Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

Round barn on US Route 66 in Arcadia, Oklahoma

Round barn and outbuildings, Barnet, Vermont

Round barn in need of repair, Pepin, Wisconsin

Round barn on U.S. 66, Arcadia, Oklahoma

Rosenbaum House, one of the residences created by Frank Lloyd Wright, Florence, Alabama

Round barn and outbuilding

Rosslyn, Virginia Sunset

Row house neighborhood in northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Row houses in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Row houses in Denver, Colorado

Row houses, San Francisco, California

Row mansions, loaded with "gingerbread," San Francisco, California

Row of cottages in Venice Beach, California

Roy Orbison mural in Wink, Texas, where he was born and lived as a young man

Rugby is an unincorporated community in Morgan and Scott counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee

Rugged canyon country of northwestern Colorado, beneath Book Cliffs, near the town of Whitewater, Colorado

Roy Lichtenstein created this statue outside the Miami Beach Convention Center, Dade County, Florida's largest convention facility

Royal Gorge, the world's highest supension bridge, Cañon City, Colorado

Row of statues at Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Maryland

Row-house neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana. Location is the 1600 block of S. Rampart Street, looking downriver. Brown brick building visible in next block at right is the Sixth District Police Station.

Ruins of Spring Hill, destroyed in Union siege at Battle of Petersburg, Virginia

Rugged southwest Colorado landscape near Mesa Verde National Park, Cortez, Colorado

Rural countryside in Louisiana

Rural farm scene in Illinois

Rural farm scene, North Carolina

Rusted steam shovel at Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark, Birmingham, Alabama

Rural Tennessee farm scene

Rusted bridge over the Monocacy River in Maryland

P.A. Watson Log House in Arlington, Texas

Ruth and Wimpy's lobster stand in Hancock, Maine

Saggitarius figure in bronze and glass in main foyer at the Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.

Sacred Heart Church, Galveston, Texas

Saguaro Sentinel, Arizona

Ryerss Victorian Mansion in Burholme Park in the Fox Chase neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sailboats on Spa Creek, Annapolis, Maryland

Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, New Gloucester, Maine

Saggitarius figure in bronze and glass in main foyer at the Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C

Safe at the Harrison Brothers Hardware, which looks just as cluttered as the shelves in that historic hardware/general store, Huntsville, Alabama

Sam Hill's Stonehenge in Washington

Saint Gaudens' "Agriculture," at Union Station, Washington, D.C

Saint Philomena Church, in Kalawao, on the Island of Molokai, Hawaii

Salk Institute, La Jolla, California

Saint Philomena Church, the home church of Father Damien on the island of Molokai, Kalawao, Hawaii

Saint Philomena Church Kalawao on Molokai Island, Hawaii

Saint James Hotel, which opened in 1875 in Red Wing, Minnesota

Saint Philomena Church on Molokai island, the home church of Father Damien, a missionary who ministered to shunned leprosy patients in the Hawaiian Islands

Saint Philomena Church, home church of Brother Damien, a missionary who ministered to lepers on Hawaii's island of Molokai

Salk Institute for Bological Studies, La Jolla, California

Salt marsh near Beaufort, South Carolina

Saint Philomena Church, the church of Father Damien, Kalawao, Hawaii

San Francisco, California's affluent Pacific Heights neighborhood boasts several grand homes, including this mansion

San Francisco City Hall, completed in 1915, San Francisco, California

San Francisco, California's Flatiron Building, constructed in the Financial District in 1913

San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge at dawn, San Francisco, California

San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge at dusk. San Francisco, California

San Fernando Valley, California

Sanctuary of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception

Sandhills dunes, Nebraska

Sankaty Head Light Station, Nantucket, Massachusetts

Sandstone Pillars, Arches National Park, Utah