Columns and breezeway of the Spreckels Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park, San Diego. The Spreckels Organ is the largest musical instrument in the world. Built in 1915, it is played weekly during a free one-hour recital each Sunday.
Location: Balboa Park, San Diego, California
Image ID: 14607
Columns, York Hall, Revelle College, University of California San Diego, UCSD.
Image ID: 21221
A great white shark is countershaded, with a dark gray dorsal color and light gray to white underside, making it more difficult for the shark's prey to see it as approaches from above or below in the water column. The particular undulations of the countershading line along its side, where gray meets white, is unique to each shark and helps researchers to identify individual sharks in capture-recapture studies. Guadalupe Island is host to a relatively large population of great white sharks who, through a history of video and photographs showing their countershading lines, are the subject of an ongoing study of shark behaviour, migration and population size.
Species: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico
Image ID: 19484
Hypostyle Hall of Columns, Karnak Temple complex.
Location: Luxor, Egypt
Image ID: 18477
Hypostyle Hall of Columns, Karnak Temple complex.
Location: Luxor, Egypt
Image ID: 18482
Luxor Temple, statues and columns at night.
Location: Luxor, Egypt
Image ID: 18484
The Astoria Column rises 125 feet above Coxcomb Hill, site of the first permanent American Settlement west of the Rockies, itself 600 feet above Astoria. It was erected in 1926 and has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places since 1974. The column displays 14 scenes commemorating important events in the history of Astoria in cronological order. An interior 164-step spiral staircase leads to the top of a viewing platform with spectacular views.
Location: Astoria, Oregon
Image ID: 19444
The Astoria Column rises 125 feet above Coxcomb Hill, site of the first permanent American Settlement west of the Rockies, itself 600 feet above Astoria. It was erected in 1926 and has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places since 1974. The column displays 14 scenes commemorating important events in the history of Astoria in cronological order. An interior 164-step spiral staircase leads to the top of a viewing platform with spectacular views.
Location: Astoria, Oregon
Image ID: 19445
The Astoria Column rises 125 feet above Coxcomb Hill, site of the first permanent American Settlement west of the Rockies, itself 600 feet above Astoria. It was erected in 1926 and has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places since 1974. The column displays 14 scenes commemorating important events in the history of Astoria in cronological order. An interior 164-step spiral staircase leads to the top of a viewing platform with spectacular views.
Location: Astoria, Oregon
Image ID: 19446
Sheepeater Cliffs, an example of columnar jointing in basalt due to shrinkage during cooling.
Location: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Image ID: 19794