Viewpoints – Placecloud

Ruyven The Netherlands Op het marktplein in Delft vinden we een eerbetoon aan de beroemdste, of misschien wel beruchtste, zoon van deze stad. Een standbeeld voor de Nieuwe Kerk herdenkt de beroemdste jurist van de 17e eeuw, Hugo de Groot, vaak ook Hugo Grotius genoemd.

Ruyven The Netherlands On the central town square in Delft, we find an homage to the city’s most famous, or perhaps infamous, son. A statue in front of the ‘New Church’ commemorates the most famous jurist of the 17th century, Hugo Grotius.

Los Alamos United States The Bradbury Science Museum, located in the town of Los Alamos, is the information center and science museum operated by Los Alamos National Lab, and contains many interesting exhibits and displays, including much related to the nuclear testing program.

Bellingham United States The international boundary between the US and Canada comes to Point Roberts from the east, across the bay from Blaine, and hits the last of the range towers marking the boundary across the waters of the bay, known as Range Tower C.

Bellingham United States Roosevelt Road ends at a small park, built around Monument 1, the last boundary monument on the 49th Parallel (or the first, headed in the other direction), marking the westernmsost point of land on the border between Canada and the USA.

Little Dalles historical United States The Boundary Dam is operated by Seattle City Light, the electrical utility for that city, and provides up to 40% of the power for Seattle, nearly 250 miles away. The powerhouse was built inside the cliff, and generates more than 1,000 Megawatts. This dam is on the Pend Oreille River in western Washington, just a few miles south of the international border wit...

West Corners historical United States A movie set depicting the residential street in Watertown where the police hunted for and found the surviving Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, remains, decaying, on the edge of the old runways of the former Air Station at South Weymouth.

Fort Winthrop historical United States In 1971, the Boston Gas Company commissioned the artist (and nun) Corita Kent to turn what many considered to be an industrial eyesore into a popular landmark.

West Baker historical United States The town of Boron is unusual as it is located between the world's largest Borax mine, visible to the north, and one of the nation's largest rocket test areas, visible on the hill to the south.

West Baker historical United States At a remote desert site six miles north of Kramer Junction is a former military base and Federal Prison Camp, with an active FAA radar facility.

Bellingham United States In 2005 a drug-smuggling tunnel was discovered by border officials, just a hundred yards east of the Lynden/Aldergrove Port of Entry. It connected a Quonset hut on 0 Avenue, on the Canadian side, to a house in the trees on the south side of Boundary Avenue, on the US side.

Cupheag historical United States Some may call it a compound of follies, this is indeed a curious collection of unusual architecture amassed and built by the Boothe brothers, who lived at the site from the early 1900s to 1949.

Dublin Ireland My mother Cherry had a penchant for lying down beneath trees in our garden and in wild Wicklow.

Buell historical United States Numerous land speed records have been achieved at Bonneville, on the vast and flat natural pavement of salt: the 300, 400, 500, and 600 mile per hour land speed barrier were all broken here over the years.

Stevenson United States Bonneville was the first of eight federal lock and dam structures built on the Columbia and Snake rivers, which are now the largest source of electricity on the continent.

Diocese of London United Kingdom Contemplating a wall plaque in Walthamstow, north-east London, to commemorate victims of a fatal bomb raid by the Luftwaffe in 1940 during the London Blitz.

Chester United Kingdom The original Chester Canal runs deep below the city centre in North West England, next to the Roman city walls. The canal was one of the first to be built in England in the 1770s and has had a chequered history whilst leaving its mark on the landscape.

Squeaky Springs historical United States A partially-flooded trailer community with a few hundred homes, on the east shore of the Salton Sea, Bombay Beach is one of the lowest communities below sea level in the U.S.

Black Lake historical United States A huge Gilded Age summer house on an island in the Thousand Islands region of the St. Lawrence River.

Murphy United States The selection of this volcanic butte 20 miles from Boise City as the Initial Point for a survey of the Idaho Territory in 1867 was due to the isolation of its prominence, and that it was far enough west that the meridian would extend northward through the narrow panhandle of the territory all the way to the Canadian border.

Fivebough Wetlands is more than a swamp, it’s a jewel in the Riverina’s crown. In a comparison of 360 wetlands as part of the Murray-Darling Basin Waterbird Project, Fivebough recorded the highest number of waterbird species and it ranked second for the total number of species recorded in a single survey. 

Everett United States Often cited as the “largest building in the world,” Boeing’s aircraft assembly building in Everett, Washington, where commercial airliners including the 747 were built.

Grand Rapids United States Though privately owned and occupied, the existence of the childhood home of Bob "Dylan" Zimmerman emits a strong interpretive presence in Hibbing.

Port Huron United States The only bridge over the St. Clair River is the Blue Water Bridge, which connects the communities of Port Huron, Michigan, and Sarnia, Ontario.

Broadway historical United States A natural, spring-fed lake, a few hundred feet across. The water stays at a comfortable 75 degrees year round.