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A secluded natural oasis hidden deep along a rainforest trail.

One of the largest concentrations of rock paintings in Southern Africa.

This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.

With well over 130 falls and cascades to brag about, Hamilton, Ontario has earned its stripes as the waterfall capital of the world.

Nature's water park in the Wadi Bani Awf valley is full of pools flanked with cliffs and natural water slides.

A three-tiered waterfall plummets from a mountain cave with amazing views over the countryside.

Arrogance and quarreling are forbidden near these three sacred waterfalls.

The overgrown remains of an old rail bridge rise above the valley like ancient Greek ruins.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

Clusters of abandoned buildings hint at the facility's 144-year history with psychiatric health.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

The most biologically diverse protected area in Africa is also the most dangerous.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

The centuries-old trees are draped with Spanish moss to make them look like wizened elders.

The world's largest ecosystem of its kind is home to South America's only native species of bear.

The third-largest island in Canada is one of the remotest places on Earth.

This fantastical icy castle is built anew every winter.

A little-known sculpture park of contemporary environmental art in a Lapland forest.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

The geoglyph once sported a glass bottle eye.

If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.