Dzitnup, Mexico
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These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.
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Dzitnup, Mexico
These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.
Aogashima, Japan
We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...
Chichen Itza, Mexico
Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.
Zhangjiajie, China
A total of 999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.
Xilitla, Mexico
Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.
Mexico City, Mexico
An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.
Sintra, Portugal
This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.
Klevan, Ukraine
This beautiful natural train tunnel is said to grant the wishes of visiting lovebirds.
Kitakyushu, Japan
An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.
Nagasaki, Japan
Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.
Ise, Japan
This pair of small sea rocks has been "wed" using rope and ancient Shinto tradition.
East Sussex, England
England's most notorious suicide spot.
Fujinomiya-shi, Japan
A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.
Verul, India
This complex of vertically-excavated Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu monolithic temples in India's Maharashtra providence illustrates a spirit of tolerance characteristic of ancient India.
Sangtoli, India
A centuries-old lookout post still sits atop a natural stone spire.
Strand, Norway
This "preacher's pulpit" once used for pagan ritual, is home to a new, and dangerous ritual.
Forsand, Norway
This giant boulder is pinched over a 1000-meter abyss by two mountains.
Odda, Norway
Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."
Abhaneri, India
Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.
Petra District, Jordan
An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.
England
Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.
Suffolk, England
A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.
Kaneohe, Hawaii
A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.
Lalibela, Ethiopia
An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.