MetLife Stadium is located at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, 8 miles (or 13 kilometers) west of New York City. Opened in April 2010, it is the home stadium of two NFL football teams, the New York Giants and the New York Jets, and hosted Super Bowl 48 between the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos in Read more...
Google’s global headquarters are located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, California. Known as the Googleplex, Google first leased office space on the corporate campus in 2003 from Silicon Graphics, Inc. before purchasing the buildings in 2006. Read more...
Clemson University is located in Clemson, South Carolina, on the shores of Lake Hartwell in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It was originally founded in 1889 as the Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina from a land-grant, made in the will of Thomas Green Clemson, of property on the Fort Hill plantation estate in Calhoun. Fort Hill was Read more...
The Eiffel Tower is 324 metres (or 1063 feet) tall when measured to the tip of the antenna at the top of the tower. It is the tallest structure in Paris. Until the addition of a television broadcasting antenna in 1957, the tower’s height was 300 meters (or 1024 feet). Read more...
A Park Pass is not needed for Glen Island Park, but proof of Westchester County residency is required for admission. This can be established with a Westchester County park pass or a valid New York State driver’s license with a Westchester county address. Residents may each bring up to four adult guests and five children. Pass holders receive discounted admission Read more...
Radio City was a name given to the western portion of New York’s Rockefeller Center by its first major tenant, the Radio Corporation of America, or RCA. RCA, then the parent company of NBC, initially housed its radio-related broadcast operations at Radio City, later adding television production facilities. NBC’s TV studios continue to be located in the Rockefeller Center. Read more...
Leashed dogs are permitted in most areas of Zilker Park in south Austin, and the park has a designated dog park at The Great Lawn where well-behaved dogs are allowed off leash. There is also a dog swim area in Barton Creek known as Barking Springs, located just outside Barton Springs Pool. Dog leashes must be no longer than 6 Read more...
Manhattan’s Central Park is 843 acres in area, equivalent to 1.3 square miles (or 3.4 square kilometers). It is New York City’s fifth largest park by area. The rectangular urban park measures 2.5 miles (or 4 kilometers) from top to bottom and 0.5 miles (or 0.8 kilometers) across. It stretches for 51 city blocks from 59th Street to Central Park Read more...
The Hockey Hall of Fame is located on the lower concourse of Brookfield Place at the corner of Yonge and Front Streets in downtown Toronto, Ontario. Read more...
There is no defined walking trail that goes right around Lake Louise. The Lakeshore Trail is an easy there-and-back 4 kilometer (or 2.4 mile) paved trail that starts at the public parking lot near Chateau Lake Louise and follows the Lake Louise’s north shore (the right hand side) to the back of the lake. From there, there are spectacular views Read more...
A marble statue of Christopher Columbus stands on a granite column in the center of Columbus Circle in Manhattan. The monument, created by Italian sculptor Gaetano Russo, is 76 feet (or 23 meters) tall and features bronze reliefs of ships on the column and an angel holding a globe on the base pedestal. The monument was ceremonially unveiled on October Read more...
Actor Harrison Ford crash-landed his vintage World War 2 era Ryan airplane near the 8th hole of Penmar Golf Course in Venice, California on March 5th, 2015. An experienced pilot, Ford reported a loss of engine power shortly after taking off from Santa Monica Municipal Airport and was attempting to return to the airport when he crashed on the golf Read more...