The World's Most Beautiful Places
A view of the University of Louisville seal as seen in the pediment of Grawemeyer Hall. The seal is a stylized depiction of the Roman goddess Minerva, the goddess of wisdom. Minerva is the oldest institutional symbol of the university, dating back to 1830’s. Louisville is Kentucky’s largest city, and founded by George Rogers Clark on the banks of of the Ohio River in 1780.
With Kentucky the main producer of the world’s bourbon, and the city of Bardstown surrounded by more than 10 bourbon distilleries, this town in north-central Kentucky has branded its self as the bourbon capital of the world. Bourbon, which has been brewed in Kentucky since at least 1795, when Jim Beam introduced “Old Jake Beam Sour Mash”, is a corn-based whiskey that is aged in charred oak barrels. The rickhouses where bourbon is stored are a common site in different parts of Kentucky, and especially near Bardstown.
Utah Lake as it appears from Utah Lake State Park in Provo. In the distance one can see the southern Wasatch Mountains, Spanish Fork Peak, Hobble and Spanish Fork Canyons, and where the cities of Springville, Mapleton and Spanish Fork reside below the mountain peaks.