Places Gemfyre Wants to Go

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

A series of eerie metal stick figures are spread out over four square miles on the bed of a huge salt lake in the Australian Outback.

Started nearly 100 years ago, this science experiment just keeps on going, ever so slowly.

These Australian rock formations look like Martian beehives that have grown up out of the landscape.

White cockroaches and other cave species occupy this massive series of lava tubes.

This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.

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

A clear example of the process of erosion in action.

This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.

A massive stairway that almost wasn't leads to one of Australia's most scenic vistas.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

One of the oldest continuously operating amusement parks in the U.S. is an open-air museum of Art Deco and neon lights.

A carnivorous plant paradise in a serpentine bog.

Once one of the most polluted caves in America, now an environmental success story and a museum dedicated to caves.

Fabulous formations, weird and wonderful wildlife.

A fibreglass sculpture of a whale shark on the grounds of a petrol station.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

The second-largest giant sequoia in the world.

The massive mountain ash that once stood at this site was cut down in an effort to prove that it was, indeed, the tallest of its kind.

This public work of art pays tribute to an early Aboriginal Australian constellation pattern.

This sacred site lives up to its name with its majestic, color-splashed sandstone formations.

Let these towering termite-building structures tell you where to go.

Kakadu National Park is known for its stunning beauty and its rock art, which represents the longest historical records of any continuous civilization on Earth.

Improbably, the largest wildlife refuge in the conterminous 48 states sits just northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.