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Squeaky Springs (historical), United States. A partially-flooded trailer community with a few hundred homes, on the east shore of the Salton Sea, Bombay Beach is one of the lowest communities below sea level in the U.S.
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Black Lake (historical), United States. A huge Gilded Age summer house on an island in the Thousand Islands region of the St. Lawrence River.
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Murphy, United States. The selection of this volcanic butte 20 miles from Boise City as the Initial Point for a survey of the Idaho Territory in 1867 was due to the isolation of its prominence, and that it was far enough west that the meridian would extend northward through the narrow panhandle of the territory all the way to the Canadian border.
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Fivebough Wetlands is more than a swamp, it’s a jewel in the Riverina’s crown. In a comparison of 360 wetlands as part of the Murray-Darling Basin Waterbird Project, Fivebough recorded the highest number of waterbird species and it ranked second for the total number of species recorded in a single survey.
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Everett, United States. Often cited as the “largest building in the world,” Boeing’s aircraft assembly building in Everett, Washington, where commercial airliners including the 747 were built.
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Grand Rapids, United States. Though privately owned and occupied, the existence of the childhood home of Bob "Dylan" Zimmerman emits a strong interpretive presence in Hibbing.
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Port Huron, United States. The only bridge over the St. Clair River is the Blue Water Bridge, which connects the communities of Port Huron, Michigan, and Sarnia, Ontario.
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Broadway (historical), United States. A natural, spring-fed lake, a few hundred feet across. The water stays at a comfortable 75 degrees year round.
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Oberg (historical), United States. This is an independently owned movie ranch in southern California, surrounded by hundreds of acres of open space, north of the tract homes of Valencia.
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Copper Camp (historical), United States. Blackfoot Pathways is a contemporary art sculpture park in the woods on the edge of Lincoln, Montana.
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Desert Relief (historical), United States. Static display at the gate of Air Force Plant 42, featuring an SR-71 Blackbird spy plane, a rarer A-12 precursor, a D-21 drone, and a U-2 D model.
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Hualipi (historical), United States. The region is dominated by a lengthy playa, known as the "largest flat place on earth."
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Tooele, United States. The beach at Black Rock, on the southern end of the Great Salt Lake, was a popular spot from as early as the 1850s.
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Cuates (historical), United States. Oklahoma’s highest point of land is on Black Mesa, on the western end of the Panhandle.
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Great Falls Montana gets its name from five nearby waterfalls along the Missouri River, all of which have been drowned or altered by dams and power plants, including the one closest to town, at Black Eagle Falls.
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A three-story, hand made, medieval-style castle under construction since 1969. The castle is being built entirely by one man, Jim Bishop, who calls his structure "a poor man's Disneyland."
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Bungonia Community Hall, Australia. A description of Little Forest in the Moreton National Park on the South Coast of New South Wales Australia.
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Whitton is the oldest town in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area and offers a glimpse at a timeless Riverina landscape. It also has ghosts.
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Tiptree, United Kingdom. A musing on tangible history in the present.
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The man behind the name of Dubbo’s low-level bridge was a Frenchman from Bordeaux, France. Jean Emile Serisier was an enterprising man considered a founding father of Dubbo, storekeeper, winemaker, magistrate and wannabe politician. Unfortunately, the bridge named after him has a habit of going under in big floods.