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This is the poorest town in the United States, but if you want to go there, you have to book at least a year in advance. There's no Wi-Fi, no supermarket, no hospital, and no cars running through the town. Everything you need, food, medicine, supplies, has to be carried in by mule through a 13-kilometer canyon. The average income is under $6,000 a year, lower than anywhere else in the U.S. So why do more than 20,000 people from around the world, from Europe, Japan, Australia, compete to book a spot months in advance just to step into this place? Because this is the only place on Earth where you can see a turquoise waterfall, not blue, not green, but a jade-like turquoise. A color you'd think only exists in Photoshop. It's real created by natural minerals over thousands of years that have a suit falls. Only about 500 people live here. They are the Havasupai, a tribe that has lived in this canyon for over 800 years. They call themselves the people of the blue-green waters, and they don't need the outside world. The outside world needs them. If you want to enter, you must get permission from the tribe, pay specific fees, and you're not allowed to camp freely or film commercially. They don't welcome everyone. They choose who gets to step onto their land. That place is called Supai, the most remote and porous town in the United States, but also one of the most beautiful places on Earth.