(International) Guess the Location 2 a.k.a. Part Deux (see rules post 1)

Somewhere in Pretoria maybe? That’s just loosely based on those signs and dates, couldn’t get anywhere going down the architectural route.

Finally got there, never would have without that second picture.



It’s the Cathedral Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Port Elizabeth. I spent way too long on that one!

I can post another angle if this proves difficult, but I think there’s enough to work with here:

Well that didn’t last long at all. You’re up Moose.

Its quite annoying, I've found the ferris wheel on shutterstock but there is no caption so I've no idea where it was taken

I'm going to say St Petersburg

Going purely based on your (possible) clue here, Hammerfest?

Three More Big Sleeps wrote: »

Fellow Bryson fan, Marty? You're up

Honestly I just skimmed that book a while back, I really did no research beyond googling to double check I had the name of the town right.

It’s a good picture of the place though because you make it look much smaller than it is, I’d be ages looking for it otherwise.

Three More Big Sleeps wrote: »

I'm still not sure if the "heinous" clue referred to Vlad's conversion to Christianity, the siege (of Sevastopol) at the end of the Crimean War, or something else I've missed at this late hour.

In any event, your photo just about screams Russian Orthodox, so I started with Ukraine* (see the ferris wheel episode earlier) and just got lucky

(* Crimean Peninsula disputed as Ukrainian, apparently.)

I'll sleep on it and post another in the AM.

Well first of all the one pictured is the Sevastopol church, which is a copy of the Chersonesus Cathedral. You guessed both which is perfectly fine but the clue refers to that particular church in Sevastopol.

It’s in reference to the rumoured killing of Joachim Levitsky, a martyr of the Russian Orthodox Church who was said to have been crucified within that church, hung upside down on the doors of the iconostasis (hence “...at death’s door”). It’s more of a religious myth than anything and his true fate is unknown, but I thought it would make for an interesting (if not a bit grim) riddle.

Wow, thats incredible that Niley put those two together! I'm well impressed!

I went down a slightly different path at looking at images of regional US postal service offices on google images. i think I'd of been at it a while.

niley wrote: »

TMBS was watching Dante's Peak yesterday, then called the image dante.jpg today, and on Wikipedia for Dante's Peak is "Exterior shots of the Point Dume Post Office in Malibu, California, were used as..." so that I would say is the first time I used clue to solve anything.

I'll throw one up later this evening.

Ah that makes a lot more sense.

It turns out I actually drove right past it, I've done the road trip from San Fran to LA going via Big Sur, I was probably too busy looking for a Dunkin Donuts to take note of it.

Assisi?

niley wrote: »

Nopers.

Is it in Italy?