.
The hamlet currently holds the record for being the smallest capital in the world. It has access to television, satellite internet, and a telephone. The main means of communication is still the ham radio. According to Google maps, the only named road in the capital is called "The Hill of Difficulty".

Shackleton's Hut at Cape Royds
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Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, CVO, OBE FRGS (/ˈʃækəltən/; 15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was a polar explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic, and one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Shackleton

Grand Central Terminal
Grand Central Terminal (GCT) is a commuter (and former intercity) railroad terminal at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States. Built by and named for the New York Central Railroad in the heyday of American long-distance passenger rail travel, it is the largest such facility in the world by number of platforms with 44 serving 67 tracks along them. They are on two levels, both below ground, with 41 tracks on the upper level and 26 on the lower, though the total number of tracks along platforms and in rail yards exceeds 100. The terminal covers an area of 48 acres (19 ha). Opened, 1871.

Church of Adamstown
Adamstown is the only settlement on, and as such, the capital of, the Pitcairn Islands.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamstown,_Pitcairn_Islands

Charles Schwab's House (Former)
Charles Schwab was an American steel magnate. Under his leadership, Bethlehem Steel became the second largest steel maker in the United States, and one of the most important heavy manufacturers in the world.

Pingtung Station
Pingtung Station (屏東車站) is a railway station of the Taiwan Railway Administration (TRA) Pingtung Line located in Pingtung City, Pingtung County, Taiwan.
Opened; December 20, 1913

"As Cool As I Am" filming location
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Most of the scenes of the 2013 film "As Cool As I Am" took place in this neighborhood. The film stars Sarah Bolger, Thomas Mann, Claire Danes, James Marsden, and Jeremy Sisto.
This house served as the home of Lucy Diamond (Bolger) and her parents (Danes, Marsden). The (olive green) home of her best friend (Mann) is located on the corner just east of here. The vacant lot across the street served as the neighborhood playground.

Seymour Harris' House
Seymour Harris is an architect based in Birmingham, England.
Harris built this 19,408 sqft house in the early 1960s. Harris is quoted as saying that he designed the house as such that he could "drive his Aston Martin up a ramp into the first-floor parking bay".

Tern Island
Tern Island is a tiny coral island located in the French Frigate Shoals in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, approximately 490 miles west north west of Oahu. It has a land area of 105,276 m² (26.014 acres). The island provides a breeding habitat to millions of nesting seabirds[citation needed], threatened Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles, and endangered Hawaiian Monk Seals. It is maintained as a field station in the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

Taylor Glacier
The Taylor Glacier is an Antarctic glacier about 54 kilometres (34 mi) long, flowing from the plateau of Victoria Land into the western end of Taylor Valley, north of the Kukri Hills, south of the Asgard Range. The middle part of the glacier is bounded on the north by the Inland Forts and on the south by Beacon Valley.

Tranvía de Sóller (Soller tramway)
The Tranvía de Sóller (Catalan: ''Tramvia de Sóller'') is a Spanish heritage tramway serving the town of Sóller and the coastal village of Port de Sóller, in the island of Majorca. It is owned by Ferrocarril de Sóller S.A. (FS), the same company operating the heritage rail line linking the town to the city of Palma.
The Soller tramway line, which was designed and constructed by the engineer Pedro Garau, opened on 4 October 1913 shortly after the inauguration of Palma-Sóller rail line, and started regular service on 13 October of that year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tranv%C3%ADa_de_S%C3%B3ller

Aberdeen Amtrak station
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Aberdeen Station is a train station in Aberdeen, Maryland on the Northeast Corridor. It is served by Amtrak's Northeast Regional and the MARC Penn Line. The station was originally built by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad approximately in 1898, and inherited by the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad. The current station is a modern structure built in 1943 by Lester C. Tichy for the Pennsylvania Railroad, and located at 18 East Bel Air Avenue at the intersection of Pulaski Boulevard (US 40) and West Bel Air Avenue (MD 132). It contains a 1960s-style pedestrian tunnel, with one of the entrances located at the former north station house. It also contains a pedestrian bridge built in 1982. Aberdeen was also served by an 1886-built Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station along what is now the CSX Philadelphia Subdivision just north of this one on West Bel Air Avenue.

Durand Union Station
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Durand Union Station is a historic train station in Durand, Michigan. It was originally a busy Grand Trunk Western Railroad and Ann Arbor Railroad station, as well as a local office for Grand Trunk Western, from its construction in 1903 until 1974. It is currently an Amtrak station, and also houses three small railroad history museums: the Michigan Railroad History Museum, the Grand Trunk Western Railroad Museum, and the Ann Arbor Railroad History Museum. Also in the building is the model railroad club the Durand Union Station Model Railroad Engineers, and a ballroom for special events and parties. It is owned by the city of Durand and leased by Durand Union Station, Inc. a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation, restoration, and maintenance of the building and its surrounding property. It sits at the junction of Canadian National Railway's busy mainline interchange of the Flint and Holly Subdivisions. Additionally, Great Lakes Central Railroad and Huron and Eastern Railway operate near the station, and a freight yard used by all three carriers is located just north of it. It is one of Michigan's most popular locations for railfans to visit, especially during the annual Durand Railroad Days Festival in May. The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 6, 1971, and the Michigan Register of Historic Places in 1987.

Albion Amtrak station
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The current Albion Station house was built in 1882 by the Michigan Central Railroad, which originally ran through town in 1844. The station also had a freight house. Ten years earlier Albion had competition when the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway arrived and added its own station, which operated until the 1920s.
Albion Station was abandoned in 1971, when Amtrak consolidated all cross-country passenger rail service within the United States. However it was restored to its original condition by local community groups in the mid-1980s and currently serves as both a bus and train station. The freight house was also restored and converted into a local sports bar known as Davan's.

AMSOIL Arena
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This 6,600 seat arena opened on December 30, 2010. It was an expansion project to the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center complex.
The arena is the home of the University of Minnesota Duluth hockey teams. The first season in this arena was a memorable one for the men's team, which won the school's first NCAA Division I national title in April 2011.
The building's sponsor, AMSOIL, manufactures synthetic lubricants and is headquartered in nearby Superior, Wisconsin.

Wright Valley (Antarctica)
The Wright Valley is the central one of the three large Dry Valleys in the Transantarctic Mountains, located west of McMurdo Sound at approximately 77°10′S 161°50′E. Wright Valley contains the Onyx River, the largest river in Antarctica, Lake Brownworth, the origin of Onyx River, and Lake Vanda, which is fed by the Onyx River. Its southwestern branch, South Fork, is the location of Don Juan Pond. The upland area known as the Labyrinth is at the valley's west end.

New Braunfels train depot
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The New Braunfels train depot and railroad museum. The Locomotive was built in 1942 by the HK Porter Locomotive Co. for the Florida Portland Cement Co.
The museum also has a 1920's era Pullman car, and a 1950's era Caboose.
The original train depot was constructed in 1907 for the International Great Northern Railway, and has been fully restored as a museum.

SV visits Lisianski Island
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Lisianski Island (Hawaiian: Papa‘āpoho) is one of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, with a land area of 384.425 acres (155.571 ha) and a maximum elevation of 40 feet (12 m) above sea level. It is a low, flat sand and coral island about 905 nautical miles (1,676 km) northwest of Honolulu. Linked to Lisianski are the extensive Neva Shoals. Access to the island is limited by helicopter or by boat to a narrow sandy inlet on the southeastern side of the island.

SV visits Henderson Island
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Henderson Island (formerly also San Juan Bautista and Elizabeth Island) is an uninhabited raised coral atoll in the south Pacific Ocean. It is one of the few atolls whose ecosystems have been relatively unaffected by human contact. Ten of its 51 flowering plants, all four of its land birds and about a third of the identified insects and gastropods are endemic: a remarkable diversity given the island's size.

SV visits Pearl and Hermes Atoll
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The Pearl and Hermes Atoll (Hawaiian: Holoikauaua), is part of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Named after two English whaleships, the Pearl and the Hermes, that wrecked there in 1822, a few, small, sandy islands exist, contained within a lagoon and surrounded by a coral reef. These islands are devoid of vegetation, except for several species of grasses. The total land area of all its islets is 88.952 acres (35.998 ha). The atoll had its greatest importance within the pearl trade. In 1927, Captain William Greig Anderson was fishing for tuna and in the process, discovered pearl beds within the lagoon. This opened up the first commercial activity within the atoll, but the pearl trade lasted for only a few years. The Hawaiian government later prohibited commercial activity and declared the area to be a bird sanctuary. In June 2006, George W. Bush declared the atoll and all other parts of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_and_Hermes_Atoll

Climbing Castle Rock
Castle Rock Loop Trail, Antarctica.

Ardmore, Oklahoma Amtrak station
Ardmore Station is an Amtrak station in Ardmore, Oklahoma, served by the Heartland Flyer. The station was built by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in 1909, although some sources claim it was built in 1916.

Columbus Amtrak station
Originally built in 1906 by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (The Milwaukee Road), the station is well preserved, and looks much as did when first built. The station area also includes an older freight station.

Kaliakra
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Arena Valley (Antarctica)
Arena Valley is an ice-free valley, between East Beacon and New Mountain, which opens to the south side of Taylor Glacier in Victoria Land. It was given this descriptive name by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition (VUWAE), 1958–59.

Union Pacific RR #477
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Baldwin Locomotive Works built steam locomotive, 2-8-0 configuration

Wadebridge railway station (open in 1834)
Wadebridge railway station was on the Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway. It opened in 1834 to transport goods between the market town of Wadebridge, the limit of navigation on the River Camel, and inland farming and mining areas. The railway was built to take stone from local quarries such as the De Lank Quarries on Bodmin Moor towards the coast, as well as sand dredged from the River Camel and landed at the quays in Wadebridge inland to be used to improve the heavy local soil. The station is situated just upstream of Wadebridge bridge and almost next to the tidal River Camel; a fact that prompted the former Poet Laureate John Betjeman to write in his autobiography "On Wadebridge station what a breath of sea scented the Camel Valley! Cornish air, soft Cornish rains, and silence after steam".

Lake Bonney (Antarctica)
Lake Bonney is a saline lake with permanent ice cover at the western end of Taylor Valley in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Victoria Land, Antarctica.

Albany, Oregon Amtrak station
The station was constructed in 1909 for the Southern Pacific Railroad and is built of masonry. It is one of the oldest continuously operating passenger rail stations in the U.S. Beginning in 2004, the station and the surrounding area underwent an $11.3 million restoration that was funded with a combination of federal, state, local, and Amtrak money. The Oregon Department of Transportation was in charge of the project. The station was rededicated on April 18, 2006. The City of Albany is in the process of restoring the former Railway Express Agency building nearby as offices for the city's transit system.

Edge of Glacier/Snow Wall in Antarctica

East Branch & Lincoln RR #3
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H.K. Porter built steam locomotive, 0-4-0T configuration

Hartwood railway station
Hartwood railway station is a railway station serving Hartwood in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is on the Shotts Line, 19 miles (31 km) east of Glasgow Central towards Edinburgh Waverley. The station has two platforms, connected by a stairway footbridge. It is managed by First ScotRail.
Opened, 1 May 1889.

Suceava North railway station
Suceava North railway station (Romanian: Gara Suceava Nord), also known as Iţcani, is a railway station located in Suceava, Romania, completed in 1871. Originally part of Iţcani village (now a suburb of Suceava), it is located at No. 4, Gării Street. The railway station was included on the 2004 list of historical monuments in Suceava County. By 2009 however, the building had reportedly fallen into neglect, and health inspectors fined the local Romanian Railways authority 1,000 lei for allowing refuse to pile up on the grounds.

Castra Martis
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Fujine Station
Fujine Station (富士根駅 Fujine-eki?) is a railway station on the Minobu Line of Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) located in Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is 8.0 rail kilometers from the southern terminus of the Minubu Line at Fuji Station.
Year opened, 1913.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway #1096
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Baldwin Locomotive Works built steam locomotive, 2-6-2 configuration

Aquae Iasae Roman Baths
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Monument to Rostislav Alexeyev
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Ralph Engelstad Arena (Minnesota)
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This 3,569 seat arena opened on November 29, 2003. It is not to be confused with the identically-named arena at the University of North Dakota.
Ralph and Betty Engelstad donated about $13.5 million of the estimated total cost of $15 million to construct the venue. A native of Thief River Falls, Ralph was the multi-millionaire owner of the Imperial Palace casino-hotels. He died one year before this arena opened.
The arena is primarily used for local amateur and high school ice hockey games and public skating, but it also hosts basketball games, wrestling matches, and shows. In addition to the arena, the building includes a multi-purpose community room, eight locker rooms, a weight room, a public walking track, and two concession stands.

SV visits Laysan
Laysan (/ˈlaɪsɑːn/; Hawaiian: Kauō [kɔuˈoː]), located 808 nautical miles (1,496 km; 930 mi) northwest of Honolulu at N25° 42' 14" W171° 44' 04", is one of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. It comprises one land mass of 1,016 acres (4.112 km2), about 1 by 1.5 miles in size (1.6 by 2.4 km). It is an atoll of sorts, although the land completely surrounds a shallow central lake some 8 feet (2.4 m) above sea level that has a salinity approximately three times greater than the ocean. Laysan's Hawaiian name of Kauō means egg, referring to its shape and how much life springs from the island.

Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles
Sea turtles (superfamily Chelonioidea) or marine turtles are turtles that inhabit all of the world's oceans except the Arctic. Most species of sea turtle are endangered.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Turtles

Hawaiian monk seal
The Hawaiian monk seal, Monachus schauinslandi, is an endangered species of earless seal in the Phocidae family that is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_Monk_Seal

Guozhuang airfield
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By: nico.
Not sure it is an airport, could be an army helicopter base.

Radar Site
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By: KRL.
Blurry Imagery.
One large and one small dome at this site. Numerous cammo buildings at this hilltop complex.

Guozhuang airfield with military vehicles
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Military vehicles and what looks like some hangars, military base.

Electrical grid
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By: nico.
Interesting region. Lots of heavy industry with a potential military site with underground bunkers near by.

Powerplant

Guozhuang airfield with entrance to UGB