Tourist Attraction
Enola Gay at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center Aerial View
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Today marks the day that the first Atomic bomb was dropped during war. The Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the bomb, is at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington Dullas International Airport.
The Plane -
The Enola Gay is [...]
Mount St. Helens Aerial View
Mount St. Helens is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is 96 miles (154 km) south of Seattle and 53 miles (85 km) northeast of Portland, Oregon. Mount St. Helens takes its English name from the British diplomat Lord St Helens, a [...]
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‘Vomit Comet’ at Pima Air and Space Museum Aerial View
A NASA ‘Vomit Comet’ is show below at the Pima Air and Space Museum. These types of planes provide a feeling of a weightless environment for training, research or even for you favorite movie!
Pima received a famous aircraft in December 2004, the NASA ‘Vomit Comet’ which was regularly used in the training of [...]
New Harley Davidson Museum Aerial and Bird’s Eye View
Today marked the opening of the new Harley Davidson Museum in Milwaukee Wisconsin. This event has been 105 years in the making! At the museum they have items including the very first Harley Davidson ever built and also Elvis Presley’s Harley Davidson!
As you can see in the map below, the museum was [...]
Kilauea Volcano Aerial View
This post has it’s roots in the current events section at OSEI - daily reports of images of signifant events from around the world. On July 10th, the site posted about the eruptions currently happening on the island with the image shown in the post. To see images from the Virtual Earth Live [...]
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The Declaration House (Graff House) Aerial and Bird’s Eye View
Although the house where Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence was torn down in 1883, the house has been rebuilt in 1975 to be an almost exact copy thanks to the Independence Hall Association
Finding his lodging in the heart of the city uncomfortable, he removed to the rooms of Jacob Graff. Graff was [...]
Declaration of Independence at the National Archives Aerial View
It’s the 4th of July here in the US - currently the Declaration of Independence is currently at the National Archives building in Washington DC.
The United States Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, announcing that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were [...]
Boston Tea Party Museum Aerial and Bird’s Eye View
Currently under renovation, the Boston Tea Party Ship and Museum are shown on Virtual Earth in the map below. Check out the link below to read more about the renovation. First, a little history about the Boston Tea party from their site:
On May 10, 1773, the British parliament authorized the East India Co., [...]
Golden Gate Bridge Aerial, Bird’s Eye and 3D View
The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening of the San Francisco Bay onto the Pacific Ocean. As part of both US Highway 101 and California Route 1, it connects the city of San Francisco on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula to Marin County.
The Golden [...]
Washington Monument Aerial, Bird’s Eye and 3D View
The Washington Monument is the most prominent, as well as one of the older, attractions in Washington, D.C. It was built in honor of George Washington, who led the country to independence, and then became its first President. The Monument is shaped like an Egyptian obelisk, 555’ 5/8” high, and averages 30 to 40 [...]
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St Louis Gateway Arch Aerial and Bird’s Eye View
The Arch is known as the “Gateway to the West”. Designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen and structural engineer Hannskarl Bandel, it stands 630 feet (192 m) tall, and is 630 feet (192 m) wide at its base. It is the tallest habitable structure in St. Louis (taller than One Metropolitan Square, the tallest [...]
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Coney Island New York Aerial and Bird’s Eye View
Coney Island is a New York City neighborhood that features an amusement area that includes 35 or more separate rides and attractions; it’s not a centrally managed amusement park like Disneyland or Six Flags. As a result, specific questions about rides, filming privileges, etc., should be directed to individual businesses. This website is maintained [...]
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Six Flags America Aerial and Bird’s Eye View
Six Flags America is a theme park located in Largo in Prince George’s County, Maryland. It lies 15 miles (24 km) east of Washington D.C., and 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Baltimore. It sits on a site of 523 acres (2.12 km²), 131 of which is currently used for park operations.
The park’s history [...]
Navy Pier Chicago Aerial and Bird’s Eye View
Navy Pier is a 3,300-foot (1,010 m) long pier on the Chicago shoreline of Lake Michigan. The pier was built in 1916 at a cost of $4.5 million; it was a part of the Plan of Chicago developed by architect and city planner Daniel Burnham and his associates. As Municipal Pier #2 (Municipal Pier #1 [...]
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Niagara Falls - Horseshoe and American - Aerial and Birds Eye View
Niagara Falls is located on the Niagara River in northeastern North America, one of the continent’s most famous spectacles. The falls lie on the border between Ontario, Can., and New York state, U.S. For many decades the falls were an attraction for honeymooners and for such stunts as walking over the falls on a [...]
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Garden Of The Gods Colorado Springs Aerial And Birds Eye View
Garden of the Gods is a public park located in Colorado Springs. The outstanding geologic features of the park are the ancient sedimentary beds of red and white sandstones, conglomerates and limestone that were deposited horizontally, but have now been tilted vertically and faulted by the immense mountain building forces caused by the uplift [...]
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Six Flags Magic Mountain Aerial and Birds Eye View
Six Flags Magic Mountain is an amusement park located just west of the Valencia neighborhood of Santa Clarita, north of Los Angeles. It opened on Memorial Day weekend on May 29, 1971 as Magic Mountain, by the Newhall Land and Farming Company, the development company behind the district of Valencia. It was not until [...]
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Thanks for those aerial shots of Augusta National Golf Course, they show a lot of detail, really useful! 
Thanks Malcolm - I'll add that to the post! 
If you like the superdome, feel free to check out the official site as well -- www.superdome.com. 
WOW! Seeing them upclose was nice but seeing the satellite view is very impressive. 
Great post, I really enjoyed it. I will have to bookmark this site for later. 
it's a P-3 Orion subchaser. 