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Though the theory is still up for debate, experts think this colossal canyon was formed 17 million years ago, when the Colorado River carved through the gorge, eroding the rock. A breathtaking 277 river-miles long, 18 miles wide and a mile deep, the famous landmark drew just under 4.5 million visitors in 2009. Photo by Shutterstock. On a remarkable stretch of Oregon's coast called Cannon Beach sits a mammoth monolith that formed as a result of lava flow 10 to 17 million years ago. At 235 feet tall, the rock formation is the third tallest intertidal structure in the world.
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Surrounded by shallow tide pools wow power leveling , it allows up-close-and-personal access, which draws in 200,000 visitors annually. Photo by Shutterstock. An estimated 760,000 years old, this California landmark has, as a consequence of Los Angeles's water diversion efforts, become a stunning sightseeing location. While 100,000 people walk through the doors of the visitors' center annually, many more visit the lake. By 1982, the lake had lost 51 percent of the surface area it had before the diversions began in 1941, revealing once-submerged tufa (limestone), which now forms scenic, jutting towers across the water's surface. Photo by Shutterstock. Formed over the last 12,000 years by melting glaciers and water erosion, Niagara Falls is marveled at for its great width rather than height, the largest crest stretching 2,600 feet wide. Spanning the Canadian-American border, the site attracts 12 million visitors annually. Photo by Shutterstock.
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Formed by the collapse of the Mount Mazama volcanoes approximately 6,850 years ago wow power leveling, this caldera (crater) lake is located in Oregon. It features a century-old, vertically floating tree stump dubbed the "Old Man of the Lake,” which helped attract just fewer than 500,000 visitors last year. Photo by Shutterstock. Located mostly in Wyoming and partly in Montana and Idaho, the park's lakes, canyons, rivers and mountains span 3,472 square miles. Preserved by PreAt 2,425 feet tall, Yosemite consists of three breathtaking drops. Located in Sierra Nevada, California, the falls—believed to be centuries old—attract up to 3.7 million visitors annually. Photo by Shutterstock. Established in 1929, this 484-square-mile park—named after the 13,775-foot Grand Teton, the tallest mountain in Teton Range—is located in the mesmerizing 48-mile-long, mountain-encompassed Jackson Hole valley. In 2009, the Wyoming wonder received Wzxmncedjf approximately 2.5 million visitors.
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Photo by Shutterstock. Located in the Black Canyon on the Arizona-Nevada border wow power leveling, this concrete arch-gravity dam—which stands at a jaw-dropping 726 feet tall—attracts approximately 1 million visitors each year. Funded by Congress during the Depression, the dam controls floods, provides irrigation water and produces hydroelectric power. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia. Though most notably a memorial to former U.S. presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, the 60-foot granite sculpture—carved by Gutzon and Lincoln Borglum between 1927 and 1941—is also a work of art. Located in South Dakota, the manmade landmark attracted over 2 million people last year. Photo by Shutterstock.

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