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There are several sighting tubes like this along the South Rim in Grand Canyon Village. Each notch is identified with a landmark in the distance. There is one that has worked perfectly since 1922 along the Rim Trail near the El Tovar Hotel.
When you look through the tube, the base plaque identifies the name of the scene that you are looking at. This is an interesting...
The South Street Seaport is a historic area in the New York City borough of Manhattan, located where Fulton Street meets the East River, and adjacent to the Financial District. The Seaport is a designated historic district, distinct from the neighboring Financial District. It features some of the oldest architecture in downtown Manhattan, and includes the largest conc...
The Soviet War Memorial is a vast war memorial and military cemetery in Berlin's Treptower Park. It was built to the design of the Soviet architect Yakov Belopolsky to commemorate 5,000 of the 80,000 Soviet soldiers who fell in the Battle of Berlin in April–May 1945. It opened four years after World War II on May 8, 1949. The Memorial served as the central war m...
Spaccanapoli is the informal designation given to the long, straight street running down the middle of Naples’s centro storico (historic center). The name has also come to stand for the neighborhood surrounding the street, an area that’s chaotic, vibrant, edgy, colorful, noisy, mysterious, and very beautiful. In other words, it’s the essence of Naple...
The Space Needle is a tower in Seattle, Washington and is a major landmark of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and a symbol of Seattle. Located at the Seattle Center, it was built for the 1962 World's Fair, during which time nearly 20,000 people a day used the elevators, with over 2.3 million visitors in all for the World Fair. The Space Needle is 605...
The Spadena House, also known as The Witch's House, is a storybook house in Beverly Hills, California. Located on the corner of Walden Drive and Carmelita Avenue, it is known for its fanciful, intentionally dilapidated design, and is a landmark included on tours of the area.
The house was designed by Hollywood art director Harry Oliver, who went on to play a major rol...
The Spanish Arch in Galway city, Ireland, was originally an extension of the city wall from Martin's Tower to the bank of the Corrib, as a measure to protect the city's quays, which were located in the area once known as the Fish Market (now Spanish Parade). It was constructed during the mayoralty of Wylliam Martin in 1584, being calledceann an bhalla(the head of the ...
Across from Harbor Island in San Diego and next to the San Diego Airport is a bayside park called Spanish Landing, a historic site which commemorates the meeting in 1769 of two expeditions from Spanish Mexico that made possible the European settlement of California.
Spanish Landing park is the site of San Salvador Village, where the San Diego Maritime Museum is constr...
The Spanish missions in California comprise a series of religious and military outposts established by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order between 1769 and 1833 to spread the Christian faith among the local Native Americans. The missions represented the first major effort by Europeans to colonize the Pacific Coast region, and gave Spain a valuable toehold in the...
The Spanish Riding School of Vienna, Austria, is a traditional riding school for Lipizzan horses, which perform in the Winter Riding School in the Hofburg. Not only is it a center for classical dressage, the headquarters is a tourist attraction in Vienna that offers public performances as well as permitting public viewing of some training sessions. The presentati...
The Spanish Steps (Italian: Scalinata della Trinità dei Monti) are a set of steps in Rome, Italy, climbing a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti, dominated by the Trinità dei Monti church at the top. The Scalinatais the widest staircase in Europe.
The monumental stairway of 138 steps was built with Fre...
Missouri’s town of Spencer is one of the few remaining places to retain the original 1926 alignment of Route 66. Check out the old service station in town.
Sphere Within Sphere (Sfera con sfera) is a bronze sculpture by Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro.
Versions of the sculpture (diameters vary) can be seen in many settings worldwide, including:
Vatican Museums, Rome
Palazzo della Farnesina, Rome
Trinity College, Dublin
United Nations Headquarters, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C
Ch...
Sphere Within Sphere (Sfera con sfera) is a bronze sculpture by Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro.
Versions of the sculpture (diameters vary) can be seen in many settings worldwide, including:
Vatican Museums, Rome
Palazzo della Farnesina, Rome
Trinity College, Dublin
United Nations Headquarters, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C
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Spiral Jetty is an earthwork sculpture constructed in April, 1970 that is considered to be the central work of American sculptor Robert Smithson. Smithson documented the construction of the sculpture in a 32-minute color film also titled Spiral Jetty.
Built on the northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake near Rozel Point in Utah entirely of mud, salt crystals, basalt...
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