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burun wrote:I cannot believe I missed the giant Ramses when I have been in Chi. Putting it on my list.

That house is ridiculous. Back in the early '80s, around the first time the "Treasures of King Tutankhamun" museum tour came around, this wealthy family built a pyramid-shaped house and opened a souvenir shop selling crappy Egyptian-style trinkets at an insane mark-up. Later, they covered the house in gold leaf and then added the big Ramses statue.

If you drive the tollway North towards Kenosha, Wisconsin from Chicago you can see the Ramses. It's just North of Great America. I personally don't think it's worth actually going to the house, doing the tour or buying any of their overpriced junk, but it's kinda cool to see it from the highway as you're driving along. "Just another roadside attraction".

emmanuelle cunt wrote:

Is that really real?

Wow.

It is like the mouth of Hades.

emmanuelle cunt wrote:World's largest hole in the ground

Hole-y shit that's a big hole. Kinda awe inspiring in a who gives a fuck about the planet way.

burun wrote:
Is that really real?

Wow.

It is like the mouth of Hades.

Yup, it's on google earth (in low res, though)




This thread is awesome.

Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. The world's largest radio telescope, and also the world's largest dish antenna.






The dish:





Underneath the dish:



The receiver:



Suspension system for the receiver:

Crazy Horse Memorial (still under construction)

As an architect this offends me slightly, but I'm equally facinated by it

These live in the rivers Of Arkansas and Mississippi. Sleep lightly.

More Building







The first two are Gehry
The last one, I dont know, I just like big sombreros

Last one,
This is about 20 miles from here