Calhan, Colorado
Paint Mines Interpretive Park
Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.
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Calhan, Colorado
Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.
Yosemite National Park, California
Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.
Aristes, Pennsylvania
A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.
Petra District, Jordan
An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.
Iceland
The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.
Portland, Oregon
These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.
Mont Saint-Michel, France
This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.
Isle of Skye, Scotland
These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.
Corbett, Oregon
A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.
Boston, Massachusetts
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Yamanouchi, Japan
Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.
Page, Arizona
A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.
Grindavík, Iceland
Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant
Gerlach, Nevada
A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.
Schwangau, Germany
The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”
Prague, Czechia
The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.
Sequoia National Park, California
Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).
Älvdalen S, Sweden
The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.
Port Renfrew, British Columbia
Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.
Marfa, Texas
Museum mostly in name, and only a restaurant depending on the day, this place could only exist in Marfa.
Nye County, Nevada
The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.
Harrison, Nebraska
A rancher expanding a natural spring for his cattle came up with bones – lots and lots of them.