The World's Most Beautiful Places
This is an example of how historic farm house kitchens looked in the Italian part of Switzerland, between the 1740’s and 1860’s. Its one of several houses brought from Cugnasco, an Italian farming village in the southern canton of Ticino, to the famous open-air Museum Ballenberg, near Interlaken.
A view of a historic hanging flume constructed by the Montrose Placer Mining company in the 1880’s to help miners exploit placer gold deposits in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. The flume was more than 12 miles in length, and was connected to a ditch starting at a dam on the San Miguel River near Uravan, Colorado. While in operation the flume carried more than 80 million gallons of water a day.
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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.