Geology

A narrow strip of land is home to the tallest migrating dunes in Europe.

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

Rolling sand dunes of the Sahara... in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

This striking landscape in northern Vietnam contains both geological and archaeological wonders.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

This South Pacific volcano has been blowing its stack for over 800 years and is said to be home to a cult leader waiting to be reborn.

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

These mysterious circular formations are actually remnants of 19th century gristmills.

This isthmus in the Bahamas narrowly separates the roiling Atlantic from the cool Bight of Eleuthera.