GALLERY DESCRIPTION: Carvings, sculptures, and edifices constructed to honor historical figures, events, and fallen heros
National World War II Memorial
National Mall Tidal Basin - Washington D.C.
National Mall Tidal Basin - Washington D.C.
Yoshino Cherry tree blossom at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
National Mall Tidal Basin - Washington D.C.
Yoshino Cherry tree blossom across from the Thomas Jefferson Memorial
National Mall Tidal Basin - Washington D.C.
Evening at the base of Mount Rushmore
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Morning sun washes over the carvings of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln (from left to right)
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Stone carving of George Washington
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln (from left to right)
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Four iconic U.S. Presidents carved into the rock cliffs of Mount Rushmore framed by a forest of Ponderosa Pine trees below
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
George Washington stands out on Mount Rushmore against a backdrop of blue sky
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Through a window frame of Ponderosa Pine tree needles, the carving of George Washington stands out above the carving of Abraham Lincoln below
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
A roadside tunnel view of Mount Rushmore and the dense Ponderosa Pine forest from the Iron Mountain Highway
Black Hills National Forest
A stone carving to memorialize the warrior chief Crazy Horse is viewed prominently atop a 6,532 foot high mountain in the Black Hills
Crazy Horse Memorial
Face of Oglala Lakota Crazy Horse warrior chief carved in stone
Crazy Horse Memorial
The stone-carved sculpture of Oglala Lakota Crazy Horse warrior chief is the work of sculpture Korczak Ziolkowski at the invitation of Lakota Chief Standing Bear
Crazy Horse Memorial
A glow from the setting sun alights half of the westerly facing Gateway Arch, perhaps a fitting guiding light to a symbol memorializing the western expansion of the United States
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
In silhouette at dusk, the Gateway Arch rises 630 feet high along the banks of the Mississippi River with the city of St. Louis and the vast expanse of the western half of the United States awaiting beyond
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
Built between 1963 and 1965, the iconic Gateway Arch commemorates the expansion of the United States to the west that began from this point with the 1804-06 Lewis & Clark Expedition up the Missouri River at the direction of President Thomas Jefferson following the Louisiana Purchase in 1803
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
Green
City lights shine off the stainless steel exterior of the world's tallest arch, the 630-foot tall Gateway Arch
Gateway Arch National Park
Goldenrod flowers grow in a grassy slope aside a crop of Balsam Fir trees, leading up to a tower beacon originally dedicated in 1933 to the fallen men and women of the first World War
Mount Greylock State Reservation
Patches of exposed schist bedrock is visible atop the summit of Mount Greylock with the War Memorial Tower positioned above
Mount Greylock State Reservation
Goldenrod wildflowers grow in a clearing of a boreal forest of Balsam Fir trees at the summit of the highest point in Massachusetts
