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This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

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

This wondrous waterfall rushing down a green-covered mountain wasn't discovered until 2010.

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.

Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.

Iran's colorful terraces are a rare geological masterpiece.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

The hottest place on the planet.

A canvas of crops grow from vibrant red soil in this terraced farmland.

This small group of sand dunes manages to pack in a strange rainbow of colors.

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

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

The massive white mound and accompanying water terraces are a striking geological oddity.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

The centuries-old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.

Woven tree art gives this towering Australian woodland a touch of mystical whimsy.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.