<p>An Adirondack canoe floats on Connery Pond in Lake Placid, <a href="http://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/destinations/north-america/united-states/new-york/" target="_blank">New York</a>, at sunrise.</p>

An Adirondack canoe floats on Connery Pond in Lake Placid, New York, at sunrise.

Photograph by Michael Melford, Nat Geo Image Collection

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