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CABO SAN LUCAS, MEXICO [CABO09_034]

THE GOLDEN GATE - SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA [1608 US]

THE BAY BRIDGE AND SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA [1123 US]

THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE - SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA [1128 US]

SAN FRANCISCO FOG, CALIFORNIA 1600 US]

THE GOLDEN GATE - SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA [1602 US]

HANDS ACROSS AMERICA - WASHINGTON, DC [2170 US] On the afternoon of Sunday, May 25, 1986, more than five million people joined hands to form a line that stretched 4,152 miles -- from New York City's Battery Park to a pier in Long Beach, California. Hands Across America hoped to raise $50 to $100 million but by Memorial Day weekend only $20 million had been raised. The event drew criticism from some charging that a festival atmosphere was inappropriate considering the tragic circumstances of the starving children and suffering street people for whom the charity was meant. But proponents claimed the problems were so large, the need so great and immediate, that big productions like Hands Across America were necessary to grab the public's attention and induce them to give.

WASHINGTON MONUMENT - WASHINGTON, DC [1100 US]

LINCOLN MEMORIAL - WASHINGTON, DC [1101 US]

THE NATIONAL CHRISTMAS TREE - WASHINGTON, DC [1104 US] The lighting of the National Christmas Tree by the President of the United States is the central event in the annual Christmas Pageant of Peace. The tradition of the outdoor decorated tree began in November 1923 when First Lady Grace Coolidge gave permission for the District of Columbia Public Schools to erect a cut Christmas tree on the Ellipse south of the White House. The first tree was lit by President Calvin Coolidge at 5 p.m. on Christmas Eve. The organizers named the tree the "National Christmas Tree". The following year the name was changed to the "National Community Christmas Tree", and the name was not changed back until 1972. In more recent decades the tree was lit in mid-December rather than Christmas Eve. Today the tree is lit in early December.

MOUNT RUSHMORE - SOUTH DAKOTA [1102 US] In 1923, state historian Doane Robinson suggested carving giant statues in South Dakota's Black Hills. Robinson wanted his sculptures to stand at the gateway to the West, where the Black Hills rise from the plains as a prelude to the Rockies. The memorial's backers called in the master sculptor of Stone Mountain, Gutzon Borglum. Borglum scouted out the location: 5,725-foot Mount Rushmore, named in 1885 for New York lawyer, Charles E. Rushmore. Borglum envisioned four US presidents - Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and T. Roosevelt. The work was completed in 1941, on the eve of US entry into World War II.

BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK, SOUTH DAKOTA, US [1208 US] From the National Park Service - Containing the world’s richest Oligocene epoch fossil beds, dating 37-28 million years old, the evolutionary stories of mammals such as the horse and rhinoceros arise from the 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires. Bison, bighorn sheep, endangered black-footed ferrets, and swift fox roam one of the largest, protected mixed-grass prairies in the United States.

BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK, SOUTH DAKOTA, US [1207 US]

BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK, SOUTH DAKOTA, US

BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK, SOUTH DAKOTA, US [1200 US]

CRAZY HORSE - SOUTH DAKOTA [1202 US] Crazy Horse was born in Rapid Creek in the Black Hills of South Dakota in about 1842. While at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, under a flag of truce, he was stabbed in the back by an American soldier and died Sept. 6, 1877, at around 35. Crazy Horse the project is a nonprofit, educational and cultural project financed primarily from an admission fee. Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski began work on the project in 1949. He has since died but today his children continue the Crazy Horse Dream.

CRAZY HORSE - SOUTH DAKOTA [1205 US]

CRAZY HORSE - SOUTH DAKOTA [1206 US]

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BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK, SOUTH DAKOTA, US

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