Costa Rica
San Lucas Island Prison Graffiti
Disused penal colony features prisoner artwork, some sketched in human blood.
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Costa Rica
Disused penal colony features prisoner artwork, some sketched in human blood.
New York, New York
An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.
Antequera, Spain
Rare karst landscape eroded from a flat seabed.
Salantai, Lithuania
Sculpture garden of religious statues made it through Soviet rule.
Guilin, China
Natural arch offers panoramic views of Yangshuo's karst hills.
Dayton, Nevada
The smallest country in the world.
Dresden, Germany
Silent memorial, using bone conduction to take people back to the Dresden Bombing of 1945.
Tataouine, Tunisia
A 15th-century granary that played the role of futuristic slave quarters in the world of 'Star Wars.'
Sosnogorsk, Russia
Gigantic natural towers in a Russian plateau.
Podgarić, Croatia
This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.
Key Largo, Florida
Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.
Min Kun, Myanmar
Gigantic unfinished stupa and the world's 2nd largest bell.
Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal
Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.
Slanchevo, Bulgaria
Mysterious standing stone formations looks like a petrified forest.
Jablanac, Croatia
The remains of a sunken military ship wreck visible through clear water.
Province of Matera, Italy
An Italian hillside ghost town.
Waitomo, New Zealand
Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.
Antarctica
Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.
Guía, Spain
Hundreds of caves once used to store grains and animal feed.
Chefchaouen, Morocco
Founded as a refugee camp, now a popular tourist spot.
Isle of Staffa, Scotland
This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.
Province de Tinghir, Morocco
One of the most spectacular canyons in the world.
Koro, Mali
Annual rush for a sacred desert lake's fish stock.
Yamanouchi, Japan
Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.