Location: Gulf Breeze Parkway Destination: Pensacola Beach, Florida Country: United States Year Taken: 2008 Photographer: Jessica Whittle Blog: Flickr Photos This 1960s era neon sign and swordfish points the way (Turn Right) to Pensacola Beach along the Florida Gulf.  Visitors must cross two bridges to get to the beach, so this sign was erected to guide tourists who often missed the beach. In the Spanish first discovered Pensacola Harbor in 1539. The first permanent settlement was established just 20 years later, no on the site of the Pensacola Naval air station. The sign was heavily damaged during Hurricane Ivan in 2004, which also destroyed over 650 homes in the area. The area also boasts a couple novelty styled homes. One being a Jetson’s-like... [Read more]

Location: Pennsylvania Avenue Destination: Washington, DC Country: United States Year Taken: 2009 Photographer: Jon Rochetti Blog: The DC Traveler Since the day Pennsylvania Avenue behind The White House in Washington, DC was blocked off to traffic, it’s become of virtual playground, for in-line skaters, street hockey players and bicyclists looking for a place to enjoy the outdoors without automobile traffic. Almost every weekend, you’ll find pickup hockey games and other sports going on on the wide, traffic free street,   In front of the President’s home. To submit your photo to Travel Photo Daily, please add your destination or travel photos to the Travel Photo Daily Flickr group. Image – personal collection –... [Read more]

Location: The beach Destination: Puerto Vallarta Country: Mexico Year Taken: 2000 Photographer: Mary Jo Manzanares Blog: Fly Away Cafe The Mexican beach resort city located on the Pacific Ocean first became a well known American tourist destination in 1963, after the motion picture The Night of the Iguana was filmed on location nearby. The much-publicized affair between Richard Burton, who was in Puerto Vallarta filming the movie at the time, and actress Elizabeth Taylor,   brought the beach resort into the eye of the general public. New roads leading into Mexico’s interior, along with a modern airport, and a much-publicized trip by President Nixon to sign a treaty with Mexico also helped bring and American tourists to this destination. In... [Read more]

Location: Hoover Dam (or Boulder Dam) Destination: Black Canyon on the border of Nevada and Arizona Country: United States Year Taken: 2009 Photographer: Michael Blog: Flickr Photos I’m glad to see am not the only person who finds that Hoover Dam a great subject to photograph. But previously published to photos, one of the dam itself, and another of the hydroelectric generators on Travel Photo Daily. This photo, submitted to the Travel Photo Daily Flicker group by Michael, is an amazing image capturing a giant-like human shadow. Many of his other great photos explore the world of shadows. To submit your photo to Travel Photo Daily, please add your destination or travel photos to the Travel Photo Daily Flickr group. Image – Flickr... [Read more]

Location: Trinity Church Destination: Boston, Massachusetts Country: United States Year Taken: 2005 Photographer: Adriana Sbardellati Blog: Flickr photos Trinity Church, in the heart of Boston’s Back Bay, is an Episcopal parish, founded in 1733.  The sure destroyed in the Great Boston Fire in 1872. The church is located in the shadows of Boston’s tallest skyscraper, the 60-story John Hancock Building. Designed by Henry Hobson Richardson, the father of the Richardsonian Romanesque style, it is characterized by large towers and massive arches formed using rough stones and clay tiled roofs. The interior of the church boasts over 20,000  square feet of  colorful murals. The American Institute of Architects (AIA), his place it on... [Read more]