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Picacho Auxiliary Army Airfield #1 is today used by helicopters of the AZ National Guard, based at the nearby Silverbell Army Heliport, and consists of six short paved runways (they don't need to be very long as helicopters, not planes,…

Home to the New England Patriots, Gillette Stadium was still under construction when this photo was taken. You can also see the old Foxboro Stadium (which Gillette stadium has replaced) to the west. Thanks: Jason B, ironcladlou, Blitz, Rob &…

Doug described these things in Colorado as 'deep space satellites'. Can anyone confirm what they are? (Please, please don't say 'weather balloons'...) 😉 Update: Turns out that these are actually two parabolic dish antennas belonging to the Deep Space Exploration…

Here's a great double bridge shadow in New Orleans. Weirdly, Google Maps labels both bridges as the Greater New Orleans Bridge, and they also both appear to carry the same highway. Does traffic only go one way on each perhaps?…

One of more than 1,700 parks in New York City, Washington Square Park is probably one of the best known (after Central Park obviously). In 1889, to celebrate the centennial of George Washington's inauguracy as president, a large plaster and…

This is the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which is the replacement for the original one which famously collapsed on film in 1940 (the link is to the movie on Wikipedia in ogg format, there's loads of statistics there too). What's really…