Middlemarch, New Zealand
Sutton Salt Lake
New Zealand's only inland salt lake goes through a constant cycle of filling, evaporating, and refilling.
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Middlemarch, New Zealand
New Zealand's only inland salt lake goes through a constant cycle of filling, evaporating, and refilling.
Buchan, Australia
These 400 million-year-old caves feature honeycomb limestone formations.
Alinja, Azerbaijan
In the foothills of the lesser Caucasus, a centuries-old fortress still stands.
Maseru, Lesotho
Just outside Lesotho's capital city, a rock formation takes the shape of a powerful predator.
Hingham, Massachusetts
Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.
Malartic, Québec
The largest open-pit gold mine in Canada.
Trapani, Italy
A never-inhabited village that was built as part of Mussolini's agricultural reforms.
Germantown, Maryland
The ruins of an old mill lie in a small ravine along a hiking trail near Little Seneca Creek.
London, England
This artificial lake surrounded by Brutalist architecture served as a stand-in for futuristic Britain in Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange.'
Adsdorf, Austria
Austria’s oldest brewery makes beer with flaming-hot granite.
Blue Ridge, Georgia
Turns out fishing with dynamite isn't all that safe.
Queens, New York
This former water source for the City of Brooklyn is now a thriving natural wetland.
Villaseca, Chile
At this desert restaurant, meals are cooked in solar ovens.
Winchester, England
A rare labyrinth-style path carved into a historic hill.
Portland, Oregon
Portland had a unique approach to Cold War-era protections.
Ballater, Scotland
More than a century old, this cast iron bridge on the Balmoral Estate leads to nowhere.
Albany, Georgia
The ruins of a resort and casino sit on the banks of this blue hole spring that pumps 70,000 gallons of warm, clear water every minute.
Hanksville, Utah
At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.
Québec City, Québec
A reconstituted ancestral village of the Huron-Wendat Nation.
Boulder City, Nevada
See Hoover Dam and the bypass bridge from a perspective usually off-limits to the public, and float the upper part of the Black Canyon National Water Trail.
Fallon, Nevada
In 1954, two enormous earthquakes occurred just minutes apart, resulting in prominent scarps that extend for miles along the range fronts.
Kamishihoro, Japan
An isolated "phantom bridge" doomed to crumble into ruin.
Abuja, Nigeria
This igneous rock monolith towers above the surrounding landscape just outside the Nigerian capital.
Bena, Minnesota
An abandoned fish-shaped drive-in gets a second life as a restaurant.