Places Calmmseas Wants to Go

Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.

A granite waterfall cascading down is one of the highest multi-tiered falls in the state.

One of the best beaches in the entire world.

This extraordinary geological oddity resembles human-made pavement.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

The once and future home of New Zealand's famed Pink and White Terraces.

Deadly scalding and one of the largest hot springs in the world.

Nature's slip and slide.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

One of the few places in the world home to living stromatolites.

This pair of Australian "waterfalls" appear to be falling straight across the land.

Three wildly colorful calderas top this otherworldly volcano chain.

No one is quite sure of the origins of these idyllic natural hot springs at an abandoned mountain resort.

One of Indonesia's tallest, this waterfall takes a 390-foot plunge into the Lake Toba caldera.

Not far from the bustle of Kuala Lumpur is an amazing waterfall that navigates seven vertical drops.

Site of the largest volcanic eruption in the last 25 million years, one which may have nearly wiped out humanity altogether.

China's very own Atlantis is an ornate dynastic city resting at the bottom of a lake.

A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.

The Yonaguni Monument, a natural formation or the Japanese Atlantis?

Thanks to the building of a life-giving reservoir, part of the Great Wall of China is now a dive site.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

A massive cave complex boasts some of the clearest water (and most charming bats) in the world.

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.