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Mackinac Island in United States

Mackinac Island is an island and resort area, covering 3.8 square miles in land area, in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located in Lake Huron.
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Rhode Island in United States
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Rhode Island officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in the New England region of the United States. Rhode Island is the smallest in area. Rhode Island is bordered by Connecticut to the west and Massachusetts to the north and east, and it shares a water boundary with New York's Long Island to the southwest.
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Vieques in United States

Vieques in full Isla de Vieques, is an island–municipality of Puerto Rico in the northeastern Caribbean, part of an island grouping sometimes known as the Spanish Virgin Islands.
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Laurel Falls in United States

The Laurel Falls Trail is an American hiking trail, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park of Sevier County, Tennessee. The trail ascends Cove Mountain, leading past Laurel Falls, one of the most popular waterfalls in the national park, en route to the summit of Cove Mountain and the Cove Mountain fire tower.
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Toccoa in United States

The Toccoa River and Ocoee River are actually a single 93-mile-long river that flows northwestward through the southern Appalachian Mountains of the southeastern United States.
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Chugach National Forest in United States.

The Chugach National Forest is a 6,908,540-acre United States National Forest in south central Alaska. It is located in the mountains surrounding Prince William Sound including the eastern Kenai Peninsula and the delta of the Copper River. It is the second-largest forest in the U.S. national forest system, and is the northernmost national forest.
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Shasta River and Lavender Farm in United States.

The Shasta River is a tributary of the Klamath River, approximately 58 miles long, in northern California in the United States. It drains the Shasta Valley on the west and north sides of Mount Shasta in the Cascade Range.
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San Francisco, California.

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the leading financial and cultural center of Northern California and the San Francisco Bay Area.
San Francisco was founded on June 29, 1776, when colonists from Spain established a fort at the Golden Gate and a mission named for St. Francis of Assisi a few miles away.
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Grand Canyon in United States.
The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in the United States in the state of Arizona. It is contained within and managed by Grand Canyon National Park, the Hualapai Tribal Nation, and the Havasupai Tribe. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of preservation of the Grand Canyon area, and visited it on numerous occasions to hunt and enjoy the scenery. It is considered one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World.
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Haleakala in United States

Haleakalā, or the East Maui Volcano, is a massive shield volcano that forms more than 75% of the Hawaiian Island of Maui. The western 25% of the island is formed by the West Maui Mountains. The surrounding walls are steep and the interior mostly barren-looking with a scattering of volcanic cones.
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Sequoia in United States

Sequoia National Park is a national park in the southern Sierra Nevada east of Visalia, California, in the United States. The park is south of and contiguous with Kings Canyon National Park; the two are administered by the National Park Service together.The park is famous for its giant sequoia trees, including the General Sherman tree, one of the largest trees on Earth. The General Sherman tree grows in the Giant Forest, which contains five out of the ten largest trees in the world. The Giant Forest is connected by the Generals Highway to Kings Canyon National Park's General Grant Grove, home to the General Grant tree among other giant sequoias.
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Yellowstone in United States
Yellowstone National Park is a national park located primarily in the U.S. state.Yellowstone Lake is one of the largest high-altitude lakes in North America. Paved roads provide close access to the major geothermal areas as well as some of the lakes and waterfalls. During the winter, visitors often access the park by way of guided tours that use either snow coaches or snowmobile.Native Americans have lived in the Yellowstone region for at least 11,000 years.
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Chesapeake Bay in United States.

The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States.
The bay is spanned in two places. The Chesapeake Bay Bridge crosses the bay in Maryland from Sandy Point to Kent Island,and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel in Virginia connects Virginia Beach to Cape Charles.
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Rocky Mountain National Park

Rocky Mountain National Park is a national park located in the north-central region of the United state of Colorado.
The park has five visitor centers. The park headquarters, Beaver Meadows Visitor Center, is a National Historic Landmark, designed by the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture at Taliesin West.
Druids Heath in United Kingdom.

Druids Heath is an area of southern Birmingham, United Kingdom covering the south-west quadrant.
Druids Heath is in the local council ward of Selly Oak.
It is represented in the House of Commons by the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Steve McCabe.
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Glacier Bay National Park in United States

Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is a United States national park and preserve in the Alaska panhandle west of Juneau.
Glacier Bay became part of a bi national UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979.
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve occupies the northernmost section of the southeastern Alaska coastline, between the Gulf of Alaska and Canada.
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Grand Canyon in United States.
The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in the United States in the state of Arizona.
The Grand Canyon is a huge fissure in the Colorado Plateau that exposes uplifted Proterozoic and Paleozoic strata.
The Grand Canyon is part of the Colorado River basin which has developed over the past 40 million years. A recent study places the origins of the canyon beginning about 17 million years ago.[wiki]
Taylor’s Falls

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