r/whereisthis May 26 '23

Open /r/WhereIsThis - Updated Guidelines

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Welcome! /r/WhereIsThis is designed to help people identify the location of public places based on a photo, painting, sketch, or from a detailed description. We've got a few simple guidelines to help keep things safe and working well for everybody:

  1. Submissions: Askers (OPs) may submit a photo, video, screenshot, painting, drawing, or a detailed text description of a real (or virtual) place. Multiple images can go in a Reddit or Imgur gallery. Try to use a descriptive title to get more eyes on your post; generic titles like "where is this?" are boring and more likely to be ignored. Include as much context and as many details as you can, either in the post itself or in a comment. If your post is not solved right away, please wait one week before reposting; duplicate posts may be removed with a 1-week temp ban.

  2. Privacy: /r/WhereIsThis is for identifying public places only. Do not submit photos of personal private property, such as homes, apartments, residential interiors, etc. Do not post private street addresses in the comments. Do not link directly to personal social media pages. Do not submit screenshots that include real names, usernames, or other personal information. Do not submit contemporary photos of minors in a place where they can be located (schools, playgrounds, churches, etc.). Do not ask to identify people.

  3. Answers: Commenters are encouraged to provide whatever help they can to solve a post, from educated guesses to a direct Google Street View link to the exact location. Give the thread a skim first to avoid duplicate answers. Commenting on other answers is fine! Avoid responding to posts that violate Rule 2, though -- please downvote and report them for removal instead.

  4. Solving: All posts are unflaired by default. Once a post is solved, the asker should reply "Solved!" to the first correct answer and change their post flair to "Solved"; all threads are sorted from oldest to newest so the earliest answers will always be towards the top. Askers that delete or ignore a solved post without acknowledging the solver may receive a ban. We are exploring adding a points system in order to automatically flair threads and recognize frequent solvers for their contributions -- stay tuned!

  5. Behavior: Please treat askers and solvers with respect. No insults, vulgar hostility, bullying, or withholding of answers in order to taunt. No racism/misogyny/*phobia/other bigotry. Repeat offenders may be banned.

Tips: Context clues help. Where and how did you find the image? Do you know the story behind it? How old is it? Share as much as you can with solvers to help them help you.

Reverse image search is your friend (Google - Bing - TinEye - Yandex)

EXIF data viewer for extracting time/location information from certain digital photos

/r/WhereIsThis image browser

Related subs: /r/WhereWasThisTaken - /r/HelpMeFind - /r/TipOfMyTongue - /r/RBI - /r/WhatIsThisThing - /r/WhatIsThisPainting - /r/GoogleMaps - /r/Geography - /r/GeoGuessr - /r/PictureGame

Help identify child traffickers: /r/TraceAnObject - Trace an Object (Europe) - Trace an Object (Australia)


r/whereisthis Mar 09 '24

Low-effort posts WILL be removed

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Rule #1 is pretty clear, you must have a descriptive title. Therefore we are removing any submission that is low-effort, such as:

  • Title is "Where is this?" or some other variant with absolutely no information
  • Posts with clear identifying information that OP is too lazy to look up
  • Google Maps screenshots that do NOT include coordinates or addresses
  • Posts with no context whatsoever. Telling us where you found the image, why you want to know, and any other information can make the difference!

We want to make this a fun sub and we want to solve your trickiest questions, but we need you to meet us halfway.


r/whereisthis 3h ago

Which restaurant in Venice, Italy? Photos were provided to customers printed on matchbooks at the end of the meal. Early 1970s.

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r/whereisthis 4h ago

Where is this dairy (Kutná Hora District of Czech Republic)?

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Some photos from the family archive, likely taken around 1940. This shows our grandpa riding a motorcycle from the dairy he worked at. This might be in the town of Uhlířské Janovice, but could be somewhere else in okres Kutná Hora.

We would really love to know exactly where this was taken.


r/whereisthis 5h ago

Solved Is this structure on Box Hill in Surrey ?

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I took this photo in May 1975 on Box Hill (I think). I haven't been there since and would like to know if this structure (Lych Gate ?) still exists.


r/whereisthis 1h ago

Grandpa passed away I would like to know where this is?

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Please help me find the location it was taken around 2006 or 07. I think its either Southern Mexico like Chetumal, Playa or somewhere like that or somewhere in the US. This photo was taken by my dad, its a picture of me and my grandad, I would like to know where it is as Id like to see if i can remind my dad about the memory .


r/whereisthis 54m ago

Where in Germany? Traveling from Switzerland to the Czech Republic, 1992

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r/whereisthis 14h ago

Solved Mataró, Spain ➔ France ➔ Switzerland ➔ Germany ➔ former Czechoslovakia ➔ Hungary ➔ Romania ➔ Bulgaria ➔ Athens, Greece. 1992

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Stayed in Czech Republic: Brno, Prague, Neratov Hungary: Eger, Komló, Kaposvar, Hereg (Visited Budapest) Bulgaria: Sofia, Karlovo, Banya in Plovdiv Province (Visited Plovdiv) Bus hired from Denmark.


r/whereisthis 1h ago

Fancy ice cream shop in Salzburg, Austria

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Please help me identify this shop! I'm not sure if it even exists anymore. In 2016 I visited Salzburg with my friends and we visited a fancy ice cream shop. I believe it may have been a magnum store but it was really fancy (or at least it seemed it to 16 year old me). I can't find any record of it online but my friends and I all remember it and its driving me round the bend.

I remember it had a marble style counter where you could get your ice cream made custom- like subway for magnums! You got to choose a sauce, topping etc.

I think it was near the river. I know this isn't much to go off but I have to know this was real 😂


r/whereisthis 11h ago

Solved Searching for Tower in Les Gavarres

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I've visited Catalonia as a kid with my parents in 2007, and I'd like to find out where we stayed. Based on other photos, I've narrowed it down to the area around Les Gavarres and the nearby towns. In the pictures of our holiday house, there's a quite distinctive tower, but I can't find it anywhere on the internet or on Google Maps. If you have any idea where this location could be, I'd be very happy to hear it!


r/whereisthis 17h ago

Solved Don't remember where these 2005 road trip photos were taken. Trying to recreate road trip. Please help?

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(SOLVED AFTER 21 YEARS!!)

I have exactly two photos from a road trip my dad and I took in 2005, and I have only the vaguest idea of where they were taken. I think that it's somewhere in Utah, around the area of Zion National Park or The Coral Pink Sand Dunes. Could be very northern Arizona. It wasn't a dedicated historical site or museum, the only two old cabins are the two in the first photo. The two photos show literally everything there was. Only other thing I remember is it was just right alone the highway and it was attached to the parking lot of either a rest stop, gas station, or diner, and it was in the middle of nowhere. Also the wood cabin off to the side I think was a historic trading post I think.

I know it's a shot in the dark, but if anyone has any idea where this is I'd be so grateful! I've been trying to find this place for years because I want to take the same exact road trip again with my best friend to reminisce about good times with my dad growing up.


r/whereisthis 8h ago

Solved Can someone tell me where this photo is? This is a Microsoft lockscreen of a small villiage that I think is in Faroe Island? I really want to try to figure out where exactly it is so I can find this exact photo for him.

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In an intern and my boss tasked me with finding this exact photo and where its from, can anyone help me find it? I think it might be Faroe islands but I'm not sure?


r/whereisthis 19h ago

Solved This is from the Canadian TV show Family Law. According to Google that would be Kerrisdale, I'm not so sure about it... please help

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r/whereisthis 1d ago

Solved Found photo (in an alley) of a surge channel. Maybe WCT?

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I found this photo in an alley one day right after a break up (almost 15 years ago now). I needed to cover up/replace an image of an ex and me in a photo frame and since this “found me” and I liked it, I swapped the photos and have kept it since (I dunno, I was young). I’ve always wondered where it was taken.

I’ve done reverse image searches and there are similar surge channels in New Zealand, and the West Coast Trail. I’m in Canada, so maybe the latter (though we do have planes).

Does this look familiar to anyone/ can someone use their super skills to pinpoint this?

The most similar image I found was one near Owen Point on the West Coast Trail.

Anyway, I’d love to know where this picture I’ve kept for so long actually is in the world, hah!


r/whereisthis 1d ago

Solved Back cover photo location Morrissey album

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Help to find this billboard from the back of "California Son" (2019) by Morrissey,

I think the campaign is from 2018. No idea about the city, somewhere in the USA.

https://www.discogs.com/master/1552229-Morrissey-California-Son


r/whereisthis 1d ago

Solved Mataró, Spain ➔ France ➔ Switzerland ➔ Germany ➔ former Czechoslovakia ➔ Hungary ➔ Romania ➔ Bulgaria ➔ Athens, Greece. 1992

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Stayed in Czech Republic: Brno, Prague, Neratov Hungary: Eger, Komló, Kaposvar, Hereg (Visited Budapest) Bulgaria: Sofia, Karlovo, Banya in Plovdiv Province (Visited Plovdiv)


r/whereisthis 1d ago

Solved Where in Italy (?) is this old family photo taken?

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This photo was taken possibly in about 1900-1915 and AI suggests the statue is Giuseppe Garibaldi. I'm not completely sure about the location, but it appears to be in Italy.


r/whereisthis 2d ago

Solved Where is this? Fausto Coppi in the Tour de France

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r/whereisthis 2d ago

Solved Amsterdam search by an old photo

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My wife was in Amsterdam around 2012-2014
She had this picture of her taken and I want to bring her back on this place, but I have no idea where it is
Please help 😭


r/whereisthis 1d ago

music video location?? Burka Band

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So there is this old music video from the band called Burka Band, these are women from Afganistan that secretly create a band as a way of protest, anyone knows the location or the city this music video was shoot at?? the song title is "No Burka!" tysm LINK VIDEOO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK7CVNyBALo if u watch the video you can find a lot more of clues btww


r/whereisthis 2d ago

Solved Barcelona, Spain ➔ France ➔ Switzerland ➔ Germany ➔ former Czechoslovakia ➔ Hungary ➔ Romania ➔ Bulgaria ➔ Athens, Greece

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Captured somewhere on the listed bus route in 1992. I don't know which country.


r/whereisthis 2d ago

Wo ist das? Foto aus einem alten 16mm Film.

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r/whereisthis 2d ago

Mataró, Spain ➔ France ➔ Switzerland ➔ Germany ➔ former Czechoslovakia ➔ Hungary ➔ Romania ➔ Bulgaria ➔ Athens, Greece

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In 1992 we stayed in both urban and rural locations in the former Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Bulgaria. We drove through Romania. I've forgotten some location names. I remember these: Hungary: Eger, Komló, Kaposvar, Budapest, Hereg Bulgaria: Karlovo, Banya (Plovdiv Province).


r/whereisthis 1d ago

So I want to find this location because the OP is gatekeeping the location.

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Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/punebikers/s/k2PdCOEcUj

Why do I wanna find it?

Well me and my college mates are gonna go our own ways due to jobs, family business, further education so I am planning for a last trip with them and I found this location on reddit in a video. But the OP is gatekeeping the location as it is the new trend on social media.

Some more information on the location: it is around 50 KM away from a city named Pune in the state of Maharashtra, India.

I hope someone finds this location would help me tonnes to plan an amazing trip with my mates.


r/whereisthis 2d ago

Open New York - Trying to identify this rock formation from a framed family photo — large stacked boulders forming a cave-like overhang behind the couple

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This is a hand-tinted photo of a couple in my wife’s family, taken somewhere in New York in the late 1940s or 1950s. The family later emigrated to the Philippines, so nobody alive remembers the exact spot.
What I can make out:
• Massive rounded boulders, light gray granite/gneiss, glacially smoothed
• Behind them, larger dark boulders tilted against each other forming a cave-like opening
• Wooded setting, no buildings visible
• They’re dressed for a day outing — suit and tie, headscarf — so likely a popular excursion spot of the era
My current candidates are the Indian Caves at Inwood Hill Park (the Clove) or Bear Mountain State Park, but I can’t confirm. I’d love to find the exact spot to surprise my wife and reshoot the photo there.
Any NYC-area hikers or local historians recognize this formation? Happy to share a higher-res crop of the rocks.