Much as I want to see the world, like most people I have to content myself with the voyeurism enabled by Google Maps. For kicks I tried to find the office building in a foreign country a couple of my colleagues are visiting this week, and this led to general random virtual cruising over this wonderful huge planet of ours, and this led me to wonder:
Would it be fun to post a picture of some random interesting thing and let people guess where it is?
The answer is probably No, because without any clues it would probably be impossible, and that's no fun.
Still, here's a random interesting thing I found.
OK, back to work.
16 comments:
Wow. For some reason, I see this as an outbuilding for some Russian billionaire's mansion out there in Jersey.
Wow, what a great guess! But wrong. Hint #1: Government funded.
Royal Dutch Shell Amphitheater?
Excellent! No! Hint #2: Not in a country normally associated with the oil industry.
(Was it cynicism that combined "Government funded" with "Royal Dutch Shell"?)
No idea, but in my zeal to cheat, I found this which is too lovely to not share with ya'll.
http://villageofjoy.com/50-strange-buildings-of-the-world-part-iii/
There is no cheating because there are no rules!
Some of those buildings were unbelievably awesome!
Hint #3! The locale is in that country's first colony of foreigners, and the last foreign colony to be taken back, 451 years later.
And it's not the Gun Owners of America.
Well, now you FORCED me to cheat and Google ... so it will be obvious if I post the answer because I wouldn't have known before. Blah! :)
I didn't know before either. Found this thing at random and only learned what it was via nefarious after-the-fact googlery. In fact I still don't know what it is, I only know what the building near it is and (BIG HINT HERE) the shell shape relates directly.
So if my last hint was enough to know what city it's in, and there's a big building, and a sea-shell shape ... Hmm. Constructive hinting is hard. Googling all that just brings up a bunch of hotels.
Wait, so you know what and where? I haven't figured out how to get there from here, so lay it on me and tell me how.
Goa!
I want that house in Wales!
No just that it's Goa, which I would have never known sans clue.
I was hoping a sea-themed building in Goa would guide searches to the answer, but I can't figure out how. If I'm to make a game of this I'll have to be cleverer about it. Besides I still don't know what the shell thing is. The building just below it is India's NIO and the shell is probably part of that, maybe a big-ass theater or something, but I don't know.
I'll be trying this again, though. There are millions of fascinating views in the satellite images. I've burned up plenty of time just floating above the Earth, looking at African coastal cities, Central Asian riverbeds, South American port cities ...
I love that shit. I know I'm not the only one.
I love Gekko's link. My favorite is the "woodland house." I would like to move into a house like that, preferably with my multiple husbands Grumpy, Sneezy, Dopey, Sleepy, Bashful, Happy, and Doc.
Or with Frodo, Bilbo, Merry , Sam, and Pippin?
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