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More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.

Clusters of huge boulders in the Australian Outback.

Microscopic fossils suggest Australia may be the birthplace of sulphur-based life forms.

A mud volcano in Indonesia spews out 50,000 cubic meters of mud every day.

Visitors can swim with vicious predators in Crocosaurus Cove's plastic daredevil enclosure.

Have fun at the world's first Buddhist waterslide park.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

A unique beach made of a myriad of multi-sized pebbles.

Bohol's unusually shaped hills turn brown in the summer months.

This beautiful natural train tunnel is said to grant the wishes of visiting lovebirds.

Three bridges straddle a stream, one stacked upon the other.

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

A rocky sea serpent hides caves, blowholes, and a spectacular natural bridge.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

Home of the world's largest crocodile.

The tallest sea cliffs on the Southern Hemisphere are a climber's worst nightmare.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

A small man-controlled waterfall powers an Art Nouveau elevator and is accessed via narrow gauge, solar-powered tramway.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

Tiny Swedish village with a distinct local phenomenon known as an "Elk Shower."

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Bermuda triangle lighthouse, site of mysterious disappearances, left to crumble into the Atlantic.