Bandiagara, Mali
Bandiagara Escarpment Cliff Dwellings
These homes carved into the mountains seem to defy the laws of nature.
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Bandiagara, Mali
These homes carved into the mountains seem to defy the laws of nature.
Schnals, Italy
Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.
Eisenberg an der Raab, Austria
Cross mysteriously appeared for 36 years.
Nébias, France
Green labyrinth formed by a karstic maze hidden in a preserved oak forest.
Vieques, Puerto Rico
The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.
Khlong Sok, Thailand
Surat Thani's official flower—and the world's largest—smells of rotting meat.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
Castle Hill, New Zealand
The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."
Sigiriya, Sri Lanka
An ancient stone fortress considered by many to be the eighth wonder of the world.
Saint-Jean-de-Boiseau, France
Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.
Merzouga, Morocco
God's Saharan sandbox of wrath.
Warrenton, Oregon
100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.
Mellieħa, Malta
An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.
Espoo, Finland
Finnish lake, and scene of an infamous murder mystery.
Kandovan, Iran
Modern-day cave dwellers carve elaborate homes out of volcanic debris.
San Luis Obispo, California
An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.
Amarillo, Texas
A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.
Qrendi, Malta
This Stone Age solar temple aligns with the sun on each equinox and solstice.
Deshnok, India
Deep in the Thar desert, a temple crawling with thousands of holy rats.
Delta, Utah
Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.
Yosemite National Park, California
Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.
Fallon, Nevada
A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.
Greece
A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.
South Andaman, India
An abandoned settlement originally established by British colonialists in the Andaman archipelago.