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Alajuela, Costa Rica

Poás Volcano

A park that allows you to get up close and personal with one of the world's largest open volcanic craters.
Onekotan Island, Russia

Krenitsyn Volcano

A remote and picturesque volcano nestled inside another volcano.
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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.
Kula, Turkey

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.
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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
New Zealand

Emerald Lakes (Ngarotopounamu)

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

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.
Itinerary

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.
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.
Malpe, India

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.
El Salvador

Lago Coatepeque

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