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Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

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

Celebrate the history of the rich and truly misunderstood relationship between man and pigeon.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

First Joe Pagac sculpture; sculpture reflects native Tucson wildlife in an urban setting.

Giant quails play and greet visitors at a suburban park.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

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

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.