Juneau, Alaska
Mendenhall Glacier
A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.
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Juneau, Alaska
A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.
Whittier, Alaska
This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.
North Pole, Alaska
An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.
Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska
The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.
Fairbanks, Alaska
Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.
Eufaula, Alabama
An autonomous oak in Alabama.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
The first space rock known to have struck a human.
Delta, Alabama
The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.
Phil Campbell, Alabama
Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."
Haleyville, Alabama
148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.
Scottsboro, Alabama
One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.
Gran Sabana, Venezuela
This "floating island" plateau sits 7,671 feet above the forest floor.
Venezuela
This everlasting lightning storm may be the world's largest generator of ozone.
Tambopata, Peru
This small oxbow lake has rare giant river otters and some Seussian-sounding birds.
Huallin, Peru
The highest tropical mountain range in the world is in Central Peru, home to a vast array of exotic and quirky plants and animals.
Tambopata, Peru
The world's largest clay lick, where parrots gather to snack.
Provincia de Bongará, Peru
One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.
Maras, Peru
This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.
Pasco, Peru
Extraordinary rock formations in open Peruvian fields.
Ica, Peru
An unexpected desert oasis in South America.
Urubamba, Peru
Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.
Puno, Peru
The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.
Casma District, Peru
A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.
Nazca, Peru
A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.