Dzitnup, Mexico
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These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.
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Dzitnup, Mexico
These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.
Chichen Itza, Mexico
Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.
Anacapri, Italy
The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.
Çanakkale, Turkey
This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.
Manaus, Brazil
This striking, two-toned confluence of rivers is visible from space.
Marudi, Malaysia
These jagged limestone blades cut out through the canopy of the jungles of Borneo.
Hyden, Australia
This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.
Skipton, England
This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.
Orchard Park, New York
A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.
Neversink, New York
The lost town of Neversink, sunk by New York City.
Huelva, Spain
This amended headstone marks the grave of a participant in one of the most successful military deceptions of all time.
Roscoe, New York
A fictional town that was briefly brought to life before fading once again out of existence.
Flagstaff, Arizona
The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.
Prypiat, Ukraine
The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.
Hot Springs, South Dakota
This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.
Bayard, Nebraska
This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.
Casper, Wyoming
A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.
Rivière-aux-Outardes, Québec
A lake formed in the basin of a massive impact crater takes the shape of an unbroken ring when viewed from above.
Vredefort, South Africa
The world's largest impact crater is mainly eroded but still remembers the planet's violent history.
Arco, Idaho
Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.
Afton, Wyoming
A miraculous natural phenomenon known as "the spring that breathes."
Vernal, Utah
Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.
Freeport, Maine
This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.
Lisbon, Maine
Tucked away in a corner of a Maine general store there was a museum devoted to an equally beloved and reviled local soft drink.