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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...

There are 400 steps from the bottom car park down to South Stack Lighthouse in Holyhead. 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...

Penrhyn Castle as it stands today was built between 1820 and 1833. Read more...

The Staten Island Ferry leaves Manhattan from the Whitehall Terminal (also called South Ferry) on Whitehall Street and South Street, near Battery Park, at the southern tip of Lower Manhattan. 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...

Two local newspapers cover Canmore, Alberta: the Rocky Mountain Outlook is published every Thursday and the Bow Valley Crag & Canyon is published every Wednesday. Read more...

The San Francisco Giants baseball team plays its home games at Oracle Park (formerly AT&T Park) in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood. Read more...

The capital of the US state of Nevada is Carson City. It is home to the Nevada State Capitol building, the Nevada Legislative Building, and the Supreme Court of Nevada When the Territory of Nevada was formed in the separation from the Utah Territory during the American Civil War in 1861, Genoa served as the first capital until it was Read more...

The Grouse Grind trailhead is near Grouse Mountain’s Valley Station Skyride aerial tramway terminal at 6400 Nancy Greene Way, North Vancouver, British Columbia. Read more...

Yankee Stadium is a 10-minute walk from MTA Metro-North’s Yankees-East 153rd Street station on the Hudson line running between Poughkeepsie and Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan. On game days the station is also served by the Harlem and New Haven lines, and frequent shuttles run between the station, Harlem-125th Street station, and Grand Central. Read more...

Pedestrians can cross the Golden Gate Bridge on the East Sidewalk, which faces San Francisco, from 5 am daily until 9 pm during Daylight Savings Time and 6:30 pm during Pacific Standard Time. Dogs are not allowed on the bridge, except for service dogs. Read more...

The Winnipeg Jets NHL ice hockey team plays its home games at Bell MTS Place arena (formerly called the MTS Centre) in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Jets started playing at the arena in 2011 after the team moved to Winnipeg from Atlanta, Georgia, where they played as the Atlanta Thrashers from 1999. The Manitoba Moose, the American Hockey League affiliate Read more...

The Liberty Bell is on display in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the Liberty Bell Center just across from Independence Hall in the Independence National Historical Park. Originally placed in the steeple of the Pennsylvania State House (now renamed Independence Hall) in 1753, the bell has traveled considerable distances in its lifetime, including trips to various exhibitions end events across the US Read more...

The Edmonton Oilers NHL ice hockey team plays its home games at Rogers Place in downtown Edmonton, Alberta. The Oilers moved to the newly-constructed arena in 2016, having previously played at Edmonton’s Northlands Coliseum (also known as Rexall Place). Rogers Place, which has a capacity of 18,500 for hockey games, is also home to the Edmonton Oil Kings major junior Read more...

The Calgary Flames ice hockey team plays its home games at the Scotiabank Saddledome (formerly called the Olympic Saddledome) in downtown Calgary, Alberta. Read more...

The Vancouver Canucks ice hockey team plays its home games at Rogers Arena (formerly called GM Place) in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. The NHL team moved to the newly-built arena in 1995, having been based at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver’s Hastings Park for the preceding 25 years. The first Canucks game at the new arena was a pre-season NHL Read more...