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This gold-leaf-covered temple is one of the most beautiful sights in Kyoto, nestled in the woods and reflected in the waters of its garden pond.

Built in 1969 on the western outskirts of Rapid City, the Chapel in the Hills is a full-scale replica of the 12th-century Borgund Stave Church in Norway. It hosts evening worship services in the summer.

Rebuilt in 1945 after the 1907 original was damaged by a passing truck, the Lowell Bridge is the widest covered bridge in Oregon.

A mining camp named Golden was built here by prospectors who dug gold from Coyote Creek in the 1850s. Today it is a ghost town and state park, whose four surviving buildings include a pretty wooden church and a general store.

The first bridge on this site was built in the 1880s; the present Parvin Bridge (a.k.a. Lost Creek Bridge) dates from 1921. Bypassed and restricted to pedestrians in the 1970s, it was restored in 1986 and is once again open to traffic.