IconThe Hieroglyphic Mountains in the Sonoran Desert backdrop a specimen of saguaro, the Arizona botanical icon.

New Mexico's unique landscape features include the cone shaped Kasha -Katuwe Tent Rocks

and life stirs in every corner

In a world of disposable pages and mass-market shortcuts

A geologic sandstone formation known as The Mittens is awash in beauty as a rainbow seemingly plummets to earth at its side

Chile and Argentina share the Andes in the deep south of South America and this Chilean image is from those treasured borderlands

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Ancient Greek Orthodox monastaries built atop natural sandstone pillars are thrust heavenward from the northern reaches of the Plain of Thessaly

A wide range of colors and styles makes the common rose often quite uncommon

In the Cappadocia region of eastern Turkey a compressed volcanic ash called tufa stone is soft enough to manipulate into materials used for building

Bronze cowboy statuary by Constance Whitney Warren salutes the nation's largest state capitol building

It was a summer evening the Grand Canyon relished

With contours suggesting mathamatical properties discovered by a team of Germans