Natural Wonders

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

Huge herds of Asian elephants can be seen walking, bathing, and just chilling at this Sri Lankan park.

Nature's slip and slide.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

This wondrous waterfall rushing down a green-covered mountain wasn't discovered until 2010.

A miniature desert appears out of nowhere on the lush isle of Lemnos, like something out of a Greek myth.

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.

A perfectly circular lake is formed by the crater of an ancient underwater volcano.

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

A natural rock formation believed to be a cure-all.

At the center of an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean is a deep chasm ringed by tall waterfalls.

Created as a coal reserve, it is today a natural park with stunning wildflowers, ancient marine fossils, and remnants of a 19th century mine.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

The world's largest and most outstanding marl lake regularly changes color.