Guess the City

i cant even tell what country that is. the pointy orange thing and two church steeples make me think europe somewhere but that bridge and some of those apartment buildings seem america? wait. is that an amusement park?

god it looks horrible. bad shot maybe?

hmm, yeah that looks like some sort of fun fair doesn't it

is someone gonna tell the answer?

if in the US, Pittsburgh?

i don't think it's the US

no wait, I do - all that low-rise construction/sprawl?

hint: heres the city from a slightly different angle!

http://i38.tinypic.com/28s6jhj.jpg

helpful clue

ya none of that anywhere else in the world

looks eastern european to me. i'll say warsaw.

oh lol jho :D

minsk

actually we could do this much more easily by working out which eastern european country's dictator-controlled national media outlets have orange as their signature colour

Some bored googling of "cantilever bridge" and "amusement park" has given me the answer, you are all way off.

doubt it's in the midwest, since there's appears to be a hill off to the right.

Actually, I think I'm wrong. Never mind.

ah got it,

(by doing the ailsa thing)

I googled "green cantilever bridge" and then got bored of this approach after one fruitless page

No, I was right after all. Hurrah! Shall let the rest of you guess away though. Am assuming Ste got the same result as me. Not Europe.

is that the pole from one of those rotating observation "rides" there? Are those specific to Six Flags?

birmingham, al?

google is for cheaters

canada?

Pretty sure you are

#2 http://farm1.static.flickr.com/32/38531341_eeef3142ac.jpg?v=0

ok montreal alisa wins next city

istanbul?

oh boooooring xp to lol canada

my error was to GIS rather than GS

ankara

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Vampire_laronde.jpg/350px-Vampire_laronde.jpg

I like how I win by not actually saying "Montreal" at any point :-)

Baghdad?

actually i found it with fewer google words "bridge amusement park" do i win even more than ailsa?

Also, is not cheating, is educational and enterprising and stuff. Honest.

Granny Dainger's is Montreal

lol

haaaaaaaa

Ed - Lahore, right?

^win

#3. http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicv/vfiles18126.jpg

THATS MONTREAL???

many xps obv

http://www.staronetickets.com/images/Montreal.jpg

google search: trees i don't what kind + smallish river + rolling hills + bland low buildings

haha, yeah, that's spoiled my research fun.

#3 url gives it away though

#3 is not very easy for Europeans

I'm guessing somewhere in the north east of the US - Massachussets or somesuch? Might be way off though. Any clues?

This is based on trees and scenery looking like it would be somewhere geographically similar to Northern Europe, but that one building and the grid layout of the roads looking American. Am I on the right lines?

I was thinking upstate NY.

Damn I thought it was Legoland...

If it had a highway cutting through it it would look like Concord, NH.

and the link on streetview (Lockwood, Huddersfield)

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.6392274,-1.7962379,3a,30y,135.79h,89.63t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sRZcyUIxDcvvesxJ1mmHbZA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D0.37464517389585694%26panoid%3DRZcyUIxDcvvesxJ1mmHbZA%26yaw%3D135.78813885801253!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTIxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

https://i.ibb.co/FbVXM7F/Screenshot-2025-01-17-at-20-17-07.png

on the buses

https://i.ibb.co/DTZGj6r/sss.png

These are getting harder to do now, but here's a second view

Nothing much to go on, it looks a bit Mediterranean to me. There's some Roman script so probably not North Africa, my guess is Turkey.

Bald eagle emblem off to the left; this is likely somewhere in the Americas

Gives me the feeling of high elevation - maybe because the clouds look low in the sky? Maybe somewhere in the Andes?

https://i.ibb.co/G4tJ4p29/Screenshot-2025-03-23-at-17-20-44.png

Pic III

In agreement with Zelda Zonk's Turkey guess. I am finding very similar utility poles, architecture, and terrain specifically in southwest Turkey on GMSV. I found at least three roundabouts with red and gray brick colors matching Pic II in Denizli, though without the chevron pattern.

The park bench even looks a bit Turkish, ie ironwork is decorative rather than utilitarian. On the other hand, the bus is in very crappy condition, and my experience of taking long-distance buses in Turkey is that they are generally in very good condition. Perhaps not in poorer parts of the country though

And if not Turkey, maybe South America, perhaps Argentina

it definitely reminds me of some high altitude hamlet in the Urubamba Valley in Andean Peru.

Definitely not a city, but somewhere like Ollantaytambo not far from the hydroelectrical plant.

I took a bus like that from Cusco to Arequipo and La Paz.

it definitely reminds me of some high altitude hamlet in the Urubamba Valley in Andean Peru

this is peak Guess The City

I could see Peru from the first and third but the second - and specifically the first tree in the middle of the roundabout - makes me tend to agree with Turkey or somewhere nearby.

*fir tree*

Solved:

Ishull-Shëngjin, Lezhë County, Albania

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Rvz4cAndYFKTPnab7

Guess it must have been a double-headed eagle

The nearest bunker is apparently on the beach about a mile and a half north-west, but there's a larger complex in Tale, a few miles south:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/rENMvX3d7ydrA4vb8

Back in 2012-2015 some students - students! - turned one of them into a b&b, although it seems to be abandoned now. Apparently there are fewer bunkers in that corner of Albania because they didn't expect an invasion through Montenegro, and there's a mountain range in the way.

Literally called "The Accursed Mountains", and they don't look like ideal tank country. I'm going to try and embed an image now. It should work. But it might not because of the control codes in the URL. If it doesn't work, imagine the background mountains in the first episode of Doom, but really jagged:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Jezerski_Vrh_%282694%29_sa_Karanfila_%282480%29.jpg/960px-Jezerski_Vrh_%282694%29_sa_Karanfila_%282480%29.jpg

That was quite the leap from the Andes to Albania! (Turkiye a more obvious imposter)

another delight of a bus here

https://i.ibb.co/KcgYQ6yZ/Screenshot-2025-03-24-at-18-09-07.png

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.809041,19.6004959,3a,75y,63.97h,88.89t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sSa_4AcFnTNLuLRY9bHNyDg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D1.105068058389861%26panoid%3DSa_4AcFnTNLuLRY9bHNyDg%26yaw%3D63.970841622077046!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDMxOS4yIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

This sent me down the rabbit-hole of unfinished buildings in Albania, because in that very image - and also if you back the camera up - there's a framework of a buildings made of concrete. And also this huge row of concrete shells. Apparently it's a complex mixture of fallout from an economic recession in the 1990s, corruption, poor planning, and the fact that partially-completed buildings are untaxed, so there's no real incentive to finish them off. According to these people.

Presumably Albania also has masses of concrete on account of the mountains. One day the entire surface of Albania will equalise - the mountains will be levelled, the plains will be raised - and Albania will be a flat plane of beautiful concrete. A gigantic albeit boring skate park. I wonder if the Tories could win the next election by promising to send all of the council tenants to live in the unfinished houses in Albania. Tory voters would love that, and if the council houses were demolished house prices would go up slightly, which is a win-win.

That was quite the leap from the Andes to Albania! (Turkiye a more obvious imposter)

― Tow Law City (cherry blossom), Monday, March 24, 2025 11:10 AM (yesterday)

in an insomniac state i researched the building with the circular windows in the roundabout photo which showed it was a hotel a short walk from a roundabout.

is it my turn to pick? almost all my previous submissions were guessed almost immediately.

Yes, pick somewhere!

https://i.ibb.co/q3j8QG8t/Screenshot-2025-04-06-at-08-32-13.png

The Geek Squad have arrived

English speaking, drive on the right, cold enough for trees to lose their leaves in the winter, warm enough for palm trees. Wikipedia tells me Pick Up Stix is an Asian cuisine chain based in southern California, so maybe somewhere there.

Got it, the Chevron gas station is at 24625 Madison Avenue, Murrieta, California. Angle of the picture makes it look like it might have been taken in front of Pick Up Stix.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/BcUcjXgP7Fd8JFZW6

Back inside

https://i.ibb.co/ns3J1bcV/Screenshot-2025-05-24-at-14-17-35.png

The dark shirt worn by the guy front and centre has the logo 'Vitale Auto, Towing & Collision'.

That's located in Freeport, New York (but the photo could have been taken somewhere else entirely).

carafe of house rosso, parm & pepper shakers...

def feels like deep lawn guy land (massapequa?) wiseguys trattoria with Nonna making Sunday sauce...

merch available hanging next to dusty ceiling fan...

glass block front wall & entry way...

horse jockey silks? (or goalie jerseys?) on the wall... near Belmont?

Got it:

Don Peppe in Ozone Park, Queens not far from Aqueduct Racetrack.

Tell 'em Fat Tony sent ya.

Ciro Perrone was so upset that a waiter supposedly spilled a drink on his wife that he ordered his crew, which included Henry Hill, to beat the staffer with lead pipes and bats.[5]

Don Peppe in Ozone Park

Not it!

huh... this is from their website which appears to be the exact same room:

https://i.imgur.com/IZ9pQkw.png

or wait is it a technicality?

NYC? Jamaica? Queens? South Ozone Park?

Interesting! This photo showed up for somewhere completely different on google, let me go look

Clearly you are correct and this is Don Peppe, these were misattributed in google and not the place I thought they were

haha, well now i wanna know what ~you~ thought it was!

We could do with a couple of views I was going to follow this one with. I've verified these too, these are correct

https://i.ibb.co/dyRFx2y/Screenshot-2025-05-24-at-14-10-42.png

https://i.ibb.co/S7sr8DKq/Screenshot-2025-05-24-at-14-09-05.png

Intrigue!

the first picture has souvenir t-shirts on the wall, which read, now that you know, 'Don Peppe'

I see a Meridiana sticker on a window, which was an Italian airline (rebranded in 2018).

https://i.ibb.co/XWGFKGZ/abcde.jpg

https://maps.app.goo.gl/USr3qjxbJgYYR3dW7

Solved this one! The city of Most in the Ústí nad Labem area of the Czech Republic. It had been nagging at me every time I opened this thread until I found an area in the Czech Republic that looked very close and then just grinded it out.

Ah, good one, I had forgotten about that one. I think there was a second image too, from the top of one of those two buildings if I remember correctly

There were three in total. I've become a bit of an expert on Czech roundabouts and block apartments

yes! well done :)