Chinguetti, Mauritania
The Libraries of Chinguetti
Five ancient libraries, little changed for centuries, preserve a medieval archive of Quranic lore and civic documents
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Chinguetti, Mauritania
Five ancient libraries, little changed for centuries, preserve a medieval archive of Quranic lore and civic documents
Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina
This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.
United States / Canada
The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.
Ashford, Washington
The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.
Duchesne County, Utah
The highest peak in Utah is the hardest to reach, but only if explorers choose the hard way.
Culberson County, Texas
The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.
Stowe, Vermont
The highest peak in the state of Vermont has some interesting features.
Sunset, South Carolina
The highest point in South Carolina was once owned by an energy company that neglected it but now the state is taking it back.
Salisbury, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania's highest point is spotted with boulders which were pushed to the surface by nothing but cold.
Bowman, North Dakota
This simple badlands butte is the highest point in North Dakota and may be the only high point to charge admission.
Bellefontaine, Ohio
In this relatively flat state the highest point is an honored place.
Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico
This highest peak in New Mexico is named after an explorer who had a habit of lending his moniker to peaks.
Dyer, Nevada
The highest point in Nevada had to be decided by court order after California tried to claim it as their own.
The highest point in Montana is as rugged and singular as the state itself.
Skanee, Michigan
The honor of highest point in Michigan was almost given to the wrong peak before this mountain won out by 11 inches.
Iuka, Mississippi
The highest point in Mississippi is a hilltop that was once used to bombard a nearby town with artillery.
Adams, Massachusetts
Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.
Eglon, West Virginia
The highest point in Maryland is only accessible by hiking through another state.
Simsboro, Louisiana
The highest point in Louisiana, Driskill Mountain at 535 feet above sea level.
Sibley, Iowa
The highest point in Iowa, while not that impressive to mountain states, has earned its own monuments.
Mackay, Idaho
This highest peak in Idaho can only be reached by traversing a formation known as "Chicken-Out Ridge."
DeFuniak Springs, Florida
The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.
Paris, Arkansas
A large stone map of Arkansas awaits visitors to its highest point.
Flagstaff, Arizona
The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.