A road trip from Toronto, past Niagara Falls, through Detroit to Chicago.
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Canadian Falls
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American Falls
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Hydro power plant
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An agitated water area downstream from the falls, sometimes forming strong whirlpools.
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Cable car station
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Skylon Tower
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Canadian Falls from Skylon Tower
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American Falls from Skylon Tower
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Visitor Center
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View to American falls
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American Falls
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Canadian Falls
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View from the tunnels under the Canadian falls
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Above the Falls
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Tesla statue
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View from the Marriot on the Falls
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Nighttime view
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Nighttime view
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The old Hamilton Waterworks, near Toronto, was used for some recurring scenery in the Murdoch Mysteries TV series.
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Station House No. 4 It acquires three extra stories in the TV images!
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The Morgue
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Morgue rear view
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View across Detroit river to Canada
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Misty Renaissance Center
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Hart Plaza: "Pylon"
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"Spirit of Detroit" at City Hall
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Labor Movement monument "Transcending"
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Joe Louis monument
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Joe Louis monument
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Detroit Historical Museum
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Detroit Historical Museum
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The 1929 Art Deco Guardian Building
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Over-the-top Art Deco Lobby
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Art Deco elevator lobby
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Guardian: Banking Hall
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1928 Art Deco Fisher Building
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Fisher ceiling
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Fisher ceiling detail
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1903 Ford Model A Tonneau
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1904 Ford Model B Tonneau
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Very early (1908) Model T
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Scotsman in 1915 Model T
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Urban blight: near Piquette Plant
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Urban blight: near Piquette Plant
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A fascinating tour of the Ford Rouge F150 assembly line, but alas "no photos" inside the factory. ☹
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Factory tour entrance.
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Henry Ford, with trade school student
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View over new eco-friendly F150 Asembly Building With "green" roof
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View to older Ford Rouge buildings
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Roosevelt's 1939 Lincoln
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Kennedy's 1961 Lincoln The very one he was riding in Dallas.
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1831 De Witt Clinton (replica)
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De Witt Clinton: Stage coach style cars!
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Enormous 1941 Allegheny Steam Locomotive
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Giant railway snow plough
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The actual Rosa Parks bus
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Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House
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Deconstructed Model T There's more use of wood than I had expected
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Rosa Parks statue
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Astronaut Roger Chaffee Born in Grand Rapids, died in Apollo 1
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Gerald Ford Presidential Museum
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Mikado stage
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Mikado cast (1) Crowned Mikado, Pooh-Bah in blue, Katisha in black, Ko-Ko in red.
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Mikado cast (2) Nanki-Poo and Yum-Yum in the center
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On the road to Chicago: Kalamazoo County Building
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"Cloud Gate" sculture, aka "The Bean"
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Cloud Gate interior shot: Who is this guy?
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Chicago Skyline from Field Museum
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Chicago Skyline from Field Museum
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Replica of Patagotitan mayorum The largest dinosaur ever. 70 tons, 122 ft long.
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Totem Poles, from Pacific NW
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Quetzalcoatlus reconstruction
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Quetzalcoatlus reconstruction
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Giant skull of T-Rex "Sue"
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Reconstruction of T-Rex "Sue"
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Triceratops skull
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Cambrian Aquarium: Hallucigenia
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Cambrian Aquarium: Wiwaxia
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Cambran Aquarium: Opabinia
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Cambrian Aquarium
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Assyrian statue and reliefs
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Lamasu of Sargon II
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Lamasu of Sargon II
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Lion from the Ishtar Gate
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Statue of Tutankhamun
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Persepolis: Fragment of bull-human capital
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Persepolis
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Chicago from the Willis Tower
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Willis Tower: Glass-floored Skydeck Ledge Sticking straight out from the 103rd floor
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Official Tourist Shot
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It is rather intimidating
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