This is the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral, France. More commonly known simply as “Notre Dame” (Wikipedia page), it’s a gothic cathedral on the Île de la Cité, surrounded by the river Seine. Construction began in 1163, but wasn’t finished until 1345!

Notre Dame is probably most famous as the location of Victor Hugo’s novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which raised awareness of the cathedral enough to help save it from being demolished in the early 19th Century. In our thumbnail you can clearly see the south tower which houses the cathedral’s famous bell, “Emmanuel”, which weighs 13 metric tons!

Arrggh, the bells, the bells!

Thanks: Salinga, Baudouin Raoult, John Riggs, George Armhold, Bennet Langlotz, Paul C., Thom van Vreeswijk, UnjourenOz and Carl-Uno Ohlsson.

One of the most recognized corporate symbols in the United States is that of the Target corporation, who have 1,351 stores in 47 of the 50 states.

Of those 1,351 stores we’ve found three which have a giant Target painted on the roof, all of which are unsurprisingly located near major international airports (not air force bases, because that would be silly ).

The first target store is in Rosemont (with the Allstate Arena just to the south) and lies in the flight paths to O’Hare International Airport.

Our second target is in Queens, New York City and is just east of La Guardia Airport.

Another store in Everett, a suburb of Boston, just west of Logan International Airport.

And lastly we zip across to Australia for this target, which I assumed was advertising for the benefit of those landing at Brisbane Airport but I was wrong, as noted in the comments by Neil…

The Target store is used as a reporting point for the Archerfiled aerodrome, which is to the West. The Target represents the entry point for aircraft entering the Archerfiled control zone from the East, and has nothing to do with the Brisbane Airport, which is to the North.

Although very similar looking the Target chain of Australia is actually a completely separate company to the U.S. version.

Thanks to the target spotting talent of Dan Hartung, Steve, El Warren, Mark, Kári Tulinius, Dann, Jason, Derek DYsart, dan_the_stud, Dave D, Ryan Toyota, Brian, Keith T, Erik Nygren, Infinity, Lee Bennett, Louis Koziarz, Eric Doherty, Carol & rascalking.

This bridge near Istanbul, Turkey looks likes it been smashed to pieces! Presumably it’s under construction, and they’re floating the pieces out into place. Either that or it’s some sort of freaky swing-bridge…

Thanks to Max and Lauri Kangas.

Daikanransha is a 115m Ferris Wheel on Odaiba, a island in Tokyo bay built on reclaimed land. There’s all sorts of cool looking buildings on Odaiba so have a good scroll around, I haven’t a clue what any of them are though.

Although not the elusive ‘World’s Largest Ferris Wheel‘ I think Daikanransha lays claim to the title of ‘world’s second largest’, with the previously posted Texas Wheel coming in 3rd place (Remember, the London Eye doesn’t count!).

Again, not the world’s largest, but here’s another cool ferris wheel in Japan. Can anyone name this one?

Thanks: Jim L, Jimmy Tu, Christian and of course, woowoowoo

Edinburgh Zoo opened way back in 1913 and is probably most famous for the King Penguins, who have a daily “Penguin Parade” around their Penguin pool to the west, but for the thumbnail shot I’ve gone for the Darwin maze, which is shaped like a turtle.

I was browsing around for signs of life (very easy when you’ve been there hundres of times) and to the north there’s a couple of white splodges in the Zebra park, they could be Zebra?