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Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Windswept and remote, this island was once the home of a rare mammoth and today is home to a rare tree.

An abandoned mine where dreams of quicksilver trickled away over 75 years ago.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

The northernmost truck stop in the United States.

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

Pick up all of the cosmic knick-knacks under the sun or take a creative writing course, all offered in this novelty storefront.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

Sharing the often-overlooked story of America's Black soldiers.