501.  3D Map Models of Our World and Beyond
by:  Raised Relief Maps 3D Map Models, also called Raised Relief maps, abound both indoors and outside. These map models demonstrate topography, geography, hydrology, town or city development or provide guidance for visually impaired. The 3D Map Model may range anywhere from high precision to an abstracted interpretation; as long as they use the three factors of length, width and height. Please click on "show additional information" below to see requirements for posting in this category. |
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503.  Outhouses 
by: Outhouses This category will only accept old-fashioned outhouses, privies or backhouses. All submissions must be without plumbing, outdoors and interior photograph is required. More restrictions will apply. Read the guidelines for posting a new waymark.
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504.  Flatirons
by: 23 Skidoos The goal of this category is to Waymark flatiron buildings throughout the world. These triangular-shaped buildings are created to take advantage of odd shaped lots that occur where streets, railroad tracks, or other structures come together at less than right angles. We offer a home for these, even those that may not be that oddly shaped. |
505.  Natural Lakes
by: Natural Lakes group A lake is a body of relatively still fresh or salt water of considerable size, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land. |
506.  Festivals
by: Festival Go-ers This category has been created to document and find ANNUAL local festivals all around the world. This includes any festival from Soybean Festival to an Iris Festival. If your community is known for the festival, then by all means it should be here! |
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508.  Garage Door Art
by: Garage Door Art Managers Garage doors for autos with some kind of artwork over all or part of them or garage doors which form a part of a much larger piece of art located at commercial businesses or private property (please be respectful of private property). Garage doors containing random graffiti spraypainted on them do not qualify.
Art can be either two or three dimensional. |
509.  Piers
by: Fishing Piers Any pier that allows fishing or just enjoying the aquatic environment! |
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511.  Miniature Golf
by: Miniature Golf Group As in golf, courses are commonly nine or eighteen holes long and the object is to hit the golf ball into the appropriate hole in the fewest number of strokes; however, in the miniature game, the holes are significantly shorter and consist of only a putting surface. |
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514.  Historic Upping Stones, Hitching Posts, and Carriage Blocks
by: Historic Horse Stuff
To identify and record the location of old Upping Stones, Hitching Posts, and Carriage Blocks, made of stone or concrete that aided a rider or passenger to mount or dismount a horse or carriage, that are of historical interest and were in use when a horse was the main form of transportation before the automobile. The category is not looking for decorations, but original items in their original locations, not public parks, tourist attractions, museums, sidewalks, or flower bed displays. |
515.  Seventh-day Adventist Churches
by: Friends of Friends of Friends Seventh-day Adventists accept the Bible as their only creed and hold certain fundamental beliefs to be the teaching of the Holy Scriptures. These beliefs, constitute the church's understanding and expression of the teaching of Scripture. This category documents the locations for all Seventh-day Adventist Churches. |
516.  Wineries
by: Wineries A winery is a facility where fruit, usually grapes, is processed into wine. Some wineries are located on the same site as the vineyard whose grapes they process, while others process grapes they purchase from vineyards many miles away. |
517.  Bowling Centres
by: Tenpin Bowling Managers Bowling at pins has been around since Egyptian times. It has evolved into the competitive sport of Ten Pin Bowling which is played in more than 90 countries. There are a number of variations to the main game including Duck Bowling and Candlestick Bowling. |
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520.  Unusual Signs
by: Spell Checkers. The idea of this category is to find and mark incorrect or confusing official signs. They can be printed or pictorial signs that have corrupted the English or any other language (please include English translation and explanation) or are just plain confusing. These would also include funny or misdirected road or directional signs. Upside down is also accepted if it is clearly a permanent orientation and not the temporary influence of attachment failure or storm damage.
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523.  Fish and Chips Restaurants
by: Malt and Salt Restaurants whose only or primary meal is fish and chips. From "Long John Silvers" and "Arthur Treacher's" to family or independently owned and operated locations that fry up fish for their hungry patrons. |
524.  Small Town, Big Name
by: Small Town, Big Name Managers Have you ever seen the grand cities of Europe? Rome with her Colosseum, Athens with her Parthenon, London with that big clock? You haven't? Well, neither have I. But if you've ever looked at a map of the rural parts of the US (and I know you have, otherwise you wouldn't be geocaching, would you?), you'll find a London here, a Vienna there, or even the cradle of civilization, Mesopotamia. |
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