USA - Wisconsin

I picked this card up while visiting family in Mount Horeb Wisconsin.  The area is very Norwegian and generally Scandinavian-influenced, including the town being a "Troll Capital in the US."  

Pictured in this card is apparently the "Tourist Troll".  Woodcarving Michael J. Feeney

USA - Colorado

Folsom Field, Boulder, Colorado

This is the football stadium on the campus of the University of Colorado 

Turkey

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An unnamed Pierre Renoir painting postcard, from Ankara, Turkey

Germany

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Old Neanderstrasse, c. 1920, Metmann, Germany

France

La dune du Pyla (English: Dune of Pilat)

This card brought to us from my friend Melissa on her trip to Bordeaux, France in 2010.  This is the largest sand dune in Europe.

USA - New Mexico

The famous staircase in the Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

This is a beautiful former Catholic church in Santa Fe.

Ukraine by way of Turkey

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Let's play where is this card from?  If you can check it, it shows that the language on the monument pedestal is in Cyrlic.  So, with that knowledge, let's guess Russia?  Belarus?  Ukraine?  Some other former Soviet Republic?

Nope.  This card came to me via Istanbul, Turkey.  The sender is a Ukrainian-born young women living in Istanbul.  

The photo is of her birthplace in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine.  The monument is to O.M. Poul, the first honoary citizen of Dnipropetrovsk.

Germany

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The card is of course in German.  It is a quote from Hans Kruppa a German poet and writer, wishing people among other things luck.

USA - Wisconsin

Direct Swap

Franz Sedlacek, Fanciful Ink Drawing II, 1931

Belgium

Greetings from Belgium!

From my friend Erika

Australia

Uluru - Ayers Rock, Central Australia

Thanks to Penny for sending me this card.

Belarus

A direct swap from Bealrus from Nastia of the US tv-show, The Big Bang Theory

Russia

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Sochi, Russia.  The Summer Theater

USA - Illinois

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This travel poster card is from nowhere near Lago di Como.  Instead it came all the way from Illinois and is currently the shortest distance of a Postcrossing card I've received.  How far away did this card travel to get to me?  

It traveled a grand total of 53 km (33 miles) in 7 days.

Netherlands

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Georges Seurat,  Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte – 1884 

(English: A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte – 1884)

The original, very, very large painting of this is currently housed at the world-famous Art Institute of Chicago.  This card, however, came from the Netherlands.

USA - Florida

The Breakers Resort, Palm Beach, Florida

This is an amazing resort.  As you can see there were no less than five outdoor swimming pools.  The one nearest the camera was the relaxation pool where pretty much everyone was quiet.  Even the young children who would come to that pool would just swim and quietly enjoy the water rather than jumping around and splashing.  It was amazingly tranquil.  

Germany

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Hamburg

South Korea

Private Swap from South Korea

UNESCO World Heritage site Suwon Hwaseong Fortress

Austria

Freud's living room and couch.  Sadly, no, you can not lay down on it and tell your inner most desires and thoughts.

Vienna, Austria

USA - Arkansas

Devil's Den, Arkansas

From Jessica in Arkansas

France

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Face of Peace, Pablo Picasso

USA - Indiana

Engineering Mall, Purdue University, Indiana

France

EuroDisney card from Catherine

Belgium

Unofficial Postcrossing post from the sender of BE-269802

Greetings from the Mas Port Pavilion, Antwerp, Belgium

Austria

Motzart's birthplace, Salzburg, Austria.  

The yellow building on the card is the birthplace of Motzart and home to the most surreal, bizarre, and wonderfully odd museum I may ever have gone to.

Taiwan

Private swap, Taiwan

Sweden

 

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This was one of the first two cards I received from Postcrossing.  I received this one and one from Belgium on the same day

Russia

Ivan Shishkin's Morning in a Pine Forrest 1889

Direct swap from Valery in Russia. 

Added bonus: Russian and Soviet Union stamps!  

Apparently Soviet stamps are still usable in Russia?  Can anyone verify this for me?  Or translate what the stamps say?  

USA - Virginia

The Kingsmill Resort, Williamsburg, Virginia

USA - Washington, DC

The Newseum, Washington, DC.  

I got this card the first or second year that the Newseum (a museum for the news and, to an extent, the First Amendment right of free speech and freedom of the press) was opened.  It was probably the most expensive museum I went to in DC that year (The Smithsonian is free!  Tax dollars at work!), but totally worth it.