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Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Japan and South Korea both lay claim to islands inhabited by one woman.

Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.

A towering cemetery monument honors a man who threatened to expose the Freemasons and paid with his life.

The "last holdout of the Confederacy” actually sat at the edge of the Canadian border.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

Where Greenpoint's first European settler—and troublemaker—made his home.

A monument to the military service of America's greatest traitor refuses to even name him.

This massive melon is a recreation of a similar gate from the Pan-American Expo.

A small part of lower Manhattan is actually made from a bit of England.

The highest point on the island known for buildings that touch the sky.

The original Uncle Sam was actually a New York meatpacker who is buried under this historic grave.

The summit Roosevelt conquered before he descended to become The Chief.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

This small road tunnel is the only place where you can cross beneath the Erie Canal.

Oldest existing wire suspension bridge in the United States.

A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.

A field in which God and his son Jesus purportedly appeared to a young farm boy named Joseph Smith.