/r/whereisthis
A subreddit to help users identify unknown locations from a picture, drawing, painting, or from a textual description. Post titles MUST have descriptive information and context, as low effort posts will be removed. Please read the rules before submitting.
Posts titled "Where Is This??" or similar may result in a ban.
✨Under new management!✨ (May 2023)
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tl;dr:
Submissions: Use a descriptive title, include as much context as you can, wait 1 week before reposting. Unknown locations only, no challenges or guessing games.
Privacy: No private homes, no personal social media in links or screenshots, no private addresses in comments, no contemporary photos of minors, no ID'ing people. If you think a post violates this rule, contact the moderators.
Answers: Guesses are OK, avoid duplicate answers, report Rule 2 violations. Jokes and unhelpful parent comments will be removed, repeat violators may receive a ban.
Solving: Reply "Solved!" to first correct answer and change post flair to "Solved", do not delete or ignore solved posts without acknowledging solver
Behavior: Be respectful, no insults or bigotry
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/r/TipOfMyTongue - for remembering things
/r/RBI - for solving mysteries
/r/WhatIsThisPainting - for identifying paintings
/r/GoogleMaps - Google Maps discussion
/r/GoogleMapsShenanigans - funny Google Maps finds
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/r/GeoGuessr - The #1 geography game
/r/PictureGame - For geolocation challenges and more!
/r/GeoPuzzle - A subreddit to post geolocation challenges
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Photo from an internet meme. Blue pedestrian sign indicates EU, looks eastern to me.
23:38 UTC
How many locations can you ID in this Röyksopp video? Are they real locations?
22:51 UTC
This cityscape is from the game Mouthwashing. Does anyone know where it is?
22:21 UTC
My Grandpa in the 1940s. He was from Seattle and, because of the war, was transferred to the Bay Area, Indiana, and Boston before coming back to Seattle.
21:18 UTC
I am looking for 2 countryside houses in the north of England.
The second house is from deleted scenes of a tv show, the all thing can be seen here : https://youtu.be/59P9QEb1MOg?feature=shared&t=429 - You can see several buildings in the distance, on different shots, but nothing really useful that I know of.
Because the rest of the scenes were filmed here, I think these houses are located in the triangle between Liverpool - Manchester - Preston. I flew over a large part of the area on Maps for several hours but to no avail. If anyone has any ideas or leads to explore, I am interested.
16:46 UTC
Location Help in Northern Ireland
Hello all! My wife and I are currently vacationing about Ireland and are lookin for some help tracking down where some of her family used to live. Her family is from Donegal and Down counties, the attached pictures are believed to have been taken in County Down. Any help y'all can offer would be much appreciated so we can visit these sites while we're here!
Edit: These photos were provided to me by my mother in law, handed down from her mom.
13:13 UTC
Where is this place in the painting?
A friend of mine has asked me to do some research and so here I am, reaching out to the power of Reddit! Does anyone recognise this painting? Who was it painted by? Is it a real place? The location of purchase is suspected to be in Edinburgh but awaiting confirmation on this.
Basically, this painting was bought by my friends' parents a while back. It holds great sentimental value to the family. I believe that the story is this; her Mother had spotted it whilst going past a charity shop window on a bus and loved it instantly. Eventually they went to see it and ended up purchasing by it! It has been proudly owned for many years with little knowledge about who painted it or the location in the picture. They had it reframed a few years back and the framer actually asked if he could buy it from them - alerting to the fact that it might be possibly worth something.
Recently my friend sadly lost her mother and had thought it might be a nice sentimental place to visit with her Dad in memory of her Mother - that is, should the place in the paining actually exist.
If anyone may have a hint about who the artist may be and if the scene actually exists in real life. There is no signature on the painting and they have been unable to search for it without a location. It could be that its entirely fictional. Presumably it might have come from someone’s house (in Edinburgh) as it was a charity shop find.
11:54 UTC
Photo somewhere in the middel region of France my grandfather has hanging on the wall for years now. Could you guys help me find where this is?
10:14 UTC
Where in Scotland is this?
08:48 UTC
Photo of my dad and me somewhere in Colorado in the 90's, anyone recognize the ridge behind us?
No one in my family remembers where we were, it was definitely somewhere we visited as tourists because I didn't grow up knowing anyone with a ranch or a hay barn.
I grew up in Denver, so likely within a couple hours.
My dad passed away in 2017, and id-ing this photo feels important in a weird grief way #iykyk
TIA!
03:08 UTC
Ayudenme donde queda esto, mi amigo me anda chingando en q parte de españa queda ubicado JANSJKNJAS
02:23 UTC
This is in San Diego I’m fairly sure - but I want to know where exactly. I think it may be near the harbor downtown. Any help would be appreciated.
00:58 UTC
Can someone pls help me find this road it’s in north Ireland
22:44 UTC
My parents are trying to find where they took this on Skyline Drive, circa 1992. Any ideas? We tried several outlooks with no luck.
21:15 UTC
Hi guys, I would be grateful if you can help me locate this panorama. All I know is that it has been taken in the outskirts of Medellin, Colombia.
21:12 UTC
Mountain range shown in Young Sheldon intro - is it actually in TX or somewhere else?
I am trying to figure out which mountain range is shown on the background for the “Young Sheldon” show intro.
This is definitely not around the Davis Mountains as the colors do not fit what I have actually seen around the Davis Mountains in Texas.
Can’t be Big Bend either, just due to the shape of the mountains.
Any ideas?
17:58 UTC
Where is this? (The only information we have about it, is that it is anti-protestant)
16:21 UTC
Big brick complex north of 84 in Connecticut
I was driving on 84 in Connecticut (I believe). Suddenly, off the highway there appeared a large brick complex. It had a tower, and was clearly Victorian and built between 1870 and 1920. It looked 100% like the prison in Shawshank Redemption. Due to its location, it definitely is not. I’ve been pouring over google maps and I cannot find this complex of buildings. There was barbed wire around the area.
14:33 UTC
Matt’s Surprise
My buddy’s birthday is coming up and a bunch of us are planning to surprise him at his favourite fishing spot with some new gear. Problem is no one knows where it is? Anyone have any idea? Somewhere in Ontario.
07:27 UTC
Which church is it
05:49 UTC
apple tv ambient screen
was wondering where this was? tried finding online, boyfriend said it may be israel?
03:20 UTC
What’s this street and building behind her in New York?
The building that splits the street
02:00 UTC
backdrop I’m using for a film set, wondering where it is!
22:51 UTC
What city did I fly over recently? (sorry for the blurriness)
22:45 UTC
Where was I flying over on Oct 24, North America, far north Quebec?
Flying home from Dublin to Chicago, our route took us over Greenland (too cloudy) then we hit the North American continent at Labrador. Flew seemingly forever in a southwesterly direction, until these were the first lights I saw. I'm curious what town this tiny speck of light is. (that's the engine lower right)
19:34 UTC