Costa Rica
Río Celeste
This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.
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Costa Rica
This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.
Shendi, Sudan
These Nubian pyramids are strange and unique, even by pyramid standards.
Afar Zone 2, Ethiopia
The hottest place on the planet.
Setenil de las Bodegas, Spain
A Spanish town built into the cliffs.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Have fun at the world's first Buddhist waterslide park.
Verul, India
This complex of vertically-excavated Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu monolithic temples in India's Maharashtra providence illustrates a spirit of tolerance characteristic of ancient India.
West Wycombe, England
Human-made caves excavated to hide a secret society of wealthy pagans.
Sant Quirze Safaja, Spain
An enchanting monastery in the Spanish countryside appears lifted from a fantasy tale.
Yelverton, England
This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.
San Andrés Cholula, Mexico
An Aztec temple, the largest man-made pyramid in the world, sits buried in earth with a Spanish church set on top.
Vienna, Austria
A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.
Juodkrantė, Lithuania
Lithuania's outdoor sculpture trail of wooden folk art.
Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany
Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.
Supai, Arizona
This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.
Brussels, Belgium
Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.
Budapest, Hungary
This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.
Nogent-sur-Marne, France
Ghosts of France's colonial past.
Kilkenny, Ireland
This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.
Lalibela, Ethiopia
An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.
Venice, Italy
As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.
Rome, Italy
2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.
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.
Denizli Merkez, Turkey
A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.
Nageezi, New Mexico
A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.