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6 Kasım 2007 Salı

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Photo: head sculpture

The mausoleum of Antiochus I (69-34 B.C.) is among Turkey's most impressive antiquities. Built atop 7,054-foot (2,150-meter) Nemrut Mountain, this terraced, manmade burial mound was Antiochus's monument to himself and the Greek gods, whose massive heads, seen here, once topped statues some 26 to 33 feet (8 to 10 meters) tall. Earthquakes over the centuries have left the statues fallen and crumbled, but the grandeur of the place remains.


Photo: Delicate Arch

Delicate Arch stands at the precipice of a rocky valley in Utah's Arches National Park with the snowcapped La Sal Mountains in the distance. Though Delicate is the crown jewel of the park, Arches is home to some 2,000 of these natural sculptures, formed by millions of years of wind erosion and weathering.

Photograph by Barry Tessman

Photo: Glacier Bay National Park

The Fairweather Range rises 15,000 feet (4,572 meters) over Johns Hopkins Inlet in Alaska's Glacier Bay National Park. This peaceful inlet is strewn with ice floes calved from the massive glacier that wends through the mountains. One of Alaska's largest harbor seals breeding colonies comes here each May and June to nurse their pups in relative safety on the multitude of icebergs.

Photograph by Ralph Lee Hopkins

Photo: Mount Rushmore

A view from the ground shows Mount Rushmore in the granite rock of South Dakota's Black Hills against a deep blue sky. The sculpture, featuring 60-foot (18-meter) carvings of the heads of former U.S. Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, took 14 years to complete and draws more than two million tourists every year.

Photograph by Paul Damien


Photo: Geyser in Yellowstone

Steam billows from a geyser in Yellowstone National Park. Established in 1872, Yellowstone is America's first national park. Home to the famed Old Faithful geyser, the park straddles parts of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho.

Photo: Golden Gate Bridge

A container ship steams beneath San Francisco's iconic Golden Gate Bridge. The 4,200-foot-long (1,280-meter-long) span, which took four years to build, was opened in May of 1937. Upon completion, the San Francisco Chronicle sarcastically referred to the now-renowned structure as "a $35 million steel harp."


Photo: camel and pyramids

A camel-for-hire in colorful adornments waits for fares near Egypt's most popular sight—the Pyramids of Giza. These three massive structures (two are visible here) were built by tens of thousands of laborers over an 80-year span during the reigns of Pharaohs Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure (about 2550 to 2470 B.C.), one of the largest building projects in the history of humankind.

Photo: blue-domed church

A black cat rests in the shadow of a blue-domed church, one of many in Santorini, Greece. Below, two of the thousands of cruise liners that ply the Mediterranean waters around the Cyclades Islands each year glide past the uninhabited lava island of Nea Kameni.


Photo: tulips in Lafayette Park

A garden bed in Washington, D.C.'s Lafayette Park pops with red tulips and blue salvia. Located just across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, this 7-acre (2.8-hectare) square, also known as Presidents Park, is a popular place for protests and celebrations. Named after Marquis de Lafayette, a French hero of the American Revolution, the park features four statues of Revolutionary War heroes and an equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson, seen here, in the middle.

Photo: Central Park

An aerial view of Midtown Manhattan shows Central Park and the buildings that line it on all sides. The massive park, which covers 843 acres (340 hectares)—six percent of the city's total area—contains 58 miles (93 kilometers) of pedestrian trails, 26,000 trees, 9,000 benches, and 21 playgrounds. Some 25 million visitors come to this famed New York City landmark every year.


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