Wingen, Australia
Burning Mountain
6000-year-old coal fire moves one meter per year.
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Wingen, Australia
6000-year-old coal fire moves one meter per year.
Hamelin Pool, Australia
Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.
Australia
This pair of Australian "waterfalls" appear to be falling straight across the land.
Sturt Creek, Australia
A stray meteor left this picturesque hole in the Australian outback.
Davenport, Australia
Clusters of huge boulders in the Australian Outback.
Millers Point, Australia
This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.
Arumpo, Australia
Prehistoric park filled with the fossils of dozens of extinct species including Australian megafauna.
Hyden, Australia
This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.
Sofia, Bulgaria
A collection of art from Bulgaria's time as a communist state.
Narusawa-mura, Japan
A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest."
Orkney, Scotland
A red sandstone freestanding monolith rises out of the sea in northern Scotland.
Reykjanes, Iceland
Iceland's largest geothermal mud pool is a little bit haunted and a little bit dangerous.
Saint-Bonnet-le-Château, France
Natural mummies hidden in the crypt of a medieval French church.
Pilsen, Czechia
Massive installation of Europe's negative stereotypes.
County Donegal, Ireland
The world's toughest modern Christian pilgrimage leads directly to the gates of Hell.
Iceland
A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.
Panguipulli, Chile
This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.
Berlin, Germany
A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.
Berlin, Germany
A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.
Berlin, Germany
This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.
Hamburg, Germany
Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.
Hamburg, Germany
A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.
Hamburg, Germany
Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.
Hamburg, Germany
Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.