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This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This mesmerizing and surreal landscape features intricate patterns of white and red sandstone.

A monument to the one-armed geologist who led the first documented expeditions through the Grand Canyon.

The eroded core of an ancient volcano is now accessible by a short hike.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

The largest natural travertine bridge in the world is nestled in a small canyon in central Arizona.

A once popular resort—said to be the vacation spot of gangster Al Capone—now remains abandoned in the woods of Arizona.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

This 24-acre park offers a place for meditation in the midst of Sedona's iconic red rocks.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Although now a decaying ruin, this stone cabin's history includes several notable figures.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

A planet-hunting astrograph built in the 1920s to seek out the so-called "Planet X" beyond Uranus.

The final resting place of the businessman-turned-astronomer who helped discover Pluto stands near his observatory.

A mass grave for victims of an airline disaster that led to much-needed safety improvements for commercial flights.

Once the site of a 12-century monastery, this tiny island is now home to only five permanent residents.

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

A "simple-hearted artist" turned an isolated Icelandic valley into his own art museum.

Puffin enthusiasts flock to Europe's largest seabird cliff, which over one million birds call home.

The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.

Bizarre dirt trail winds a narrow path above the tree line.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.