 | Fifty-foot-high cliffs overlook the pounding surf along the Pacific Coast near Santa Cruz. |
 | The faces of Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln gaze over the Black Hills of South Dakota at Mount Rushmore National Memorial. |
 | Trees line the Westchester Lagoon near downtown Anchorage, with the Chugiak Mountains in the background. |
 | Oxford Mountain, covered in green forests and grassland, overlooks the northern end of Cache Valley. |
 | Chapman Butte overlooks a scene typical of the Wyoming highlands, with cream-colored hills, sagebrush and clusters of trees. |
 | The modern skyscrapers of Minneapolis overlook the Stone Arch Bridge over the Mississippi River. A remnant of the city's industrial days in the early 1900s, it now serves as a footbridge. |
 | An alligator enjoys the sunshine at Savannah Wildlife Refuge. |
 | The marble interior of the Utah State Capitol Rotunda. |
 | The rocky shoreline of Silver Bay at Sitka, Alaska. |
 | Tenaya Lake sits high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains at Yosemite, surrounded by granite-domed mountains. |
 | This unusual concentration of colored earth deposits was named Artist's Palette. It is the highlight of the Artist's Drive at Death Valley. |
 | U.S. Highway 101, passing through Redwood National Park, is dwarfed by giant Redwoods such as these. |
 | Ocotillos, a plant of the Sonaran desert, found here along U.S. Highway 95, bloom and grow leaves only after exceptional rainstorms. |
 | Lassen Peak reflects in Lake Helen in Lassen Volcanic Park. Heavy winter snows still linger even in July. |
 | Abajo Drive wanders past the peaks of the Abajo Mountains in southern Utah. |
 | The Jupiter, a replica of early train engines, sits on display at the Golden Spike visitor's center, where the first transcontinental railroad was completed. |
United States of America Scenic View Gallery