Questions About Landmarks

San Francisco’s Sutro Baths building was destroyed by fire caused by arson on June 26th, 1966. The landmark structure, opened by Adolf Sutro in 1896, stood below the Cliff House and housed indoor bathing pools, with an ice rink and penny arcade added later. It struggled financially because of high operating costs, and was sold in a deteriorated condition in Read more...

Lake Ronkonkoma is a natural freshwater lake on Long Island, located around 8 miles (or 13 kilometers) northeast of the town of Islip, New York. Most of Lake Ronkonkoma is less than 15 feet deep but it reaches depths of up to 65 feet in places. Formed by ancient glaciers and covering an area of 243 acres, Lake Ronkonkoma is Read more...

The landmark tower at HM Prison Manchester, also known as Strangeways Prison, is a heating and ventilation extraction tower dating to the opening of the prison in 1868. The 234-foot (or 71-meter) minaret-style octagonal tower is built of red brick with sandstone dressings, with an arched recess in each side, a perimeter gallery with brick balustraded parapet on stone corbels, Read more...

Logan Square in Philadelphia is named after James Logan, who served as the city’s fourteenth mayor between 1722 and 1723. Also known as Logan Circle because of the circular water feature at its center, the open-space park in Philadelphia’s northwest quadrant was planned during the laying out of the original city grid. Originally named Northwest Square. it was renamed Logan Read more...

The Beach Boys Historic Landmark, commemorating the site of the childhood home of brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson of The Beach Boys, is located at West 119th Street and South Kornblum Avenue in Hawthorne, California. Early Beach Boys recordings were made in the home, where the Wilsons lived until the mid-1960s. The house was demolished in the 1980s to Read more...

The Ellen E Ward Memorial Clock Tower in the village of Roslyn, New York, was built in 1895. It was commissioned as a memorial to prominent Roslyn resident Ellen Ward by her children after her death in 1893. The clock tower was designed by the New York firm Lamb & Rich and features four clock faces and a Seth Thomas Read more...

Hylan Boulevard in the borough of Staten Island is the longest street in New York City, at around 14 miles (or 23 kilometers) long. The boulevard runs northeast-southwest from Rosebank in northeastern Staten Island, along the entire East Shore, to the Tottenville neighborhood on the South Shore. Hyland Boulevard was named in 1923 in honor of John Francis Hylan, mayor Read more...

The new Wembley Stadium in Wembley, north-west London, was built between 2003 and 2007, on the site of the original Wembley Stadium, which was demolished between 2002 and 2003. Owned by England’s governing body of football, the Football Association (or FA), the new Wembley was expected to be completed in time for the FA Cup final in May 2006, but, Read more...

The tall Coast Douglas-fir tree known as Big Lonely Doug is located some 11 kilometers (or 7 miles) north of Port Renfrew in southwest Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The 1,000-year-old tree can be reached on foot via a short trail off the Edinburgh Main logging road. On the Gordon River Main road from Port Renfrew, a right turn on Read more...

To reach Rockland Breakwater in Rockland, Maine, follow Main Street / US Route 1 north of Rockland, turning onto Waldo Avenue at the ‘Breakwater Lighthouse’ sign, and then right onto Samoset Road, continuing to the end where there is a small parking area. A short trail leads from there through Marie H Reed Breakwater Park to the start of the Read more...

American artist, designer and sculptor Isamu Noguchi’s red Cube sculpture is located at Broadway and Liberty Street in Manhattan’s Financial District. Officially called The Cube, the red 28-foot- (or 8.5-meter-) high steel and aluminium rhombohedron, perched on its corner with a cylindrical hole punched through its center, was installed in the public plaza opposite Zuccotti Park (formerly Liberty Plaza Park) Read more...

The Navy’s Annual Bay Bridge Run and Walk follows a 4-mile (or 6.4 kilometer) route, starting at 8 am on Park Boulevard between the Hilton San Diego Bayfront and the San Diego Convention Center. The USAT&F-sanctioned route follows Harbor Drive to Cesar E Chavez Parkway before turning east on National Avenue to join the Coronado Bridge, which is closed to Read more...

A weekly market is held in Vrijdagmarkt square in Ghent, Belgium, every Friday morning from 7:30 am, and up to 30 minutes earlier in summer months. The Dutch name Vrijdagmarkt translates as ‘Friday Market’ and it is a weekly tradition that started in 1199 in this large square, one of the oldest in Ghent. Stallholders sell a variety of fresh Read more...

Hume Park in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, is named after Fred Hume, the city’s mayor between 1933 and 1942. As mayor of New Westminster, Fred Hume was instrumental in instigating the development of the green space alongside the Brunette River, then called Brunette Park, for recreational use. Hume later moved to West Vancouver and was elected mayor of the Read more...

Sweden’s national radio service, Swedish Radio (in Swedish: Sveriges Radio) or SR, is based at Radiohuset (translated as ‘Radio House’) on Oxenstiernsgatan in the Kvarteret Förrådsbacken area of Stockholm’s Östermalm district. Radiohuset serves as the headquarters of SR and houses editorial and administrative offices, along with studios and SR’s music archive, the Grammofonarkivet. Much of SR’s output on national radio Read more...

Three men died during construction of the initial Harbour Bridge structure in Auckland, New Zealand, between 1956 and 1959, all killed in falls from the bridge. A memorial plaque mounted on a pedestal beneath the bridge at Stokes Point on the North Shore names the men who lost their lives. Crossing Waitematā Harbour between Auckland’s Saint Marys Bay and Northcote Read more...

The iconic Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Nevada sign is located on South Las Vegas Boulevard at the south end of the strip near the airport, about a 12-minute walk beyond Mandalay Bay. The famous 1950s-style sign is a popular spot for a photo opportunity and there is dedicated parking nearby in the central median of South Las Vegas Boulevard, Read more...

The Bear Hole swimming hole in Big Chico Creek is situated near Parking Area K in Upper Bidwell Park in Chico, California. It can be reached from the many park trails, including the Yahi Trail, and by car along the gravel section of Upper Park Road except on Sundays and Mondays, when the road gate at Horseshoe Lake is locked. Read more...

The Spotted Pig gastropub in Manhattan’s West Village closed permanently in January 2020 after employees accused owner Ken Friedman of sexual harassment. The popular Michelin-starred restaurant opened to much fanfare in 2004 when Friedman and investor Mario Batali launched the venture, with British chef April Bloomfield appointed to run the kitchen. It attracted a big following, including a well-heeled celebrity Read more...

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation studios are located in the Southbank Centre at the corner of Sturt Street and Southbank Boulevard in Melbourne’s Arts precinct. First opened in 1994, ABC brought all of its Melbourne-based TV and radio operations under one roof at the Southbank in 2017, having previously also had studios in Elsternwick and Ripponlea. The Southbank facility has multiple Read more...