Questions tagged [where-on-earth]
For questions about location of specific place or location of longest/highest/biggest/the most... place/thing on Earth.
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Is there a website listing the location of all the Windows 10 lock screens?
Windows 10 has an extensive collection of lock screen photos, many of which have prompted a question here on Travel.SE.
Is there a website which lists the location of all of these photos? I imagine ...
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One foot in Belgium and the other in the Netherlands?
I come across this photo in Facebook where the borderline between Belgium and the Netherlands is drawn in the ground splitting a house in two sides one side at each country. One can literally put one ...
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What is the longest stretch of the Autobahn that is guaranteed to have no speed limits?
I would like to rent a nice sports car this summer and go for a drive on the Autobahn. What is the longest stretch of the German highways that is guaranteed (short of a natural disaster) to have no ...
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Are there any trains where roof riding is legally possible?
I just read an article about the Indonesian railways, where they put low hanging concrete balls above railroad tracks to deter train rooftop riders.
Roof riding is common on certain trains in ...
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Where is this tower, likely photographed in Belgium about 100 years ago?
This photograph is labelled as "restoration of a Belgian tower" and taken between 1920 and 1930, although both pieces of information might be wrong. However, it must have been taken before ...
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What is the cheapest regular-priced scheduled flight I can book and fly?
What is the cheapest (regular priced, scheduled) flight anywhere in the world, that I can book and fly?
To be a bit more specific:
by regular priced I mean: no error fares (Allitalia once had a ...
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What is the cheapest available freighter voyage anywhere?
Walking past a huge international shipyard twice today got me thinking about freighter travel. We have a couple of such questions on the site, but not many.
Many people are surprised when they find ...
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Where can I eat dishes that feature in western countries' Chinese restaurants?
... apart from western countries like the Australia or the USA themselves.
During my visit to Taiwan, I wasn't able to find the dishes I'd typically encounter in a Chinese restaurant in Australia or ...
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Which locations are traditionally Santa's home - i.e. where can you visit Santa Claus year-round?
Obviously around this time of the year, Santa and his minions will be out and about, finding out who is naughty and nice, and delivering presents.
However, the rest of the year he's back at his home. ...
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What is the most remote airport from the center of the city it supposedly serves?
As an example, "Frankfurt" Hahn is actually 120 km away from the city of Frankfurt and "Paris" Beauvais is actually 85 km away from the center of Paris. Are there airports that are even further away ...
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What on earth has yet to be explored?
To be clear, yes, we can see everything from Google Earth or other satellite imagery, but that doesn't mean we can explore it. GE can't see into forests, canyons and caves.
Has every mountain been ...
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From what point could you view the most US states?
A fairly simple question: from what single point could you see the most US states? It seems like it should be a popular tourist attraction.
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Celebrating the same new year several times over?
Is there a commercial service offered to general public that allows you to celebrate the new year several times?
The idea is that you would celebrate it in a time-zone and than move to the next one ...
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What is the highest road in the world that is accessible by conventional vehicles?
I'm looking to drive up the highest road in the world but I don't have access to any special vehicles. Where can I do so? The exact conditions are:
The road must be accessible to civilians, so ...
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Is there a tourist destination where the new year starts first and at the same time the old year ends last?
We were brainstorming where to celebrate the next new year. It would be fun if it is possible to be the first in the new year to then with minor traveling enjoy yet a bit of the old year. Is there ...
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What's the highest number of countries whose borders meet at a single point?
What is the maximum number of countries meeting at a single point on earth?
Where is it?
What are the countries?
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Where can someone see flowing lava at roughly Easter time?
A trip is being planned at roughly Easter 2012 (to match school schedules) that can go anywhere in the world as long it meets these two criteria:
there is flowing lava you can see (not just cooled ...
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Are there any man-only places in the world?
I know it is forbidden to enter to Muslim's mosques/shrines without proper Islamic cover or having your shoes during walking through temples/tombs/shrines in India and some other Hindu countries or ...
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Are there scheduled flight connections operated with a helicopter?
I know that you can charter a helicopter, it is expensive but possible. But can I go on a scheduled flight with a helicopter? If so, which connections?
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What is the furthest north one can get without flying or taking special cruises?
While researching this answer, I learned that there about 5 times per year between late July and September, there are passenger boats from Yakutsk all the way north to Tiksi at 71°39' north. For ...
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Does anyone know the location of this login hotmail background?
Does anyone know the location of this login hotmail background ?
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What's the longest distance that can be traveled by only using free transportation?
As an example, public transportation within the Melbourne city center is free, so one could take a free tram between Spring St and Docklands Dr:
The total distance (as the crow flies) between these ...
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Where is the quietest place on Earth?
I just wondered if there is a known "most quiet" place on Earth.
Perhaps people have measured "ambient" sound throughout the year in various places claimed to be the most quiet. And perhaps one has ...
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Any railway stations more than 1 change from London?
This question is just for curiosity, rather than for anything practical.
Is there any railway station in the UK from which it is not possible to get to London with only 1 change? The obvious ...
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What is this strange almost symmetrical location in Nevada?
We were looking at this and trying to establish what it is and if it's something interesting to travel to. However it looks like some crop circle-style icons south east of it, and evidence of ...
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Where was this photo taken? (Windows 10 lock screen) [duplicate]
Can someone point to a location, where this photograph was taken?
It looks stunning!
This is one of lockscreen wallpapers in Windows 10.
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Where was this picture taken in 1932?
This picture was taken about 1932 in central Europe - probably in Czechoslovakia, maybe in Budweis.
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What's the smallest non-capital city with a foreign consulate?
As an example, the city of Haifa (population 280k) has a Russian consulate in addition to the main embassy in Tel Aviv. The Haifa consulate is full fledged and can issue visas, not just an honorary ...
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Where on earth is this image from the backgrounds in Windows?
My Russian colleague had this image as his desktop, so I asked if it was Lake Baikal or not. He actually didn't know, as it was just one of the default Windows desktops that he had.
So, the question ...
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Where are these old Yugoslavian monuments?
I came across a list of old Yugoslavian monuments that look quite interesting. Actually, I already saw the one in Podgarić and it was really impressive. Now I wanted to locate the rest of them, but ...
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What is the longest distance between two stops of a train route?
As a follow-up to this answer which states that the “Z” trains from Beijing to Hong Kong and which take 24 hours are actually non-stop services (permitting immigration formalities to take place in ...
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What's the deepest underwater tour available?
Clearly scuba can only get you so far, and while we've discussed submarine tours in the past, they are just jaunts.
What's the deepest you can actually go as a tourist, and what about if you were ...
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Are there any women-only places in the world?
It looks like reports of a women-only city in Saudi Arabia are greatly exaggerated. But are there any other places in the world where the population is entirely or almost entirely female?
The place ...
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Where can I spend time in an anechoic chamber?
Acoustic anechoic chambers are enclosed spaces which are highly isolated from outside noise sources and also highly absorbent to any noise produced inside. The one at Orfield Laboratories in ...
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Where can I board an Airbus 380 using stairs instead of jetbridges?
The international airport of Suriname, doesn't have stairways (yet). Still KLM flies there with a Boeing 747. Making it one of the best places to board a 747. I always have enjoyed walking to the ...
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Where is this fountain (from Counter-Strike)?
The T-Spawn of the counter strike map de_inferno is based on a real place. Where is this fountain?
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Where's the cheapest place in the world for a beginner to learn diving?
Would it mostly be in Southeast Asia? Or somewhere else?
In response to this Q being "put on hold" for being too broad, let me add the following:
Include only cost of equipment rental and lessons. ...
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Where is the closest to western Europe to see desert mountains with slot canyons?
The southwestern USA has desert mountains and canyons. They are famous and have extensive tourist infrastructure with national parks, national monuments, state parks, roads, trails, etc. However, ...
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Public pianos in the U.S
I've been to the Rock'n Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland last year and had some fun on a piano in their lobby with a sign saying "Play me, I'm yours". I did some research and found a pretty cool project ...
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What is the cheapest metro system in the world?
When traveling I am trying to avoid using the underground/metro/subway because I want to see the city I am visiting, but sometimes for long distances it is much quicker than any other form of ...
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World's fastest ferry route
Last summer, I was impressed by the speed of the Norwegian hurtigbåt M/S Fjordprinsessa, operating near Tromsø, travelling so fast that travellers are not allowed on-deck and are recommended to remain ...
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Are there any places on earth completely barren with nothing on the horizon in any direction?
Imagine being on a ship in the middle of the ocean and in every direction you look, there is nothing on the horizon and everything you see is perfectly flat in every direction. Is there any desert (or ...
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Riding in a military jet
I remember that there was a possibility that one could take a ride in a military MiG. I think at one point the cost was $15k.
Are there any other places that would allow a person to take such a ride?...
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Are there any tours or opportunities available to the public where one can see Cherenkov Radiation?
Cherenkov Radiation (in my layman's understanding) is a blue light that appears when particles with an electric charge go through a medium faster than the speed of light in that medium.
I regularly ...
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I've been told one state in the US is the easternmost, westernmost and northernmost state. How to visit the points?
According to what I've been told, one state (Alaska) has land which is considered the easternmost, northernmost, and westernnmost in all of the USA. What are the three points that allows it to claim ...
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There is a Windows 10 lock screen wallpaper that really caught my attention. Does anyone know the location of this picture? [duplicate]
The information given by Windows 10 is that this picture was taken somewhere in Montenegro. Can someone please give the exact location?
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Is there any country in the world where you can enter by scanning your fingerprints/iris, without showing any forms of ID?
It is now extremely common to see biometric passport controls in major airports, which completely eliminates the need to talk to an immigration officer. However at all the machines I've seen one still ...
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Is there a city in the world with more bridges than Amsterdam, the Netherlands?
I know there are cities with bigger bridges and with more famous bridges.
But are there cities with more?
According to this site Amsterdam has 1,753 bridges with a number and more without.
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What is the longest distance by car ferry?
I just noticed that there is a ferry from mainland spain to Tenerife. I already knew of the ferry to Iceland.
My question is if there are ferries that travel longer distances than these two?
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Identify location of old painting
I received an old painting and wonder if it depicts a real place. The person I received the painting from, is from Germany (but unavailable for questions). However, the painting could very well be ...
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