The World's Most Beautiful Places
An old abandoned barn located in a rural part of Gallatin County, in northeastern Kentucky, at the recently created Hartig Park & Wildlife Reserve. The nearest large town is Warsaw, and the park sits between the major cities of Louisville, and Cincinnati. Hartig offers numerous nature trails, historical buildings like the barn, camping, and a great vista of the Ohio River looking north into Indiana.
A view of Mt. Shasta in the Fall in northern California. By volume, Shasta is the largest stratovolcano (or composite volcano) in the Pacific Northwest’s Cascade Range. And even though its last known eruption was in 1250, its still considered active by geologists. At 14,179 feet, the mountain is the second tallest in the Cascades, after Mt. Rainier east of Seattle, Washington. Humans are known to have inhabited the area around the mountain for at least 7,000 years, and the mountain remains sacred to local Native American tribes. The region is also growing in popularity for tourists, and as a wilderness hiking and climbing destination.
Steam billows from a coal-fired fossil fuel power plant in Alaska on a cold sub-zero night in the middle of winter. Located along the Chena River, in Fairbanks, which is located in the North Star Borough, the Interior part of the state and in many ways the coldest, especially as you head north toward the Arctic Circle a few hundred miles away.