Study Maps America's Quietest Places by Decibel

No, that’s not an aerial map of this great land of ours seen through an airplane window. All those bright lights are big, loud cities.

Thanks to the National Park Service Division of Natural Sounds and Night Skies (which is real and doesn’t belong anywhere on a business card), we have this fascinating map of where the walking dead may actually live.

Note that sea of blue in the Midwest. It’s not a previously undiscovered body of water — it’s proof that residents of the Midwest are either very conservative when it comes to making noise or that they’re too buys playing Walter White to bug their neighbors.

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