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An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

The frozen bubbles that form on the icy surface of this Canadian lake contain enough methane to create a small explosion.

Fiery-hot river rocks make soup sizzle at this restaurant showcasing indigenous Chinantec cuisine.

A sturdy relic of Britain's once crucial gunpowder industry is now a haunting Cornish ruin.

An ancient hotspot for spotting schools of fish.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

Perhaps the only prehistoric monument with its very own public bus stop.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

A unique waterfall that some believe attracts the fairfolk.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

These hellish-looking cliffs in the Canadian Arctic have been burning for centuries.

This little slice of old Jerusalem in Oklahoma is the evolution of a century-old passion play.

The Forest Service's surprisingly sophisticated collection of wildfire prevention art features America's most beloved bear.

An artist’s underground sanctuary, 40 years in the making.

A magical sinkhole on the Yucatán Peninsula is adorned with mini waterfalls and hanging vines.

A gargantuan crystal kingdom.