Inyo County, California
Saline Valley Hot Springs
A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.
Places I've been
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Inyo County, California
A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.
Ngong Ping, Hong Kong
Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.
Hong Kong
This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.
Săpânța, Romania
A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.
Chichen Itza, Mexico
Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.
Venezuela
This everlasting lightning storm may be the world's largest generator of ozone.
Bolivia
On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.
Gwangju-si, South Korea
The abandoned hospital whose elaborate ghost stories cover up the dirty truth - an uneventful sanitation issue and other mundane reasons for its demise.
London, England
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
Vienna, Austria
A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.
Averøy, Norway
A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.
Abhaneri, India
Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.
Peru
Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.
Berlin, Germany
A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.
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.
Kitakyushu, Japan
An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.
Vinnytsia, Ukraine
The spectacular Roshen Fountain show lights up the night sky all summer long, until it "hibernates" under the ice waiting for spring to come.
Yachats, Oregon
On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.
Australia
An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.
Banos, Ecuador
A swing to dangle you off the very edge.
Brussels, Belgium
Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.
Puerto Río Tranquilo, Chile
Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.
Vista Hermosa, Colombia
An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."
Lviv, Ukraine
World's largest crossword puzzle spans the side of a towerblock, its clues scattered throughout the city.