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Monarch butterflies, migrating to Pacific Grove, California, for better than a century, have given the city the nickname "Butterfly Town USA." The butterflies are fiercely protected by local citizens and by law.

Monterey Canyon is an underwater canyon just offshore in Monterey Bay. It is about as big and as deep as the Grand Canyon, stretching 60 miles (100 km) out to sea.

During World War II, Ellis Island in New York's harbor was a detention center for illegal or criminal aliens already in the United States. The Coast Guard also trained recruits there. Following the war, fewer people were detained and the facility was closed in 1954. New Jersey has sovereignty over most of Ellis Island.

Each tour through Natural Bridge Caverns in Texas covers ¾ mile. An average tour guide will walk almost 560 miles in one year while on the job.

Even though Hawaii has one state flower, the hibiscus rosa-sinensis, which blooms with the sun rise and closes with the sunset, each of the main islands also have an official flower of their own.

Filled with water, gas, electric, telephone, cable, steam, and sewer lines, Manhattan is the most dense underground site in the United States.

Florida averages the greatest number of shark attacks annually – an average of 13.

Florida is not the southernmost state in the United States. Hawaii is farther south.

Florida's Everglades are about 4,000 miles of freshwater marsh, rivers, and swamp. It is home to 850 species of animals and 900 types of plants.

Forests cover around 60 percent of Pennsylvania. Its name means “Penn's Woods” after its founder, William Penn.

Four states have active volcanoes: Washington, California, Alaska, and Hawaii, whose Mauna Loa is the world's largest active volcano. Hawaii itself was formed by the activity of undersea volcanoes.

Montpelier, Vermont, is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonald's.

Most of the 76-square-mile Catalina Island is a park, forever barred from development. In 1975, the Wrigley family transferred 85 percent of the island to the Santa Catalina Island Conservancy, a nonprofit foundation dedicated to preserving and protecting the open spaces, wild lands and nature preserves. That means that what's wild in Catalina today will remain wild. Avalon, the main settlement, has little room for expansion, so what's currently built is what will remain built.

Mount Carmel is one of Chicago's finest graveyards, and is the oldest Catholic cemetery in the western part of the Archdiocese of Chicago. The vast majority of persons buried here are Italian. There are more than 400 private Italian family mausoleums in Mount Carmel, more than any other cemetery in the area. The most popular attraction is the Bishops' mausoleum, which received over 50,000 visitors in the two months following the death of Cardinal Bernardin in October 1996.But to many, Mount Carmel is equally famous for the graves of Chicago's notorious gangsters of the 1920s – including the infamous Al Capone.

Mount McKinley, in Alaska, is known to the natives as Denali or “the high one.” It is the tallest mountain on the continent with a height of 20,320 feet about sea level. Alaska is also home to the next 15 tallest mountains.

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, has the most mini-golf courses per area in the United States. At last count, there were 47 in a 60-mile radius.

Nature's totem, the awe-inspiring, 325-foot spire of Chimney Rock in Nebraska, informed Pony Express riders and frontiersmen they had crossed the American plains and that mountains lay ahead.

From the 1830s to 1960s, the Lehigh River in eastern Pennsylvania, was owned by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co., making it the only privately owned river in the United States.

Glaciers store about 75 percent of the world's freshwater. In Washington state alone, glaciers provide 470 billion gallons of water each summer.

Grasshopper Glacier in Montana was named for the grasshoppers that can still be seen frozen in the ice.

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