Month: August 2014

Las Vegas Strip

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Las Vegas is located in a broad desert valley in extreme southern Nevada and almost surrounded by mountains that are roughly 2,000 to 10,000 feet higher than the valley floor. The Las Vegas Valley itself is about 600 square miles and runs from the northwest to the southeast, sloping gradually upwards on each side towards … Read more

Museum of Modern Art

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Since its inception in 1929, the Museum of Modern Art has continually redefined the idea of the museum in contemporary Western culture. Originally conceived by its founders as a place for Modern art to come and go (because what makes up modernism is constantly changing), MoMA, as it is commonly known, established a permanent collection … Read more

National Air and Space Museum

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The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution is a museum in Washington, D.C., and is the most popular of the Smithsonian museums. It maintains the largest collection of aircraft and spacecraft in the world. It is also a vital center for research into the history, science, and technology of aviation and spaceflight, as well as planetary science and terrestrial geology and geophysics. Almost all space and aircraft on display are originals or backup crafts to the originals.National Air and Space Museum is a Awesome Place For Vacations.

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Four Corners Monument

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The Four Corners Monument marks the quadripoint in the Southwestern United States where the states of Arizona, Colorado,New Mexico and Utah meet. It is the only point in the United States shared by four states, leading to this area being called the Four Corners  Monument region. The monument also marks the boundary between two semi-autonomous native American governments, theNavajo Nation, which maintains the monument as a tourist attraction, and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Reservation.

The origins of the state boundaries marked by the monument occurred during the American Civil War, when the United States Congress acted to form governments in the area to combat Confederate ambitions for the region. Claims are sometimes made that the monument was misplaced in the initial surveys. The accuracy of the surveys has been defended by the U.S. National Geodetic Survey and the monument has been legally established as the corner of the four states.

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Ground Zero

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Ground Zero is the 16-acre site on Lower Manhattan that, until the tragic events of September 11, 2001, was home to the twin towers of the World Trade Center. America’s most sacred ground is now a construction site, as the frames of the Libeskind Memory Foundation take shape.The planned redevelopment includes several World Center tower … Read more