Questions About Landmarks

Saint Mark’s Basilica in Venice, Italy, requires visitors to wear clothing appropriate for a place of worship. This means modest dress with no exposed shoulders, upper arms and midriff. Skirts, dresses, and shorts should extend below the knees. Large bags, backpacks and luggage cannot be taken into the basilica. Read more...

Toronto Pearson International Airport is named after Lester B Pearson, the 14th Prime Minister of Canada. Officially known as Toronto – Lester B Pearson International Airport, it is Canada’s largest airport and was renamed in honour of Pearson in January 1984, having previously been simply Toronto International Airport. Pearson, who was born in York, Ontario, won the Noble Peace Prize Read more...

The Butchart Gardens floral display gardens in Brentwood Bay on Victoria Island, British Columbia, were started in 1906 by Jennie Butchart on the site of a former limestone quarry operated by her husband, Robert Pim Butchart. Read more...

Vancouver’s Stanley Park is named after Lord Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, the British politician who served as Governor General of the Dominion of Canada from 1888 to 1893. After Vancouver was incorporated as a city in 1886, the city council negotiated to lease what was then a 405-hectare (or 1,001-acre) military reserve from the Dominion government to create Read more...

The New York Islanders NHL ice hockey team plays its home games at UBS Arena in Elmont, New York, some 20 miles (or 32 kilometers) east of Manhattan. Situated next to the Belmont Park horse racing facility, the newly-built arena opened in November 2021 and the Islanders played their inaugural home game there against the Calgary Flames. Previously, the they Read more...

The Monument to the Sardana in Barcelona’s Sants-Montjuïc district is by Spanish sculptor Josep Cañas, located at plaça de la Sardana near Montjuïc castle. It depicts eight dancers carved from Ulldecona limestone, holding hands held aloft in a circle, performing the traditional Catalan dance la sardana. In the centre, a rock from Montserrat mountain symbolises personal belongings such as bags Read more...

The Tampa Bay Lightning NHL ice hockey team plays its home games at the Amalie Arena (formerly Tampa Bay Times Forum) in the Channelside District of Downtown Tampa, Florida. The Lightning moved to the newly-built arena, initially named the Ice Palace, in 1996. In their inaugural ice hockey game at the arena, they beat the New York Rangers by 5-2. Read more...

The upper observation deck on the 148th floor SKY level of the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai is 555 meters (or 1,821 feet) high. The lower level At The Top observation decks on the 124th and 125th floors at 456 meters (or 1,496 feet) high feature a virtual reality enhanced viewing experience through electronic telescopes. Advance ticket booking advisable to Read more...

The Coquihalla Summit is a high mountain pass on British Columbia’s Coquihalla Highway, between the towns of Hope and Merritt in the Cascade mountains. Located along the highway some 50 kilometres (or 31 miles) north of Hope, the summit is marked by a roadside sign which displays the elevation, but there is no stopping point. With an elevation of 1,244 Read more...

The highest part of British Columbia’s Coquihalla Highway is the Surrey Lake Summit at an elevation of 1,444 metres (or 4,737 feet). Located between Kamloops and the town of Merrit, the summit is marked by a roadside sign which also displays the elevation. It was also previously known as the Clapperton Creek Summit. Read more...

Construction of Helsinki Cathedral started in 1830 and it was consecrated in 1852, initially named St Nicholas Church as a tribute to Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, who funded its construction, and Saint Nicholas. The Evangelical Lutheran cathedral was designed in a neoclassical style by architect Carl Ludvig Engel as part of the development of Helsinki’s Senate Square. Following his Read more...

Dinosaur Park in Rapid City, South Dakota, has large sculptures of six dinosaurs, representing an Apatosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Edmontosaurus, and a Protoceratops, along with a non-mammalian synapsid known as a Dimetrodon, all created by sculptor Emmet Sullivan. The hilltop park was created as a tourist attraction in 1936 by the city of Rapid City and the Works Progress Read more...

The ice skating rink at Bryant Park in New York City is open from the last weekend in October through to the end of the last weekend in March each year. Located between 40th and 42nd Streets at Sixth Avenue in midtown Manhattan, the Bryant Park skating rink opens at 8 am daily, including holidays. Skating at Bryant Park can Read more...

Real Betis Balompié football club plays its home games at Estadio Benito Villamarín in the Heliópolis district of the city of Seville, Spain. Real Betis has played at the stadium since it opened in 1929, later gaining ownership in 1961 and renaming it after the club’s president, Benito Villamarín. In 1997, it was renamed Estadio Manuel Ruiz de Lopera, after Read more...

Mirror Lake in Camrose, Alberta, is an artificial lake originally created in 1905 by the Canadian Pacific Railway as a reservoir to supply water for their steam locomotives passing through what was then, a hamlet called Sparling. The lake was created by a dam built across Stoney Creek, where the pedestrian footbridge is located today. Since then, the dam has Read more...

The Sitting Bull Monument stands on Standing Rock Indian Reservation on the west side of the Missouri River, near Mobridge, South Dakota. Sitting Bull, a translation of his Sioux name, Tatanka Iyotake, was the great Chief of the Hunkpapa Lakota (or Teton Sioux). He was shot and killed on the reservation in December 1890 after the Masacre at Wounded Knee, Read more...

The headquarters and main production studios of Spain’s state-owned public broadcaster, Radiotelevisión Española (or RTVE), are located at Prado del Rey in Pozuelo de Alarcón, to the west of Madrid. Opened in 1964, the complex houses the production facilities of RTVE subsidiaries Televisión Española (TVE) and Radio Nacional de España (RNE), along with broadcast archives and corporate offices. TVE’s news Read more...

The tallest building in the city of Stockholm, Sweden, is the Kista Science Tower which has a height of 156 metres (or 511.8 feet) to the tip of its rooftop antenna. The 32-storey three-sided modernist skyscraper, located in the Kista district, some 10 kilometers (or 6.2 miles) northwest of Stockholm city centre, houses commercial offices and is the tallest of Read more...

The Detroit Red Wings NHL ice hockey team plays its home games at Little Caesars Arena in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. They moved to the newly-built arena in 2017, having previously played at Detroit’s Joe Lewis Arena, which was later demolished during 2019 and 2020. The Red Wings played their first regular season game at the new arena on October 5, Read more...

The SkyWheel ferris wheel ride on the Boardwalk at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, takes approximately 12 minutes and completes four full revolutions. VIP ticket holders get to stay on the SkyWheel for twice as long and ride in a special four-person glass-bottomed gondola cabin fitted with leather seats. Opened in 2011, the Myrtle Beach SkyWheel observation wheel carries passengers up Read more...