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Eureka Springs, AR
A little town seamlessly built into the forest and mountains surround it. Downtown seems to be carved out of the cliffs, neighborhoods incorporate the forest. It's just beautiful and so interesting.
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Albuquerque is slightly over a mile high and has some interesting topography. It straddles the Rio Grande River in what is an ancient rift valley. On the east side, the city climbs up into the foothills of the Sandia Mountains. The bosque forest of old cottonwoods flanks the river all the way through the heart of the city. On the west side the lava-capped mesa escarpment climbs up to a series of volcano cones in a five mile line in the desert. Sandia mountain is largely composed of feldspar so it glows red at sunset. The city slopes toward the river and affords great views of the Sandias and all the way west to Mount Taylor 65 miles away. The Sangre de Cristos are visible to the north (at Santa Fe) as are the Jemez Mountains. The Sierra Ladrones appear off in the desert to the southwest.
Seattle has some very unique topography. It's a bunch of little islands, peninsulas, or skinny pieces of hilly, forested land, surrounded by a major inlet of salt water (Puget Sound/ Salish Sea). Volcanoes and rainforests in the distance. It makes for an interesting place.
Pittsburgh has more bridges than any city in the world AND has the steepest street of any city in the world!!
*Pittsburgh has more bridges than Venice, Italy
And I agree; I was going to add Boston to the list, but then I refrained. Although the coastal towns can be interesting, but the flatness takes away a bit. IMO. That is why I think Seattle is a CLEAR top 3, as well as San Fran.
The original Boston would be high on the list since before all thr fill, it was basically an island...with a virtually microscopic strip connecting it to the mainland.
Madison. Its location is unique. You could be in most places in Seattle and get no sense you were on an isthmus. Not so Madison who's location literally screamms "I'm on an isthmus." The city's core, very much including both capitol and UW, lies between two broad lakes, Mendota and Mendosa. It is basically squeased between the two and this gives Madison the type of compactness and density unknown in cities under 500,000. One of the most beautiful cities in the nation.
Here’s an aerial photo of Madison that I saw someone post on Reddit a while back that shows what people are talking about. https://imgur.com/FOgSVL0
It really is unique, and I don’t think a lot of people really know too much about Madison since it’s such a small city. I would’ve never known if I hadn’t seen this photo before.
Regarding salt marsh, isn't Syracuse an area with old salt mines? It is kind of funny, you don't normally think of a salt marsh so far from the ocean but they obviously exist (I am also guessing in Utah).
So I guess Miami isn't allowed to be considered here?
Sorry, didn't realize the main requirement was that a place have mountains to be 'unique'.
Miami was mentioned in the second response to this thread.
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