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Behold a piece of the world-famous Glenwood Viaduct. It's kind of sweeping and such, but world-famous? Yup. It's one of the last pieces of America's Interstate Highway system and the most expensive, because it replaced old U.S. 6 through winding Glenwood Canyon, east of Glenwood Springs, Colorado. It's a true engineering marvel; in order to fit the four-lane highway through the narrow canyon, its designers had to cantilever whole stretches of the westbound lanes out from the canyon rock-face, partially above the lower eastbound lanes, following the route of the Colorado River.

Carol M. Highsmith Influenced by Frances Benjamin Johnston and Dorothea Lange Carol M. Highsmith (born 1946) is a photographer, author, and publisher who has photographed all 50 of the United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico for 30 years. She specializes in documenting architecture, ranging from the monumental to the everyday and whimsical. Highsmith is donating her life’s work of more than 100,000 images, copyright-free, to the Library of Congress, which established a rare one-person archive. Out of 14 million images, the Carol M. Highsmith collection is featured in the top six alongside of Mathew Brady and Dorethea Lange. [1] Photography Career “Is Carol Highsmith the most...