Viewpoints – Placecloud

Bellingham, United States. Roosevelt Road ends at a small park, built around Monument 1, the last boundary monument on the 49th Parallel (or the first, headed in the other direction), marking the westernmsost point of land on the border between Canada and the USA.

Little Dalles (historical), United States. The Boundary Dam is operated by Seattle City Light, the electrical utility for that city, and provides up to 40% of the power for Seattle, nearly 250 miles away. The powerhouse was built inside the cliff, and generates more than 1,000 Megawatts. This dam is on the Pend Oreille River in western Washington, just a few miles south of the international border with Canada. The river it floods forms a long lake through the river valley, 17 miles upstream to the next dam, at Box Canyon. Downstream, the swollen Pend Oreille River crosses the boundary line northward, and arcs through Canada for 12 miles. The river passes through the Seven Mile Dam in Canada, and then another at Waneta, just before joining the main channel of the Columbia, and crosses the boundary for the last time, back into the USA, where it meets its next empoundment, the Grand Coulee Dam, 100 miles downstream.

West Corners (historical), United States. A movie set depicting the residential street in Watertown where the police hunted for and found the surviving Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, remains, decaying, on the edge of the old runways of the former Air Station at South Weymouth.

Fort Winthrop (historical), United States. In 1971, the Boston Gas Company commissioned the artist (and nun) Corita Kent to turn what many considered to be an industrial eyesore into a popular landmark.

West Baker (historical), United States. The town of Boron is unusual as it is located between the world's largest Borax mine, visible to the north, and one of the nation's largest rocket test areas, visible on the hill to the south.

West Baker (historical), United States. At a remote desert site six miles north of Kramer Junction is a former military base and Federal Prison Camp, with an active FAA radar facility.

Bellingham, United States. In 2005 a drug-smuggling tunnel was discovered by border officials, just a hundred yards east of the Lynden/Aldergrove Port of Entry. It connected a Quonset hut on 0 Avenue, on the Canadian side, to a house in the trees on the south side of Boundary Avenue, on the US side.

Cupheag (historical), United States. Some may call it a compound of follies, this is indeed a curious collection of unusual architecture amassed and built by the Boothe brothers, who lived at the site from the early 1900s to 1949.

Dublin, Ireland. My mother Cherry had a penchant for lying down beneath trees in our garden and in wild Wicklow.

Buell (historical), United States. Numerous land speed records have been achieved at Bonneville, on the vast and flat natural pavement of salt: the 300, 400, 500, and 600 mile per hour land speed barrier were all broken here over the years.