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

The second generation of a mighty volcano rises from the sea.

Hundreds of Buddhas in a re-discovered Indonesian temple.

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

This crocodile-infested Timor-Leste reservoir is also home to a spectacular half-sunken forest.

Where cemeteries are carved into the side of cliffs and infants are buried in the hollows of trees.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

The remote island home of the overlooked explorer who co-discovered the theory of evolution by natural selection.

These 40,000-year-old stenciled hands are older than the famous cave art in France and Spain.

A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.

Three wildly colorful calderas top this otherworldly volcano chain.

Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.

The ship that got left behind.

This volcanically volatile island town is home to an abandoned series of tunnels left by the Japanese during WWII.

This giant Christ statue was a failed attempt by Indonesia to dissuade East Timor from demanding independence.

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

These Australian rock formations look like Martian beehives that have grown up out of the landscape.

A stray meteor left this picturesque hole in the Australian outback.

Clusters of huge boulders in the Australian Outback.

The only pollutant in the clear blue water is sunscreen.

These tracks are believed to be from a panicked dinosaur stampede.

An ancient engraving by the Cammeraygal people was uncovered in the transformation of a North Sydney industrial site.

This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.

Cockatoo Island is a Heritage-listed island in the middle of Sydney Harbour.