Cabo da Roca (Cape Roca) is a cape that forms the westernmost point of mainland Europe (and of mainland Portugal). It was known to the Romans as 'Promontorium Magnum' and during the Age of Sail as...

Porto Bello is the hunting lodge of the last Governor of the British Colony of Virginia, John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore. Dunmore fled to Porto Bello to escape the early stages of the American...

Hampton Beach is a village district and beach resort within the town of Hampton, in the U.S. state of New Hampshire, located on the Atlantic Ocean. Hampton Beach is located in Rockingham County,...

Canada and the United States of America share the longest common border in the world. Officially known as the International Boundary, it is generally unmilitarized. The terrestrial boundary...

The Cosquer cave is located in the Calanque de Morgiou near Marseille, France, not very far from Cap Morgiou. This cave, the entrance of which is located underwater nowadays, was discovered by...

The Arctic Circle is one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth. This is the parallel of latitude that (in 2000) runs 66° 33′ 39″ (or 66.56083°) north of the...

Spook Hill is a gravity hill (an optical illusion where cars appear to roll uphill) in Lake Wales, Florida. Spook Hill is located on the Lake Wales Ridge, a geologically significant range of sand...

Each grid is 2 miles square.

The meteor crashed into Earth approximately 590 million years ago.

Mamayev Kurgan (Russian: Мамаев Курган) is a dominant height overlooking the city of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) in southern Russia. The name in Russian means "tumulus of Mamai"....

The Arctic Circle is one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth. This is the parallel of latitude that (in 2000) runs 66° 33′ 39″ (or 66.56083°) north of the...

Where gold was first discovered in California.

Actually it's a reservoir

Largest man-made mound in North America, near Collinsville, IL, just East of St. Louis, MO.