Weinan, China
Huashan Temple
A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.
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Weinan, China
A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.
Huehuetlán, Mexico
The largest cave shaft in the world is home to thousands of birds and popular with BASE jumpers.
New York, New York
A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.
Madrid, Spain
The earliest known map to show America, discovered by accident at a Paris bookshop.
Osoyoos, British Columbia
A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.
New Mexico
One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.
Budapest, Hungary
Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.
Peru
Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.
Mena Creek, Australia
A castle hand-built by a Spanish dreamer in the Australian tropical jungle.
New York, New York
A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.
Monduli, Tanzania
A salty red wasteland in Tanzania is a breeding spot for endangered flamingos.
Franeker, Netherlands
Home to the world's oldest functioning orrery.
Halle, Belgium
Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.
Bestari Jaya, Malaysia
Malaysian fireflies create a dazzling display as thousands light up in unison.
Qualicum Beach, British Columbia
Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.
Mauritania
A geological bull's-eye visible from outer space.
Borre, Denmark
A natural wonder in south Denmark.
Stazzema, Italy
A massive natural rock arch gives the Tuscan mountain its own window to the sky.
Sligo, Ireland
A tiny microvalley etched into the side of Knocknarea Mountain hides another world.
Kerry, Ireland
An abandoned faux-pub made famous by a Guinness commercial.
Kerry, Ireland
Petrified footprints of one of the very first vertebrates to walk on land.
Dublin, Ireland
The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.
Sligo, Ireland
This 30-foot pile of rocks may be the grave of a mythological Irish queen.
Dublin, Ireland
An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.