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Historian Ray Flowers leads a tour near the western end of Fort Fisher. Fort Fisher protected Confederate commerce transiting Wilmington, North Carolina, until it finally fell in January 1865. Wilmington was the last major port the Confederates had, and the loss of international supplies through it was a factor in Robert E. Lee having to evacuate Petersburg in Virginia. Kure Beach, North Carolina (Nathanael Miller, 3 Feb. 2018)
Albus the Crab visits the experiemental submarine USS Albacore (AGSS 569) on permanent display at Portsmouth. The Albacore was the test bed for numerous submarine technologies, most notably the tear-drop shaped hull for high speed underwater. Albacore was in commission from 1953 - 1972 and opened as a museum in 1986. Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (Nathanael Miller, 31 July 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)
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)
Built by German immigrants Johann Albert and Margaretha Lotz in 1858, the Lotz House was badly damaged during the 1864 Battle of Franklin. The Lotz eventually moved to California in 1870. Lotz's daughter, Matilda, was six years old during the battle, but would grow up to become an internationally-renowned wildlife painter. Franklin, Tennessee. (Nathanael Miller, 29 May 2018)
The spring where the Rivery Styx exits the cave and flows towards the Green River. 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)
An ancient sacred spring used to exist on the grounds of Kawaiaha'o Church. Long lost, this fountain commemorates that sacred spring, and incorporates a stone from the original spring as the center piece. It is located in front of King Lunalilo's crypt on the church grounds. Completed in 1842 of 1,000 lbs coral blocks hand-hewn from Oahu's reefs, it replaced an earlier grass structure and is the first stone church in Hawai'i. Many of the Hawaiian monarchs worshipped here. Honolulu, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 22 April 2018)
The Great Serpent Mound's triple-coil tail. The Serpent Mound and associated burial mounds are built inside a 9-mile wile crater left from an asteroid impact 256 million years ago. The Serpent Mound is the oldest effigy in North America, having been built about 1,000 years ago. Peebles, Ohio. (Nathanael Miller, 3 Jan. 2018)
Borden Flats Lighthouse, first lit in 1881. Fall River, Massachusetts. (Nathanael Miller, 21 July 2018)
The New York-class battleship USS Texas (BB 35) was in commission from 1914 - 1948. It is one of the few American ships (and only battleship left) that served in both World Wars I and II. The ship has been a museum since 1948. La Porte, Texas. (Nathanael Miller, 01 Nov. 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)
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, Hebron, Kentucky. (Nathanael Miller, 20 Dec. 2017)
Built in 1898, the historic Star School building was the original educational institution in this part of the frontier. McClave, Colorado. (Nathanael Miller, 25 Oct. 2018)
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)
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. (Nathanael Miller, 3 Dec. 2017)
The Quarterdeck flags and well deck fragments of USS Ponce (LPD 15) at the McLean House. The home of Wilmer McLean was the site of Grant and Lee's meeting on April 9, 1865. The house was dismantled in the late 19th century with intent to move it to Washington, D.C., but the effort failed. Most of the house of was lost, but the bricks around the front door and a few other architectural pieces are original to the house when it was reconstrcuted in 1949. 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. USS Ponce was in commission from 1971 - 2017. Appomattox, Virginia. (Nathanael Miller, 01 Feb. 2018)
Brief glimpse of St. Petersburg, Florida. Two-image composite panorama. (Digital illustration by Nathanael Miller, 19 Feb. 2018)
The abandoned and crumbling power house ovder the Little Patuxent River at historic Savage Mill has been left to ruin even as the rest of the mill was reborn as a unique shopping center. Savage Mill started life in 1821 as a cotton mill in Savage, Maryland. (Nathanael Miller. 05 May 2018)
The abandoned and crumbling power house ovder the Little Patuxent River at historic Savage Mill has been left to ruin even as the rest of the mill was reborn as a unique shopping center. Savage Mill started life in 1821 as a cotton mill in Savage, Maryland. (Nathanael Miller. 05 May 2018)
Looking forward along the starboard side of CSS Neuse. 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)
Freemont Street was the original Las Vegas Strip. Partially turned into a pedestrian forum now, it includes numerous historic neon signs from long-gone hotels. Las Vegas, Nevada. (Nathanael Miller, 16 Oct. 2018)
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)
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)
A 13-image composite panorama looking foward along the starboard side of the remains of the Confederate ram CSS Jackson (including original propellers). The ship was commissioned in Dec. 1864, but was still being fitted out when captured and burned in the Chattahoochee River by Union forces in April 1865. The ship's wreckage was raised in the 1960s. Originally founded in 1962, the museum relocated to the present facility in 2001. It is the only civil war museum in the nation exclusively dedicated to the story of the Union and Confederate navies. Columbus, Georgia. (Digital illustration by Nathanael Miller, 17 March 2018)
Albus the Crab visits the Vermont Teddy Bear Company. Founded in 1983 by John Sortino, the Vermont Teddy Bear Compnay (or "VTB") specializesi in jointed bears, but crafts all kinds of cuddly, customizable friends for all ages. Shelburne, Vermont. (Nathanael Miller, 01 Aug. 2018)
The Castillo de San Marcos National Monument in St. Augustine is the oldest masonry fort in the continental U.S. It was begun in 1672, and today visitors can see areas with original paint and even carvings of ships and other historic graffiti. Even on a rainy, cloudy day St. Augustine is a vibrant city to walk around. Founded in 1565 by the Spanish, it is the oldest continually inhabited European-founded city in the U.S. St. Augustine, Florida. (Nathanael Miller, 04 Nov. 2018)
The Museum of Idaho had its genesis in the 1898 ladies' Village Improvement Society club. The museum tells the storhy of Idaho from prehistory through the present day. It's current temporary exhibit is the world premier of Bruce Rosenbaum's Steampunk artwork, honoring such visonaries and inventors as Mary Shelly, Jan Ernst Matzeliger, George Eastman, Jules Verne, and H.G. Wells. Idaho Falls, Idaho. (Nathanael Miller, 27 August 2018)
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)
Historic graffiti. 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)
Albus the Crab at the Museum of Florida History. I lived in Tallahassee from 1992 - 1997. I interned at the Museum of Florida History in 1994, and then got my first post-FSU job there from 1994 - 1995 when budget cuts slashed a number of state jobs. The museum was opened in 1977 and is housed in the R. A. Gray Building behind the state capitol. One of my early jobs was cataloguing and recording the condition of several Civil War flags before sending them for conservation, the most rare being the 5th Florida regimental flag. Other exhibits I regularly cleaned, such as the case for the builder's model of the battleship USS Florida and citrus packing house. I had a minor part assisting in the construction of the diorama of Florida's first people. Tallahassee, Florida. (Nathanael Miller, 05 Nov. 2018)
I have held back from this particular composition for the past year. This is the first image in which all the players in Grand Tour USA appear together: Albus the Crab, the Quartedeck flags and well deck fragment from USS Ponce (LPD 15), Sara Jane (my trusty 2007 Kia Sorento), and I have finally entered our 50th state - my native state of Texas! Grand Tour USA began in November of 2017 and is being completed in October of 2018. All fifty states and two provinces of Canada! Texas. (Nathanael Miller, 27 Oct. 2018)