/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.
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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.
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Behavior: Be respectful, no insults or bigotry
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/r/WhatIsThisPainting - for identifying paintings
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Where are my great-grandmother's ashes spread?
Yesterday, my mother and I had a wonderful day surprising and catching up with a great uncle we had lost touch with over 30 years ago due to a family riff. He shared with us a framed photo of the remote place he spread my great-grandmother's ashes which he accessed on horseback.
He is in his 90s and couldn't remember the name of the lake. The best we could recollect was somewhere in central Oregon, maybe the Strawberry Wilderness? It would be wonderful to visit this spot if we could find it.
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Me and my mum around 25 years ago
Looking back at some old photos as I'm making an album of all the places in the world I've been too, I was quite lucky as a child to visit a lot of countries, but unfortunately none of them are labeled and I have no idea where this was taken
19:32 UTC
Unknown American Bridge
This is a watercolor of the Delta Queen, the artist is from Ohio. Curious to know where this is!
18:47 UTC
Found on Instagram, circa 1958
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Photo my dad took in early 1950s on a RCAF flight between Naples, Italy and Canada. Any idea where it could be?
I’d be curious to see what the coastline of this town looks like now.
11:26 UTC
I saw this wallpaper on a random computer and I’m absolutely fascinated with the landscape. Any chance someone knows the location?
05:35 UTC
Where is this?
Hi, This is my mother who was passed. Taken in the 70s or 80s. She’s from Kentucky. Thank you!
04:51 UTC
Craft beer taproom on east coast (Connecticut?) with a bathroom that had wallpaper that has bats with wolf heads, old tube TV with cartoons playing, pez dispensers in a display case.
*update: wolf wallpaper picture in comments 'June 2013'
*update 2: had a friend who was there confirm that this was actually in Rhode Island.
This was probably 10 years ago. I did a job on the east coast, I want to say it was in Connecticut (correction: "Rhode Island"). We went to this taproom for lunch that had great beers and good food. I think I remember skate decks on the walls as part of the decor. We enjoyed it so much that our lunch turned into hanging out all afternoon and then having dinner there too.
Our strongest memory of this place was the bathroom. The bathroom was real trippy. It had an old tube TV in the corner of the bathroom playing old cartoons like Popeye, Loony Tunes, etc. The bathroom also had display cases with Pez dispensers and another with action figures. I remember at least one wall had wallpaper on it that had bats (correction: "eagles") with wolf heads on it.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? Location? Any pictures? Thank you!
04:48 UTC
Need help locating this place in Europe, attempts to locate it myself was unsuccessful:(.
Photo taken of my grandparents who have sadly passed away.
04:09 UTC
My Grandfather in WWII. Possibly Avignon, France.
19:49 UTC
Where is this in Maine, USA?
I know this is a long shot but hoping for help! My parents lived in Brunswick/Bath, ME and I assume this picture was taken somewhere near there? Both have passed so I have no one to verify this location. Thanks in advance!
19:33 UTC
Where is this? It is driving me crazy
19:00 UTC
Mystery Church in England
I’ve had this photo for years, handed down in my grandmother’s belongings. I have no idea who the people in the photo are, or why they are there. The photo is about 150 years old. I think the church is likely to be in West Midlands / Staffordshire area but I’ve never managed to find out where it could be. I thought this would be worth a try!
15:47 UTC
TUMS commercial location
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Over Saudi , from doha, what is this? Some circular ufo site, in Saudi? Or Iran?
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Children’s Museum(?) with Pirate Ship
As a child, we went to a children's museum (or maybe indoor play place) with a huge pirate ship along the back wall. The main room was huge, and had "cubicle" type structures with chests of costumes and plastic stuff to climb on. The pirate ship was in its own chest-high "enclosure" with a sculpted floor that looked like waves, covered in blue carpet. I was able to get out of the pirate ship - I don't remember how - and climb up and down the waves. I seem to recall it being a fairly "realistic" pirate ship - it wasn't stylized, it looked like it was made of wood- but I wouldn't be surprised if it was soft foam or something. You boarded by going up a long narrow rope ladder styled walkway. It was scaled to feel like a large boat to a child, 2-3 of us could have run around the deck pretty comfortably.
This would have been the mid to late 90s. My parents don't remember anything about it. Google has found me nothing helpful. I have been thinking about it ever since.
Some possible locations and trips we took around that time, all USA - this is just what I remember, not definitive. Thanks for any help!
Indianapolis Sanibel Island, Florida ?Other locales in Florida? Arizona New York City Philadelphia
04:29 UTC
Looking for the location of this lake in Germany (Photo ~15 years old)
21:57 UTC
The Sopranos Promo poster photo location
20:44 UTC
Maybe mining area in the southwest USA?
Found these in a random adult area on reddit. I edited out some of the objectional areas so the MS photo editor automatically repaired a couple of the areas so they look a bit funky there. It reminds me a lot of a couple of places I go in Colorado, but I'm sure its more like CA.
20:40 UTC
Algeria, 1939-1940, in the area of Oran, probably Beni-Saf?
Hi everyone, I'm trying to identify the place of these pictures, taken in 1939 or 1940 (Maximum 1941 because one of these people was dead in 1941/1942). They were living in the region of Oran (Algeria), probably in Beni-Sef. Thank you !
18:22 UTC
Picture at my clinic
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Sewage Plant in Virginia
I bought this at a thrift store around Richmond or Petersburg VA in 2014. It's been in every bathroom I've had since. I've always wondered where this plant was/is located. They must have been really proud of it to frame it. I'm guessing it's from the 80s due to the blue s-10 or Nissan in the photo
02:15 UTC
Somewhere in the Yunnan province of China.
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