Martian Landscapes

270 million year-old forest of stone.

Antarctica's bustling metropolis, originally established by Richard E. Byrd.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

Abandoned rock quarry now a haven for mountain bikers and hikers.

Prehistoric park filled with the fossils of dozens of extinct species including Australian megafauna.

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

Largest sub-glacial lake ever discovered.

The world's first and only natural nuclear reactor.

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

Home to nearly a third of the world's mud volcanoes, Azerbaijan is home to a messy, bubbling, and sometimes explosive landscape.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

Natural earth mounds formed in the far north.

This "floating island" plateau sits 7,671 feet above the forest floor.

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.