Name That Skyline - Picture Game

[SteveH aka shetc]

Correct, you're up.

This town was built in the mid 00s for reasons that nobody really understands. You can be the proud new owner for around 5 million US$.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/pr...own-in-the-middle-of-nowhere-nows-your-chance

I hear it's inhabited by robots

 

[Pkrd]

I hear it's inhabited by robots

It’s so out of the way even robots refuse to live there.

 

[bracconiere]

This town was built in the mid 00s

somewhere between 007, and 009? lol

 

[govner1]

Just enough skyline to qualify:
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Yellowstone

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

Nope, not Yellowstone

 

[govner1]

Fly Geyser, Nevada

 

[tracer bullet]

Hah! I recognize it and have seen it in person. I didn't remember the name, so I looked that part up. It's "Pinkerton hot springs". It's just north of Durango, CO. I have seen it a few times, a family friend has a townhouse there and has been gracious enough to let us go stay in it for free several times over the years. This thing is at a pull-off on the side of the road.

Related funny story - there are a bunch of hot springs there, we went to one twice during one of our visits. My wife's swimsuit turned a rust color and her feet and toenails especially turned orange! Other parts of her weren't affected nor me at all but something about her feet - LOL.

Hot springs are everywhere out there, and constantly bringing minerals to the surface that get deposited.

 

[bracconiere]

Pinkerton

good detective skills! i was thinking CO...

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

It's "Pinkerton hot springs". It's just north of Durango, CO.

That is correct! Named after the man and his hotel that once stood there. On the road from Durango to Silverton (we missed the train).

 

[tracer bullet]

Hopefully I haven't done this city yet. Hard to remember.

 

[bracconiere]

looks like a drawing?

 

[tracer bullet]

I'm sure it's heavily photoshopped / HDR. It was sort of all the rage a decade ago.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Lighting up a bridge in that bright a blue feels something that's more USian than European.
Clearly A Big River - but the arches in the foreground start by sort of going parallel to the bank before curving across the water. It looks too shallow to be an aqueduct but the general vibe feels 19th century so I'm thinking a railway bridge as the only traffic that would need a curve like that at that time.

So 19th-century railway bridge on a big river in the US. No idea beyond that but on the basis that it's the longest so the odds are best - Mississippi?

 

[tracer bullet]

All good thoughts. Indeed an old railroad bridge, now pedestrian (& bike). And that is the Mississippi.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Good thoughts by @Northern_Brewer indeed. I don't know the place, but the foreground looks like a mill run. I'm sure this place is north of St. Louis. There just aren't cities that straddle the Mississippi until you get to Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. I'll need a bit of time to narrow that down.

EDIT: Mill Run Park and Stone Arch Bridge, Minneapolis, MN

 

[tracer bullet]

Good thoughts by @Northern_Brewer indeed. I don't know the place, but the foreground looks like a mill run. I'm sure this place is north of St. Louis. There just aren't cities that straddle the Mississippi until you get to Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. I'll need a bit of time to narrow that down.

EDIT: Mill Run Park and Stone Arch Bridge, Minneapolis, MN

That's it. The foreground was a spot where water turned a mill a long time ago. There are grain buildings on each side. Practically all the flour for the US came through this little spot for a while. That's the new 35W bridge, replacing the one that collapsed about 15 years ago. The other direction would be downtown and the skyscrapers and such.

 

[D.B.Moody]

I'll stick with @tracer bullet and post a bridge that I don't think I've posted before. (You can decide which of those is the theme.) This was taken in 2011:

 

[bracconiere]

a suspension draw bridge...on a DEEP river?

edit: i mean cable staved bridge? apparently....

 

[Northern_Brewer]

Overall vibe is Germanic, but even on the Rhine you don't get cruise ships that big (and in particular tall) so it's not an inland river, we have access to the sea.

I don't recognise it as the Low Countries or the German North Sea coast, so I'm going to say Baltic rather than North Sea?

 

[catalanotte]

Close to Germany but right on about the Baltic, Vansu Bridge in Riga Latvia

 

[D.B.Moody]

Riga it is. You're up @catalanotte.

 

[catalanotte]

Never been here but searched around for a cool landmark/skyline. Good Luck

 

[tracer bullet]

Well... Pretty sure it isn't the US. Australia came to mind but that pink & white business in the bottom right has an Asian feel to it. Guessing coastal mountains not a lake but really don't know.

I'll start with - Japan.

 

[bracconiere]

some place in hong kong got this without a name

edit: Repulse bay, Hong Kong

 

[catalanotte]

Hong Kong it is, shopping area and landmark called The Pulse. . @bracconiere is up next.

I like your logic @tracer bullet, got pretty close with some good reads from the picture.

 

[bracconiere]

well here goes...

 

[pvpeacock]

Chicago?

 

[bracconiere]

nope

 

[tracer bullet]

Definitely not Chicago. Doesn't look like Europe. But does have the soccer / football nets on the beach. Long shallow sloped beach too.

Feels South America. Argentina?

 

[bracconiere]

South America. Argentina?

not South America...