Reprise of the rules.

The winner of the previous round posts a picture and a question about it. Typically "where.

You may not use "tin eye" or similar reverse image look up sites.

Please do not use EXIF data from the image to help. (note to posters, please remove EXIF data). This can include titles and location data.

Please do not allow 24 hours to pass between clues.

Questions deserve an answer (with the exception, of course, of directly asking for the answer).

We will have to figure out how to deal with winners that go AWOL.

Clues may be text or photographic.

Contestants may use text searches to look for images (in particular images.google.com is allowed to be searched via text searches).

There is no rule about having visited a place. If you have visited a place (or not) and instantly recognize where the picture is, go for it.

If you post a picture of a previously entered place that is easily recognizable as that place, you get to pick a different picture.

Please try to choose a picture and question where it is possible someone else will know or be able to research your answer. For example a picture of someone in your family and asking for the name will be just impossible for anyone else to get.

PM The winner.

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This should be really easy. What is this machine?

No guesses yet?

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This should be really easy. What is this machine?

Some Byzantine device for pressing clothes?

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"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Orwell

nope :p

Some kind of animal trap?

Please do not allow 24 hours to pass between clues.

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Nope

a cigarette roller?

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope

Yep, it is a antique cigarette roller machine.

(sending PM)

wow at first I thought it was a contraption to dry linen.

anyhoo how about what and where is this building?
for extra credit... who built it?

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope

A US State Capitol building?

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

no but it is a state capitol building

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope

no but it is a state capitol building

So, not in the USA?

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"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Orwell

Europe?

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No read carefully. Its not the US capitol but is a capitol in the US

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope

I'm sure that any Texan will quickly point out to you that this one is slightly taller than the US Capitol in Washington DC. :-)

Ask Elijah E. Myers, although he is not Texan but Pennsylvanian.

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Who the hell is General Failure and why is he reading my harddisk?¿

you are correct. Would you care to tell us who(the specific group) built the capitol

I'll send the PM as well

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope

you are correct. Would you care to tell us who(the specific group) built the capitol

I'll send the PM as well

Hey, I didn't say that this is the Texas State Capitol. :)
I'm prety sure that construction began under direction of civil engineer Reuben Lindsay Walker and I found somewhere that the state gave the 'Sunset Red' stone to the contractor along with 1,000 convicts to quarry it. Altough I'm not sure if that specific group actually built it.

Ok, this is what I've managed to find in such a short time and it shouldn't be difficult. Where is this photo taken and what's depicted on it?

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Who the hell is General Failure and why is he reading my harddisk?¿

Is this in Europe? France?

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"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." - Orwell

I see a lot of flags. Someplace international.. Perhaps Germany?

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope