Lakes

Overlooking a Scottish loch, this beautifully crumbling castle once inspired a poem by William Wordsworth.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

A series of eerie metal stick figures are spread out over four square miles on the bed of a huge salt lake in the Australian Outback.

This divisive system of turtle tunnels was built to save animals stranded after a highway split a lake in half.

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.

America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.

After a long, dark winter in the upper latitudes, Yellowknife knows how to let it all out in unparalleled style.

The lowest point in South Dakota and the source of the Minnesota River.

Winter roadtrips are a little more exciting on this seasonal, slippery expansion of Sweden's national highway system.

This former quarry is now a picturesque gorge that hides a sunken lake.

A walkable map of the world, made from soil and stone by one man.

This Boy Scout retreat acted as "Friday the 13th"'s original Camp Crystal Lake.