22 facts across the U.S.
On March 27, 1964 the Good Friday Earthquake rocked the state of Alaska with a temblor recorded at 9.2 on the richtor sc…
The Grand Canyon, located in Northern Arizona, is one of the first National Parks in the United States and is one of the…
Arizona contains one of the most well-preserved meteor impact sites in the world. The Barringer Meteor crashed into the…
You can sift for your own diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Pike County, Arkansas. In 1906, farmer John Huddl…
American Mastodon remains have been found at over 20 sites across Arkansas and it is believed that the state contains mo…
The Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument in Central Colorado is home to some of the most exceptionally preserved fos…
The Kazumura Cave system on the Big Island of Hawaii is the longest and deepest lava tube in the world at 40.7 miles lon…
Kilauea volcano on the Big Island has been erupting more or less continuously since 1983, making it one of the most acti…
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, established in 1916, contains Kīlauea and Mauna Loa — two of the world's most active vol…
Southwestern Kansas sits atop the Hugoton Natural Gas Field, one of the largest natural gas fields in the world, which a…
Yogo Gulch in the Little Belt Mountains of central Montana is one of only two places on earth that produce a naturally o…
Nevada produces about 75% of all gold mined in the United States and is the fourth largest gold-producing jurisdiction i…
The Bakken Formation, a rock unit buried roughly two miles beneath the surface of North Dakota and parts of Montana, is…
Oklahoma is the only state in the United States where the grounds of the state capitol building contain active oil wells…
Crater Lake in southern Oregon is the deepest lake in the United States at 1,943 feet and the ninth deepest in the world…
The Badlands of South Dakota form one of the richest fossil beds in the world, and the sedimentary layers exposed by ero…
Tennessee has more caves than any other state in the United States, with over 10,000 documented cave systems ranging fro…
Utah contains five national parks within a relatively compact area of the Colorado Plateau: Zion, Bryce Canyon, Capitol…
Mount St. Helens erupted on the morning of May 18, 1980 in an explosion that remains the most destructive volcanic event…
West Virginia has the highest mean elevation of any state east of the Mississippi River, a mountainous terrain that hist…
New River Gorge became the United States' 63rd national park in December 2020. Despite the name, the New River is one of…
Yellowstone National Park, established by Congress in 1872 as the world's first national park, sits atop one of the larg…