I found this on a random photo site and cannot for the life of me figure out what city it is.  Anyone know?

Got me. I just spent too much time looking, though!

 

It's not Venice, and I'm quite sure it's not in Holland or Flanders. I don't think it's Birmingham or St. Petersburg. Color me stumped!

Stockholm?

I think it looks like Stockholm also...maybe  Copenhagan?

I don't think it's either of those. It shouldn't be hard to find the spot in the photo on Google Maps, if you can guess the right city. It has a fork in a canal or small river, with no roads immediately along the sides of the water, but one crossing through the near the point of the "island".

 

This definitely looks like it's taken in a city center, I'm pretty sure it's European, and it's not one of the enormous capitals. So the unique scene should be able to be spotted pretty easily in a satellite or map view of a small city center.

 

I don't think the architecture looks Scandinavian or Dutch.

Liverpool? (probably not)

I asked someone I know who lives in Sweeden, and she said she didn't recognize it, but that it appeared to be in Denmark or The Netherlands.

I asked someone I know who lives in Sweeden, and she said she didn't recognize it, but that it appeared to be in Denmark or The Netherlands.

 

I will be very surprised if this is the case!

Architecturally, it looks like Hamburg (though I'm too lazy to look it up on Google maps).

Architecturally, it looks like Hamburg (though I'm too lazy to look it up on Google maps).

 

^Winner.

 

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=hamburg&sll=53.600655,9.968719&sspn=0.362638,1.229095&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Hamburg,+Germany&ll=53.545516,10.002623&spn=0,0.009602&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=53.546029,10.002082&panoid=5e85YuWdB8pPQFvrSdptwQ&cbp=12,244.49,,0,7.82

Holy shit. 

 

And it's proven: Architecture is what makes a city.

Architecturally, it looks like Hamburg (though I'm too lazy to look it up on Google maps).

 

^Winner.

 

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=hamburg&sll=53.600655,9.968719&sspn=0.362638,1.229095&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Hamburg,+Germany&ll=53.545516,10.002623&spn=0,0.009602&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=53.546029,10.002082&panoid=5e85YuWdB8pPQFvrSdptwQ&cbp=12,244.49,,0,7.82

 

Anyone else see those two chicks posing for the streetview car? Nice.

Good job, CDM!

 

I thought possibly Germany, but there are so many midsized cities I just didn't bother looking. I've even been to Hamburg, but couldn't pick it out!

 

Edit: Also, good job, Scrabble!

Woah ColDay, you know your cities! Remind me to schedule a trip to Germany soon...

Architecturally, it looks like Hamburg (though I'm too lazy to look it up on Google maps).

 

^Winner.

 

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=hamburg&sll=53.600655,9.968719&sspn=0.362638,1.229095&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Hamburg,+Germany&ll=53.545516,10.002623&spn=0,0.009602&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=53.546029,10.002082&panoid=5e85YuWdB8pPQFvrSdptwQ&cbp=12,244.49,,0,7.82

 

Anyone else see those two chicks posing for the streetview car? Nice.

 

LOL, I thought that initially until I moved each way in either direction and the remained in the same spot.  Posing to an invisible photographer or pretending to be statues.  Pretty awesome view.  Chicago needs to build something like that over around Goose Island.

 

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=Chicago,+IL&safe=off&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Chicago,+Cook,+Illinois&gl=us&sqi=2&ll=41.896471,-87.643813&spn=0.003298,0.005611&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=41.896467,-87.643927&panoid=ZfP4ciu-08EVXFoRgo4gjQ&cbp=12,334.16,,0,-1.48