#landmarks

[thaliawashere]

Standing on The Freedom Trail at the corner of Hanover and Marshall Streets, Boston, Massachusetts.

[odinsblog]

Thread on alternative views of iconic landmarks you (probably) haven’t seen before 🧵

1. Mount Fuji from a plane window.

2. Arc de Triomphe, Paris

3. Aerial view of Kaaba, Mecca

4. A view of the Taj Mahal that you do not usually see, highlighting the stark contrast between opulence and poverty divided by a single wall.

5. Top down view of the Statue of Liberty

6. The backside of Tutankhamun's burial mask

7. The dome of St. Peter’s Basilica seen through Rome's most famous keyhole.

8. The worn steps of the Tower of Pisa

9. Photographer Alexander Ladanivskyy, in collaboration with the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism, captured an extraordinary drone shot of the Great Pyramid of Giza from an unusual perspective.

10. The Shanhai Pass, where the Great Wall of China meets the ocean.

for images 11 - 25, please see the source, here

[nemfrog]

Belém Tower, Lisbon, Portugal. Fair Lusitania. 1874. Cover detail.

Internet Archive

[pratchettquotes]

There was a village tucked in a narrow valley between steep woods. It wasn't a large village, and wouldn't have shown up on a map of the mountains. It barely showed up on a map of the village.

It was, in fact, one of those places that exist merely so that people can have come from them. The universe is littered with them: hidden villages, windswept little towns under wide skies, isolated cabins on chilly mountains, whose only mark on history is to be the incredibly ordinary place where something extraordinary started to happen. Often there is no more than a little plaque to reveal that, against all gynecological probability, someone very famous was born halfway up a wall.

Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

The best picture I have ever taken through the windshield of a moving car from the back seat of said car.

[gemsofgreece]

The White Tower is a monument and museum on the waterfront of the city of Thessaloniki, capital of the region of Macedonia in northern Greece. The present tower replaced an old Byzantine fortification, known to have been mentioned around the 12th century, that the Ottoman Empire reconstructed to fortify the city's harbour sometime after Sultan Murad II captured Thessaloniki in 1430. The tower became a notorious prison and scene of mass executions during the period of Ottoman rule, earning the name “Red Tower” and “Tower of Blood” (Turkish: Kanlı Kule) . The tower was substantially remodeled and its exterior was whitewashed after Greece gained control of the city in 1912. The White Tower has been adopted as the symbol of the city.

Photo by pastelidis_greece on Instagram.

[mapsontheweb]

Landmarks chosen for the America the Beautiful Quarters Program (2010-2021)

by newcastle104

[floridaboiler]

[cpleblow]

Landscape Arch

©Cpleblow Photography

[damn-these-eyes]

[nemfrog]

Niagara Falls. Niagara : falls, river, frontier. 1903.

Internet Archive

[o-link]

Germany’s Historic Landmarks by Winter Train

[urbanicons]

Malaga, Spain

Crocheted street shade

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

[it8bit]

Pixel Art Landmarks

Series by Görkem Gülen