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A permit is required to hike Mount Whitney in California’s Sierra Nevada, both for day-use and overnight hikes. Rangers patrol regularly and any hikers found in the Mount Whitney Zone without a permit will be fined and directed to leave the mountain. For hikers starting from the east side of the Sierra Nevada at Whitney Portal, day use and overnight Read more...
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The highest natural point in Brooklyn, New York, is Battle Hill, at 216 feet (or 66 meters) above sea level. Also known as Gowan’s Heights, it is located in Green-Wood Cemetery in the western portion of Brooklyn. The hill is part of Harbor Hill Moraine, a terminal moraine formed during the Wisconsin Glaciation, one of the last major continental glacier Read more...
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Climbing on Morro Rock is prohibited by law as it is an ecological reserve and unauthorized entry will result in a fine. The domed volcanic plug, with a peak elevation of 581 feet (or 177 meters), is an important protected habitat for nesting peregrine falcons and other wildlife. Located in Morro Bay, California, between San Francisco and Los Angeles, Morro Read more...
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The red-brick clock tower in the centre of the city of Bangor, Gwynedd, was built between 1886 and 1887, by builder T J Humphreys of Bangor. The Victorian listed structure on Bangor’s High Street has four clock faces and a chiming bell, and was given to the city by Bangor businessman Thomas Lewis, who was Mayor of Bangor between 1885 Read more...
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Durham Cathedral in its present form dates back to the Norman era with its construction started in 1093 under Bishop William of St Calais, and being substantially completed over the next 40 years. Founded as a monastic cathedral, it was built to house the shrine of St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, replacing the White Church, the city’s previous Anglo-Saxon church constructed Read more...
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San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge weighs approximately 887,000 tons (or 804,670 metric tons), including anchorages and approaches. In the 1980s, the original concrete road deck was replaced with a lighter, stronger, orthotropic steel deck, reducing the bridge’s total mass by some 12,300 tons (or 11,160 metric tons). Excluding the anchorages and approaches, the bridge structure weighs approximately 419,800 tons (or Read more...
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San Juanico Bridge in the Philippines links the islands of Leyte and Samar in the Eastern Visayas region, connecting by road the city of Tacloban and the Municipality of Santa Rita. The 2,164-metre (or 7,100-foot) bridge spans the San Juanico Strait, and is the longest bridge in the Philippines spanning a body of water. The bridge was opened in 1973 Read more...
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The Cincinnati Bengals NFL football team plays its home games at Paul Brown Stadium in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. The Bengals moved to the newly-constructed football stadium in August 2000, which is named after the team’s late founder and first head coach, Paul Brown. Known as PBS for short, the Paul Brown Stadium is also nicknamed The Jungle by fans. Read more...
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The stone towers and arches of Menai Suspension Bridge are built of grey-brown veined limestone quarried nearby in Penmon on the eastern tip of the Isle of Anglesey. Construction started with the bridge towers in 1819, with the stone, also known as Penmon marble, transported to the site by boat down the Menai Strait. The Thomas Telford-designed bridge connects Anglesey Read more...
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Actor James Dean died, aged 24, on the early evening of September 30th, 1955, when his car crashed into another at the junction of California State Routes 41 and 46 (formerly US Route 466) in Cholame, California. Dean was driving his Porsche 550 Spyder from Los Angeles to a road race in Salinas, with German mechanic Rolf Wütherich as a Read more...
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The 19th-century London Bridge that once spanned the River Thames in London, England, was dismantled in 1967 and relocated to Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where it still stands. By 1962 it was decided that the bridge, dating from 1831, could not handle increasing levels of London road traffic and needed replacing. Following a search for potential buyers, it was sold Read more...
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The flashing red light on the spire atop the Capitol Records Building, near Hollywood and Vine, spells out the word ‘HOLLYWOOD’ in Morse code. Read more...
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The former summer resort village of Minnewanka Landing lies beneath the waters of Lake Minnewanka, near Banff, Alberta. Minnewanka Landing grew around the Beach House log hotel established on the shores of the original Lake Minnewanka in 1886. The village was a popular summer destination, and by 1912 the resort was laid out along four avenues and three streets, with Read more...
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The Banff Visitor Centre is located next to St Paul’s Presbyterian Church on Banff Avenue in downtown Banff, in a stone and half-timbered black and white heritage building that was once the Banff School Auditorium. Operated by Parks Canada, the visitor information centre includes the Banff Lake Louise Tourism office, and is open until 5 pm daily. The centre offers Read more...
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The Upper Hot Springs pool in Banff, Alberta, is supplied entirely with natural mineral water from the hot spring for most of the season, although water flow naturally decreases later in the year and there may be times in late fall and winter when the pool is topped up with heated municipal water. The Banff Upper Hot Springs website provides Read more...
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The former townsite of Dillon, Colorado, lies beneath the waters of Dillon Reservoir, and the town moved to its current location, at the northeast edge of the reservoir, for the Denver Water Board to start work on building a dam across the Blue River in 1961 to create the freshwater reservoir, also known as Lake Dillon. Prior to inundating the Read more...
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The Tobin Bridge carries US Route 1 over the Mystic River between Chelsea and the Charlestown area of Boston, Massachusetts. Officially named the Maurice J Tobin Memorial Bridge, it is sometimes informally called the Mystic River Bridge, its original name until 1967. The double-deck cantilevered truss bridge carries southbound traffic into Boston on its upper level and Chelsea-bound traffic going Read more...
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Bruce’s Beach park in Manhattan Beach, California, is named after a former beach resort of the same name in the park’s location, operated by a black couple, Charles and Willa Bruce. The Bruces purchased beachfront property along the Strand between 26th and 27th streets in Manhattan Beach in 1912, developing it into a popular resort for African-American beachgoers and vacationers. Read more...
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The Ponte Vecchio bridge crosses the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, connecting the Duomo area with Oltrarno on the south side of the river. Completed in its current form in 1345, the segmental arch bridge also carries the Vasari Corridor enclosed passageway, added in 1565, which runs between Palazzo Vecchio, the Uffizi Gallery and Palazzo Pitti. The Ponte Vecchio was Read more...
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When San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts was demolished in 1963, it was rebuilt with modern construction materials over the next decade, to the same design. The only parts reused were in the exhibition hall which was rebuilt on its 1915 steel frame, and retains some of the original fireplaces and doors. The Palace of Fine Arts was originally constructed Read more...