Lakes

An incredibly salty lake inside the crater of an extinct volcano.

This 46-foot-tall carving of a legendary Māori navigator can only be visited by boat.

One of the oldest and tallest lighthouses still in service on Lake Michigan.

An impressive site containing some of the earth’s rarest living fossils.

This dry lake bed was once an emergency landing strip for military and experimental aircraft.

A lake that borders Kazakhstan and Russia allegedly harbors the giant "Terror Trout" or "Chinese Nessie."

This lake with an inactive volcano underneath is often said to be bottomless.

A pristine crater lake 12,000 years in the making, with waters like cut glass.

The longest floating boardwalk in the United States.

Formed by the collapse of salt mines and later used for dumping industrial waste, these lakes are now part an unusual, biodiverse parkland.

Smack-dab in Campania’s volcanic fields, this scenic lake was once thought to be the gate of hell.

This log house sits in the remote Canadian wilderness, and holds a mysterious tale of the trapper who built it.