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Clusters of huge boulders in the Australian Outback.

The UFO capital of Australia is the outback’s answer to Roswell.

This mini version of the famous Bohemian castle was lovingly built by a Czech immigrant and mineworker.

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.

Critics argue this boab tree has been mislabeled for the sake of dark tourism, undermining its spiritual significance.

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

This Australian beach is composed of tiny shells.

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

A micronation of epic proportions.

The oldest known European structures in Australia are the remnants of a story filled with mutiny, murder, jealousy and greed.

An outback test site for the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult.

This once-booming gold mining hub was basically abandoned overnight.

Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.

An abandoned marine theme park has created a difficult experiment in dolphin rewilding.

A monument to a working class martyr.

Worship at the altar of seafood at this shop housed inside the town's oldest stone church.

A perfectly preserved abandoned criminal asylum in South Australia.

Stand at the center of this lakefront sundial, and you'll become part of the timepiece.

When a supermarket opened up shop within a medieval building it became protected by UNESCO on a technicality.

The big toe of this towering monument to a Croatian national hero is worn from years of superstitious rubbing.

A concrete Picasso in the middle of a student housing complex on the outskirts of Stockholm.

A 12th-century church with a medieval fresco and an intriguing “Greek runestone.”

This giant subway sculpture celebrates the fruit that inspired the theory of gravity.