The Seattle Seahawks NFL football team plays its home games at Lumen Field (formerly CenturyLink Field) in Seattle’s SoDo neighborhood. The stadium has been the home field of the Seahawks since it opened in 2002 and it is shared with the Seattle Sounders FC MLS soccer team. Lumen Field is considered one of the loudest stadiums in the NFL, having Read more...
La Rascasse corner, the tight 135 degree right-hand bend on the Monaco Grand Prix circuit, is located on Quai Antoine 1er at Port Hercule. Named after La Rascasse restaurant on the same corner, it was added in 1973 when the race circuit underwent a major modification after the Rainier III Nautical Stadium was built on the harbor. Read more...
Manchester City FC plays at the Etihad Stadium (also called the City of Manchester Stadium) in east Manchester, England. The stadium has been the home of Manchester City since the end of the 2002–03 season, when the club moved from Maine Road in the Moss Side area of Manchester, its previous home ground since 1923. The City of Manchester Stadium Read more...
Nike does not offer public tours of its campus and world headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. Access to the campus and running trails is restricted to Nike employees and other authorized persons only. Read more...
Shea Stadium was located in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, New York City, on the site of what is now parking for Citi Field, the home field of the New York Mets baseball team. Demolition of Shea Stadium started in October 2008 and the locations of its home plate, pitcher’s plate, and bases are marked in the parking lot. Read more...
Facebook’s first office in Palo Alto was at 471 Emerson Street in Downtown North. Then still called The Facebook, the company moved here in January 2005 from the house in Los Altos where the early Facebook team lived and worked. On the wall outside the front door is a sign in the style of Facebook’s familiar thumbs up symbol that Read more...
The wooden garage where, in 1938, Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett worked on the first electronic products for what would become their Hewlett-Packard business, is located at 367 Addison Avenue in Palo Alto. As it is in a residential neighborhood, the HP Garage is not open for public tours but it is possible to view and photograph the property and Read more...
The Los Angeles River begins at the confluence of Bell Creek and Arroyo Calabasas (also known as Calabasas Creek) at Owensmouth Avenue and Bassett Street in Canoga Park, Los Angeles. Read more...
The Anaheim Ducks ice hockey team plays its home games at Honda Center (formerly called The Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim) in Anaheim, California. It has been home to the Anaheim Ducks since the team’s founding by The Walt Disney Company in 1993. They played their first regular season game at the arena on October 8, 1993, against the Detroit Red Read more...
YouTube was originally based on the Second Floor of 71 East 3rd Avenue in San Mateo, California, before it moved to new offices in San Bruno in 2008. Read more...
San Francisco’s tallest building is the Salesforce Tower (formerly called the Transbay Tower) skyscraper at Mission Street and 1st Street in the SoMa neighborhood. It is 1070 feet (or 326 meters) tall. Read more...
Britannia Bridge was engulfed by fire on the evening of 23 May 1970 and suffered extensive structural damage. At the time a railway bridge, it was substantially rebuilt over the following ten years to carry both rail and road traffic over the Menai Strait. Read more...
A bronze statue of the late Duke Kahanamoku with a surfboard stands at the corner of Main Street and Pacific Coast Highway in downtown Huntington Beach, California. A plaque acknowledges his connection with surfing in Huntington Beach. Read more...
Huntington Beach Pier is 1,856 feet (or 565 meters) in length, making it the longest pier in Orange County. The concrete pier was completed in 1992, replacing the previous shorter pier which was closed after being badly damaged in a storm in 1988. Read more...
A concrete statue of Lord Horatio Nelson stands on the Menai Strait shoreline near Britannia Bridge. It was sculpted by Admiral Lord Clarence Paget and unveiled in 1873. It is not to be confused with the statue of Paget’s father, the 1st Marquess of Anglesey, mounted on a high column half a mile inland. Read more...
The highest peak in Alberta is Mount Columbia, with an elevation of 3,747 metres (or 12,293 feet). Mount Columbia is part of the Winston Churchill Range in the Canadian Rocky Mountains and has a prominence of 2,383 metres (or 7,818 feet). The mountain sits on the border of the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia and its peak is within Read more...