Alajuela, Costa Rica
Poás Volcano
A park that allows you to get up close and personal with one of the world's largest open volcanic craters.
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Alajuela, Costa Rica
A park that allows you to get up close and personal with one of the world's largest open volcanic craters.
Guatuso, Costa Rica
The translucent turquoise hue of these natural swimming pools comes from a high concentration of minerals.
Costa Rica
This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.
Honduras
These Honduran caves earned their magical nickname thanks to reflective bone deposits.
Nicaragua
The youngest volcano in Central America.
Zarcero, Costa Rica
This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.
Costa Rica
One Costa Rican island is so beset by illegal shark poachers that the local rangers have built an entire bridge with their confiscated gear .
Dripping Springs, Texas
An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.
Ferrara, Italy
A seven-story circular concrete tower, once the heart of Ferrara’s Eridania distillery, resembles a modern industrial Colosseum.
Greece
The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.
Porto, Portugal
A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.
Porto, Portugal
One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.
Moose, Wyoming
This rustic old building is said to be the most photographed barn in America.
Karimabad, Pakistan
Tibetan-influenced mountain fortress in Northern Pakistan.
Hunza Nagar, Pakistan
This dazzlingly turquoise mountain lake was created in the wake of a natural disaster.
Hussaini, Pakistan
Known as the most dangerous bridge in the world, the Hussaini Hanging Bridge is only one of many precarious rope bridges in Northern Pakistan.
Bray, England
You can spend the night in Dr. Frank-N-Furter's castle.
Newport Beach, California
Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.
Lumpkin, Georgia
Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.
Chester, England
Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.
Hegra, Saudi Arabia
An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.
Fairbourne, Wales
A hidden tunnel leads to an abandoned slate quarry that's now a secret swimming spot guarded by cliffs.
Lampa, Peru
This Peruvian bone silo lined with hanging human skeletons and hundreds of skulls is topped with a remarkable Michelangelo replica.
Kudowa-Zdrój, Poland
The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.