Hřensko, Czechia
Pravčická brána (Pravčice Gate)
Europe's largest natural bridge has a 19th century royal chateau built into its side.
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Hřensko, Czechia
Europe's largest natural bridge has a 19th century royal chateau built into its side.
Culver, Oregon
Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.
Bahamas
This isthmus in the Bahamas narrowly separates the roiling Atlantic from the cool Bight of Eleuthera.
West Sumatra, Indonesia
This Sumatran root bridge took almost 30 years to knit itself together.
Ohaupo, New Zealand
One man's dream has turned into this naturally growing chapel made of almost nothing but trees.
Greece
A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.
Adalar, Turkey
Over the centuries, this island paradise has done it all, from providing monks with ecclesiastical respite to sheltering an exiled Leon Trotsky.
Montegabbione (TR), Italy
This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.
Orvieto, Italy
This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.
Frederiksberg, Denmark
A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.
Istanbul, Turkey
A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.
Florence, Italy
The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.
Levoča, Slovakia
Too much gossip or just missing curfew could land you in here for a couple of days.
Sárospatak, Hungary
An industrial site turned into Hungary's most cherished natural wonder.
Anacapri, Italy
The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.
Ali Sadr, Iran
This vast, water-filled underground labyrinth can only be toured by boat.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.
Provincia de Bongará, Peru
One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.
Bordighera, Italy
The top of society once luxuriated in this world-class hotel, which continues to impress, even in ruin.
Sarandë District, Albania
A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.
Puerto Río Tranquilo, Chile
Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.
Ridala Parish, Estonia
The gutted remains of this Estonian mansion are a monument to a tragic love.
Lumpkin, Georgia
Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.
Kilkenny, Ireland
Once the longest bridge in Ireland, this rusting span sits abandoned and overrun by nature.