Izumo-shi, Japan
Izumo-Taisha
What's believed to be the country's first shrine is, in Shintō mythology, the annual meeting place of the gods.
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Izumo-shi, Japan
What's believed to be the country's first shrine is, in Shintō mythology, the annual meeting place of the gods.
Improvement District No. 24, Alberta
The half-mile long structure is so impressive, it even shows up on satellite images.
Saskatchewan
The most northerly active sand dunes in the world have some very rare botanical residents.
Rivière-Koksoak, Québec
A lake in the middle of the tundra of Quebec is said to be the purest freshwater lake on Earth.
Baffin Region, Nunavut
This landlocked lake is the world's largest on an island.
Rivière-aux-Outardes, Québec
A lake formed in the basin of a massive impact crater takes the shape of an unbroken ring when viewed from above.
Greenland
A Cold War atomic camp buried under the ice is now emerging because of global warming.
Greenland
The 3.8 billion-year-old rock proves that tectonic plates may have been shifting longer than we thought.
Qaqortoq, Greenland
No longer the only, but definitely the oldest, fountain in Greenland.
Qaqortoq, Greenland
In a country where driving from one town to another is literally impossible, this small stretch of gravel is a remarkable feat.
Yamagata, Japan
A quartet of temple guardian statues that allegedly cry at night for being forbidden from wrestling.
Lake Darlot, Australia
An outback test site for the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult.
Nunavut
The Arctic Archipelago is home to world's largest third order island: an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.
Singapore
These secretive tunnels were once the site of a Royal Air Force fuel reserve depot.
Singapore
This family-owned pottery shop is home to the last operational dragon kiln in Singapore.
Singapore
Across this single-file rope bridge is what has been claimed to be the edge of continental Asia.
Singapore
A Singapore shrine to an unnamed German girl who has become a local deity.
Brønnøy, Norway
A naturally occurring tunnel in this Nordic mountain makes it look like it's been shot.
Tonnerre, France
This natural French spring has been turned into a magical grotto by Roman and medieval constructions.
Winona, Minnesota
Dakota legend claims this locally iconic pinnacle was once part of a sacred burial site that was cleaved in two.
Taylors Falls, Minnesota
A stone face watches over the river.
Minnesota
When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.
Bayfield, Wisconsin
Sip whey-based vodka at the first Native-owned distillery opened on a reservation in centuries.
La Pointe, Wisconsin
These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.