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Badwater Basin
The lowest point in North America
Cape Alava
The westernmost point of the contiguous United States
Denali
The highest mountain in North America
Four Corners
The only place where four U.S. states meet
Geographic Center of North America
The middle of the continent, in North Dakota
Geographic Center of the Contiguous U.S.
The middle of the Lower 48, in northern Kansas
Geographic Center of the United States
The middle of all fifty states, in South Dakota
Ka Lae (South Point)
The southernmost point of the fifty states
Long Island
The most populous island in the United States
Mauna Kea
The tallest mountain on Earth, measured from its base
Mean Center of Population
The country's population balance point, drifting west and south
Monument Valley
Towering sandstone buttes on the Navajo Nation
Mount Rainier
A glacier-clad volcano looming over Seattle
Mount St. Helens
The volcano that erupted catastrophically in 1980
Mount Waialeale
One of the wettest places on Earth
Mount Washington
Home to "the world's worst weather"
Mount Whitney
The highest peak in the contiguous United States
Pikes Peak
The Colorado fourteener that inspired "America the Beautiful"
Point Barrow
The northernmost point of the United States
Semisopochnoi Island
The longitude extreme where the U.S. crosses the 180th meridian
The Aleutian Islands
A volcanic arc reaching from Alaska toward Asia
The Appalachian Mountains
The ancient, worn mountains of the eastern U.S.
The Cascade Range
A chain of volcanoes in the Pacific Northwest
The Channel Islands
California's "Galapagos" off the Southern coast
The Chihuahuan Desert
The largest desert in North America
The Colorado Plateau
The high red-rock heart of the Southwest
The Florida Keys
A coral archipelago curving off the tip of Florida
The Grand Canyon
A mile-deep gorge carved by the Colorado River
The Great Basin
The vast interior where no rivers reach the sea
The Mojave Desert
The driest desert in North America
The Outer Banks
A chain of barrier islands off the North Carolina coast
The Rocky Mountains
The backbone of western North America
The Sierra Nevada
California's great granite mountain wall
The Sonoran Desert
The lush desert of the saguaro cactus
The Teton Range
A dramatic, young range rising sheer from the valley
Three-State Tripoints
The corners where three states meet
West Quoddy Head
The easternmost point of the contiguous United States