Viewpoints – Placecloud (English)

El Picacho Mexico The Antelope Wells port of entry, on Highway 81 south of Hachita, is the only border crossing in the New Mexico Bootheel, the remote rectangular southwesternmost corner of the state that hangs below the rest of the state, and meets with Arizona.

Salt Lake City United States Antelope Island is the largest of the 17 islands, in the Great Salt Lake, and has been artificially connected to the mainland since 1952, when a causeway was built off the island’s southern tip.

Phillipston historical United States The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is currently the largest maximum security state prison in the U.S., and certainly one of the most notorious.

Roseau United States The post office at Angle Inlet declares to be the most northerly post office in the contiguous US, with the only way in, by land, is by a road from the west, across the border from Manitoba.

Ealing Broadway United Kingdom Louis Mordish, a self-taught musical prodigy, embarked on a remarkable journey in the world of music that would earn him the title of the "English Gershwin."

California City United States Like a bigger Alcatraz, Angel Island is an away place for the city, now as a park but formerly as a site for activities undesirable in the midst of the city. Since the first use of the island as an artillery station in the 1860s, it has hosted many generations of gun batteries, up until 1962. Meanwhile it served as the Bay Area's primary quarantine and disinfection st...

Raleigh United States Andrew Johnson, who became the 17th president, was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, in a small outbuilding, located behind the roadside inn and tavern where his parents worked.

Greeneville United States Andrew Johnson lived in Greeneville for most of his life, and the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site preserves many of the buildings significant to the 17th president. 

Curetons historical United States Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the USA, was the first president to be born in a log cabin, in 1767, and two locations claim to be the site of that cabin.

Conroe United States Anadarko Petroleum was an independent oil exploration and production company, based in the Woodlands, north of Houston.

Anaconda United States Anaconda formed when a smelter was built here in 1883, to process copper from the mines in Butte, a few miles away.

Sargent historical United States The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company grew into the largest cotton textile mill in the world here in Manchester, a town aptly named after the famous British mill town it would surpass in output.

Del Rio United States Lake Amistad is the largest body of water in West Texas, though it is not entirely in Texas, as it is shared by Mexico. The lake formed when the Rio Grand was blocked by the Amistad Dam, which was completed in 1969.

Laramie United States In the southeast corner of the state, commemorating the railroad era, is the Ames Pyramid, a sixty foot tall stone block monolith. It was constructed in 1882 to commemorate Union Pacific railroad businessmen/politicians/brothers Oakes and Oliver Ames, as well as to restore the reputation of Union Pacific, which was tarnished when the Ames brothers were found to have been invo...

Oakwood Station historical United States A federal energy research and materials science R&D lab, which began as a uranium metals lab for the Manhattan Project.

Carthage United States Americold operates one of the largest underground storage warehouses in the country, in Carthage, Missouri. The company uses 3 million square feet of the former limestone mine, whose tunnels run for miles.

Ealing Broadway United Kingdom Arthur Lousley's life was a remarkable journey through the golden era of British jazz and the burgeoning field of aerospace electronics. Born, here on Sulgrave Rd, his early life was steeped in the cultural milieu of the 1920s, a period of great artistic and musical innovation.

Woodstock United States The American Precision Museum is museum of precision manufacturing, featuring a collection of hand and machine tools, housed in an old armory in the small Vermont town of Windsor.

Fairview historical United States Museum and science center for the adjacent Oak Ridge National Lab, one of the largest nuclear research complexes in the world.

Bozeman United States Founded in 1990, and located in Bozeman, Montana, this is said to be the oldest continuously operating computer museum in the nation, if not the world

Ann Arbor United States The American Center for Mobility is one of the largest test and development centers for autonomous and automated vehicles. It was built starting around 2015, on the site of the former World War II bomber plant at Willow Run airport.

Detroit United States The Ambassador is one of only three bridges connecting Michigan and Canada over its entire 721 mile water boundary. It connects the two largest cities on the Michigan/Ontario boundary, Detroit and Windsor.

Lancaster United States Usually called the world's largest maze when it is created every year at this site, the maze, cut into a cornfield, is one of several major maize mazes that "crop up" across the country at the end of each summer.

Amarillo United States The Amarillo Helium Plant was the first major production site for helium, and was the source of nearly all the helium in the world for more than a decade, up to WWII.

Amarillo United States Helium Time Columns is a work of public art outside of the Discovery Center, a small science museum in the helium capital of the world, Amarillo, Texas.