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1 | ![]() | Trenton, New Jersey ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 40.2237 / -74.764 | Trenton is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Jersey and the county seat of Mercer County., New Jersey Department of State. Accessed July 10, 2017. It was briefly the capital of the United States. The city's metropolitan area is grouped with the New York metropolitan area by the United States (...) |
2 | ![]() | Jonestown ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 7.705 / -59.9061 | The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name "Jonestown", was a remote settlement established by the Peoples Temple, an American cult under the leadership of reverend Jim Jones, in north Guyana. It became internationally known when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 918 (...) |
3 | Shenandoah National Park ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1057 Lat/Lng : 38.5153 / -78.4375 | Shenandoah National Park (often) is a national park that encompasses part of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the U.S. state of Virginia. The park is long and narrow, with the broad Shenandoah River and Valley on the west side, and the rolling hills of the Virginia Piedmont on the east (...) | |
4 | Metacomet Ridge ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 170 Lat/Lng : 41.4156 / -72.9381 | The Metacomet Ridge, Metacomet Ridge Mountains, or Metacomet Range of southern New England is a narrow and steep fault-block mountain ridge known for its extensive cliff faces, scenic vistas, microclimate ecosystems, and rare or endangered plants (...) | |
5 | Leonardo da Vinci ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 53 Lat/Lng : 43.7833 / 11.25 | Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (; 15 April 14522 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance, whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, (...) | |
6 | New Mexico ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1841 Lat/Lng : 34.0 / -106.0 | New Mexico is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States of America. It is one of the Mountain States and shares the Four Corners region with Utah, Colorado, and Arizona; its other neighboring states are Oklahoma to the northeast, Texas to the east-southeast, and the Mexican states of (...) | |
7 | New Center, Detroit ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 216 Lat/Lng : 42.3693 / -83.077 | New Center is a commercial and residential historic district located uptown in Detroit, Michigan, adjacent to Midtown, one mile (1.6 km) north of the Cultural Center, and approximately three miles (5 km) north of Downtown (...) | |
8 | Forest Park (Portland, Oregon) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 213 Lat/Lng : 45.5453 / -122.7361 | Forest Park is a public municipal park in the Tualatin Mountains west of downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. Stretching for more than on hillsides overlooking the Willamette River, it is one of the country's largest urban forest reserves (...) | |
9 | WBRC ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 311 Lat/Lng : 33.4892 / -86.7989 | WBRC, virtual channel 6 (UHF digital channel 50), is a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to Birmingham, Alabama, United States. The station is owned by Raycom Media. WBRC's studios and transmitter are located atop Red Mountain, between Vulcan Trail and Valley View Drive, in southeastern (...) | |
10 | Alimodian, Iloilo ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 69 Lat/Lng : 10.8214 / 122.4311 | , officially the , is a settlement_text of the Philippines in the province of , . According to the , it has a population of people (40, 176 in 2017). It has a total land area of , making up 2.89% of the provincial land area of Iloilo (...) | |
11 | Nizari ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 406 Lat/Lng : 35.0218 / 36.0922 | The Nizaris (al-Nizāriyyūn) are the largest branch of the Ismaili Shi'i Muslims, the second-largest branch of Shia Islam (the largest being the Twelver). Nizari teachings emphasise human reasoning (ijtihad, the individual use of one's reason when using both the Quran and Hadith as resources), (...) | |
12 | Point Reyes ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 139 Lat/Lng : 37.9968 / -123.0198 | Point Reyes is a prominent cape and popular Northern California tourist destination on the Pacific coast. It is located in Marin County approximately west-northwest of San Francisco. The term is often applied to the Point Reyes Peninsula, the region bounded by Tomales Bay on the northeast and (...) | |
13 | Ochoco Mountains ![]() FeatureType : mountain Elevation : 1673 Lat/Lng : 44.4431 / -120.3936 | The Ochoco Mountains are a mountain range in central Oregon in the United States, located at the western end of the Blue Mountains. They were formed when Permian, Triassic, and Jurassic rocks were slowly uplifted by volcanic eruptions to form the Clarno Formation (...) | |
14 | KOVR ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 38.24 / -121.5019 | KOVR, virtual channel 13 (UHF digital channel 25), is a CBS owned-and-operated television station serving Sacramento, California, United States that is licensed to Stockton. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of CBS Corporation, as part of a duopoly with (...) | |
15 | Eastern Mennonite University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 441 Lat/Lng : 38.4722 / -78.8779 | Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) is a private liberal arts university in the Shenandoah Valley of the U.S. state of Virginia, affiliated with one of the historic peace churches, the Mennonite Church USA."Mennonite Education Agency". http://www.mennoniteeducation.org. Retrieved 29 July 2010 (...) | |
16 | Old Mines, Missouri ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 246 Lat/Lng : 38.0153 / -90.7561 | Old Mines is the name of an unincorporated community and surrounding area in southeast Missouri that were settled by French colonists in the early 18th century when the area was part of the Illinois Country of New France.Schroeder p (...) | |
17 | The Farm (Tennessee) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 288 Lat/Lng : 35.4847 / -87.3311 | The Farm is an intentional community in Lewis County, Tennessee, near the town of Summertown, Tennessee,Michael Gavin, in The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, based on principles of nonviolence and respect for the Earth (...) | |
18 | La Vieille ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 48.0406 / -4.7564 | La Vieille ("The Old Lady" or "The Wrass") is a lighthouse in the département of Finistère at the commune of Plogoff, on the northwest coast of France. It lies on the rock known as Gorlebella (Breton for "farthest rock"), guiding mariners in the strait Raz de Sein, across from the companion (...) | |
19 | Pawnee National Grassland ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1464 Lat/Lng : 40.819 / -103.854 | Pawnee National Grassland is a United States National Grassland located in northeastern Colorado on the Colorado Eastern Plains. The grassland is located in the South Platte River basin in remote northern and extreme northeastern Weld County between Greeley and Sterling (...) | |