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Nyberg Park features scrap-metal sculptures by local artist Ken Nyberg, including one honoring his daughter and fellow Vining native, NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg. Vining, Minnesota. (Nathanael Miller, 17 Aug. 2018)
A 400-foot sculpture of a rattlesnake slithers along University Blvd. Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Nathanael Miller, 23 Oct. 2018)
The Sweeney Prizery (a building for packing tobacco) was built in 1799 and is the oldest extant structure in the national park. It sits within Confederate lines less than a mile from Lee's headquarters. The park service clad the building in sheet metal to protect the original framing and walls. Established in 1935, the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park preserves the site of the surrender of Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant in April 1865. Appomattox, Virginia. (Nathanael Miller, 01 Feb. 2018)
The restored portion of Fort Stevens, where President Abraham Lincoln came under fire from Confederate forces in July 1864. Part of the northern-most defense of the city, Fort Stevens was attacked by forces dispatched by Robert E. Lee to try and force General Grant to lift the siege of Petersburg. The Lincolns rode out to see the fight, and this make Lincoln the only American president to come under enemy fire. Washington, D.C. (Nathanael Miller, 13 Jan. 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)
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The President Lincoln Cottage at the old Soldiers Home (today the Armed Forces Retirement Home). This house is three miles from the White House, and the Lincolns lived here during the springs and summers from 1862 - 1865. Lincoln drafted the Emancipation Proclamation here. Washington, D.C. (Nathanael Miller, 12 Jan. 2018)
Protected cruiser USS Olympia (C 6) on display at the Independence Seaport Museum. Olympia was commissioned in 1895 and reactivated several times, finally decommissioned in 1922. Most famously she was Commodore Dewey's flagship during the 1898 Battle of Manila Bay. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Nathanael Miller, 9 May 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)
The National Corvette Museum. Founded in 1994, it showcases the history of the Corvette. It's signature Skydome was the site of a 2014 sinkhole that swallowed 8 historic cars. All 8 were recovered, but only two were fully restored. Bowling Green, Kentucky. (Nathanael Miller, 10 Dec. 2017)
Visitors study exhibits showing casts from the original Parthenon in Athens used to create the Nashville Parthenon in Centennial Park. Centennial Park was the site of the 1897 Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition. Today the full-scale replica of the ancient Athenian Parthenon and man-made Lake Watauga are the only structures left from the exposition. Nashville, Tennessee. (Nathanael Miller, 16 May 2018)
Eldean Covered Bridge over the Great Miami River. Built in 1860, it is 224 feet long, and the longest suriviving example of a Long Truss bridge (as developed by Stephen H. Long in 1830) in the country. Troy, Ohio. (Nathanael Miller, 4 Jan. 2018)
Chinese camel bone carving that required 40 artists to sculpt. 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)
The John Ross Bridge (completed 1917) carries Market Street across the Tennessee River. Chattanooga, Tennessee. (Nathanael Miller, 28 March 2018)
Mokoli'i (or Chinaman's Hat) is a basalt islet off Kualoa Regional Park. Ancient Hawaiian lore holds thiis is the tail of a dragon that was cut off and cast into the sea. Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 21 April 2018)
Carhenge was built by Jim Reinders as a memorial to his father and dedicated during the June, 1987 eclipse. It replicates Stonehenge, but also incluces an adjacent "auto-art" park. The auto-art features a station wagon repurposed into an homage to the wagons which brought the settlers west and a a peice called "The Fourd Seasons," five vertical cars (two are welded together, end to end) representing the seasons in Nebraska. Alliance, Nebraska. (Nathanael Miller, 09 Aug. 2018)
Part working pawn shop, part TV show set, the World Famous Gold & Silver Pawn Shop is the setting for the hit History Channel show "Pawn Stars." Las Vegas, Nevada. (Nathanael Miller, 16 Oct. 2018)
Lambeau Field, home of the champion Green Bay Packers. Opening in 1957, the ever-evolving venue is the oldest continually operating football statdium in the NFL, and even features a 50-foot tall statue of the Lombardi Trophy. Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Nathanael Miller, 07 Aug. 2018)
The Branson Scenic Railway operates out of the historic 1905 depot in Branson, using engines and rolling stock built during the 1940s and 1950s. The line's southern route takes it to the Barren Fork Valley in Arkansas. Branson, Missouri. (Nathanael Miller, 4 April 2018)
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 (Nathanael Miller, 6 Feb. 2018)
Albus the Crab on the 19th century carriage step at the Susan B. Anthony Home and Musuem. Susan B. Anthony was one of the leading figures in both the abolition movement against slavery, and later in working to gain women the right to vote. Rochester, New York. (Nathanael Miller. 08 May 2018)
Self-portrait. Fort Donelson was captured by Ulysses S. Grant in February 1862. It was the third of three Confederates forts Grant targeted, and the most significant as it opened all of middle Tennessee and the Cumberland to Union control. It was Grant's first major campaign, and it won him national fame. This was also the first of three Confederate armies Grant was to capture during the war (he captured more whole armies than any other Union general). Dover, Tennessee. (Nathanael Miller, 30 March 2018)
On board the ferry Yankee Freedom III to Fort Jefferson on Garden Key in the Dry Tortugas. Nearly 70 miles west of Key West, the Dry Tortugas mark the end of the third largest barrier reef in the world. (Nathanael Miller, 26 July 2017)
Joseph icon. Christmas Eve at St. Helen's Parish. Huber Heights, Ohio. (Nathanael Miller, 24 Dec. 2017).
Olympic National Park contains four distinct regions: Pacific coastline, alpine areas, the west-side temperate rainforest, and the drier east side forests. Hot springs also betray the presence of minor volcanic activity deep under the mountains. Port Angeles, Washington. (Nathanael Miller; 1 May 2021)
The model of Holland Harbor Lighthouse ("Big Red") is but one of many made from plant material. The Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is a 158-acre (64 ha) botanical garden and outdoor sculpture park. It has a rather huge tropical conservatory, extensive Japanese garden, and winding paths that combine the natural and the art world by mixing the Meijers' sculpture collection into the garden landscape. Grand Rapids, Michigan. (Nathanael Miller, 19 Dec. 2017)
In 1886 the L&N completed a spur line from Glasbow Junction (today's Park City) to Mammoth Cave. They brought tourists out the 8.7 miles using four "dummy" 04-2T type steam engines, each pulling a single coach or baggage car. Mammoth Cave is the longest known cave system in the world with over 400 miles of tunnels mapped. It was carved over over millions of years by the underground Styx and Echo rivers, which empty into the Green River. It was first discovered 6,000 years ago by Native Americans and has been integral to Kentucky history ever since. (Nathanael Miller, 12 Dec. 2017)
Protected cruiser USS Olympia (C 6) on display at the Independence Seaport Museum. Olympia was commissioned in 1895 and reactivated several times, finally decommissioned in 1922. Most famously she was Commodore Dewey's flagship during the 1898 Battle of Manila Bay. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Nathanael Miller, 9 May 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)
Bannack State Park preserves the ghost town of Bannack. Bannack was founded in 1862 and was the first gold-rush boom town in Montana. Bannack lasted through World War II before finally beginning to die out. The state park pretty much "freezes" the town in time after the last few residents left the old ghost town in the 1970s. Bannack features architecture ranging from 1862 through the 1940s. Bannack, Montana. (Nathanael Miller, 26 August 2018)
Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center, located along Owl Creek in Virginia Beach, Virginia. (Nathanael Miller, 11 Feb. 2018)
Iolani Palace, 1879. Royal residence until the annexation of Hawai'i. Honolulu, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 22 April 2018)
The Anchorage Museum opened in 1968. It's diverse collection tells the story of the art, culture, history, and natural history of Alaska. Anchorage, Alaska. (Nathanael Miller, 02 October 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)
Austin Lantz leads a tour of the Oliver Mansion, originally named Copshaholm, was completed in 1896 by Joseph D. Oliver, head of the Oliver Chilled Plow Works and designer of the revolutionary chilled plow. It's a 38-room Romanesque Queen Anne house designed by architect Charles Alonzo Rich. It is maintained by the Northern Indiana Historical Society's The History Museum. South Bend, Indiana. (Nathanael Miller, 17 Dec. 2017)
Banyan trees and birds abound in Kapiolani Park. Honolulu, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 20 April 2018)
The grave of War of 1812 veteran Francis Zucksworth (1784 - 1860) and his "consort," Sarah (1795 - 1881). Established in 1932 adjacent to the land where the Lincoln farm stood, the Lincoln State Park preserves land that was central to the Little Pigeon Creek community Lincoln grew up in. Lincoln City, Indiana. (Nathanael Miller, 16 Dec. 2017)
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)
Fort McAllister along the Ogeechee River secured Savannah from Union assault until Gen. William T. Sherman captured it Dec. 13, 1864, thus securing Savannah and ending his March to the Sea. Richmond Hill, Georgia. (Nathanael Miller, 17 Feb. 2018)
Wildflowers in Paradise. The Paradise area is one of the most famous and visited areas of Mount Rainier National Park. Mount Rainier the highest peak of the Cascade volcanoes, rising 14,411 feet above sea level. It is also considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes in North America. Mount Rainier National Park Washington. (25 Aug. 2019; Nathanael Miller)
The Pacific Aviation Museum occupies historic spaces on Ford Island in Pearl Harbor. Its most iconic structure is the old Ford Island Control Tower. The tower was under construction when Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941. Exhibits include the wreckage of a Japanese plane that crashed on the Island of Ni'ihau, one of only two fixed-wing Wildcats, and a civilian plane that was caught in the middle of the Japanese formations as they approached Pearl Harbor. My uncle, Clarence Silva, did the murals that hang in the museum's exhibits. Honolulu, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 20 April 2018)