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The parking lot of the Royal Gorge Bridge and Park has a free observation platform which offers a view of the gorge without having to pay to access the bridge or other park attractions. To reach the parking lot, follow County Road 3A from Highway 50 near Cañon City, Colorado. For those wanting to cross the historical Royal Gorge Bridge Read more...
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Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans is open to cars during the daytime in a one-way direction from Canal Street towards Esplanade Avenue. At night, from around 7 pm, bollards and police barriers close off most of Bourbon Street to traffic and it becomes a pedestrian mall for night-time revellers. Cross streets remain open to vehicles. Bourbon Read more...
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Pop star Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch was located on Figueroa Mountain Road in Los Olivos, California, some 31 miles (or 50 kilometers) northwest of Santa Barbara. Then-named Sycamore Valley Ranch, Jackson purchased the house with 2,700-acre grounds as a home in 1988, renaming it Neverland, and built a private amusement park on the property, complete with fairground rides, a mini Read more...
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In good daytime conditions, driving across the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway between Metairie and Mandeville, Louisiana, takes approximately 25 minutes. In foggy conditions, the crossing time will be nearer 45 minutes as traffic is restricted to a single lane and a speed limit of 35 mph. At the 16 mile marker, the bridge has a bascule drawbridge to allow passage of Read more...
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When Norfolk, Virginia’s Berkley Bridge is lifted, it stays open for as long as required to allow water traffic to pass, which can be as much as 15 minutes, during which time road and pedestrian traffic is stopped. Subject to federal regulations, during weekday daytime hours, the double-leafed bascule bridge over the Eastern Branch Elizabeth River is limited to four Read more...
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There is no access to Point Bonita Lighthouse when closed as the final leg of the trail to the bridge and lighthouse passes though a rock tunnel which is gated and locked outside of opening hours. Point Bonita Lighthouse is normally open only on Sunday and Monday from 12:30 pm to 3:30 pm. The short, steep trail from the car Read more...
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The statue of English footballer Duncan Edwards is located on Market Place in the centre of his home town of Dudley, West Midlands. The Manchester United and England national team player, was one of the Busby Babes, a group of young, talented footballers playing for Manchester United in the 1950s under manager Matt Busby. Edwards was one of eight Manchester Read more...
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Alexander Hamilton’s 1802 home, The Grange, was relocated in June 2008 to the northern end of Saint Nicholas Park in Harlem’s Hamilton Heights neighborhood. The Founding Father’s yellow and white Federal-style house previously stood a block north, next to Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church on Convent Avenue at 141st Street. Despite becoming a National Memorial in 1962, it was hemmed in Read more...
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British film director and producer Tony Scott died by suicide, aged 68, when he jumped off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in the San Pedro district of Los Angeles, California, on August 19th, 2012. He had left his Toyota Prius car parked on the bridge, with a note containing contact information, and a note for his family was found later in Read more...
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The Mackinac Bridge crosses the Straits of Mackinac between Michigan’s Lower and Upper Peninsulas. The Straits of Mackinac is the body of water connecting Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, two of the Great Lakes, and its width at the point of the Mackinac Bridge crossing is 4 miles (or 6.4 kilometers). At the south end of the bridge is the Read more...
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Actor Paul Walker died in a car crash on the afternoon of November 20th, 2013, on Hercules Street on the Rye Canyon Business Park in Santa Clarita’s Valencia neighborhood. 40-year-old Walker, a star of the Fast & Furious film franchise, was a passenger in a 2005 Porsche Carrera GT driven by Roger Rodas, who also died in the crash. The Read more...
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New York’s Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge was named after Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, but a mistake meant that the bridge’s official name was spelled with only one ‘z’ instead of two. The mis-spelled name remained in use from the bridge’s opening in 1964 until 2018, when a public campaign resulted in a bill being passed unanimously by the New York State Read more...
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The summit of Britton Hill is Florida’s highest natural point, with an elevation of 345 feet (or 105 meters) above mean sea level. Located in Lakewood Park, near the Florida/Alabama border, off County Road 285 east of the town of Paxton, a granite monument marks the highest point and is engraved with: LAKEWOOD PARK FLORIDA’S HIGHEST POINT ELEVATION 345 FT Read more...
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On 4th June 1967, a British Midland Airways airplane, carrying 84 people, crashed into a green space and buildings near the junction of Hopes Carr and Waterloo Road in Stockport, Greater Manchester. The Canadair C-4 Argonaut plane, registered G-ALHG, left Palma de Mallorca airport at 5 am, bound for Manchester Airport. While attempting a second approach into Manchester, the aircraft Read more...
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Raleigh-Durham International Airport has two terminals, Terminal 1 and Terminal 2. Terminal 1 is used only by Southwest Airlines while all other airlines operate from Terminal 2. Southwest Airlines international flights arrive at Terminal 2. The walk from one terminal to the other takes about 5-10 minutes, and a free shuttle bus also operates between terminals. Read more...
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The statue of Hans Christian Andersen is located near Manhattan’s Conservatory Water pond on the east side of Central Park, just north of the entrance at East 772nd Street and 5th Avenue. The oversize bronze sculpture depicts the seated Danish author reading from a book, which is open at his tale The Ugly Duckling. At his feet is a bronze Read more...
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The Dish at Stanford University is a steerable radio telescope used for satellite calibrations, spacecraft command and telemetry, and radio astronomy measurements. Measuring approximately 150 feet (or 46 meters) in diameter, the steel and aluminum parabolic antenna was built in the early 1960s by the Stanford Research Institute with funding from the US Air Force to probe the scattering properties Read more...
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Two life-size bronze sculptures of Indian rhinoceroses flank the entrance to Harvard’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. Sculpted by Katherine Lane Weems and unveiled on May 12th, 1937, the 3-ton rhinos, affectionately named Bessie and Victoria, overlook the internal courtyard of the Bio Labs buildings. Weems was also responsible for the ornate carvings on the entrance doors and the Read more...
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Cornell University’s Libe Slope is a shortened form of the name Library Slope, so named for the library built at the top of the grassy incline. Cornell’s University Library, nicknamed ‘The Libe’, opened in 1891 and was the main library until 1961, after which it was renamed the Uris Library. Libe Slope’s green space is the location of the annual Read more...
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There are two bronze statues in Duffy Square, the northern triangle of Times Square in Manhattan, New York City, one of Chaplain Francis P Duffy and the other of musical theater star George M Cohan. The statue of Father Duffy, a military chaplain and priest after whom the square is named, was sculpted by Charles Keck and dedicated on May Read more...