Category: Reveal

The round hole in this week’s contest image is the site of the not-built Chicago Spire, which was intended to be one of the tallest residential buildings in the world. However, due to financial issues, it was shelved and all that is left is s hole.

The hint referred to the rotation of 2.4 degrees of each of the 150 floors, giving a total rotation of 360 degrees from bottom to top.

In recent days, plans have been announced for the construction of two tall towers in this location.

Click here to read Chicago Tribune article from May 15, 2018

The proposed tower:

All there is now:

Found for 2 points, despite the fact that it’s just a hole in the ground:

• hhgygy
• Garfield
• Ben Bayer
• Phil Ower
• Walter_V_R
• Eloy Cano
• Sandworm
• rob de wolff
• Glenmorren

After the hint:

Buganda, the region of Uganda that includes Kampala, was until 1962, a separate kingdom. The last 4 kings of Buganda are buried here.

Until 2010, it looked like this:

During the night of May 16, 2010, the structure, which consisted of wooden poles, reed wattle and daub, thatch and palm fronds, was destroyed by a suspicious fire.

The Ugandan government, various NGOs, and private donations are working to rebuild the tombs.

Those who found the site before the hint included:

• hhgygy
• Walter_V_R
• Garfield
• Phil Ower

And after the hint:

• gscrp
• Rob de Wolff
• Eloy Cano
• Sandworm
• Jeather

This week was a visit to close to my home. I live in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada but was out for a run in St. Albert. We passed this strangely shaped apartment building that was even more strange from aloft and I thought it would make a good and difficult contest.

The snake-like building is the Sturgeon Point Villa apartment building, alongside the Sturgeon River.

Finding this location without the hint:

• Lighthouse
• Garfield
• Phil Ower

And with the hint:

• Walter_V_R
• hhgygy

Congratulations to Garfield and Lighthouse, our series winners with perfect 20-for-20 scores for contests 541-550!!

This amusement complex in Promised Land, Tasmania dates back to 1987. It has been, at times, the largest agricultural maze in the world, with mazes inside other mazes.

All of this is topped off by the Village of Lower Crockpot — a 1/5th scale model village.

Those who wandered through and found their way here included:

• hhgygy
• Phil Ower
• Eloy Cano
• Garfield
• Walter_V_R
• Gillian B
• Lighthouse
• Chris Nason
• Rob de Wolff
• Glenmorren
• Sandworm

None after the hint.

This unique “Flying Drawbridge” has several advantages over traditional bascule bridge designs. It allows for a more rapid open and closure, it allows for variable opening (open it less for shorter boats), and it uses less energy than most other drawbridges of a similar size.

Those who got across without waiting included:

• Glenmorren
• hhgygy
• Phil Ower
• Garfield
• Walter_V_R
• Gillian B
• Chris Nason
• Lighthouse
• gscrp
• Eloy Cano
• Sandworm
• Jeather
• BC11
• David Kozina
• mehmet durmus

And after the bridge came back down:

• Ashwini Agrawal
• Luís Filipe Miguel
• Rob de Wolff
• Jesus Rodriguez

This location was given to me by my wife who saw the house featured on BBC’s Restoration Home.



The original house was built in 1750, and has seen many owners and much work. It was featured on the BBC program while undergoing a huge project of restoration. The house was owned by the owner of the Landshipping Coal Company, and a major disaster occurred in February 1844 when the coal mine flooded trapping 58 miners. 40 drowned as a result.



Found before the BBC jumped in to help out:

• Garfield
• Lighthouse
• Walter_V_R
• Phil Ower

After the hint:

• Gillian B
• Sandworm
• gscrp
• Jeather
• hhgygy
• Chris Nason
• Eloy Cano

Just down the road from the Suez Canal, a shortcut around the continent of Africa on the way from Europe to Asia, this location in Port Said, Egypt jumped out as a good contest image – but despite it being quite distinctive, I’ve not been able to find any information about the park with two distinctive anchors in it.

At the end of the road is the Al Salam Mosque, which is pictured below.

If anyone knows more about this park, please let us know.

No shortcut needed:

• Garfield
• Phil Ower
• Lighthouse
• Eloy Cano

Took the shortcut to the location

• Walter_V_R
• hhgygy
• Phil
• donaaronio
• Jeather

In the early 19th century, a group of Germans who didn’t want to practice the state-run Lutheran religion left Germany and traveled to a small region in the US frontier. There, they created a community with utopian and communistic ideals. All of the property was communally owned, and work was assigned based on the needs of the community. They named the village after the town where Lot relocated after Sodom’s destruction, Zoar.

At the end of that century, with the capitalist morals of the day folding in on them, they abandoned that lifestyle.

Today, Zoar Village is a quaint place for tourists to come see restored German-style homes and the town garden and greenhouse.

This photo of Zoar Village State Memorial is courtesy of TripAdvisor

Those who traveled back via the Erie canal to this place included:

• Garfield
• Walter_V_R
• Eloy Cano
• Lighthouse

And after the hint:

• Jesus Rodriguez

After he decided in 271 BCE that the local wetlands were causing Malaria, Roman consul Manius Curius Dentatus ordered the construction of a canal to divert the Velino river to the cliffs at Marmore, where the water would fall into the Nera river bed, thus bypassing the marsh completely.

Best laid plans and all, the reconfigured river system had it’s own flooding problems, and over the course of the centuries, various Popes stepped in and ordered modifications. Then, after the industrial revolution, private businesses jumped into the fray.

Today, the falls are a scheduled tourist attraction. The water to the falls is diverted through a hydroelectric plant, reducing the falls to a trickle. For a few, published hours each day, the water is sent back over the falls to the delight of visitors from all over the world.

Those who splashed around included:

• Phil Ower
• hhgygy
• Eloy Cano
• Lighthouse
• Walter_V_R
• Garfield
• Farceur
• Chris Nason

And after the hint:

• Sandworm
• rob de wolff

The name “Nashtifan” (نشتيفان) is derived from Farsi words that mean “storm’s sting”. Average high wind speeds combined with the ingenuity of the residents of this area a millennium ago brought about a set of windmills for grinding grain that run even today.

Those who found this site included:

• Eloy Cano
• Lighthouse
• mehmet durmus
• Garfield
• hhgygy
• Jesus Rodriguez
• Walter_V_R
• Phil Ower

and after the hint:

• Farceur
• Ashwini Agrawal
• donaaronio