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Stones leave long trails across the playa, pushed by thin ice sheets breaking up in light wind.
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Racetrack Playa, USA · The Americas
External reference (site language): Racetrack Playa ↗
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Route 66 was decommissioned in 1985, but much of it survives as Historic Route 66 signed by individual states.
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Route 66, USA · The Americas
External reference (site language): Pennsylvania Route 66 ↗
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Researchers have identified over 700 languages spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city ever recorded.
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New York, USA · The Americas
External reference (site language): New York City ↗
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France gave the statue, which arrived in 350 pieces packed in 214 crates and was assembled on site.
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New York, USA · The Americas
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Every hill, lake and outcrop arrangement in Central Park was landscaped. Almost nothing there is natural.
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New York, USA · The Americas
External reference (site language): New York City ↗
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Engineers reversed the flow of the Chicago River in 1900 so sewage would drain away from Lake Michigan.
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Chicago, USA · The Americas
External reference (site language): Chicago River ↗
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Locals call the summer fog Karl, and it has its own devoted social media following.
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San Francisco, USA · The Americas
External reference (site language): San Francisco ↗
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Kilauea keeps adding land to the Big Island, and a new seamount is forming offshore for a future island.
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Hawaii, USA · The Americas
External reference (site language): Hawaii ↗
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The Big Island contains most of the world's recognised climate zones, from tropical beach to alpine tundra.
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Hawaii, USA · The Americas
External reference (site language): Climate of Hawaii ↗
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Measured from the seafloor, Mauna Kea rises over 10,000 metres, taller than Everest above sea level.
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Mauna Kea, USA · The Americas
External reference (site language): Mauna Loa ↗
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Louisiana is the only state divided into parishes rather than counties, a leftover from its French and Spanish past.
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Louisiana, USA · The Americas
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High groundwater made underground burial impractical, so the city built tombs above ground in walled cemeteries.
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New Orleans, USA · The Americas
External reference (site language): New York City ↗
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The United States paid Russia 7.2 million dollars for Alaska in 1867, mocked at the time as Seward's Folly.
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Alaska, USA · The Americas
External reference (site language): Miss Alaska USA ↗
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Built on a drained lakebed, Mexico City sinks several centimetres a year as groundwater is pumped out.
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Mexico City, Mexico · The Americas
External reference (site language): Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral ↗
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Alongside Spanish, Mexico officially recognises 68 indigenous languages with hundreds of variants.
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Mexico · The Americas
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At the equinoxes, shadows on the pyramid's staircase form a serpent that appears to slide down to the ground.
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Chichen Itza, Mexico · The Americas
External reference (site language): Chichen Itza ↗
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Thousands of cenotes dot the Yucatan, formed along a ring of fractures linked to the asteroid impact that ended the dinosaurs.
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Yucatan, Mexico · The Americas
External reference (site language): Yucatán, Mexico ↗
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Cacao was drunk bitter and spiced by the Maya and Aztecs long before Europeans added sugar and milk.
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Mexico · The Americas
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Monarchs fly from Canada to a few Mexican mountain forests, and no single butterfly completes the round trip.
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Michoacan, Mexico · The Americas
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Atitlan fills a caldera left by a colossal eruption 84,000 years ago and is ringed by three volcanoes.
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Lake Atitlan, Guatemala · The Americas
External reference (site language): Lake Atitlán ↗
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The Belize Barrier Reef is the largest in the northern hemisphere and includes the famous Great Blue Hole.
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Belize · The Americas
External reference (site language): Belize Barrier Reef ↗
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Copan's hieroglyphic stairway carries the longest known Maya text, over 2,000 glyphs on 63 steps.
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Copan, Honduras · The Americas
External reference (site language): Honduras ↗
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Punta Roca near La Libertad delivers one of Central America's most consistent right-hand point breaks.
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El Tunco, El Salvador · The Americas
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Ometepe sits in a freshwater lake and is formed by two volcanoes joined by a low isthmus.
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Ometepe, Nicaragua · The Americas
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