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Giant Springs and the Roe River

Great Falls, Montana

A huge freshwater spring feeds a famously tiny river beside the Missouri.

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Dinosaur State Park

Rocky Hill, Connecticut

A geodesic dome protects hundreds of Jurassic footprints discovered by accident during construction of a state building.

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Mushroom Rock State Park

Marquette, Kansas

Wind and water balanced broad sandstone caps on narrow stems, creating a five-acre garden of giant stone mushrooms.

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Beartown State Park

Renick, West Virginia

Massive sandstone blocks are split by narrow crevices, overhangs, slots, and passageways so dense that the rock formations resemble the streets and buildings of a stone…

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Boneyard Beach

Awendaw, South Carolina

Coastal erosion has pushed the Atlantic into a maritime forest, leaving hundreds of dead oaks, cedars, and pines scattered across the sand like the skeletons of…

A pale moonbow arcing through mist at Cumberland Falls in Kentucky at night

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Cumberland Falls Moonbow

Corbin, Kentucky

On clear nights near a full moon, mist rising from Cumberland Falls can bend moonlight into a pale nocturnal rainbow.

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Boar’s Tusk

Rock Springs, Wyoming

A 400-foot volcanic core shaped like a broken fang rises alone from the nearly flat Red Desert.

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Neskowin Ghost Forest

Neskowin, Oregon

Dozens of ancient Sitka spruce stumps emerge from the beach at low tide, revealing the remains of a forest that vanished beneath the Oregon coast centuries…

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Killpecker Sand Dunes

Rock Springs, Wyoming

A vast Wyoming dune field can hum and boom when millions of polished sand grains slide together.

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Desert of Maine

Freeport, Maine

A failed farm in famously green Maine exposed a huge deposit of glacial sand, leaving dunes where fields, sheep, and crops once occupied the landscape.

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Rye Sunken Forest

Rye, New Hampshire

At rare low tides, a drowned forest briefly reappears off the Rye coast.

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Big Spring

Van Buren, Missouri

An immense blue-green spring pours from an Ozark hillside into the Current River.