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Volcanoes

Kīlauea Won't Stop Erupting

In this episode of Untold Earth, learn what lessons one of the most active and accessible volcanoes on Earth can teach us about our planet's past, present, and future.

Atlas Obscura December 4, 2025

Malargüe, Argentina

La Payunia Reserve

An otherworldly reserve of one of Earth’s densest volcanic fields and the world’s largest guanaco migration.

Land of Sleeping Volcanoes

Stand on the rim of a dormant volcano and gaze across a vast ash plain frozen in time.

Khaybar, Saudi Arabia

Umm Jirsan Cave

Prehistoric humans once used this sprawling lava tube network in the Saudi Arabian desert as shelter.

Prison cell viewed from the ruins of the theatre above.

The Saint-Pierre, Martinique Doomsday—and the One Man Who Survived

History’s best example of being in the wrong place at the right time.

The Podcast Team October 9, 2025

Emerald Lakes (Ngarotopounamu)

These neon green and blue lakes are in the shadow of two huge volcanoes.

Volcán Pabellones

Standing 26 feet high and 13 feet in diameter, is this the world’s smallest volcano?

Kalapana, Hawaii

Puʻuloa Petroglyphs

Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park is home to one of Polynesia’s largest petroglyph fields.

Fort Rock, Oregon

Derrick Cave

This lava tube cave was once a Cold War fallout shelter.

Mount San Jacinto offers beautiful vistas.

California’s Unbelievable Landscapes: A Guide to Nature’s Masterpieces

Volcanic craters, out-of-this-world rock formations, and wild twisting trees, all in one state.

Sponsored By Visit California

Honolulu, Hawaii

National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific

Hawaii’s largest cemetery rests inside an extinct volcano crater.

McMurdo Station, Antarctica

Observation Hill

The steep slope known as “Ob Hill” overlooks an Antarctic research station.

Coqueza Canton, Bolivia

Coqueza Mummies (Cementerio de Chullpas)

Halfway up a volcano at the edge of the world’s largest salt flats is a cave with seven mummies.

Thonsepar

These four small islands contain unique hexagonal rock formations.

Hawaiian Beaches, Hawaii

Cape Kumukahi

The easternmost point of Hawai'i plays a prominent role in local legends and is home to a lighthouse that survived a lava flow.

Lago Coatepeque

This color-changing crater lake in El Salvador is occasionally impenetrable to sunlight.

Nye County, Nevada

Easy Chair Crater

An unusual double cinder cone with a bent oval crater, in the Lunar Crater Volcanic Field.

A religious totem pole flanked by hand-crafted camel art and surrounded by 150-year-old buildings: Cleo's Ferry in a nutshell.

14 Monuments and Museums Only in Idaho

From lunar-like landscapes to a Museum of Clean, Idaho's offerings are anything but ordinary.

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