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This "preacher's pulpit" once used for pagan ritual, is home to a new, and dangerous ritual.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.

A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.

This Japanese-inspired labyrinth of hot springs is hidden in a Chilean forest.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

This natural Icelandic fissure allows divers to swim right between two volatile tectonic plates.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

One of the most remarkable caves in all of Iceland was created by a once raging river of lava.

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

World's largest cave was only discovered in 1991, and now offers tours to the public.

This small town in the Netherlands has no roads but instead, miles of canals and over 100 bridges.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

Part modern art project, part traditional chapel, this see-through church is only substantial from the right angle.