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And I was seeing guano, or bird ****… :-)

Looks like a beach covered in guano. So… Peru?

I mean, it had the name written on it, didn’t it? Well done in seeing thru the decoy. Maybe this one would have been a bit more challenging? You’re up, @cmac62.

A friend of mine sent me this one a couple of days ago:

I had no idea. But the clue was the word fragments on that tram: “…TAWATOM…otel &”, which would be the Potawatomi Hotel & Casino in Milwaukee. Then I checked that the tram matched what they have there. Bingo.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Nice streetcars there.

Beat by a minute, again!

Florida State Fairgrounds, East Lake-Orient Park, Florida

Yes! Chinchón castle it is. The town is better known for its beautiful plaza, which doubles as a town square, a bullfight pen, and has been featured in movies from Orson Welles to Almodóvar. For a town of 5000, it definitely punches above its weight. The chinchona tree, from which the malaria...

C’mon, guys… How many castles in Spain? (Oops, Google says more than 2500…) What if I tell you that this one is in the the greater Madrid region in a town that is well known among the Spanish but a little off the beaten tourist path. And it has a funny name.

I looked up that Berlanga castle and it’s impressive. Looks much bigger and more intact than the ruin I visited, which is in a small picturesque medieval village.

Nope.

Spain is correct. The Iberian crusades are better known as the Reconquista (others argue they were altogether different from the crusades, but I digress…) But where? Name the town.

Let’s go back to the Old Continent…

Not Chile, but there may be a historical link with the architecture you see.

Not York, not in the UK.

Not Turkey. Not that front of the Crusades, which had a different name on that end.

Good guess and great beer trivia about the ToL. But not Acre, and the crusades were just about done and dusted in this part of the world when this ruin was built.

I’ll play by the rules this time. And stick to the theme.

Looks like the Tower of London to me. With Tower Bridge in the background.