Inuvik, Unorganized, Northwest Territories
The Smoking Hills
These hellish-looking cliffs in the Canadian Arctic have been burning for centuries.
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Inuvik, Unorganized, Northwest Territories
These hellish-looking cliffs in the Canadian Arctic have been burning for centuries.
Landers, California
Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.
Landers, California
A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.
Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal
Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.
Naucalpan, Mexico
An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.
Kandovan, Iran
Modern-day cave dwellers carve elaborate homes out of volcanic debris.
Tabriz, Iran
Colorful mineral deposits turn these mountains into an Impressionist fantasy.
Mantua, Italy
In Lago Superiore, the largest expanse of lotus flowers outside of Asia is hard to miss.
Des Moines, Washington
A historic Masonic building overlooking the Puget Sound.
Willemstad, Curaçao
This living labyrinth made entirely of thorns is filled with art.
Palm Springs, California
Explore the wide world of desert plants at this unique Palm Springs botanical garden.
Atlanta, Georgia
This angular brutalist playground turns playtime into modern art time.
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.
Hakone, Japan
Existing for more than four centuries, the last of Hakone’s historic teahouses serves a sweet, mold-based rice drink.
Anstruther, Scotland
Stay in the one time home to one of Scotland's most notorious gentleman's sex clubs.
Alltnacaillich, Scotland
Unusually, this ancient Iron Age broch has never been excavated.
Zhangye Shi, China
These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.
Zhangjiajie, China
This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”
Qurayyat, Oman
A sinkhole and now a swimming hole, too, full of dazzling turquoise water.
Xcalacoop, Mexico
A magical sinkhole on the Yucatán Peninsula is adorned with mini waterfalls and hanging vines.
Ehlanzeni, South Africa
Raging waters have created a strange geological site that looks like something off of a progressive rock album cover.
Stazzema, Italy
A massive natural rock arch gives the Tuscan mountain its own window to the sky.
Alto Paraíso de Goiás, Brazil
After millennia of erosion by sand and churning water this Brazilian valley now looks like a lunar fantasy.
Malham, England
A long, winding trek rewards you with a gorge so captivating it inspired a painting in the Tate.