The World's Most Beautiful Places
Christ Crucifix. The Monte Cassino religious shrine, part of the St. Meinrad Catholic Archabbey in southwest Indiana, was constructed in 1870. It was named after an archabbey in Italy founded by St. Benedict.
A plaque commemorating the founding of the city of Louisville, Kentucky in 1780. Located on the former site of Fort Nelson, the official location of Louisville’s founding by George Rogers Clark. It was the second fort founded in the area, and eventually would be replaced by Fort Finney in 1784. Located on the opposite side of the Ohio River, it was located on the site of what would eventually become Jeffersonville, Indiana.
Sunset Ridge – Uinta Mountain Range – Utah
The Uinta Mountains, a subrange of the Rocky Mountains, are the highest east-west mountain range in the United States, and the highest mountain range in the state of Utah. The highest peak, Kings Peak is 13,528 ft. Much of the rain from the east and southeast portions of the range flow into the Green River, and ultimately down the Colorado River to Mexico. Whereas water from the west and northwest portions of the range flow into the Provo, Weber and Bear Rivers. All three rivers flow into lakes, including Bear Lake, Utah Lake, and the Great Salt Lake, which is itself the end point for all three rivers, in Utah’s West Desert.
The high Uintas were extensively glaciated during the last ice age, and most of the large stream valleys on both the north and south sides of the range held long valley glaciers.