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How to reach this old hotel stuck in the middle of Narita airport runways?
木の根ペンション (Kinone pension) is a very special hotel, right in the middle of Narita Airport:
It seems to have no website and no phone number, it can't be found on booking websites. It is on Google Maps though. This Excite article says it costs 1000…
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Is the Sea of Stars real?
I fairly frequently see pictures online of this semi-mythical glittering beach in the Maldives. However I can't find any accounts of people having actually visited it and reported on how it was.
Can anyone tell me any hard information about this…
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Where is this building in Amsterdam with a façade looking like a bookshelf?
A friend of mine was in Amsterdam this weekend, and he made an awesome photo of a building with a wall that looks like a book shelf:
Unfortunately he has no idea of the address and he doesn't have a picture of the building as a whole, nor its…
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Where is the background photo used by Office 365 taken?
If you login to Office 365 on http://login.microsoftonline.com, you see following picture.
Does anyone know where it was taken. I could not find it with Google.
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Driving through Croatia: can someone tell me where I took this photo?
While driving through Croatia I stopped on the highway to take a photo of a view I liked and I thought "I want to find it later in GMaps".
As I had the GPS off, and as I have a terrible memory when it comes to foreign names, I'm obviously not able…
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Where is this half buried Armenian church or monastery?
While browsing Wikipedia and the Internet about some damaged Armenian churches in Tbilisi Georgia I came across an amazing photo (but I know this one is not in Tbilisi).
This link is to the Armenian language web page with the original picture I…
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Where exactly is this building located in Cuba?
I'm preparing our next trip to Cuba and seeing some pictures, I've found this one:
I suppose it's located in Havana, but cannot find where exactly (address or GPS location). The most significant feature is the ants in his facade. Does anybody know…
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Where was this picture of Squamish, BC captured?
Can I access, by private car, the location where the photo below was captured?
user13759
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Where is this on highway 24/highway 12 in Utah?
I have been trying to find out where exactly this location is. A Google maps marker or coordinates would be great.
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Where is this bridge, what is this city?
I am trying to locate that old bridge. Do you recognize the bridge or the city?
It is a snapshot from a TV documentary, the commentary mentionned Nice or Nizza but these cities don't seem to have such large rivers. I searched the Internet and…
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Is there a museum anywhere at least partly about Rubik's Cube or Ernő Rubik?
Last year while I was in Budapest I had a realization that I was in the home of one of my favourite toys/puzzles/gadgets: Rubik's Cube.
So I thought there must be some museum or display or official home of the Cube there where fans could make…
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Where is/was this possibly defunct hotel in Arizona that I visited in '99 located?
I visited Arizona on a trip in 1999 along with a large group. While I was there we stopped at some kind of event that I believe was being held at a small hotel, either in Phoenix or an adjacent city. I recall that it was very flat, no nearby hills…
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Where in Norway are these massive boulders?
About ten years ago, while traveling in Norway, I took this picture. What you see is basically the result of an old landslide, with boulders so big, that trees growing between them look tiny.
I think this was taken somewhere between Oslo and…
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How far can I be from Britain and be in "British X"?
This is a just for fun question.
I'm studying in British Columbia, Canada, which is quite far away from Great Britain proper: 4,190 miles (6743 km) to be exact.
I'm wondering, though, how far could I be from Britain and be somewhere called…
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Where is this castle? I know it's somewhere in Ireland, but where?
Irish castle. I can find the picture everywhere but it never says where it's from.
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