Viewpoints – Placecloud (English)

Amarillo, United States. Helium Time Columns is a work of public art outside of the Discovery Center, a small science museum in the helium capital of the world, Amarillo, Texas.

Drawbridge (historical), United States. Located at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay, Alviso is an old port town with a dried up marina.

Alcatraz, United States. Alcatraz Island, the notorious prison that once housed 260 federal offenders per year on average, is now visited by over one million people a year. Tourists are permitted to see the main prison areas, however much of the rambling old facility is off-limits.

Hancock (historical), United States. The Alpine Tunnel is an abandoned railway tunnel, east of the old railway and mining town of Pitkin. It was a 1,772 feet long tunnel built for a narrow gauge rail line that ran from Denver to Gunnison.

Yuma, United States. This 80-mile-long canal brings water from the Colorado River to the citizens and agricultural industry of the Imperial Valley.

North Hero, United States. This official building is a shared Port of Entry, intentionally built on the boundary, allowing customs and immigrations officers from both countries to work in one structure.

Perea (historical), United States. One of Intel's seven large manufacturing locations in the country, and one of the largest single employers in the state, this plant employs around 6,000 people at its peak, making memory chips for computers.

The Albany Research Center is a US Department of Energy research site with a few dozen buildings, covering 44 acres, near Salem, Oregon’s capital city. The center was founded in 1943 for metallurgical research by the Bureau of Mines, to study strategic mineral processing, including for national defense and, soon thereafter, nuclear weapons. The lab has been involved in a diverse array of innovations in industrial processing and fabrication technologies, especially related to nuclear energy production. The lab’s work on radioactive materials like thorium and uranium led to contamination that is still being addressed. The lab isnow part of the multi-site National Energy Technology Laboratory.

Oakland, United States. The undeveloped Albany Dump peninsula (known as the Bulb) is composed of twisted metal, broken concrete, and other fragments of the urban landscape dumped into the Bay up until 1987. It has become a creative sculpture park and homeless campsite.

Anchorage, United States. An aviation museum for the state of Alaska, a state where small aircraft and bush piloting is especially important. Located next to the airport at Anchorage.