Places novalinne Wants to Go

Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.

The largest copper mine in Arizona, this enormous open pit emerges from the hills like an alien landscape.

The runoff from these fiery cliffs sends red water flowing into the sea.

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

In Northeastern Iceland lies something of an oxymoron: a steaming desert.

Lunar landscape, a mud volcano and bizarre rock formations.

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Exploring the wilder, more passionate sibling of Erg Chebbi feels like discovering a secret sun-kissed planet from another galaxy.

The tallest stationary dunes on Earth also happen to sing.

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

The most northerly active sand dunes in the world have some very rare botanical residents.

Considered the birthplace of the Copper Age and Bronze Age, the river is tinted red from 5,000 years of mining.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

270 million year-old forest of stone.

Bohol's unusually shaped hills turn brown in the summer months.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.

Bohemian paradise covered in majestic forests.

A lush desert oasis in the shape of a narrow crescent.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

Splashes of blue in an otherwise monotonous lunar landscape.