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A fantastical group of cliffside stairways, bridges, and twisting paths carved out of stone provide a surreal coastal hike.

Only two of these trees remain in the natural world, found high in the cloud forest of the island of Mauritius.

The world of the ancient Celtic civilization explained through a bewitching 11 acre garden.

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.

The most playful of the life-sized statues that make up Singapore's "People of the River."

The 3.8 billion-year-old rock proves that tectonic plates may have been shifting longer than we thought.

Underground monastery and fortress.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

The ship that got left behind.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

The Canaima airstrip in Venezuela keeps an antique DC 3 plane in its camp.

The world's smallest drawbridge.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Over two-thirds of the world's population of giant tortoises live among this coral formation.

The royal seat of Henri Christophe, a formerly enslaved man who became Haiti's only king.

Worlds' largest inhabited river island.

This iconic fortress was once the crown jewel of Haiti's national defense.

A unique waterfall that some believe attracts the fairfolk.

Want to properly offend a king? Sculpt a giant hill figure in chalk of him riding out of town.

30 years worth of pressed-tin, bakalite, and characters both loved and forgotten.

One of the deepest blue holes in the world.

A salt lake dotted with steaming limestone chimneys.

This quirky countryside store is known for the goats that hang out and eat the grass on its roof.