Google Maps Scavenger Hunt

Niagara Falls, Canadian side, if I'm not mistaken.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&rls=...sa=N&tab=wl

That bridge collapse is just dreadful. I have a low-grade fear of that, which often slinks around the back of my mind, anytime I drive over something more than a stream... the old Woodrow Wilson Bridge here in the DC area particularly unnerved me; glad to see the replacement bridge!

I had a new image location ready, but for some reason, I'm gettng blocky Google Maps----where every other square section of the map is "We're sorry we cannot display"---yet the neighboring parcel is visible. So I may try again from the office, later...

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(nerfer @ Aug 1 2007, 11:15 PM) [snapback]489039[/snapback]</div>

Well, the route I meant is in the picture, THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. Baton Rouge is navigable by ocean going vessels, although I had to go a number of miles down towards NO to find one in the picture http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=30....p;z=16&om=1 . We've been to the headwaters at Lake Itasca (but didn't make a good game post). US 71 goes through my hometown of Pineville, LA. But it would be a nightmare to drive it all the way north! Oddly enough, Mpls. was the only place I've found my maiden name in the phone book, Overgaard. So, acclimating to the frozen north was a little easier for me with Scandinavian blood than it was for Dh.

Mrs. Toups
'06 Sienna, AWD

 

My image, finally:
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ChristoB @ Aug 2 2007, 07:48 AM) [snapback]489177[/snapback]</div>

It's the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden on the National Mall

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&...p;z=18&om=1

It looked so familiar, but it took a while to remember it.

Here's one on the Church Building theme, but continuing the circle theme ... sort of.
It's a pretty well known (non USA) place so it should go quick without hints.

 

Very well known, indeed, for some! (I won't answer, yet, since it has only been 15 minutes!)

 

This is gonna be like playing "who gets the last slice of cake!" Many of us recognize it - it's just a matter of time before someone just goes ahead and "takes" it! But I'll stand back here (I've had way more than my share of "cake" already in this game)

MB

 

Here's one on the Church Building theme, but continuing the circle theme ... sort of.
It's a pretty well known (non USA) place so it should go quick without hints.
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Is it a coastal or river island? I'm stumped.

 

So, is there an unspoken rule or guideline, for when we immediately know the answer---how much time should we respectfully allow, for others to play along and try to dig up the answer, before we go ahead and answer?
-C

 

It is a tidal island at the mouth of a river.
That should pretty much wrap it up for those that didnt recognize it.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DeltaHotel @ Aug 2 2007, 11:37 AM) [snapback]489322[/snapback]</div>

Im ignorant thus eligible ."gothic cathedral tiny circular island"
Mont St. Michel, Normandy
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=Mo...p;z=17&om=1

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Fortunately, Evan, while the urge to answer may mount, I'm not to that level just yet Identifying that airstrip in NV gave me such a thrill, that should tide me over a little bit. I say (despite his atheism), AirportKid is the real saint here...
[EDIT: Phew! Someone guessed it just before I posted this reply with subtle, embedded clues ]

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ChristoB @ Aug 2 2007, 01:48 PM) [snapback]489449[/snapback]</div>

I guess I should work on clue subtlety. A wikipedia search for "tidal island" lists only 21 in the world, with Mont St. Michel at the top of the list. <_<

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Aug 2 2007, 01:47 PM) [snapback]489448[/snapback]</div>

 

I had that same idea a few days ago so know what we're looking at, drat, but it's perhaps best that I didn't use the landmark myself because I wouldn't have been able to refrain from replacing the green arrow with either the Target Stores logo or the Circle-with-Slash universal symbol for "Banned"

MB

 

this place has a football and a dumbbell.A grieving mother has a place nearby.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mojo @ Aug 2 2007, 04:01 PM) [snapback]489512[/snapback]</div>

My first guess was Mike Vick's place in VA, but it's actually Gee Dub's ranch in Crawford Texas


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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Aug 2 2007, 05:40 PM) [snapback]489593[/snapback]</div>

Here is one to keep things going.

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Toups @ Aug 2 2007, 06:03 PM) [snapback]489604[/snapback]</div>

I dare not give y'all a hint. Y'all know this site.