Where Is This?

[glatt]

I was thinking it might be the home where the Burmese opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is under house arrest. That was just in the news because Hillary visited her. So I looked that up on Google Earth, and it's not it. But when I looked it up, Burma looks really nice! You get the impression that it's a really backwards place from the news, but I guess that's just the government. It's no North Korea.

And the US is building an embassy just down the road from the opposition leader, only half a kilometer away from her house. I read that she lived on a remote island on a lake, but she's actually on a lake shore drive of mansions. Sweet neighborhood. (University Avenue, on the shore of lake Inya in Yangon)

[infinite monkey]

I thought of Burma Shave and wondered if the name were related to Burma. Well, I'll be, it is.

Burma-Shave was introduced in 1925 by the Burma-Vita company, owned by Clinton Odell. The company's original product was a liniment made of ingredients described as coming "from the Malay Peninsula and Burma."[1] Demand was sparse, and the company sought to expand sales by introducing a product with wider appeal.

The result was the Burma-Shave advertising sign program, and sales took off. At its peak, Burma-Shave was the second-highest selling brushless shaving cream in the United States. Sales declined in the 1950s, and in 1963 the company was sold to Philip Morris. The signs were removed at that time. The brand decreased in visibility and eventually became the property of the American Safety Razor Company.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma-Shave

[Spexxvet]

I give.

[Spexxvet]

Where's this?

[Quarantine]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Did we get an answer for this?

Some additional clues:
The site is now derelict, originally built over 70 years ago

A close-up of part of the site.


That should help identify what the site is and should narrow down where.

[glatt]

Spex: Potemkinstairs in Ukraine

[Pico and ME]

Odessa Steps

[Pico and ME]

dang

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by glatt

Spex: Potemkinstairs in Ukraine

Originally Posted by Pico and ME

Odessa Steps

Yes. Wow! I didn't think that would be so easy.

[Pico and ME]

I googled famous movie stairs scenes.

[Spexxvet]

Seems like it's an abandoned ww2 artillery emplacement, googling images for that doesn't show anything similar.

[infinite monkey]

It's like a ghetto stonehenge.

Is it ovens for burning folks?

[Lamplighter]

@Quarantine's ruins

The graffiti looked a bit asian, and Google Images turned up this
ancient fort (model) with similar shape, but it's from the Ming Dynasty.

Dagu Paotai or Fort Dagu ?
.

[Quarantine]

Spexxvett: Very close, it is a type of gun emplacement that has a very specific purpose

Lamplighter: Some more graffiti for you from the site

[glatt]

The bunkers arranged in circles look like the place where they store the ammo. There are two spots at the corners of the site where the guns probably sat. The shadows have the sun coming from the right. I'm going to assume the image is in its proper orientation and right is East. That's where the guns would be pointing. Who would point their guns to the East? France would. But I've been doing all sorts of image searched of the Maginot Line, and those fortifications look completely different from these.

I keep hitting dead ends.