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Alpena, Michigan
Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary
This protected area in Lake Huron contains some of the world’s best-preserved shipwrecks.
ChumkopĂ³, Mexico
Cenote Angelita
A flooded Mexican cave that hides a river beneath the water.
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The Fantastical Beauty of Sunken Ruins
Ominous landscapes of aquatic exploration.
Corinne, Utah
The Spiral Jetty
An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.
Weeki Wachee, Florida
Weeki Wachee: ‘City of Live Mermaids’
Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.
Port Royal, Jamaica
Sunken Pirate City at Port Royal
Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."
Andros I, Bahamas
Subsurface Bahamian Caves
Inhospitable caverns just beneath this island paradise offer insights into alien worlds.
Austin, Texas
The Sometimes Islands
Some islands... they come, they go, especially on Lake Travis.
Qianxi County, China
Submerged Great Wall of China
Thanks to the building of a life-giving reservoir, part of the Great Wall of China is now a dive site.
Toberonochy, Scotland
'The Unsoiling of Rockall'
A plaque installed underwater marks the fall of a royal family from an imagined parallel universe—part of a globe-spanning art project.
Saty, Kazakhstan
Kaindy Lake
Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.
Tal, Austria
Green Lake
Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.
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Eilat, Israel
Red Sea Star
Underwater restaurant at the coral reefs of Eilat.
Kastrup, Denmark
The Blue Planet
Vortex-shaped aquarium hosts Europe's largest school of piranhas and other ocean creatures.
VästerĂ¥s, Sweden
Utter Inn
A floating underwater hotel, created by a Swedish artist.
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Great Blue Hole
A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.
Rangalifinolhu, Maldives
Ithaa Undersea Restaurant
An underwater restaurant, surrounded by a coral reef.
Key Biscayne, Florida
Neptune Memorial Reef
An underwater city for the dead.
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