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Beyond the Icons: What Are Some of the Most Surprising National Parks?

1. Isle Royale's Wild Experiment

Isle Royale National Park, Michigan, USA

It's a remote island where wolves and moose engage in a generations-long predator-prey study.

2. The Unfinished Island Fortress

Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida, USA

An enormous 19th-century fort, built on a tiny remote island, stands unfinished and surrounded by coral reefs.

3. Ancient Pines and Deep Caves

Great Basin National Park, Nevada, USA

It's home to some of the oldest living organisms on Earth: ancient bristlecone pine trees clinging to desolate slopes.

4. Giants of the Floodplain

Congaree National Park, South Carolina, USA

It protects the largest intact expanse of old-growth floodplain forest in North America, with some of the tallest trees in the eastern US.

5. Where Glaciers Meet a Ghost Town

Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska, USA

North America's largest national park contains a preserved historic copper mining town, Kennecott, once accessible only by foot or plane.

6. An Ancient Reef in the Desert

Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas, USA

This remote West Texas park preserves an ancient, uplifted fossil reef that was once part of a vast inland sea.

7. Watery Wilderness of the Voyageurs

Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota, USA

This park is almost entirely water, where historic fur traders once navigated a labyrinth of interconnected lakes and islands.

8. Tropical Sanctuary South of the Equator

National Park of American Samoa, USA

The only U.S. National Park located south of the equator, it protects unique rainforests and coral reefs, along with endangered flying foxes.

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