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Natural Wonders

A gang of monkeys relax near the temple. (robertbrauneis/Flickr)

Hanuman’s Temple

Sacred Indian temple that’s all monkey business.

The Lost Sea

Sweetwater, Tennessee

Lost Sea

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

Homosassa, Florida

Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

Permanently Closed

The ice box cemetery.

Clayton, Georgia

Ice Box Cemetery

An abandoned bait shop with a front lot filled with storage boxes.

Permanently Closed

Demolition gear and No 7 Settler Tank

Hartlepool, England

Steetley Magnesite

Derelict chemical plant on the North Sea is a beautiful industrial ruin.

Hazardous material teams on Gruinard Island. (Creative Commons)

Mungasdale, Scotland

Gruinard Island

Fifty years of contamination in Scotland's waters.

The survivors of Clipperton Island. (Wikimedia Commons)

Clipperton Island

Abandoned outpost once home to a murderous tyrant.

Bandiagara, Mali

Bandiagara Escarpment Cliff Dwellings

These homes carved into the mountains seem to defy the laws of nature.

The active volcano on Miyakejima. (Creative Commons)

Miyakejima, Japan

Gas Mask Tourism on the Izu Islands

Sulphuric gases inhabit a beautiful Japanese island.

Collage of the tunnel at Tunnel Beach, Dunedin, New Zealand, showing the beginning, a look backwards up the tunnel, and a view of the beach at the end of the tunnel. (Wikimedia Commons)

Dunedin, New Zealand

Tunnel Beach

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

Big Major Cay, Bahamas

Pig Beach

In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.

Petroglyph of a llama. (Wikimedia Commons)

Toro Muerto

Thousands of volcanic rocks carved 1,000 years ago.

Lake Ellen Kimberlite. (Creative Commons)

Crystal Falls, Michigan

Lake Ellen Kimberlite

Reason for Michigan's potential diamond mine.

A house in the Tongo Hills. (Creative Commons)

Bolgatanga, Ghana

Tengzug Shrine

Topless shrine of northern Ghana.

Chattanooga, Tennessee

Raccoon Mountain Caverns

More than five miles of underground passageways.

Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Manistique, Michigan

Kitch-iti-kipi

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

Tourists can hang out with the crocodiles.

Sacred Crocodile Ponds of Paga

The souls of the dead have made these Ghanese crocodiles shockingly docile.