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A Bandon, Oregon headland with a Native American legend, dramatic sea stacks named Cat and Kitten Rocks, and a stairway trail down to a wild stretch of protected beach.

A 235-foot basalt sea stack on Cannon Beach, home to nesting tufted puffins in spring and summer and some of the best tide pools on the Oregon Coast.

Crater Lake in Oregon is the deepest lake in the United States and one of the most pristine — a collapsed volcano filled over millennia by snowmelt, producing a shade of blue that seems almost artificially saturated.

Niagara Falls from the American side — the Horseshoe Falls and American Falls, the Maid of the Mist boat tour, and the improbable scale of moving water.

Arches National Park in southeastern Utah holds the world's highest concentration of natural stone arches — over 2,000 of them — in a landscape so otherworldly it barely feels like it belongs to this planet.

Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah holds the largest concentration of hoodoos on Earth — thousands of tall, narrow rock spires in shades of red, orange, and white that fill the amphitheater like a frozen crowd.

A two-tiered 113-foot waterfall framed by perfect columnar basalt in Oregon's Umpqua National Forest — one of the most photographed waterfalls in the Pacific Northwest.

A 2,000-foot-deep canyon of 1.7-billion-year-old Precambrian rock in western Colorado — one of the most dramatic and least visited national parks.

A quiet Oregon Coast town with a 2,000-year-old ghost forest of buried sitka spruce stumps emerging from the surf at low tide.