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In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

Commercial airplanes land mere feet over the heads of sunbathing beachgoers on this tiny island.

Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.

Fascination continues to surround one of history's most infamous shipwrecks.

The closest thing to Mars on Earth.

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

Siberian whale bones stand as cairns marking location of an ancient butcher yard.

America's smallest "national forest" has only 33 trees.

The world's largest aggregation of great white sharks is at a mysterious spot in the middle of the ocean.

One Costa Rican island is so beset by illegal shark poachers that the local rangers have built an entire bridge with their confiscated gear .

At the point of oceanic inaccessibility, you can't get farther from dry land without leaving the planet.

The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.

This tiny uninhabited islet off the coast of Norfolk Island was formed by blowing sand from nearby dunes.

An isolated dive site teeming with cnidarians.

The remote island home of the overlooked explorer who co-discovered the theory of evolution by natural selection.

"The country that ate itself."

British Empire's last territorial expansion, claimed by four countries.

A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.

The red crab exhibits one of the most spectacular migrations on earth, despite manmade obstacles.

A sharply wedged sundial marks the point at which each day in the United States begins.

The shortest in the world, this landing strip stretches a mere 1,312 feet before steep cliffs on either end plunge into the Caribbean.

A city continually buried under the ash of a volcano that has been erupting for more than 15 years.

An abandoned guano-mining city in the South Pacific.

An intricately decorated tiny place of worship.