Batumi, Georgia
Batumi McDonald’s
Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.
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Batumi, Georgia
Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.
L'Alt Empordà, Spain
At the foot of a waterfall lies a peaceful swimming lagoon and evidence of over 60,000 years of human habitation.
Dzitnup, Mexico
These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.
Apia, Samoa
The world is full of swimming holes, but few compare to Samoa’s idyllic To Sua ocean trench.
Greens, New Hampshire
A long-forgotten Victorian swimming hole is still a fun spot for a dip.
Yalcobá, Mexico
Take a dip beneath the stalactites in this amazing cenote.
Midway, Utah
This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.
Vila Franca Do Campo, Portugal
A perfectly circular lake is formed by the crater of an ancient underwater volcano.
Xcalacoop, Mexico
A magical sinkhole on the Yucatán Peninsula is adorned with mini waterfalls and hanging vines.
Qurayyat, Oman
A sinkhole and now a swimming hole, too, full of dazzling turquoise water.
Christchurch, New Zealand
This aluminum “stairway to heaven” has impaled at least a couple of birds.
Ghat, Libya
Landscape of bizarrely shaped desert mountains and innumerable rock carvings.
Sur Lípez, Bolivia
A desert that evokes the surreal.
Tamanrasset, Algeria
A century-old stone hermitage overlooks this remote pass in the Hoggar mountains, surrounded by a landscape of eroded volcanic cores.
In Amguel, Algeria
One of the best-preserved impact craters on the planet is located in the middle of the Sahara Desert.
Algeria
The abstract sandstone rock formations at this Algerian national park are rich with prehistoric art.
Seville, Spain
Spain's largest bullring offers a unique glimpse at architecture and history.
Santiponce, Spain
The Roman city was the birthplace of various emperors and is home to one of the empire's most impressive architectural feats.
Sanlúcar la Mayor, Spain
Spain's stunning solar energy plant.
Paris, France
A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.
Meudon, France
The largest refracting telescope in Europe is housed on the grounds of a former French castle.
Paris, France
France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.
Paris, France
A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.
Paris, France
Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.