The World's Most Beautiful Places
Looking up at the exterior of the historic Cape Blanco Lighthouse, along the Oregon coast, near the town of Sixes. The lighthouse was built starting in 1867, to protect commercial ships navigating near the islands and reefs that surround Cape Blanco. The central tower through which the staircase rises is made of brick, and rises three floors to the optic section where the lamp and fresnel lens are located.
The sun sets over the Salt Lake Valley and the snowy Oquirrh Mountains. The lights of the Utah Capitol building, Salt Lake City, and surrounding communities can be seen in the distance. Winter has come to northern Utah.
The Utah State Capitol Building was constructed over 4 yeras, between 1912-1916. designed by Richard K.A. Kletting, it uses the Neoclassical revival, Corinthian architectural style.
The building houses two of three branches of state government. The Utah House and Senate, and the executive branch. The building houses the offices of the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, and the state auditor.
Utah’s first capitol building, known today as the Utah Territorial Statehouse, is located in Fillmore.
The current capitol was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The approach of sunrise at Sky Rock Petroglyph and the Sierra Nevada Mountains, near Bishop, California. The petroglyphs in this region appear largely in a volcanic tableland, that is in the vicinity of Fish Slough an area designated as an Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC), for the marsh’s rich environment, which supports a variety of plant and animal life, some unique to the area. It was this abundance of life and water resources in a largely remote, and barren place, that attracted the ancestors of the Paiute and Shoshone native american tribes that have historically lived in the region, and carved the rock art explorers to the region see today.