Photo of the Day 449

San Francisco Xavier del Bac Mission, Arizona, 1964

Photograph by James P. Blair

Stark-white San Francisco Xavier del Bac Mission, south of Tucson, Arizona, lacks a right cupola. One legend, among many, tells that it was left unfinished as a memorial to the 18th-century Spanish architect, who fell to his death from the tower.

(Photo shot on assignment for "From Sun-clad Sea to Shining Mountains," April 1964, National Geographic magazine)