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Havasupai Falls
This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.
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Biosphere 2: How Volunteers Survived for 2 Years in an Airtight Habitat
This 1991 experiment spawned a wave of new research about engineering, agriculture, and space exploration.
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What’s Beneath the Bubbling Sand at the Bottom of the Montezuma Well?
A dive to the bottom of this ancient sinkhole reveals bubbling sand, thick like Silly Putty. Is there another pond beneath it?
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Yayoi Kusama Firefly Infinity Mirror Room
The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.
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Antelope Canyon
Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.
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Havasupai Falls
This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.
Phoenix, Arizona
Yayoi Kusama Firefly Infinity Mirror Room
The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.
Page, Arizona
Horseshoe Bend
Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.
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Montezuma Castle
Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.
Phoenix, Arizona
Mystery Castle
A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.
Peach Springs, Arizona
Caverns Grotto
In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.
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