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Grand Canyon
A mile deep, 277 miles long, and nearly two billion years of Earth’s history laid bare.
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Yellowstone National Park
The world’s first national park sits on a supervolcano, and you can watch it breathe.
Nature
Yosemite National Park
Granite walls a kilometer high, thundering waterfalls and trees older than most civilizations.
Nature
Niagara Falls
Feel the thunder: up to 168,000 cubic meters of water go over the edge every minute.
Nature
Antelope Canyon
Beams of sunlight fall into a slot canyon carved like waves of fire.
History
Statue of Liberty
The first thing millions of immigrants saw of America, and you can climb up into her crown.
History
Mount Rushmore
Four presidents, 18-meter faces and fourteen years of dynamite in the Black Hills.
Cities
New York City
Eight million people, five boroughs, and something happening on every corner, all night long.
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Did you know?
The Navajo name for Upper Antelope Canyon, Tsé bighánílíní, means “the place where water runs through rocks”.
Forrest Gump Point on US-163 is where Forrest finally stops running in the 1994 film.
Every February, if the sky is clear, sunset lights up Horsetail Fall in glowing orange so it looks like a river of lava. Locals call it the Firefall.
In 1969 engineers turned off the American Falls for several months to study erosion, revealing the dry rock riverbed underneath.
Most of the Strip isn’t in the city of Las Vegas at all; it lies in the unincorporated town of Paradise.
The Chicago River flows backward: in 1900 engineers reversed it to carry sewage away from Lake Michigan.
Two clocks on the intake towers show the time in Nevada and Arizona; in summer they show different hours, because Arizona doesn’t use daylight saving time.
The famous curved top of the church facade was added by the US Army in 1850. It wasn’t there during the battle.
The famous “smoke” is a natural haze: the forest’s trees release gases that scatter blue light.
Despite its name, most of the French Quarter’s buildings are Spanish colonial, rebuilt after great fires in 1788 and 1794.