Photo location game · Americas
United States landmarks quiz: guess where 33 photos were taken
33 places in United States, each with a photo, a short fact and its spot on the map. Play five of them here, then look through the rest below.
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Five photos from United States. Tap the map where you think each one was taken.
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Where they are
30 on the mapAll 33 places
The copper statue on Liberty Island in New York Harbor.
Photo: William Warby / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The red suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate strait.
Photo: Frank Schulenburg / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The neon-lit commercial crossroads of Midtown Manhattan.
Photo: Nielsoncaetanosalmeron / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The white block letters on Mount Lee above Los Angeles.
Photo: Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A mile-deep gorge carved by the Colorado River in Arizona.
Photo: Mgimelfarb / CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Four US presidents carved into a South Dakota granite face.
Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
A flying-saucer observation tower from the 1962 World’s Fair.
Photo: Seattle Municipal Archives / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
An Art Deco skyscraper rising over Midtown Manhattan.
Photo: Dllu / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A narrow slot canyon of wave-like sculpted sandstone.
Photo: Uploaded by Meckimac / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Red sandstone buttes towering over a desert plain.
Photo: Jakub Fryš / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A glacial valley walled by granite cliffs and waterfalls.
Photo: Diliff / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A rainbow-ringed hot spring in a volcanic national park.
Photo: Dietmar Rabich / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
An amphitheatre of orange rock spires called hoodoos.
Photo: Michael Gäbler / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A horseshoe meander of the Colorado River in a red canyon.
Photo: Luca Galuzzi (Lucag) / CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
The five-sided headquarters of the US military, one of the largest office buildings on Earth.
Photo: Touch Of Light / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The hottest, driest and lowest place in North America, 86 metres below sea level.
Photo: Photographersnature / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Hawaii's highest volcano, whose summit hosts some of the world's largest telescopes.
Photo: Robert Linsdell from St. Andrews, Canada / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The island prison in San Francisco Bay that held Al Capone.
Photo: Frank Schulenburg / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Granite cliffs, giant sequoias and waterfalls in California's Sierra Nevada.
Photo: Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A 4,392-metre glacier-clad volcano looming over Seattle.
Photo: Walter Siegmund (talk) / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Greek-temple memorial with a seated Lincoln, at the end of the National Mall.
Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jagged granite peaks rising straight from the Wyoming plains, with old Mormon barns.
Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The highest summit in the contiguous United States, at 4,421 metres.
Photo: Cullen328 / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Cliff dwellings built by the Ancestral Puebloans 800 years ago in Colorado.
Photo: Massimo Catarinella / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The 'Forbidden Island' of Hawaii, privately owned and closed to outsiders since 1864.
Photo: Christopher P. Becker (Polihale) / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The main island of American Samoa, with a harbour almost splitting it in two.
Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The deepest lake in the US, filling the caldera of a collapsed volcano.
Photo: WolfmanSF / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The world's first national park, with geysers, hot springs and bison herds.
Photo: James St. John from Newark, Ohio / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The residence of every US president since 1800.
Photo: Matt H. Wade / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Glaciers, temperate rainforest and wild Pacific beaches on one peninsula.
Photo: Michael Gäbler / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Georgian hall where the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776.
Photo: Mys 721tx / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The two-mile green axis of Washington, from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial.
Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
More than 2,700 brass stars set into the pavements of Hollywood Boulevard.
Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsHow to place them
The set splits into cities and canyons. New York has the Statue of Liberty, Times Square and the Empire State Building. Washington has the White House, the Lincoln Memorial, the National Mall and the Pentagon across the river, with Philadelphia's Independence Hall between the two cities. San Francisco has the Golden Gate and Alcatraz, Los Angeles the Hollywood Sign and the Walk of Fame, Seattle the Space Needle with Mount Rainier 100 km to the south-east.
The red rock is all one corner. The Grand Canyon, Antelope Canyon, Horseshoe Bend, Monument Valley, Bryce Canyon and Mesa Verde are within 350 km of each other where Arizona, Utah and Colorado meet; pin anything orange and sculpted to 37 north, 111 west and you will be close. Yosemite, Mount Whitney and Death Valley are the next group west, in eastern California. Yellowstone, the Grand Prismatic Spring and Grand Teton are one cluster in Wyoming, with Mount Rushmore 570 km east of them in South Dakota.
Three are far from the mainland: Mauna Kea and Niʻihau in Hawaii, Tutuila in American Samoa. The Hawaiian pair are 540 km apart, at opposite ends of the chain. Crater Lake and Olympic National Park fill the Pacific north-west between Seattle and San Francisco.
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How many places in United States are in the game?
33, from Olympic National Park in the north to Tutuila in the south. A round on this page plays five of them. The map does not reach Mauna Kea, Niʻihau and Tutuila.
Which places in United States are the hardest to find?
The hard ones include Antelope Canyon, Arizona; Monument Valley; and Yosemite Valley. You lose half the points for every 693 km you miss by.
Which photo is the easiest to score full points on?
Death Valley. You can be up to 150 km away in any direction and still lose no points.