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Name: Cairo Fossil Forest
Location: Cairo, New York
Coordinates: 42.320497982992606, -74.04507745235895
Why it's incredible: The forest preserves some of the oldest trees in the world.
The Cairo Fossil Forest is a unique collection of 385 million-year-old trees preserved in an abandoned quarry in upstate New York. The forest holds some of the oldest trees in the world, as well as the oldest known examples of trees with leaves and thick, woody trunks, researchers say.
