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The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is nicknamed the Brickyard because the track was once paved with bricks. In 1909, paving bricks were laid on top of the Speedway’s original surface of crushed rock and tar, and was the racing surface for many years. From the 1930s onwards, asphalt was overlaid on certain sections, and by today the entire track surface is Read more...
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Pennsylvania Station in New York City is owned by the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, also known as Amtrak. Amtrak is a US government-owned corporation operating intercity passenger rail services in the United States and to certain cities in Canada. Ownership of Penn Station passed to Amtrak in 1976 when it assumed control of the 457-mile Northeast Corridor (NEC) railroad linking Read more...
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Access to Manchester United’s Aon Training Complex at Carrington, Manchester, is restricted to players, staff and authorised visitors only. Training sessions cannot be viewed by the general public. Birch Road leading to the complex is a private road, but fans wanting to catch a glimpse of Manchester United’s players arriving in their cars for training, stand at the entrance or Read more...
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The highest natural point of land in Manhattan is in Bennett Park at 265.05 feet (or 81 meters) above sea level. Bennett Park is located at Pinehurst Avenue and West 183rd Street in the Hudson Heights neighborhood of Washington Heights in upper Manhattan. A stone plaque on an outcropping of Manhattan schist rock on the west side of the park Read more...
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The two white towers on Uppingham Road in Corby, Northamptonshire are the Beanfield Water Towers which are used as potable water storage tanks by Anglian Water. The smaller tower, Beanfield No 1, was constructed in the 1960s and holds 1.14 million litres of water. The bigger tower, Beanfield No 2, was added in the 1970s and has a capacity of Read more...
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The Las Vegas Raiders NFL football team plays its home games at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada. The team was formerly known as the Oakland Raiders and played at Oakland Coliseum until 2019 before moving to Las Vegas and changing its name to the Las Vegas Raiders. The Allegiant Stadium was purpose-built for the team’s relocation and as a Read more...
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San Quentin State Prison is located in the town of San Quentin in Marin County, some 13 miles (or 21 kilometers) north of San Francisco. It is the oldest prison in California and holds only male inmates. The state’s only execution chamber, located at San Quentin, was closed in 2019 following Governor Gavin Newsom’s moratorium on the death penalty in Read more...
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Baker Beach in San Francisco has a clothing-optional area at the very north end of the beach. It is a public beach that attracts mostly clothed visitors, but nude beachgoers frequent the northernmost part nearest the Golden Gate Bridge, so be warned if visiting with children. Read more...
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Gracie Mansion, the official residence of New York City’s mayor is located in Carl Schurz Park, at East End Avenue and 88th Street in Manhattan’s Yorkville neighborhood. The house was built by Archibald Gracie in 1799 and first used as a mayoral residence in 1942 by Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia. Only the mayor’s family and visiting public officials may Read more...
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Trucks and commercial vehicles are allowed to cross the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge connecting Staten Island and Brooklyn, New York City. Tolls are charged in both directions and the toll rate is dependent on the number of axles. During high winds, for safety reasons there may be restrictions placed on high profile vehicles such as box trucks and tractor-trailers using the bridge. Read more...
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The Rosie the Riveter Visitor Center is situated in the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historic Park in Richmond, California. Located in the old Oil House of the adjacent former Ford Assembly Plant, there are displays and interactive exhibits exploring the contribution of American civilians on the home front, women in particular, during the Second World War. The Read more...
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Lake Piru’s swim areas and beaches are open from the Friday before Memorial Day weekend through the Friday after Labor Day. There are designated areas for swimming and wading at Reasoner Cove beach, the shore line between the northernmost outcropping of Reasoner Cove north to Juan Fernandez Launch ramp, the Juan Fernandez beach, Cow Cove, Skiers Cove, Santa Felicia Cove, Read more...
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The Angel of the North sculpture is situated on a hill overlooking the A1 road at Low Eighton, near Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. The 20 metre (or 66 feet) tall steel sculpture of an angel, designed by Anthony Gormley, was completed in 1998. Read more...
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Sign Hill Park has several trails leading to the big concrete letters forming the SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO THE INDUSTRIAL CITY hillside sign. The Ridge Trail runs above the sign along the crest of Sign Hill from Ridgeview Court (where there is a small parking lot) to Spruce Avenue. At the water tank, you can descend below the letters on Letters Read more...
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After spending the summer of 2004 at a rented house in Palo Alto, the early Facebook team decamped to a new rented property on Westbrook Avenue in Los Altos, California. Dubbed Casa Facebook, the company was based here from September 2004 to January 2005, during the period that site reached 1 million users for the first time and was still Read more...
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Foothills Park in Palo Alto is open to everyone, regardless of residency, following a policy change introduced by Palo Alto City Council on December 17th, 2020. The lifting of admission restrictions has resulted in increased visitor numbers and the park gate closes if capacity limits are reached. Dogs are only permitted in Foothills Park on weekdays and must be on Read more...
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The longest seaside pier in Wales is Llandudno Pier, which has a total length of 2,295 feet (or 700 metres), of which the original main pier is 1,234 feet (or 376 metres). Located on the North Wales coast and stretching out into the Irish Sea, Llandudno Pier was constructed over two years from 1876 and later extended landwards to the Read more...
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Trwyn Du Lighthouse was built in 1838 by Trinity House at the north entrance to the Menai Strait. Situated at Penmon, the Isle of Anglesey’s easternmost point, the distinctive black and white banded circular stone tower lighthouse marks the passage for ships between the island and the nearby island of Ynys Seiriol (also known as Puffin Island). Originally manned by Read more...
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The name Alcatraz Island originates from a name given to one of the islands in San Francisco Bay during Spanish rule of California, La Isla de los Alcatraces. That translates to ‘The Island of the Gannets’ but it is widely suggested that the original meaning was ‘The Island of the Pelicans’, based on an archaic Spanish word for pelican, alcatraz. Read more...
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The distinct areas of black sand on some San Francisco beaches, such as Ocean Beach and Funston Beach, are mostly iron-rich magnetite crystals. The major source of this black magnetite is the granite rocks of the Sierra Nevada mountains where tiny grains break away through erosion and are carried to the ocean by rivers and deposited on San Francisco beaches Read more...