Tag: “Monument”

6 places found.

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   Union Square

   If you're a tourist in San Francisco, even if you're not staying there, you will end up, at some point, at Union Square. Union Square is the home to much of the upscale retail in the city, as well as being the location of many hotels and restaurants.

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   Canyon de Chelly National Monument

   Canyon de Chelly is a National monument that is within the Navajo Nation and is in partnership with the National Park Service. Most of the land is off limits unless you are with a park ranger, or a Navajo guide, but you can see plenty from the ridge road that runs along it.

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   "Halo" of the Labor Legacy monument

   In 2001, the Detroit Cultural Affairs and Recreation Dept., Detroit 300, and Mayor's office designated a site for the project. More than 120 artists and sculptors registered for a competition, and heard labor representatives challenge them to create art that would honor the working women and men who built our city, inform visitors about labor's heritage, and inspire all with labor's vision for the future.

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   Washington Monument

   This is the Washington Monument on the National Mall in Washington, DC.

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   Vietnam Memorial

   The Vietnam Memorial is a tribute to the American Soldiers who lost their lives in the Vietnam War. This sunken black granite monument was not well recieved when it was originally proposed as many people felt that it would be a dark hole in the capitol mall and would not honor the dead.

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   Bandelier National Monument

   Hundreds of ruins of Anasazi cliff houses and pueblo-style dwellings lay scattered across the Pajarito Plateau of northern New Mexico. Within Bandelier National Monument's 32,000 acres, 70 miles of trails provide access to these ancient ruins, including the cliff dwellings and Tyuonyi village of Frijoles Canyon.