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Natural Wonders

Olympic Hot Springs

Port Angeles, Washington

Olympic Hot Springs

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

Sasquatch Caves. (Creative Commons)

Hope, British Columbia

Sasquatch Caves

A hiking area billed as a possible home to Bigfoot.

Moses with tablets of the Ten Commandments, painting by Rembrandt, 1659. (Wikimedia Commons)

Mount Horeb

Site where Moses may have received the Ten Commandments.

Townsend, Tennessee

Tuckaleechee Caverns

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

Bicheno Blowhole

Bicheno, Australia

Bicheno Blowhole

Granite rocks that concentrate waves into powerful jets.

Wineglass Bay. (prasitmankad/Flickr)

Freycinet, Australia

Wineglass Bay

One of the best beaches in the entire world.

Little Blue Lake.

South Mount Cameron, Australia

Little Blue Lake

A beautiful, but toxic, lake formed by mining.

Eucalyptus regnans surrounding the Styx River. (Wikimedia Commons)

Styx, Australia

Styx Valley Forest

Rainforest filled with record-holding eucalyptus.

Loch Ard Gorge panorama, July 2005. (Wikimedia Commons)

Port Campbell, Australia

Loch Ard Gorge

A clear example of the process of erosion in action.

The Santuario Facade on Monte Pellegrino. (Creative Commons)

Santuario di Santa Rosalia

Cave shrine on Monte Pellegrino.

Turnov, Czechia

Český Ráj (Bohemian Paradise)

Bohemian paradise covered in majestic forests.

Lawn Cross.

Eisenberg an der Raab, Austria

Eisenberg Lawn Cross

Cross mysteriously appeared for 36 years.

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

Fall Creek Falls State Park. (Wikimedia Commons)

Pikeville, Tennessee

Fall Creek Falls State Park

Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.

Hamilton Township, New Jersey

Grounds for Sculpture

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

Monkey Jungle entrance. (Flickr)

Monkey Jungle

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

2015

Atlanta, Georgia

Cator Woolford Gardens

Secret gardens just a few miles from downtown Atlanta.

(Flickr)

Lancaster, California

Antelope Valley Indian Museum

Built by one man in the '20s, this site is now a museum representing the Great Basin cultures.