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Over 400,000 birds spend their summers nesting on this small Arctic island.

The end appears to be nigh for the world's fourth-longest floating bridge.

The closest thing to Mars on Earth.

Earth's greatest purely vertical drop at 4,101 feet.

"The country that ate itself."

A salty red wasteland in Tanzania is a breeding spot for endangered flamingos.

A seemingly desolate park that belongs to two countries actually supports all kinds of wildlife.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

Road signs in Namibia mark the location of one of the five major circles of latitude.

Ten shipwreck-shaped chalets lie along the sand dunes on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast.

The largest known meteorite on Earth was too big to move.

Every October, one of the largest migration of mammals in the world thunders through Boma National Park.

The inhabitants of the world’s largest wetland have learned to navigate its dramatic seasonal changes.

One of the best-preserved impact craters on the planet is located in the middle of the Sahara Desert.

A century-old stone hermitage overlooks this remote pass in the Hoggar mountains, surrounded by a landscape of eroded volcanic cores.

Landscape of bizarrely shaped desert mountains and innumerable rock carvings.

A deserted Bedouin village lines the shores of this stunning desert oasis.

Surrounded by a smudge of dark earth, this isolated volcano sits in stark contrast to the surrounding Sahara.

These natural wonders have taken millennia to form into the stunning marvels they are today.

Camels and crocodiles share the black waters of this stunning Saharan oasis.

A modern version of the stone cairns built by the Inuit.

An ancient forest of the Paleocene Age turned to stone.

Massive sinkholes on a mountain in one of the most remote places in Venezuela.