Any places of interest near to where you live?

Just up the road about 20 miles. Lots of people from all over the globe have come here to see this. Wonder if any of you have made it. A work in progress over the past decades, and still continues as I type. What is interesting where you reside?

 

And a couple more. Not smart enough to figure out how to put them all in one post.

 

Chicago is pretty interesting around here lol :-D

http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/2838/01133hancockcenteratnigie9.th.jpg

 

We have the 3rd most decorated american submarine from WWII. It is the only one of the 3 still afloat.It is the USS Silversides.

 

A couple of interesting ones very near to me are:
Forth Rail Bridge built in 1890 and Edinburgh Castle circa 1100

 

What a Lovely View we have of the Forth Rail Bridge from Bo'ness makes me so happy to see the lovely scenery around here i'm so glad i'm now living and working in Scotland and making good friends with many Scottish people

 

Cairns,:cool Far North Queensland, Queensland, Australia.
What more do I need to say.:major

Just one link of thousands.

http://www.totaltravel.com.au/travel/qld/tropicalqld/cairns/directory/attractions

Bazza

 

awesome bridge to live next to. Once had a girlfriend from Edinburgh, a long, long time ago. wish I had the time left to see some of the British isles. Australia wouldn't be bad either. but I'm sure there are places near to where everyone lives that they take for granted on a daily basis but really are kind of unique. I have lived in colorado for 40 yrs and driven all throughout the western states for the same amount of time, but never took the time to just see what was in my own backyard (e.g. lived 1 mile from the air force academy, for years, and never visited it until the company I worked for got a contract to supply concrete to their construction contractors). Anyway, I think I've missed a lot and I'll bet everyone else has too. Bishop's Castle www.citynoise.org/article/846 is the place up the highway from us and never saw it until about 15 years ago. It is an ongoing piece of construction and I only wish digital cameras had been around earlier. Gives you a chill when you watch 5 year olds crawling around all over the top of it!

 

Chicago is the proud owner of a 23 million $ Bean aka Cloud Gate Sculpture. Last I heard it cost 700,000 to polish it. But to its' credit it sits in a 500 mil. park. You wouldn't want to place an expensive bean just anywhere now, would you?

Nice looking Bean, but I would rather have had 500 mil. put in our schools which need help.

Info on park & typical chicago project cost overruns :hammer gotta love our politics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Park

Picks of our "Bean"
http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p121/Cat_w_9_lives/bean4.jpg
http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p121/Cat_w_9_lives/bean.jpg
http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p121/Cat_w_9_lives/Bean3.jpg
http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p121/Cat_w_9_lives/bean2.jpg

p.s. please visit our Bean, we need the money to keep it polished

 

Hey, that bean helped us get that Olympic bid.

 

Oi, oi, oi!

And here's a link on Sydney in New South Wales Australia...that is, one link of many thousands also!
http://www.visitnsw.com.au/Destination.aspx?DProductID=9017186&gclid=CLbX_KjJp4wCFQurhgodzS051Q


Cheers

LS

 

Early riser, too.

Your link didn't appear. Bazza

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Check again......I did an oopsy the first timeLOL

(Not an early riser...heavy workload and taking break.)

Cheers

LS

 

Link still missing.confused For me at least. Bazza

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Hmmmm!confused

Okay. Try these links...
http://www.visitnsw.com.au/

From above URL, clicking on Sydney should then show scenes of Sydney with the URL shown below:

http://www.visitnsw.com.au/GIP.aspx?pn=sydney

Cheers

LS

 

That works. :major Bazza

 

Yes. But I can't think of any.

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Oh yes, here's one. . . . . .
http://www.chavtowns.co.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1065

 

LMAO keep Britain tidy kill a chav.

 

Funny site 12kid` !!

Heres a few things that site says about parts of my city:-
http://www.chavtowns.co.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2093
http://www.chavtowns.co.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2057
http://www.chavtowns.co.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2085
Id like to say its not that bad but I wont lie to you all!

However there are nice areas here (somewhere) and a lot of beutiful buildings in the city centre like these:-

The Imperial War Museum


Manchester Town Hall


Urbis Museum (+The Printworks is slightly visable on the right too +the CIS Building in the background)

 

@ wayne82...Your town hall looks similar to our old one, 'cept ours is smaller and not as old

 

some of the local sights

 

some great sites. don't know what a "chav" is. Love the "bean" in chicago. Denver spent a ton similarly at their new airport back in the nineties. Had to decorate the train tunnels with thousands of mini propellers on the walls that would spin with the turbulence created by the moving trains. Picture the round caps with beanies on top from years ago. And to think they only had to spend around a couple of hundred dollars for each one. God, what buttheads!!
But if it would only inspire one gifted child.......wouldn't it be worth it?

 

Someone who ideally would have been throttled at birth.


http://freespace.virgin.net/chav.scum/

 

According to this:-
http://freespace.virgin.net/chav.scum/howto.html

I score 3 points, making me a Chav!

I much prefer scally!

 

I'm 20 miles from Central London so anything there really.

Also, the only Ovaltine factory in Europe (stopped producing now) is a few minutes away - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/272923

Sadly it's stopped producing and is now a housing estate, although they've kept the original building