The National Mall is an open-area national park in downtown Washington, D.C. The term National Mall commonly includes areas that are officially part of West Potomac Park and Constitution Gardens to the west, and often is taken to refer to the entire area between the Lincoln Memorial and the United States Capitol, with the Washington[…]
Schönbrunn Palace is a former imperial 1,441-room Rococo summer residence in modern Vienna, Austria. One of the most important cultural monuments in the country. The palace and gardens illustrate the tastes, interests, and aspirations of successive Habsburg monarchs. In the year 1569, the Roman Emperor Maximilian II purchased a large floodplain of the Wien river[…]
The Boboli Gardens are the expansive grounds located behind the Pitti Palace in the Oltroarno neighborhood of Florence, Italy. The gardens are home to a collection of sculptures dating from the 16th through the 18th centuries, with some Roman antiquities. In the 16th Century, the Medici family controlled major financial and trade routes across Europe. […]
Bryce Canyon National Park is a national park located in southwestern Utah in the United States. The major feature of the park is Bryce Canyon, which despite its name, is not a canyon but a collection of giant natural amphitheaters along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. Bryce is distinctive due to geological structures[…]