Tag: world
Alhambra – A Moorish Paradise
A palace-fortress concealing an interior of unsurpassed beauty, the Alhambra recalls Spain’s Islamic past. It sits high above an ancient city, framed against the...
Monumental Wonders of the World
Countless structures have been raised by human architects and builders from the time our remote ancestors first leaned two branches together to make a...
Surtsey – An Island Born of Fire
In the early 1960s, a series of volcanic explosions from deep within the Earth’s core culminated in the creation of a barren crest of...
Brutal Badlands of USA
Desolate expanses of ravaged rock scar a grimly picturesque landscape. Upturned millions of years ago by a prehistoric turbulence, the land is still slowly...
White Sands – The Porcelain Desert
In the New Mexico Desert, shifting dunes of brilliant white sand gleam in the sunshine like a pristine snowfield. White Sands is unique: a...
The Glittering Petrified Forest
Thousands of jewel-bright logs, made not of wood but of solid stone, lie strewn across Arizona’s Painted Desert. They are perfect replicas of tall...
Monument Valley – Land of Rocky Giants
On a high, barren plain in Arizona, massive outcrops of red sandstone are etched against the sky like fragmented architectural relics. The unique beauty...
Rainbow Bridge – Sculpture in Stone
One of the world’s greatest wonders, and the focus of Paiute and Navajo myth, a fabulous span of rosy sandstone curves over the rocky...
Meteor Crater – A Blow From Heaven
Thousands of years ago a cosmic missile hurtled to Earth, blasting a colossal crater in the arid landscape of the Arizona Desert. Some 30,000 to...
Grand Canyon – An Ancient Corridor
Like a corridor through time, the staggeringly magnificent Grand Canyon slices into the surface of the Earth, revealing layer upon layer of ancient rock...
