Unutterably Silly Let's Go Places!

[Phyllis41]

Duisburg, Germany

[drjd]

Gothenburg, Sweden

[PeterT]

Gore Bay, Canada

[drjd]

Yelets, Russia

Yelets is the oldest center of the Central Black Earth Region. It was mentioned in historical documents as early as 1146, when it belonged to the Princes of Ryazan. The town's position at the very south of Russian lands made it an easy prey for Turkic conquerors. The Mongols burned it in 1239, Uzbeg Khan ravaged it in 1316, Timur sacked it in 1395, and the Tatars devastated it in 1414.


View of Ascension Cathedral in Yelets, Russia

[cromag]

Scotch Plains, NJ

The Battle of Short Hills during the American Revolution took place in the Ash Swamp in Scotch Plains.

Originally Posted by wodin

Do you mean here?


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Hard to tell. It was covered in a layer of snow the whole time I was there!

[drjd]

Sydney
City in New South Wales, Australia.

Sydney, capital of New South Wales and one of Australia's largest cities, is best known for its harborfront Opera House, with a distinctive sail-like design. Massive Darling Harbor and Circular Quay are hubs of waterside life, with the towering, arched Harbor Bridge and esteemed Royal Botanic Gardens nearby. Sydney Tower’s 268m glass viewing platform, the Skywalk, offers 360-degree views of the city, harbor and suburbs.

[Phyllis41]

Yamato, Kanagawa, Japan

[drjd]

Oklahoma City, United States

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Yakutsk, Russia

[Bilbo1967]

Kiev, Ukraine

Did a couple of weeks work here last year. I heartily recommend it as a place to visit.

[cromag]

Victory Gardens, NJ


From Wikipedia:

Victory Gardens is Morris County's smallest municipality, measured both by size and population, and its most densely populated.

I used to live about 20 minutes from Victory Gardens. We used to joke that if you closed your eyes you'd miss it -- even going the speed limit of 25 MPH. Victory Gardens consists almost entirely of a few housing developments.

[drjd]

San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan is the capital and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States.


La Plaza, San Juan, ca. 1900

[wodin]

Naples, Italy

Naples is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Bronze Age Greek settlements were established in the Naples area in the second millennium BC. A larger colony – initially known as Parthenope, Παρθενόπη – developed on the Island of Megaride around the ninth century BC, at the end of the Greek Dark Ages. The city was refounded as Neápolis in the sixth century BC and became a lynchpin of Magna Graecia, playing a key role in the merging of Greek culture into Roman society and eventually becoming a cultural centre of the Roman Republic. Naples remained influential after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, serving as the capital city of the Kingdom of Naples between 1282 and 1816. Thereafter, in union with Sicily, it became the capital of the Two Sicilies until the unification of Italy in 1861. During the Neapolitan War of 1815, Naples strongly promoted Italian unification.

[Phyllis41]

Salem, Oregon, United States

[drjd]

Mobile, Alabama, United States

Mobile is home to an array of cultural influences with its mixed French, Spanish, Creole and Catholic heritage, in addition to British and African, distinguishing it from all other cities in the state of Alabama. The annual Carnival celebration is perhaps the best illustration of this. Mobile is the birthplace of Mardi Gras in the United States and has the oldest celebration, dating to the early 18th century during the French colonial period.