Australia
Ball's Pyramid
This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.
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Australia
This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.
Naica, Mexico
A gargantuan crystal kingdom.
Tsuruoka, Japan
The self-mummified monks of Japan.
Mont Saint-Michel, France
This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.
Yosemite National Park, California
Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.
Paris, France
A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.
Sierra Bullones, Philippines
Bohol's unusually shaped hills turn brown in the summer months.
Anacapri, Italy
The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.
Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."
Ottrott, France
An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.
Forres, Scotland
A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.
Berlin, Germany
An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.
Estavayer-le-Lac, Switzerland
150-year-old satirical tableaus made from stuffed frogs.
Gerlach, Nevada
A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.
Oxford, England
Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
A tower devoted to — and modeled after — the Divine Comedy.
Istanbul, Turkey
Turkish adventurer antiques in the heart of the Grand Bazaar.
Butte, Montana
New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.
Laranjal do Jari, Brazil
This gravesite in the Amazon Rainforest was left behind by a failed Third Reich expedition.
Odda, Norway
Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."
Dresden, Germany
Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.
London, England
This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.
Aurland, Norway
Longest road tunnel in the world features an air treatment plant and the illusion of daylight.
San Andrés Cholula, Mexico
An Aztec temple, the largest man-made pyramid in the world, sits buried in earth with a Spanish church set on top.