Mountains

Would you dare to dangle from a great height in a wooden basket?

A flat slab of stone perched hundreds of feet above the Gasconade River in the northern Ozark mountains.

Hidden in a high mountain cave, this hermitage dates back to the ninth century.

Nestled amid the trees lies an abandoned funicular railway that dates back to the 1920s.

Knights Templar are visible inside this stunning Cistercian abbey.

Mount Tambora is the site of the largest and deadliest volcanic eruption in recorded human history.

Narrow passes cut out of mountains surround the medieval capital of Japan.

This granite mountain is the largest rock in Africa and the second-largest monolith in the world.

A museum with a window view of the Himalayas and an on-site climbing wall.

This statue celebrates the winners of one of the most popular mountain stages in the Vuelta a España cycle race.

A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.

This now-abandoned outcrop is an important Native American spiritual site, overtaken by European settlers and mining pollution.

An annual celebration of the region's successful elk reintroduction program.

This collection of ancient, mountaintop, underground tombs was once hidden by decades of bloodshed.

The longest manmade tunnel in Queensland is now a beautiful trail, home to a special colony of bent-wing bats.

This precariously perched fortress was once ruled by a crow-worshipping baron.