The drive along Highway 128 on the way to Moab, Utah is a pleasant drive that meanders along the Colorado River. Suddenly, the road curves and this majestic view takes your breath away.
Landmark television transmitter atop Twin Peaks in San Francisco. Naturally, there's no public access to the tower itself, but the hilltops are easily accessible by car and afford unparalleled views of The City.
Travel can be splendid. Exhilrating.
A soldier in period costume fires a replica musket. The smell of gunpower and the original setting helps the immagination go back to the times of pirates and invaders.
An uncle had told us that while in Kuala Lumpur we must visit the Menara Tower. We did it mainly for the views, but were nicely surprised with everything else we discovered.
Burana Tower, located about an hour east of Bishkek near the city of Tokmok, is all that remains of the ancient city of Balasagyn, once the thriving capital of the Karakhanid Empire. Apparently, at its height, the city manufactured exquisite glass and ceramics, had an elaborate city-wide irrigation/plumbing/sewer system built with fired-clay pipes, was home to scholars, poets and numerous religions (although in its later years it became a Muslim city), it was home to fierce warriors – male and female – and it was a major stop on one of the Silk Road routes (from the Torugart Pass out of China, past Lake Issyk-Kul through what is now Bishkek before heading further westward.
The Red Bank Station is one of 20 stops on New Jersey Transit's North Jersey Coast Line. This commuter station also offers an easy port of call to the city with direct access from New York City's Pennsylvania Station.
Red Rock Canyon is a newly acquired part of the Colorado Springs Trails and Open Spaces system. It is the geological continuation of the Garden of the Gods, located a mere mile on the other side of the highway.
Renaissance Tower, located at 1201 Elm Street in downtown Dallas, Texas is a 56-story modern-styled skyscraper. It is the second tallest skyscraper in Dallas.