Secretary of the US Department of the Interior Ken Salazar announced the designation of 13 new National Historic Landmarks in nine different states in the United States on March 6.

The newly released list includes an array of beautiful landmarks which includes a famous lighthouse, the largest collection of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings in the world and an early 18th-century parish church. With the new additions, there are now about 2500 historic landmarks in the United States.

The survey has been administered by the Park Service on behalf of the Department of Interior.

The National Historic Landmarks are places [that] not only showcase our rich and complex history-from prehistoric time right up to the modern era-but [that also] help drive tourism and boost local economies, Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis said in a statement.

The Historic Landmarks possess exceptional value or quality in illustrating or interpreting the heritage of the United States, Jarvis added.

Check out the list of top five National Historic Landmarks of the US.

Florida Southern College
Located in Lakeland, the Florida Southern College contains the largest “integrally designed” grouping of buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright on a single site anywhere in the world, states the DOI. According to National Park Service "The significance and beauty of [the campus] does not lie in any single building, but rather in the sum of the parts.” flsouthern.edu
Carrizo Plain Archeological District
The Carrizo Plain, situated at 100 airline miles north of Los Angeles, California, is home to diverse communities of wildlife and plant species, and is an area culturally important to Native Americans. According to the DOI, this large enclosed plain, which is approximately 50 miles long and up to 15 miles across, represents a unique concentration of pre-contact sites, art, and artifacts, the outstanding significance of which has been recognized for almost a century by anthropologists, archeologists, artists, and novelists. The Plain also enriched with painted rocks and other pictographs which, according to the National Park Services, "represent what is probably one of the largest and best concentrations of painted rock art in the U.S.” Reuters