Buddhist temple in the Asakusa district, tourist destination and place of prayer for locals.

An imperial fortress surrounded by moats and gardens.

Gothic Cathedral Duomo, named in honor of Santa Maria del Fiore, glows like a candle from the heat of the afternoon sun.

I visited the famous piazza San Marco on my last day in Venice and when it started to rain, all the tourists flapped around like the hundreds of pigeons that live in the square. The top of the Saint Mark Basilica was just visible in under the dark rain clouds.

This famous English urban landscape looked so romantic in the drizzling rain.

Royal Street in the French Quarter on a sunny spring morning.

Moroccan natives performing at Disney's EPCOT.

"Teddy bear" cacti garden appears soft and inviting from afar, but closer up is a field of prickles.

For Hopi, the site of sacred elements and part of the ancient sun calendar.

The Dutch used the Carribbean island of Bonaire as a Dutch West India Company plantation starting in 1633. African slaves, native Arawak Indians, and Spanish convicts harvested dyewood, maize, and salt in the area around Rincon. 

Today, the stone slave huts still stand, empty, and salt is still mined by the international company, Cargill. 

After the British colonized Barbados in the early 18th century, they capitalized on the by-product of sugar cane: molasses. When molasses is fermented, it yields rum, which the British quickly turned into the world's first commercial rum distillery.

The Mount Gay distillery is still in operation and claims the USA as it's most lucrative market.

The neighborhood of Brookland in Washington D.C. still has many Art Deco buildings left near its commercial center.

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a compression of generations, cultures, energy, history

Arenal Volcano hasn't had a significant eruption since 1968, but still remains active and can often be seen with smoke, gas, and lava escaping from its top.