15+ hour, 41+ min ago   (682+ words) WorldAtlas Grand Mesa in western Colorado has a summit plateau of roughly 500 square miles, a tabletop broad enough to hold more than 300 lakes. Around the mesa, softer rock beneath its basalt cap has steadily eroded while the resistant summit has…...

19+ hour, 25+ min ago   (1089+ words) WorldAtlas Miles of mountain road carry drivers out of a breakfast counter in Heflin and up to the highest point in Alabama. The Talladega Scenic Drive in western Alabama is open year-round and perfect for nature lovers. At just 26 miles…...

20+ hour, 55+ min ago   (695+ words) Morning arrives quietly in Bath. The first activity often comes from Bath Creek, where anglers cast lines from the docks and sailboats drift across calm water. A few blocks inland, streets lined with centuries-old homes remain remarkably unchanged, giving North…...

21+ hour, 25+ min ago   (605+ words) Lubec is the easternmost town in the contiguous United States. The candy-striped tower at West Quoddy Head Light is what most people know first, and it still marks the sunrise-earliest point in the country. Quoddy Head State Park spreads coastal…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (874+ words) WorldAtlas The ice sheets that covered the northern United States dragged rock hundreds of miles before melting out from under it, and the boulders they abandoned rarely match the ground they sit on today. Geologists call these rocks glacial erratics....

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (781+ words) WorldAtlas Pull up a map of America's national forests and a pattern smacks you in the face. They pile up in the mountains, the Rockies, the Cascades, the Appalachians, and then there is one giant, conspicuous void running right through…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1089+ words) San Bernardino County has the strongest numerical case on this list. Its official Community Indicators program places 77% of the county in the North Desert Region and 17% in the East Desert Region. That leaves only a small share outside those two…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1102+ words) WorldAtlas Broadway Street in Philipsburg still glows with the multi-hued Victorian storefronts its 1880s silver boom paid for. A few hundred miles away, the Anaconda Smelter Stack rises 585 feet over Park Avenue, one of the tallest free-standing brick structures anywhere. Fort…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1204+ words) WorldAtlas The old main streets in South Dakota are still standing. Miners who struck gold put up the brick storefronts that still line downtown Deadwood. Builders in Hot Springs worked in local pink sandstone block after block. The people of…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (702+ words) WorldAtlas The Sahara is the planet's poster child for unbearable heat, the desert everyone reaches for whenever they need shorthand for "brutally hot." So here is a fact worth sitting with: the single hottest air temperature ever reliably recorded on…...