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Albus the Crab at the birthplace of James T. Kirk. Riverside is the official "future birthplace" of Star Trek's legendary Capt. James T. Kirk. The town has a stone monument at the site of Kirk's future home, and even an official starship named USS Riverside..
Riverside, Iowa. (Nathanael Miller, 08 Aug. 2018)
The Navy Exchange at Pearl Harbor features a ceiling mural painted by Wyland in 2003. Honolulu, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 17 April 2018)
Founded in 1881 by 17-year-old Albert Friedrich. Friedrich took antlers in exchange for drinks during the saloon's early days. Teddy Roosevelt frequented the Buckhorn while mobilizing for the Spanish-American War, and his bison horn chair and field desk are on display. The Buckhorn features both a Texas Rangers museum and massive collection of taxidermied specimens. San Antonio, Texas. (Nathanael Miller, 29 Oct. 2018)
Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center, located along Owl Creek in Virginia Beach, Virginia. (Nathanael Miller, 11 Feb. 2018)
Rising to 14,261 feet, Mount Shasta dominates the landscape of northern California. Black Butte is a formation of parasitic lava domes west-south-west of Mount Shasta. Mount Shasta is a stratovolcano, and part of the Cascade arc. Northern California. (Nathanael Miller, 12 Oct. 2018)
The Palace Diner is a small lunch counter serving burgers and sandwiches. It was built in the mid-1920s, and the original owner acutally ordered it from the Sears cataloge! Biddeford, Maine. (Nathanael Miller, 24 July 2018)
Sudlersville, birthplace of Baseball Hall of Fame member Jimmie Foxx. Foxx was the second player in major league baseball history to hit 500 career home runs, after Babe Ruth. Sudlersville, Maryland. (Nathanael Miller, 17 Jan. 2018)
St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church seen from the ruins of the abandoned St. John's Episcopal church. Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. (Digital illustration by Nathanael Miller, 9 Jan. 2018)
Mount Adams From Takhlakh Lake. Mount Adams is 12,281 feet above sea level, making it the second highest peak in Washington State after Mount Rainier. Mount Adams is one of the oldest of the Cascade volcanoes. Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington. (02 Sept. 2019; Nathanael Miller)
Launched in 1945, SS American Victory saw service through the end of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. Today a museum ship, she is one of only four operational WWII-era merchants ships left in the country. The "Victory Ships" were the successor design to the "Liberty Ships" of early World War II. Tampa, Florida. (Nathanael Miller, 21 Feb. 2018)
Pikes Peak reaches a height of 14,115 feat, though its summit can be blocked by early winter storms due ot its extreme height. It is the highest peak in the Front Range of the Rockies, and one of the 53 mountains in Colorado that exceeds 14,000 feet. Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Nathanael Miller, 25 Oct. 2018)
USCG Station Tillamook Bay. This was Barbara's first duty station. She used to help crew unit 47254, a 47-foot motor life boat which is still attached to Station Tillamook Bay. She also painted a mural in the station that is still there today. Garibaldi, Oregon. (30 December 2019; Nathanael Miller)
Williams, Arizona, was founded in 1881 and incorporated in 1901. It's named for the famous trapper, scout, and mountain man, William "Old Bill" Williams. Williams was the last town on old Route 66 (the "mother road") by Interstate 40 when I-40 was completed in 1984. Today Williams is known as the "Gateway to the Grand Canyon." Williams, Arizona. (Nathanael Miller, 19 Oct. 2018)
Nipper the dog merchandise. Originally a painting by a British artist, Johnson bought the rights to the image, altered it from the dog listening to a device playing a cylinder record to a gramaphone, and made it the logo for Victrola (RCA would later but and use it). Johnson Victrola Museum, dedicated to the story of Eldridge R. Johnson, founder of the Victor Talking Machine Company. Although his compnay was in Pennsylvania, Johnson was a native of Dover, Delaware. Dover, Delaware. (Nathanael Miller, 17 January 2018)
Located behind the Puget Sound Navy Museum and adjacent to the ferry terminal, Harborside Fountain Park is designed to evoke many themes. The shape of the fountains recalls the great battleships of old and modern submarines setting sail while also representing the area's eruptive volcanic history and even whales spouting as they breathe. Bremerton, Washington. (Nathanael Miller, 11 September 2018)
The U.S. Air Force Armament Museum was founded in 1975. It is the only musuem dedicated primarily to the armaments carried by the Air Force, and boasts a collection of over 30 aircraft (U.S. and a few foreign), as well as hundreds of examples of munitions used by aerial warfare through history. Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. (Nathanael Miller. 29 Dec. 2018)
Striped bass. North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher. It is one of three North Carolina Aquarium facilities (the other two at Pine Knoll Shores and Roanoke Island). Kure Beach, North Carolina (Nathanael Miller, 3 Feb. 2018)
Barrackville Covered Bridge, 1853. A modified Burr Truss arch, the bridge is 145 feet and spans Buffalo Creek. Confederate General William E. Jones nearly burned it during his April 1863 raid into then-northern Virginia (prior to West Virginia breaking way), but Confederate loyalists William and Dolly Ice of Ice's Mill convinced him to spare it. Today traffic is routed past it on a modern bridge, but Barrackville Bridge is a rare bridge that is still capable of carrying vehicular traffic with no modern undergirding to reinforce it. Barrackville, West Virginia. (Nathanael Miller, 7 Jan. 2018)
The CSS Neuse' forefoot (where the prow joins the keel), looking aft. The CSS Neuse Civil War Interpretive Center houses the salvaged wreckage of the Confederate ironclad CSS Neuse. Built on and sunk in the Neuse River, the Neuse yielded the largest collection of artifacts of any Confederate ironclad. The Neuse is one of only four salvaged Civil War ironclads on display in the country. Kinston, North Carolina (Nathanael Miller, 6 Feb. 2018)
Carved from 1927 to 1941 by Gutzon Borglum and his son, Lincoln Borglum, each figure on Mount Rushmore is carved on the scale of a person about 465 feet tall. Keystone, South Dakota. (Nathanael Miller, 13 Aug. 2018)
The Crazy Horse Memorial is being carved in the Black Hills of South Dakota. When finished, it is on track to be the largest sculpture in the world. It was begun in 1948 and is being done entirely with private money. Crazy Horse, South Dakota. (Nathanael Miller, 13 Aug. 2018)
Engine 576 ("The Stripe") is a 4-8-4 locomotive built in August 1942 and donated to Nashville in 1953. Currently on display in Centennial Park, the Nashville Steam Preservation Society (N.S.P.S) is slowly working to restore 576 to operational status with the goal of running regular tours around Nashville. Centennial Park was the site of the 1897 Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition. Today the full-scale replica of the ancient Athenian Parthenon is the only structure left. The park boasts a man-made lake, numerous monuments, and vast amounts of green space. Nashville, Tennessee. (Nathanael Miller, 12 May 2018)
Albus with the world's largest roll of toilet paper. It is 8.5 feet high and 10 feet in diameter. Ripley's Believe It or Not, or Ripley's Odditorium, is a museum of curiosities that is part of the Ripley's chain around the world. This particular building is built to look like it was fractured by an earthquake along the nearby New Madrid faultline like the ones that hit hte area in 1811 and 1812. Branson, Missouri. (Nathanael Miller, 3 April 2018)
Two-image composite panorama of CSS Neuse II. Built in 2009 at the site on the Neuse River where the CSS Neuse was fitted out from 1863 - 1864, the CSS Neuse II is a full-sized, fully fitted out replica. Interior compoartments and equipment are replicated as well as all external features. The Neuse II is the only 100% complete life-sized Civil War ironclad replica (the life-sized replica of USS Monitor in Newport News, Virginia, is an external model only with no internal compartments). Kinston, North Carolina (Digital illustration by Nathanael Miller, 6 Feb. 2018)
A 16-image composite panaorama. Founded in 1923, the museum is housed in four hangars on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and has more than 360 aircraft in its collection. (Digital illustration by Nathanael Miller, 4 Dec. 2017)
The Kensington Runestone Museum features the Kensington Runestone, a purported runestone chronicling a 14th century Viking incursion into North America and found in Minnesota in the 1880s. The runestone is still a controversial artifact with much evidence pointing to it being a hoax, but it is part of Minnesota's cultural fabric. The museum also maintains a historic village with several 19th century buildings that have been relocated to the grounds and a 2/3-sized replica of a Viking trading ship. Alexandria, Minnesota. (Nathanael Miller, 17 Aug. 2018)
USS Arizona (BB 39). Arizona was hit by an armor-piercing bomb that detonated her forward magazines during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The ship exploded, killing 1,177 of the 1,512 sailors on board at the time (about half of the lives lost during the attack). Of these dead, 1,102 are still aboard. Arizona was commissioned in 1916 and decommssioned in 1942. The memorial was built in 1962 and is visited by about 2 million people annually. Honolulu, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 20 April 2018)
Maintained by the Navajo Nation, the Four Corners Monuments marks one of the most fun accidents in American geographical history: the convergence of the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah. This is the only place in the U.S. where four states meet like this. Although this monument resides in four states at once, all my photos are "rooted" in New Mexico for archiving sakes..
Four Corners, New Mexico. (Nathanael Miller. 04 Jan. 2019)
National Museum of the United States Navy, Washington Navy Yard. Washington, D.C. (Nathanael Miller. 04 May 2018)
Rising over 567 feet high, the San Jacinto Monument is the tallest battlement tower in the world. It commemorates the 1836 Battle of San Jacinto in which Texas won its independence from Spain, and its base contains a museum of Texas history, and the top of the tower contains an observation deck. La Porte, Texas. (Nathanael Miller, 01 Nov. 2018)