Marble Bar, Australia
Strelley Pool
Microscopic fossils suggest Australia may be the birthplace of sulphur-based life forms.
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Marble Bar, Australia
Microscopic fossils suggest Australia may be the birthplace of sulphur-based life forms.
Freycinet, Australia
One of the best beaches in the entire world.
Hyden, Australia
This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.
Fraser Island, Australia
The only pollutant in the clear blue water is sunscreen.
Mena Creek, Australia
A castle hand-built by a Spanish dreamer in the Australian tropical jungle.
Munlochy, Scotland
A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.
Invergordon, Scotland
Where the sleeping monsters of Scotland's oil industry are left to rust.
Invergordon, Scotland
This abandoned oil depot produces world's longest echo in a manmade structure.
Norway
Citizens of Norway want to gift the peak of Mount Halti to Finland for its 100th birthday.
St. Petersburg, Florida
A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.
Toronto, Ontario
The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.
Brașov, Romania
The European towns of Brașov and Râșnov each have proud signs reminiscent of the Hollywood sign.
Scorțoasa, Romania
A muddy alien landscape that is home to rare species of exotic plants.
Aguas Calientes, Peru
A backdoor to Machu Picchu that only the most foolhardy infiltrator would attempt to breach.
Beijing, China
Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?
Nagold, Germany
A German town is growing a building out of trees.
Tambopata, Peru
One of the most remote lodges in the Amazon offers rare wildlife encounters and undisturbed views of the Peruvian rainforest.
Katy, Texas
255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.
Nentershausen, Germany
At this unusual park, domes, ladders, chairs, and more are made from trees.
Staufen im Breisgau, Germany
A geothermal energy project gone wrong is fracturing the city's picturesque architecture.
Obergoms VS, Switzerland
A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.
Gwynedd, Wales
The artist David Nash planted a circle of trees in 1977.