The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in the United States in the state of Arizona. It is largely contained within the Grand Canyon National Park, one of the first national parks in the United States.
Thank you Katie! :)

Helsinki by night :)

Turku is a city situated on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River. For the year 2011, Turku has been designated to be the European Capital of Culture together with Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia.

Nice, colorful postcard from the Netherlands.

The grottoes and niches of Longmen contain the largest and most impressive collection of Chinese art of the late Northern Wei and Tang Dynasties. These works, entirely devoted to the Buddhist religion, represent the high point of Chinese stone carving.

Grottoes are one of the three most famous ancient sculptural sites in China. There are over 2100 niches, more than 100,000 statues, some 40 pagodas and 3600 tablets and steles in the caves of Guyang, Binyang and Lianhua.

The area was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in November 2000.

New York - The Empire State. 

Capital: Albany

Motto: Excelsior, Ever Upward

Flower: Rose

Tree: Sugar Maple

11th of the Original 13 States

Alabama State Highway Department Building. 

Montgomery, Alabama.

The Kiev Opera group was formally established in the summer of 1867, and is the third oldest in Ukraine, after Odessa Opera and Lviv Opera.

Wish I knew Chinese language...

Hereford Cathedral from the south-east, with the River Wye in the foreground. The present Cathedral was founded in the early 12th century.