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High plateaus and beautiful waterfalls frame this ecologically significant nature preserve.

A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.

This breathtaking national park is one of the best places to see the weird and wonderful giant anteater in the wild.

This neo-Gothic monastery offers a rare chance to witness the unique maned wolf right up close.

Cars mysteriously roll uphill on this street.

Remote, volcanic island that Darwin, Hooker, and the Royal Navy shaped into a thriving, artificial ecosystem.

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

Mysterious spherical rocks in the semi-desert of western Kazakhstan.

Huge spherical rocks in the middle of the prairie.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

Did Inca children also slide down these smooth rocky slopes above Cusco?

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

At this archaeological site, visitors can explore the ruins of the capital of the former Roman province of Moesia.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

Africa's Venice on stilts.

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

Cathedral carved out of salt, located a mile below the Earth's surface.

One of the world's largest salt caves is filled with fragile salt sculptures, salt rivers, and huge salt megadomes.

Colorful lights and mirror-like brine pools create trippy illusions within the historic mine.