565. Chicago

 Chicago - View of the city from Lake Michigan

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539. Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park - It's wonderland. Old Faithful and the majority of the world's geysers are preserved here. They are the main reason the park was established in 1872 as America's first national park—an idea that spread worldwide. A mountain wildland, home to grizzly bears, wolves, and herds of bison and elk, the park is the core of one of the last, nearly intact, natural ecosystems in the Earth’s temperate zone.

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537. Winter Harbor from Frazer Point

       Winter Harbor, Maine  

 Winter Harbor, Maine is a beautiful working fishing village located next to the Schoodic Peninsula section of Acadia National Park, the only portion of the park located on the mainland. It got its name because it did not freeze over in the winter which was especially important to the local fishermen. The village is in “Down East” Hancock County and has an area of 12.5 sq. miles with approximately 988 people (per year 2000 census). It was originally part of Gouldsboro but then separated and became incorporated in 1895. The village has attractive shops, galleries, and places to eat.

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536. The Arches National Park

 Arches National Park is a U.S. National Park in eastern Utah. It is known for preserving over 2000 natural sandstone arches, including the world-famous Delicate Arch, in addition to a variety of unique geological resources and formations.  The park is located just outside of Moab, Utah, and is 31,031 ha in area. Its highest elevation is 1,723 m at Elephant Butte, and its lowest elevation is 1,245 m at the visitor center. Forty-three arches have collapsed due to erosion since 1970. The park receives 250 mm of rain a year on average.  Administered by the National Park Service, the area was originally created as a National Monument on April 12, 1929. It was redesignated as a National Park on November 12, 1971

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523. Texas

 Texas is the second most populous and the second-largest of the 50 states in the United States of America, and the largest state in the 48 contiguous United States. Located in the South Central United States, Texas shares an international border with the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas to the south, and borders the US states of New Mexico to the west, Oklahoma to the north, Arkansas to the northeast and Louisiana to the east. Texas has an area of  696,200 km2, and a growing population of 25.7 million residents

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506. Changes for Felicity

 Series: American Girls Collection Series: Felicity #6
by Valerie Tripp

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499. Roan Cliffs

 An eerie day at Roan Cliffs, near Rifle

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498. Atlantic City

 Atlantic City is a city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, and an internationally renowned resort city for gambling, conventions, and leisure. The city also served as the inspiration for the original version of the board game Monopoly. Atlantic City is located on Absecon Island on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city has a population of 39,558. There were 274,549 people living in the Atlantic City–Hammonton Metropolitan Statistical Area as of the 2010 Census

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474. Postcard

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444. Maroon Bells

The Maroon Bells are two peaks in the Elk Mountains, Maroon Peak and North Maroon Peak, separated by about a third of a mile. The mountain is on the border between Pitkin County and Gunnison County, Colorado, United States, about 19 km southwest of Aspen. Both peaks are counted as fourteeners. Maroon Peak, at 4.315 m., is the 27th highest peak in Colorado; North Maroon Peak, at 4.271 m., is the 50th highest. The view of the Maroon Bells to the southwest from the Maroon Creek valley is one of the most famous scenes in Colorado, and is reputed to be the "most-photographed spot in Colorado" and one of Colorado's premier scenic overlooks. The peaks are located in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness of White River National Forest.

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433. Cincinnati Museum Center

 Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal is home to the Cincinnati History Museum, Duke Energy Children's Museum, the Museum of Natural History & Science, the Robert D. Lindner Family OMNIMAX Theater and the Cincinnati Historical Society Library.  It is a nationally recognized educational and research resource and one of the top cultural attractions in the Midwest. Cincinnati Museum Center serves more than 1.47 million visitors annually, reaching out to almost 200,000 young people through hands-on exhibits and programs. As a center for the entire community, over 700 events are held in the building each year.  Originally built in 1933 as the Union Terminal train station, the building is a national historic landmark and was renovated and reopened as Cincinnati Museum Center in 1990.

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417. Kentucky's Native Wildlife

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414. Chimney Rock

 Chimney Rock State Park is a North Carolina state park in Chimney Rock, Rutherford County, North Carolina in the United States. The 18.34 km2 park is located 40 km southeast of Asheville, North Carolina, and is owned by the state of North Carolina.  It offers hiking trails for all skill levels, spectacular views, the Devil's Head balancing rock and a 123 m waterfall, Hickory Nut Falls. Its most notable feature is a 96 m rock formation, a granite monolith, Chimney Rock, accessible by elevator and providing views of the park and surrounding countryside. Areas within the park as well as surrounding the park were featured prominently in the 1984 film A Breed Apart and most of the final scenes of the 1992 adaptation of The Last of the Mohicans, including the Huron negotiation, the chase along the cliff, the fight between Uncas and Magua, Alice's decision, and the climactic fight between Magua and Chingachgook.

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407. Rocky Mountain National Park

 Rocky Mountain National Park is a national park located in the north-central region of the U.S. state of Colorado. It features majestic mountain views, a variety of wildlife, varied climates and environments—from wooded forests to mountain tundra—and easy access to back-country trails and campsites. The park is located northwest of Boulder, Colorado, in the Rockies, and includes the Continental Divide and the headwaters of the Colorado River.  The park has five visitor centers. The park headquarters, Beaver Meadows Visitor Center, is a National Historic Landmark, designed by the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture at Taliesin West.

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406. Joshua Tree National Park

 Joshua Tree National Park is located in southeastern California. Declared a U.S. National Park in 1994 when the U.S. Congress passed the California Desert Protection Act (Public Law 103-433), it had previously been a U.S. National Monument since 1936. It is named for the Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia) forests native to the park. It covers a land area of 3,199.59 km2 – an area slightly larger than the state of Rhode Island. A large part of the park, some 173,890 ha, is a designated wilderness area. Straddling the San Bernardino County/Riverside County border, the park includes parts of two deserts, each an ecosystem whose characteristics are determined primarily by elevation: the higher Mojave Desert and lower Colorado Desert. The Little San Bernardino Mountains run through the southwest edge of the park

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394. Hawks Nest State Park

 Hawks Nest State Park is located on 150 ha in Fayette County near Ansted, West Virginia. The park's clifftop overlook along U.S. Route 60 provides a scenic vista of the New River, some 230 m below. The hydro-electric project tunnel that passes underneath nearby Gauley Mountain was the scene of the tragic Depression-era Hawk's Nest incident. The park's lodge and aerial gondola to the river are located about a mile further east from the overlook along U.S. 60, closer to the center of Ansted.

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392. Star Wars

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi; Dark Lords of the Sith #4, Dark Horse Comics; 1995

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372. Grand Canyon

A hiker pauses on Grand Canyon National Park's South Kaibab Trail. The South Kaibab trailhead stands at an elevation 2.195 m above sea level, and the trail drops 1.460 m over 10.3 km as it descends from the South Rim to the Colorado River.

 Bright sunshine lights up Grand Canyon National Park after a recent rainstrom. Along with winter snowfall, monsoon rains in July, August and September provide the moisture the plants and animals living in this semi-arid evvironment need to survive.

 Shiprock New Mexico. Located in the northwest corner of New Mexico, Shiprock volcanic rock is 427 m. high. The landmark is the basic for many Navajo legends.

 Mule riders enjoy wide-open views of the Grand Canyon while traveling up the South Kaibab Trail. For more tahn a century, mules have been an important mode of transportation into and out of the Grand Canyon.

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370. Greenwood Plantation

 Built in 1830, Greenwood Plantation, with 28 white brick columns, was considered the South's finest example of classic colonial architecture. With 70-foot baronial hall paneled cypress doors, silver door knobs and hinges. Greenwood atands substantially as it did over 170 years ago. Currently restored and open for tours.

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359. Busch Stadium

Bosch Stadium - St. Louis, Missouri. Located in the heart of the downtown business district. Busch Stadium offers spectators dramatic views of the Gatway Arch and the downtown St. Louis skyline. Visitors can also view St. Louis baseball memorabilia from its beginnings in 1892 to the present in the Cardinals Hall of Fame.

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