Qeshm, Iran
Namakdan Salt Cave
One of the world's largest salt caves is filled with fragile salt sculptures, salt rivers, and huge salt megadomes.
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Qeshm, Iran
One of the world's largest salt caves is filled with fragile salt sculptures, salt rivers, and huge salt megadomes.
Albi, France
A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.
Borrego Springs, California
A remote desert lookout offers unparalleled views of the California badlands for those who brave the trek.
Mahabalipuram, India
This precariously balanced boulder is said to be a hunk of stolen butter dropped by the gods.
Mahabalipuram, India
Picnic on the seashore in the footsteps of ancient kings, protected by giant mythical cat beasts.
Nokhur, Turkmenistan
A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.
Kudowa-Zdrój, Poland
The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.
Iceland
An Icelandic island full of diving birds and legend.
Zipaquira, Colombia
Cathedral carved out of salt, located a mile below the Earth's surface.
San Antonio del Tequendama, Colombia
This picturesque mansion has gone from opulent ruin to nature museum.
Barú, Colombia
Hidden amid the tropical forest in the Caribbean Sea are the decaying ruins of the Cocaine King's luxurious island party home.
Tocancipá, Colombia
A little known Colombian theme park of giant curiosities.
Vista Hermosa, Colombia
An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."
Villavieja, Colombia
Unparalleled stargazing, one of Colombia's best observatories, and a swimming pool can all be found in the middle of this ancient tropical forest.
Rapid City, South Dakota
One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.
Lemmon, South Dakota
An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.
Keystone, South Dakota
Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.
Maras, Peru
This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.
Nekoma, North Dakota
The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.
Cooperstown, North Dakota
These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.
Tatev, Armenia
Centuries before the modern seismograph, Armenian monks measured quakes with this tilting pillar.
Puerto Inca, Peru
This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.
Provincia de Bongará, Peru
One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.
Alamada, Philippines
This wondrous waterfall rushing down a green-covered mountain wasn't discovered until 2010.